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Hoover memo on Oswald prompted impostor theory in 1960
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover sent a June 3 1960 memo to the State Department raising the possibility that an impostor might be using Lee Harvey Oswald’s credentials in the Soviet Union A second line of internal State Department memos followed but the documents were not in the Warren Commission Oswald file later found in the National Archives The memo and related papers were not shown to several commission staffers who questioned whether crucial facts were overlooked in the JFK assassination investigation.
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