The JFK Assassination and American Conspiracy Culture by Jonathan Earle

[DanTex]

27. Sigh. You keep repeating the same lies.

Nobody "knew" Oswald was impersonated in Mexico City, because he was not impersonated. There was a photograph taken of a man outside the Russian Embassy, which was momentarily and mistakenly identified as Oswald. But there was never any evidence to link that photo to Oswald. The idea that that was Oswald was pure speculation, which turned out to be mistaken.

The "top CIA official" who you claim "knew" of the impersonation was J Edgar Hoover (FBI, not CIA, but in light of the other misinformation, getting this wrong is the least of your sins). J Edgar Hoover claimed that there seemed to be someone impersonating Oswald. This was based on the claim that FBI agents in Dallas had heard a recording of Oswald speaking on the phone, and believed that it was not Oswald's voice. However, the Dallas FBI office confirmed that this information was mistaken, and that they never received a recording, only a transcript. When Hoover was made aware of this, he corrected himself. The head of the Dallas FBI office, as well as the four Dallas FBI agents who had spoken to Oswald and therefore would have been in a position to recognize his voice, all testified to the HSCA that they never heard any such recording. There is no mystery here whatsoever, only a clerical error, but of course in the minds of conspiracy nuts, there are no clerical errors...