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00:00Previously on Tracking Oswald.
00:03There's something more to his timeline
00:05that we need to get back into.
00:07CIA veteran Bob Baer launched a new investigation
00:10into Lee Harvey Oswald
00:12and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
00:15The official report says that Oswald acted alone,
00:19but the Warren Commission ignored the bigger picture.
00:23Just because he was the only shooter
00:25doesn't mean there weren't others
00:26who could have aided him in the assassination.
00:31A newly declassified CIA file
00:34revealed that Lee Harvey Oswald
00:36visited the Cuban embassy in Mexico City
00:39only eight weeks before JFK's murder.
00:43Unmistakable. Oswald met with the Cubans.
00:46Investigating Cuban involvement in the assassination,
00:49Bob and former police lieutenant Adam Bercovici
00:52uncovered an arrest warrant issued
00:54on the day after the assassination
00:56for a Cuban consulate employee
00:58named Sylvia Duran.
01:00What's crazy about this is the United States
01:04asked for her arrest.
01:06Duran was a rumored accomplice of Lee Harvey Oswald,
01:10but the Warren Commission never interviewed her
01:12during the official investigation.
01:15You're telling me that we're getting a blank
01:17to the key witness?
01:19In Mexico City, the team tracked Duran down.
01:23Hello?
01:24Mrs. Duran?
01:25She refused to speak to the investigation.
01:28She, um, she got up and left.
01:31That tells me a story.
01:33If we can find another witness
01:35linking the Cubans to the assassination of Kennedy,
01:39that's an act of war against the United States.
01:42They need to be brought to justice.
01:46November 22nd, 1963.
01:50Lee Harvey Oswald opens fire in Dealey Plaza,
01:54forever changing American history.
01:57Unanswered questions linger,
01:59breeding countless conspiracy theories.
02:01Many believe Russia, Cuba, or even the CIA
02:05supported Oswald in his mission.
02:08In 2017, the final documents from the JFK assassination
02:14are scheduled for release.
02:16More than 2 million files have already been declassified.
02:20No one has analyzed them until now.
02:23A CIA veteran is on the trail
02:26of the most notorious assassin in U.S. history.
02:35In Mexico City, Bob Baer and Adam Bercovici
02:39search for a source with any information
02:42about Lee Harvey Oswald
02:43and a possible accomplice named Sylvia Duran.
02:47Duran has shut us down.
02:49We've got to have something beyond her
02:51because we're not going to get a statement out of her.
02:53We need to dig a little deeper.
02:55Let's get in the files.
02:56Take a look.
02:56The team uses an advanced neural network
02:59to search a database
03:01of over 2 million declassified government files.
03:04Advanced algorithms enable Bob
03:07to discover hidden links between documents.
03:10Look at this right here.
03:11The Thomas report.
03:12It's a State Department report
03:14filed by a Foreign Service officer.
03:17And he says Duran takes Oswald to a party
03:21outside of the embassy.
03:24Duran said she only met Oswald inside the embassy.
03:28But the Thomas memo puts her at a party with Oswald,
03:32which tells me she's a liar.
03:35For me, my intelligence background,
03:39Duran arranging and taking Oswald
03:42to a meeting outside of the consulate
03:44puts the relationship on a whole new level.
03:49The Thomas report is a declassified memo
03:52written by American diplomat Charles Thomas.
03:56On Christmas Day, 1965,
03:59Thomas writes to the CIA
04:00that he's learned Lee Harvey Oswald
04:03attended a party with Sylvia Duran in Mexico City
04:07eight weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy.
04:11When the memo is ignored,
04:12Thomas forwards it to Secretary of State William P. Rogers.
04:17Six days later, Charles Thomas is forced into retirement
04:20and silenced.
04:24This is explosive.
04:26If, in fact, Oswald did go to a party with Duran,
04:30who else saw him?
04:31Look right here.
04:33There are other people at the party.
04:37You know, someone there has got to be alive still.
04:40We need to get somebody to corroborate the Thomas report.
04:43We've got to have something in the files.
04:47Eyewitnesses.
04:48Let's take a look here and see what we can get.
