Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.

I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

Thank you. I'm your host, Jeff Crudell. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.

Today's episode is episode 111. We're going to deviate just a little bit from

where I said we would be when I told you in the last episode. We might take a wander and listen to

hearing a Sanko. We are going to do that, but we're not going to do it just quite yet.

I think today we're going to hear the rest of the story, the rest of what it took for Oswald to make his way out of the Soviet Union with Marina and Young June.

So, without further ado, let's listen to episode 111 of JFK, The Enduring Secret.

An entry in Oswald's historic diary indicates that he waited until mid-May, 1961,

before he told Marina that he was intending to go back to the United States.

Oswald met Marina in March of 1961 on the rebound from Ella German, and by that time he had already written to the U.S. authorities at the U.S. embassy in Moscow,

requesting that he'd be allowed to return to the United States.

As Marina would tell the story, well, she would say that Oswald basically lied to her by not telling her these intentions to go home, not telling her prior to their wedding.

In her own words, she was startled.

Oswald's next letter to the embassy was also in mid-May, and it now acknowledged that he was

married and he wanted his new Russian wife to accompany him to America.

As we have stated before in that letter, Oswald asked for assurances that he would not

be pursued by the United States in any sort of criminal action if he was to return home.

Oswald knew that the potential for being charged with treason or espionage or some related charge

was very real. The Oswald's, as a couple, were now in a bureaucratic waiting game.

And it was a complicated one. Oswald was leaving the Soviet

Union in an unusual circumstance as an American who had previously attempted to renounce his

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