Oswald’s proficiency in Russian, by the time he met Marina, by his previous year and a half in the Soviet Union, where his co-workers at the Minsk Radio Plant had especially helped him with the language. However, the Warren Commission’s general counsel J. Lee Rankin told the commission members at a closed-door meeting that “we are trying . . . to find out what [Oswald] studied at the Monterey School of the Army in the way of languages,” suggesting Oswald received the kind of expert assistance in Russian given to the U.S. military’s counterintelligence agents.
