Intentional Confusion

Moscow Domestic Service in Russian 1900 GMT 24 November 1963--L

    (Dispatch by New York correspondent Oleg Kalugin)

    (Excerpts) (passage omitted) The American public, shaken by the tragic death of President Kennedy, follows closely the course of investigation into the circumstances of the assassination. For two days police have been questioning closely a certain Oswald, a former marine. The Dallas police have alleged that the suspected Oswald was at one time the head of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans. As is known, that organization speaks for the normalization of U.S.-Cuban relations. But the leader of the Fair Play for Cuba Cuba Committee has stated that Oswald's name is unknown to them. Moreover, it has been discovered that there was never a branch of the committee at New Orleans.
    Yet all those who can profit by fanning anti-Cuban hysteria in the United States have seized upon Oswald's evidence. Despite the State Department statement to the effect that no foreign state was involved in Kennedy's murder, the rightwing extremists elements, responsible for what happened in Texas, are attempting to make capital of the Dallas police reports.
    Today an attempt was made on the life of Lee Harvey Oswald, who has been accused of having assassinated U.S. President Kennedy. This happened while Oswald was being transferred from the city prison to the county prison. The unconscious Oswald has been taken to the hospital in which President Kennedy died.
    The circumstances of the villainous murder of John Kennedy are being intentionally confused by certain interested U.S. circles. The new shots fired at Dallas throw additional light on this monstrous crime. Sooner or later the American people and world public opinion will learn the name of the real assassin of the U.S. President.

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