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  • The Routing Stamp That Shouldn’t Exist

    The Routing Stamp That Shouldn’t Exist

    One tiny stamp in a newly declassified 2025 file might rewrite everything we think we know about Lee Harvey Oswald’s relationship to U.S. intelligence.

    Document 206-10001-10010 contains a two-page internal summary bearing the code “6L-52A” - a CIA routing designation typically reserved for foreign contact trace files.

    The problem?

    Oswald’s wasn’t supposed to be one of them.

    🧾 A Stamp With A Job

    The code in question - 6L-52A - wasn’t arbitrary.

    It was part of the Foreign Contact Trace and Vetting System, a classification used within the CIA’s Soviet Division when handling files related to:

    • Asset evaluation
    • Recruitment attempts
    • Indirect contact investigations

    The routing memo in question, dated late 1962, is labeled:

    “Subject: OSWALD, Lee H. – Repatriation Summary, Internal”

    That same document appears again in the file - but this time, with no stamp.

    🕵️‍♂️ A Duplicate Document With Different Metadata

    According to the internal audit log included in the March 2025 release:

    “Stamped copy appears to originate from earlier Soviet Division routing. Original from Domestic Contact Division lacks this designation.”

    In short:

    📌 Two versions of the same document
    📌 One routed domestically
    📌 One filed through a channel used for handling CIA assets or contacts

    📉 The Memo That Killed The Question

    One analyst included a handwritten note in the margin:

    “Unclear how 6L-52A designation applied. Trace system was not engaged per protocol.”

    The response?

    “Treat as filing irregularity unless replicated in parallel file sets.”

    Translation: they didn’t investigate.

    They treated a highly specific CIA asset routing tag as a clerical accident - because to do otherwise would be to question the agency’s entire handling of Oswald.

    📁 Why This Changes Everything

    If Oswald was being tracked in the foreign contact trace system, it suggests one of two things:

    1. He was flagged by someone internally as a potential or past contact
    2. His file was duplicated into a stream reserved for vetted intelligence assets - possibly to sanitize or monitor him

    Either way, it blows a hole in the claim that Oswald was just another lone drifter on the government’s radar.

    🧨 They Weren’t Supposed To Treat Him Like An Asset But They Did

    The CIA has always denied that Oswald was ever contacted, recruited, or used by the agency.

    But this one stamp suggests that, for at least one moment in 1962 - they filed him like he was.

  • The Conflicting JFK Files That Can’t Both Be Right

    The Conflicting JFK Files That Can’t Both Be Right

    The 2025 release of CIA document 206-10001-10010 reveals a deeper problem inside the early post-assassination investigation: multiple U.S. intelligence agencies received versions of Lee Harvey Oswald’s Soviet-era behavioral profile - and they didn’t match.

    Two summaries, reportedly copied from the same source material, contain contradictory language and divergent security assessments. One warned of risk.

    The other called him a non-threat. Both were filed within a week of each other.

    🗂️ One Man Two Threat Levels

    The memo describes a cross-check conducted in December 1963 between CIA’s Soviet Division and the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), which had tracked Oswald since his defection in 1959.

    “CIA behavioral file dated March 1962 refers to [Oswald] as a ‘disciplined ideologue with potential for mobilization under hostile direction.’”

    “ONI summary from same month refers to [Oswald] as ‘psychologically unsteady, politically erratic, lacks group discipline or cohesion.’”

    How could two agencies reading the same trip report from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow come to opposite conclusions?

    🕵️‍♂️ Copying Error - Or Sanitization?

    The memo points to inconsistent phrasing in the reports. While both summaries claim to be based on a debrief sent by the Moscow embassy, the original cable couldn’t be located in either file.

    One analyst writes:

    “Suspect one report was reconstructed post facto, possibly from memory or oral relay. If so, final copy reflects editorialized conclusions.”

    Another possibility? One version was deliberately cleaned up.

    The more lenient version was circulated to the Warren Commission staff in early 1964.

    The harsher one wasn’t shared until internal CIA historians rediscovered it in 1976.

    🧾 The Missing Source File

    The memo includes this line, which might be the most telling:

    “Original 3/62 Moscow Embassy debrief not in cable or microfilm archive. Query whether record was withdrawn for field review.”

    There’s no proof it was destroyed.

    But if two agencies can’t even agree on what a document said - and the original is missing - how can we trust the conclusions that shaped the investigation?

    🧩 The Assessment That Fit The Narrative Was The One They Used

    The more lenient ONI version was handed to Congressional investigators.

    It downplayed Oswald’s time in Russia, his discipline, and his potential risk.

    But the CIA version - the one that labeled him “mobilization-ready” - was not submitted with that batch.

    “No evidence suggests intentional suppression,” the memo adds.

    But:
    📌 The harsher version was not cataloged
    📌 The timeline makes it suspicious
    📌 And no one can explain where the original memo went

    🧨 They Lost The One Document That Would Have Settled It

    And in its place?

    Two profiles.

    Two narratives.

    Only one of them made it into the record.

  • The CIA Clearance That Cleared Too Fast

    The CIA Clearance That Cleared Too Fast

    According to document 206-10001-10010, declassified in March 2025, a CIA records analyst flagged a previously overlooked anomaly: Lee Harvey Oswald’s re-entry paperwork - from defector to citizen - was processed with a speed and lack of scrutiny that broke standard procedure.

    The memo posed a question that was never answered: “Was someone helping him come back?”

    🛂 A Return That Should Have Taken Months

    After Oswald’s defection to the Soviet Union in 1959, his citizenship status was in limbo.

    When he returned in 1962, his re-entry was handled by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and the State Department in Washington.

    The newly reviewed internal memo from 1963 shows:

    “Standard background checks and legal approvals for defectors repatriating typically require 4–6 months minimum.”

    Oswald’s case?

    📌 Cleared in 37 days.
    📌 With his Soviet wife.
    📌 With no flagged red tape.

    ✉️ The 90-Day Letter That Didn’t Exist

    The file points to the lack of what’s called a “90-Day Repatriation Review Letter” - a routine document issued to defectors warning them their return will trigger a lengthy investigation.

    “No such letter located in Oswald’s travel file, despite standard issue requirement from Consular Affairs.”

    “Clearance originated from State Desk with no traceable request filed.”

    This suggests someone initiated his re-entry without following normal routing protocols.

    🕵️‍♂️ Someone Moved It Through The System

    The internal document asks directly:

    “Was clearance facilitated manually through informal channel? Request FOI compliance review on embedded notations.”

    The memo then references a unique 6-digit routing number used only on intelligence-cleared travel operations - normally reserved for high-value defectors, not average returnees.

    The final page of the CIA review states:

    “No documentation exists confirming why re-entry was expedited. Request for deeper audit denied.”

    📉 Why Would They Help Oswald Return?

    That question has haunted researchers for decades.

    But this document offers a new possibility - that Oswald’s re-entry wasn’t just approved, it was actively facilitated, perhaps for use as an asset, surveillance target, or even bait.

    What’s clear now is:
    📌 It wasn’t accidental
    📌 It wasn’t routine
    📌 And no one has explained it

    🧨 The Fastest Clearance In Defector History

    CIA analysts in 1963 tried to investigate the anomaly.

    They were shut down.

    And the paper trail ends with a stamp that shouldn’t be there.