04:56Yeah, look at that.
04:57Francisco Garo.
04:58Do a quick skip search
05:00and see if this guy's still alive.
05:02A skip trace generates data
05:04of where a suspect lives
05:06or may have lived at one time.
05:07And for us,
05:08a place that we can start knocking on doors.
05:11Yes.
05:11Looks like he's going to be in his mid-70s.
05:14He lives two hours from here.
05:16Let's go find him.
05:17Yeah, let's see what he can tell us.
05:20Bob and Adam managed to track down Francisco Garo
05:23at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
05:25Can we come in?
05:26Yes.
05:27Okay.
05:27That's great.
05:28Garo agrees to meet with the team
05:30and talk on the record.
05:33This witness, Francisco Garo,
05:35can tell us what went on
05:37at that party in Mexico City.
05:38If he was there,
05:39he could explain the connection
05:41between Sylvia Duran
05:42and Lee Harvey Oswald.
05:44Mr. Garo, thank you for your time.
05:46We are looking
05:49into the Kennedy assassination
05:51and specifically Oswald's trip
05:54to Mexico City.
05:57The narrative is that he came here.
06:00He met the Mexican employee
06:02of this Cuban consulate,
06:04Sylvia Duran.
06:04And what interests us
06:07is was their contact
06:09outside of the Cuban embassy,
06:12which is of high significance,
06:14and that's why we've come to you
06:16as an eyewitness.
06:18And I would like to hear
06:20what you recall from this.
06:23Well, at that time,
06:27all the group of leftist people
06:30we used to meet in fiestas.
06:35The fiesta was in the house
06:37of one of my uncles,
06:39a twist party.
06:41It's the time when the twist
06:42was arriving to Mexico
06:46and everybody wants to dance to it.
06:50A lot of people were there
06:53and we saw these men.
06:57This man was in black.
07:00He has his sign issues.
07:03He was alone
07:04and he was watching everybody.
07:08In a leftist party,
07:10a gringo stopping there
07:11was kind of strange
07:13because nobody knows him.
07:16So we say,
07:17what does gringo do here?
07:20And they say,
07:20he's praying of Sylvia.
07:22Sylvia embattled him.
07:25We look at him several times.
07:28We fix his face in our head.
07:33Then they killed Kennedy
07:35and then everybody was glued
07:37to the television
07:38watching what happened.
07:40You remember when he was
07:41going out of the jail
07:44that they shot him?
07:47He was him.
07:53A hundred percent,
07:54a hundred and ten percent,
07:56I'm sure that he was him.
07:58Sylvia Duran swears
08:01that she only met Oswald
08:03once in the consulate.
08:04Why do you think she's lying?
08:07I don't know.
08:07I have no idea.
08:09She said that she saw
08:10only in the consulate
08:11and we saw him
08:13in the fiesta
08:14of his lying.
08:17Did you meet Sylvia?
08:19No.
08:20She doesn't want to talk.
08:22She should.
08:23A lot of time has passed.
08:25Yeah, so why not tell the truth?
08:27I don't know.
08:31There was Sylvia Duran
08:33with Oswald
08:34at this party.
08:35I mean,
08:36were there any Cubans there
08:37or were there any...
08:38Yes,
08:38these men,
08:39Eusebio Asquay,
08:41the consul.
08:49Wait,
08:49the Cuban consul
08:51was at a party
08:53and there with Oswald
08:54in all these years
08:56no American official
08:57has asked you
08:57what you saw?
08:59No.
08:59No, never.
09:05This is the first time
09:06you've ever spoken on camera?
09:08The first time, yes.
09:09And you're doing it
09:10because you want the truth out?
09:12Yes,
09:13because I think
09:14you are getting old
09:16and you start feeling responsible
09:18for some things
09:19that you don't do
09:20when you were young
09:21and I was keeping this
09:23inside for all these years.
09:25People have to know
09:27it's something
09:28that is incomplete.
09:42Garo,
09:42he was incredible.
09:44He was a credible witness.
09:45I believe the guy.
09:47There was a relationship
09:48between Duran and Oswald
09:50that went beyond the consulate.
