JFK Page #21

BILL:

Susie, you're an assistant D.A.,

remember. Stick to what you can

prove in court.

SUSIE:

You want facts, Bill? Okay. From

1945 to '59 only two U.S. soldiers

defect to Russia. From '59 to '60,

seven defect, six return, one of

them another Marine a month before

Oswald. All of them young men made

to seem poor, disenchanted.

JIM:

Don't get sidetracked! How does he

get back to the States? That's the

point. Does he have any problems?

SUSIE:

None! The State Department issues

him a new passport in 48 hours and

loans him the money to travel. He's

never investigated or charged by the

Navy for revealing classified

information or, as far as we know,

debriefed by the CIA.

JIM:

This is a man whose secrets cause us

to change our radar patterns in the

Pacific! He should've been prosecuted

as a traitor!

SUSIE:

The FBI finally gets around to talking

to him in Dallas and runs a file on

him as a miscreant Communist type.

JIM:

But who meets him when he gets off

the boat in New York in June '62?

The screen shows photos of New York: Empty docks... a ship

coming in... Wall Street on a Sunday morning - Graphic Weegee-

type black-and-white stills, then a photo of Spas T. Raikin.

SUSIE (V.O.)

Spas T. Raikin, a leading member of

an anti-Communist group.

JIM (V.O.)

And Marina? Does she have a problem

getting out?

SUSIE (V.O.)

None either. It's bizarre. It's

next to impossible to get Russian

sweethearts out. Nor does Lee have

any problem getting a new passport

when he wants to go to Cuba and Russia

in '63. A man who has defected once

already. It's crazy.

JIM:

Dammit, it doesn't add up! Ordinary

people get blacklisted for leftist

affiliations! The State Department

did everything short of dispatching

a destroyer to Minks to insure

Oswald's return. Only intelligence

people can come and go like that.

FLASHBACK TO a Forth Worth map factory. We see Oswald at

work on photo mattes with a Minox spy camera. The camera

shows close-ups of maps and then flashes to a hand in the

photographic section. We see a close-up of Oswald's head in

a photograph - the same headshot that will be superimposed

on the Oswald photo - and a razor blade cutting mattes.

SUSIE (V.O.)

The next thing we know he's living

in Dallas/Ft. Worth in October '62

working 6 months at Jaggars-Chiles-

Stovall, a photographic firm that

contracts to make maps for the U.S.

Army... He starts work only days

before the government reveals Russian

missiles in Cuba and the crisis

explodes. Oswald may have had access

to missile site footage obtained by

the U2 planes and works alongside a

young man who'd been in the Army

Security Agency.

JIM:

Sort of like Benedict Arnold coming

back to George Washington's cabinet.

SUSIE:

Equally incongruous is Oswald becoming

chummy with the White Russian

community of Dallas - all rabid anti-

Communists.

FLASHBACK TO Fort Worth in 1963. In Oswald's cheap apartment,

seven White Russians, including George de Mohrenschildt, a

distinguished grey-haired man in his late fifties, are

visiting Marina and Oswald, bringing old dresses, groceries,

and toys and milk for the crying baby, whose cradle is two

suitcases.

SUSIE:

His closest friend is an oilman named

George de Mohrenschildt who's about

35 years older than Oswald, who's

only 23 and supposedly broke. De

Mohrenschildt is a member of the

Dallas Petroleum Club, speaks five

languages and was in French Vichy

Intelligence during the War. Also

rumoured to have been a Nazi

sympathizer and member of the

"Solidarists", an international anti-

Communist organization with many

Eastern Europeans and ex-Nazis, many

of them brought here by the CIA after

the war, many of them involved in

oil and munitions interests in Dallas

and the Southwest. You figure it.

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