CIA • 1978

ARTICLE IN READERS DIGEST, "LEGEND THE SECRET WORLD OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD", CONDENSED FROM A FORTHCOMING BOOK BY EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN

104-10404-10388 CIA HISTORICAL REVIE PROGRAN RELEASE IN PRI � � � .1 the FBI refuse to permit the questions to be asked? 0 Why was the legend never investigated by the Warren Commission�or even by the section as- signed to examine Oswald's life in the Soviet Union? Because these and other questions have never been answered, the editors of Reader's Digest asked au- thor Edward Jay Epstein (see "Behind the Lines," page 13) to undertake a major examination of the secret world through which Oswald moved during his final years. Epstein began this task, two years ago, by studying more than 10,000 pages of previously classified documents pertaining to Oswald, and con- ducting, with a- staff of assistants, more than 400 interviews with those who had befriended Oswald or crossed his trail in the years before his death. The evidence thus uncovered leads the reader into a shadow world of spies, double agents and intelligence services�and to the startling conclusion that at one of the most perilous moments in world history the interests of the Russian KGB and the American FBI became stranaely intertwined...