09:52She somehow brings him
09:54to a party.
09:55At that party,
09:56there's a Cuban intelligence officer.
09:58According to Francisco Garo's testimony,
10:02Oswald had a relationship
10:03with Cuban officials
10:04that went beyond the embassy.
10:05The question you have
10:07to ask yourself is,
10:08what was the nature
10:09of that relationship?
10:10And more importantly,
10:12were the Cubans part
10:13of Oswald's plan
10:15to assassinate
10:16President Kennedy?
10:17We have to dig deeper
10:19about Oswald's connections
10:21with the Cubans.
10:22I mean,
10:22what else do we have?
10:29Take a look at that.
10:31Permission document,
10:331359,
10:35FBI letter
10:36from director,
10:3717 June, 1964.
10:39This is an FBI source
10:41talking to Fidel Castro,
10:44hearing from Castro himself.
10:46And Fidel Castro says
10:48that Oswald stormed
10:50into the embassy,
10:52demanded the visa,
10:53and when it was refused to him,
10:55headed out saying,
10:57I'm going to kill Kennedy
10:58for this.
10:59Holy
11:00this is incredible.
11:03This is motivation
11:05for killing Kennedy.
11:06I'm going to kill Kennedy
11:08for this.
11:09This declassified
11:10FBI document
11:11reveals new insight
11:13into Oswald's potential motive
11:15for murdering
11:16President Kennedy.
11:17We have Fidel Castro himself
11:19explaining Oswald's motives.
11:22Oswald said,
11:23I'll kill Kennedy for this.
11:24I believe this is the fact
11:27that Oswald can't get a visa
11:28to go to Cuba
11:29because of Kennedy.
11:31He blames Kennedy
11:32for his stance against Cuba
11:33and wants him dead
11:35because of it.
11:36This memo is signed
11:38by J. Edgar Hoover.
11:40Hoover is saying,
11:41I believe this.
11:42This is explosive.
11:44I've been entrenched
11:46in this case
11:46for decades
11:47and I know better
11:48than to jump to conclusions.
11:50But this document
11:51corroborates everything
11:53we've learned so far.
11:54Oswald had a relationship
11:56with the Cubans.
11:57There's no doubt in my mind.
11:58What we need to do now
12:00is find out
12:00where that relationship began.
12:02My suspicion is
12:04it predates
12:04his trip to Mexico City.
12:07Mexico City was the main station
12:12Cuban intelligence
12:13running operations
12:14in the United States.
12:16So how would Oswald know
12:18to get in touch
12:19with the Cuban intelligence?
12:21How would he know
12:22to go to Mexico City?
12:23We need to back up
12:24a little bit.
12:24We need to start tracking Oswald,
12:26find out where did this all begin.
12:28I'm just going to look
12:28at his point of entry
12:29into Mexico City.
12:36It looks like he got
12:37his tourist card
12:38when he was living
12:39in New Orleans.
12:40Other than Miami,
12:42New Orleans has the largest
12:42Cuban population
12:43in the country.
12:44Let's get down there.
12:46Roger that.
12:54CIA veteran Bob Baer
12:56is out to prove
12:57that a 24-year-old
12:58Lee Harvey Oswald
12:59had help in his mission
13:01to assassinate
13:02President Kennedy.
13:03A newly declassified memo
13:06signed by FBI Director
13:07J. Edgar Hoover
13:08reports explosive testimony
13:10from Cuban dictator
13:11Fidel Castro,
13:13potentially revealing
13:14Oswald's motive
13:15for the murder
13:16of JFK.
13:17The document exposes
13:19that Oswald threatened
13:20to kill President Kennedy
13:21after being denied
13:23a visa at the Cuban embassy
13:24in Mexico City
13:25eight weeks before
13:27the assassination.
13:29Bob and his team
13:30are now on the ground
13:31in New Orleans, Louisiana,
13:33where Oswald lived
13:34before visiting the embassy.
13:39We are looking
13:42at two sides of Oswald
13:43from his time here.
13:45Were there any triggers
13:46that might have resulted
13:47in him engaging
13:48in violent behavior?
