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Lonely kid, no father.
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Joins the Marines at 17.
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Learns Russian. Acts overtly Marxist.
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But he's stationed at a top-secret air base
in Japan...

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...where U-2 spy flights
over Russia originate.

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He's discharged...
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...supposedly because his mother's sick.
Stays home three days.

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Then, with a $1,500 ticket from
a $203 bank account, he goes to Moscow.

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Mr. Oswald, do you understand...
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...the action you are about to take?
Yes, I do, sir.

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I wish to renounce my citizenship...
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...and become a Soviet citizen.
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I'll give them all the information
I have on the Marines.

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He disappears for six weeks,
presumably with the KGB.

:55:47
He's taken to a radio factory in Minsk...
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...where he lives as high on the hog
as he ever has.

:55:53
He's given 5,000 rubles,
a roomy apartment with a balcony.

:55:58
Has affairs with local girls.
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Makes sense. He's a spokesman.
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But he never does any propaganda
for the Russians.

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He meets Marina.
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Her uncle is a colonel
in Soviet intelligence.

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She thinks he's Russian by his speech.
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Six weeks later they marry,
have a daughter.

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Only explanation for the royal treatment
is he gave them radar secrets.

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Or fake secrets.
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Six months after he's in Russia...
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...Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy flight
goes down...

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...in Russia. That plane was untouchable.
:56:34
Powers hinted that Oswald...
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...could've given the Russians
enough data to hit it.

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As a result, the peace summit between
Khrushchev and Eisenhower failed.

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Perhaps our military didn't want
the conference to happen?

:56:49
Maybe Oswald was part of that!
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Stick to what you can prove in court.
You want facts?

:56:57
Don't get sidetracked.
How'd he get back to the States?


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