Equally noteworthy in the October 9 cable is the evidence it provides that the “Lee Oswald” who made the October 1 phone call was an impostor. The caller, it said, “spoke broken Russian.” The real Oswald was fluent in Russian.[122] The cable went on to say that the Mexico City Station had surveillance photos of a man who appeared to be an American entering and leaving the Soviet Embassy on October l. He was described as “apparent age 35, athletic build, circa 6 feet, receding hairline, balding top.”[123] In a CIA cable back to Mexico City on October 10, the Lee Oswald who defected to the
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