13:50We'll have to do
13:50a little bit of sleuthy.
13:52In New Orleans,
13:53Bob calls on
13:54former Army Ranger
13:55Marty Scoveland
13:56and former UN war crimes
13:58investigator John Sensich
13:59to help search
14:01for evidence
14:01of prior ties
14:02between Oswald
14:03and Cuban intelligence.
14:05Mexico City
14:06brought up
14:07a lot of questions.
14:08My hunch is
14:10that Oswald's
14:11first contact
14:12contact with Cuban
14:13intelligence
14:14didn't start there.
14:15It started right here
14:16in New Orleans.
14:17In 1959,
14:19Fidel Castro
14:20leads a revolution
14:21in Cuba,
14:22establishing the first
14:23communist government
14:24in the Western Hemisphere.
14:26Almost immediately,
14:27the Soviet Union
14:28takes advantage
14:29of Cuba's strategic location,
14:31stockpiling nuclear weapons
14:33on the island
14:34pointed directly
14:35at the United States,
14:36starting the Cuban
14:38missile crisis.
14:39I have directed
14:39the armed forces
14:40to prepare
14:41for any eventuality.
14:43The American people
14:44prepare for the worst,
14:46and Cubans
14:47flee their homeland
14:48in mass,
14:49seeking political asylum
14:50in the United States.
14:52Overnight,
14:53both Miami
14:54and New Orleans
14:55become hotbeds
14:56for Cuban exiles
14:57and political demonstration.
14:59In 1963,
15:01Lee Harvey Oswald
15:02is right in the middle
15:03of it all.
15:05What interests me
15:07is what were
15:08the intersections
15:08of Oswald here,
15:10and what precisely
15:11was he doing
15:12in those years
15:13with the Cubans?
15:14When Oswald died,
15:15his actual motivation
15:17was really probably
15:18buried with him,
15:19and there's no way
15:20we can directly assess it,
15:21but we can do it
15:22through what we call
15:23an indirect personality
15:24assessment,
15:25looking at the various
15:26factors in his life
15:27and what was happening here.
15:29We got to get out there
15:30and reconstruct his world.
15:35In the wake
15:35of the assassination,
15:36the Warren Commission
15:38chronicled Oswald's movements
15:39in New Orleans.
15:41The team sets out
15:42to investigate
15:43two epicenters of activity,
15:45the uptown neighborhood
15:46where he lived
15:47and the area surrounding
15:49the Riley Food Company,
15:50where he worked
15:51in the machine shop.
15:53Oswald's time
15:54in New Orleans
15:55was his most public.
15:56If his relationship
15:57with the Cubans
15:58started here
15:59in New Orleans,
16:00there would be
16:00some evidence of it.
16:02Riley's.
16:03And it's right there,
16:04640.
16:05Yeah.
16:09He lived that way.
16:1120 minutes by car?
16:13He didn't have a car.
16:15The fact that Lee Harvey
16:17Oswald worked at Riley's
16:18in itself isn't suspicious.
16:20But when you look
16:21at how far he had
16:22to travel every day
16:24to do a job
16:25he could have done
16:26much closer
16:26to his own home,
16:27that creates
16:28a level of suspicion.
16:30At the end of the day,
16:31his motivations
16:32are obscure.
16:34Maybe there was
16:35something else here.
16:37Well, if you take
16:38a look at this
16:38from an environmental,
16:40criminological perspective,
16:41often what we look for
16:42is something that's called
16:43an anchor point
16:44or an anchor spot.
16:45That's where
16:46they really operate out of.
16:48There are other things
16:50in the vicinity
16:50of the anchor spot
16:51that are critical
16:53to the conspiracy
16:54or critical to the crime.
16:56He's not traveling
16:58to this location for work.
16:59Work is his front.
17:00It's his cover.
17:03In the espionage business,
17:04we call this
17:05cover for action.
17:07You give the asset
17:08a reason to be somewhere
17:10day after day
17:11but to hide their purpose.
17:14If Riley's was a cover job,
17:16the question for me
17:17is what was he
17:18really doing there?
17:19There's got to be
17:20something else
17:21in this neighborhood,
17:22something in the databases.
