A defector to the Soviet Union, who married a Soviet wife (whose uncle was a colonel in the MVD), who openly advocated for Cuba and other Communist causes, and who visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City two months earlier, clearly was acting entirely alone when he assassinated a president who had engaged in a dangerous confrontation with the Soviet Union over nuclear weapons in Cuba that ultimately forced the Soviet-and-Cuban side to humiliatingly back down.

After all, if there had been any evidence to the contrary, we can be sure the US government would have forthrightly publicized it, rather than suppress it in order to avoid public demands for another dangerous confrontation with a nuclear-armed adversary.

@SEE 🤓 talk is cheap geek

@SEE I moved to communist vietnam a few years ago and married a communist wife. Does this make me a defector? You use that word as if he was a flipped spy

@TimothyBandors Did you, within weeks of your initial arrival in Vietnam, go to the local US Embassy, give the embassy staff a written statement that you were renouncing your US citizenship "for political reasons", and tell a member of the embassy staff in an interview that you had volunteered to inform Vietnamese officials of everything you had learned while serving in the US military?

Because, substitute "Soviet Union" for "Vietnam", and that's what Oswald did. Which, I think, adequately explains why I used the word "defector" the way I did.

@SEE This is just boilerplate paperwork that was never finished. I'm sure Oswald didn't write that, it's a standard document probably used by Americans who have a lover in their country and do whatever paperwork to stay with their lover. I would have done that paper too if it was required or implied required for me to stay