Re: What was causing Oswald's nervousness at the Soviet Embassy?

On Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 4:43:49 PM UTC-5, John Corbett wrote:
> On Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 12:34:48 PM UTC-5, Bud wrote:
> > On Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 3:56:57 PM UTC-5, Steve M. Galbraith wrote: 
> > > The three Soviet Embassy officials/KGB officers who met Oswald when he 
> > > went to Mexico City to go to Cuba said he was acting "nervously" and 
> > > "shaking" at the time. Recall that the Cubans (Duran) told Oswald she 
> > > needed to see his Soviet visa before she would give him (on the spot) a 
> > > transit visa to go to Cuba. So he visited the Soviet embassy twice to get 
> > > one. 
> > > 
> > > Here is how they described him (this is from the Frontline special "Who 
> > > was Lee Harvey Oswald?"): 
> > > 
> > > FRONTLINE NARRATOR: At the Soviet embassy, he [i.e., Oswald] met with 
> > > three consular officials. In fact, all three were KGB officers working 
> > > under diplomatic cover. In this, their first interview, they recall that 
> > > Oswald's hands were shaking and his behavior was erratic. 
> > > 
> > > OLEG NECHIPORENKO, KGB: [through interpreter] We all thought the man had 
> > > an unstable nervous system. He was extremely agitated. 
> > > 
> > > VALERY KOSTIKOV, KGB: [through interpreter] During our talk, Oswald kept 
> > > feeling in his pockets, taking out all sorts of papers. Then he took out a 
> > > gun and put it in front of him. I sat opposite him. I took the gun away 
> > > and put it on Pavel's desk. 
> > > 
> > > Pavel Antonovich asked him, "Why did you come here with a gun? What do you 
> > > need a gun for?" He said, "I'm afraid of the FBI. I'm being persecuted. I 
> > > need a gun to protect myself, for my personal safety." That's what he 
> > > said." 
> > This is doubly weird, since Hosty hadn`t even approached Marina or the 
> > Paines until after LHO returned from Mexico City. 
> > > Here is the video; go to the 1:100 mark to see the above: 
> > > https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-who-was-lee-harvey-oswald/ 
> > > 
> > > Okay, so he's acting in a desperate manner in order to get the visa. But 
> > > the shaking and nervousness were caused by? Oswald was known to be 
> > > demanding but he was also usually cool and in command. 
> > Yes, seems out of character. He didn`t look nervous at all in custody 
> > for killing the President. Went for his gun when surrounded by police, one 
> > with a shotgun. Cool as a cucumber.
> I think after killing JFK he had pretty much accepted his fate. He was 
> going to die one way or another, whether it be in a shootout with police 
> or in the Texas electric chair. I don't think he cared one way or another. 
> He probably figured it would be the latter after being taken into custody, 
> not figuring on Jack Ruby to enter the picture. Had it not been for Ruby, 
> there's a very good possibility Oswald would have been spared execution 
> when the SCOTUS vacated all existing death sentences in 1971.

Nechiporenko's Oswald Revolver Hoax

(An excerpt from an as yet unpublished work by John Loken follows on 
Nechiporenko's 1993 book "Passport to Assassination," with apologies for 
its terseness.  He hopes you will take it into your consideration)

"Unfortunately for Nechiporenko, his Oswald revolver scenario requires the 
reader to believe that: 1) Oswald, after visiting the Mexican Consulate in 
New Orleans on September 17 to apply for a visitor’s visa, where 
he was given instruction forms that included strict warnings against 
bringing firearms into Mexico, nevertheless brought his revolver with him 
over the border just a week later, without declaring it, thus risking 
arrest, jail, and the end of his Cuban visa dream if searched and caught; 
2) that Oswald was deathly afraid of the FBI possibly killing him in 
September 1963, though he was actually of very minor interest to them at 
the time, and that he then, in such fear of them, demonstrably told 
several fellow bus passengers on the way to Mexico City, and in a very 
casual manner, that he was going to fly to Cuba and visit Fidel Castro 
because it was illegal to do so from the U.S.; 3) that Oswald then entered 
the Soviet Embassy compound in Mexico City that Saturday, September 28, 
when it was closed, carrying his loaded revolver on him, and was not 
searched (frisked / patted down) by any Soviet guards, nor did he worry 
beforehand about being searched by any Soviet guards; 4) that Oswald then, 
in front of Soviet consular officials (who were also KGB agents), sobbed 
for many long minutes out of fear of the FBI, showing himself to be 
mentally unstable and even hysterical, though he had never sobbed in 
public before but only a few times privately in the presence of his wife 
Marina; 5) that Oswald told the Soviets that the FBI had harassed his wife 
and questioned his neighbor, though those events did not occur until more 
than a month later in Dallas in early November 1963; 6) that Oswald then 
pulled out his loaded revolver in front of two or three consular officials 
(KGB agents) and set it on a table such that one of the agents 
conveniently took it away and safely removed its bullet cartridges; 7) 
that Oswald, when he then left the Soviet Embassy compound after 
additional minutes of maudlin sobbing, picked his revolver up and was even 
given back his bullets by one of the KGB men, which would have risked his 
going berserk outside on the streets, which could have become a major 
international incident if anyone were killed; 8) that Oswald then went 
directly to the Cuban Embassy just two blocks away, which was also closed 
that Saturday, presumably still carrying his revolver with him since his 
hotel was three miles away, and was not searched by any Cuban guard upon 
his entry, nor did he worry beforehand about being searched before 
entering with the revolver; and, finally, 9) that Oswald returned to the 
U.S. with his revolver, crossing the Mexico-U.S. border at Laredo without 
being searched and without even fearing that he would be searched, which 
would have resulted in his arrest, detention in jail, and surely even 
worse legal problems, if he were caught transporting an undeclared firearm 
across the border into the U.S.  In sum, what we really have here is the 
case of "Nechiporenko's Oswald Revolver Hoax," orchestrated by 
Nechiporenko 30 years after the fact with the acquiescence of a former KGB 
colleague or two for the purpose of their profiting greatly off the sale 
of his (thereby sensational) Oswald book and also for the purpose of 
discrediting the FBI, a U.S. domestic law enforcement agency (which was 
infinitely less brutal in its methods than was the KGB itself).