17:24All right,
17:24let's see what we've got here.
17:26Keywords, we have Riley Company,
17:28New Orleans, Oswald.
17:30Bob and John
17:31access the document database,
17:33searching more than
17:34two million
17:35declassified government files.
17:38Look at this right here.
17:40We have an affidavit
17:41of Emmett Charles Barb Jr.
17:44That's Oswald's supervisor
17:46at Riley's.
17:46What did he say?
17:47There were occasions
17:48from time to time
17:49when I was unable
17:51to locate Oswald
17:52in and about the premises.
17:54He was in the habit
17:56of absenteeing himself
17:57from the premises
17:58and visiting
17:59a service station
18:01establishment
18:01adjacent to the Riley Company
18:03known as
18:04Alba's Crescent City Garage.
18:08So he was disappearing
18:10from work
18:10and going to a garage.
18:12Who works at a market
18:14and spends his time
18:16in an adjacent garage?
18:17I mean, what's over there?
18:19I think it's worth
18:19checking out.
18:20Let's go.
18:23Bob calls
18:24on his local network
18:25and tracks down
18:27a source with information
18:28about Alba's
18:29Crescent City Garage.
18:31Lee Harvey Oswald
18:33would regularly go
18:34to this garage
18:36in 1963.
18:38We just want to know
18:39kind of what's the word
18:40on the street?
18:41I mean, I heard the rumors
18:42that, you know,
18:43people parked
18:44their undercover vehicles
18:45in here.
18:47What did you say that?
18:48You mean you're talking
18:48about New Orleans police?
18:49No, no.
18:50I mean, undercover
18:50government vehicles.
18:53Going back in the 60s?
18:55As long as this parking lot
18:56has been here
18:56is my understanding.
18:58Okay.
18:59Very much.
19:00All right, thanks.
19:00See you.
19:00Okay.
19:04Let's get in the files.
19:05Take a look.
19:06What do we have on this?
19:08This comes from
19:08the HSCA,
19:10the report from
19:11the House Select Committee
19:12on Assassinations.
19:13That is, in 1963,
19:15the Secret Service
19:16has signed out
19:17two vehicles from here.
19:18This garage was
19:19some sort of motor pool
19:21for the government.
19:23What was he doing over here?
19:24It makes no sense at all.
19:25It's not his world.
19:27And the fact
19:28that the United States
19:28government,
19:29it's got its fingerprints
19:31all over this place,
19:32this is something
19:33we've got to pursue.
19:35This could be
19:36a big piece of the puzzle.
19:37If Oswald
19:39was hanging around
19:39a garage
19:40that housed
19:41undercover government vehicles,
19:43that's no coincidence.
19:45We came to New Orleans
19:47looking for a connection
19:48between Oswald
19:49and the Cubans,
19:50but what we found
19:51is potentially
19:51a connection
19:52between Oswald
19:53and its secret
19:54government operation.
20:02CIA veteran Bob Bair
20:04and his team
20:04are investigating
20:06Lee Harvey Oswald's
20:07time in New Orleans
20:08before he killed
20:09President John F. Kennedy.
20:11The Warren Commission
20:13has always said
20:14that Oswald
20:15was a lone wolf,
20:16but now
20:17the declassified files
20:19show it was possible
20:20that Oswald
20:21was working
20:22with a larger network.
20:23while Bob investigates
20:25Oswald's place of work.
20:28Across town,
20:30former police lieutenant
20:31Adam Bercovici
20:32and former army ranger
20:34Marty Scoveland
20:35are on the ground
20:36in Oswald's
20:37old neighborhood.
20:37So this is where
20:38he walked down
20:39to get a drink
20:39after work.
20:40Exactly.
20:41They've arranged
20:42to meet with the owner
20:43of Henry's Bar.
20:45A declassified FBI file
20:47reveals that Oswald
20:48visited Henry's
20:49in 1963
20:50after a street fight
20:52with a known
20:53anti-Castro activist
20:54named Carlos Bringer.
20:56In August of 63,
20:59Oswald approached Bringer
21:00and offered
21:01to help train
21:02Cuban exiles
21:03in the fight
21:04against Fidel Castro.
21:06Oswald hands over
21:08his Marine handbook
21:09as proof of the experience
21:10he can lend the cause.
21:12Bringer rejects the offer.
21:16Four days later,
21:18Lee Harvey Oswald
21:19reemerges,
21:20this time handing out
21:21pro-Castro leaflets,
21:23calling for the support
21:24of the Castro regime.
21:26Bringer confronts Oswald
21:28with his apparent
21:29change of allegiance
21:30and a brawl ensues.
21:33New Orleans police
21:34book Oswald
21:35for disturbing the peace.
21:38After his release,
21:40Oswald visits
21:41Henry's Bar.
21:44At that time,
21:45I was 12 years old.
21:46My dad used to work
21:46at the bar.
21:47And Lee Harvey Oswald
21:48was right down on block.
21:49My dad said he used
21:50to see him every day,
21:51walking by every day.
21:53But one day,
21:54he came in
21:54when he got arrested
21:55downtown.
22:00They had a little TV
22:01in the corner over there.
22:03When he got out of jail
22:04and he came in
22:05and demanded,
22:06my dad put him on TV.
22:08I wanted to see himself
22:09get arrested
22:10more into news media.
22:12And my dad told me
22:13when I'm going to put
22:14the TV on.
22:15And they had a few words,
22:16big words.
22:17And my dad kicked him out.
22:22I actually told him
22:23to leave the place
22:24so I don't want him
22:24around here no more.
22:27And then,
22:28next time we saw him,
22:29my dad saw him,
22:30was a couple months later
22:32when all of a sudden
22:33he shows up in Dallas
22:34killing the president
22:35of the United States.
22:36So after this was all over
22:38and after November happened,
22:39did you, you know,
22:40later in the years,
22:41did you and your dad
22:41ever talk about that
22:42a little bit?
22:43Did you guys ever?
22:43Oh yeah, we talk about it
22:44all the time.
22:45And then my dad said
22:45one time they had
22:46some Cuban couple
22:48who was outside.
22:50They kind of started
22:51telling my dad
22:52all kind of different things
22:53about Oswald
22:55and he was innocent
22:56or something to that effect.
22:58And finally my dad
22:59just told him,
22:59hit the road,
23:00you know,
23:00please get away from here.
23:02And finally they left
23:03and he never saw him again.
23:04That was it.
23:05The Warren Commission
23:05came in and interviewed
23:06my dad.
23:07I think that statement
23:08to the Warren Commission
23:09about the Cuban couple
23:11that was right
23:12outside the bar.
23:14The day after
23:15the assassination,
23:16two Cubans showed up
23:17and professed
23:19Oswald's innocence.
23:20A declassified FBI document
23:22confirms that account.
23:25It's great information.
23:26I really appreciate that.
23:27What I find curious
23:28is that it was never
23:30followed up on.
23:31We never found out
23:32what the identity was
23:33of those two Cubans
23:34nor did we find out
23:35what the relationship
23:36was that they had
23:37with Oswald.
23:44After Oswald is arrested
23:46for the assassination,
23:47man and woman,
23:48both Cuban,
23:49they show up
23:49and they're screaming
23:50and yelling
23:50that Oswald's innocent,
23:51that he's being framed.
23:52His associations
23:53with the Cubans
23:54is evident.
23:55I want to know
23:56why these Cubans
23:56are voicing support for him.
23:58Oswald is working
24:00at Riley Foods.
24:01Right next door
24:02is a garage.
24:04That's where
24:04we come up
24:06with these reports
24:07that federal vehicles
24:08were being parked
24:09at that garage.
24:10Very suspicious to me.
24:12Yeah, I know.
24:12I agree with you.
24:13If it's true
24:14that Oswald set up
24:16at Riley's
24:17right next to
24:17a government garage,
24:19it really makes me suspicious
24:21what Oswald was up to.
24:23Okay, let's run a search.
24:26Alba, Oswald, FBI.
24:30All right,
24:31here's the declassified document.
24:33Adrian Alba
24:34testified before the committee.
24:36One day,
24:37an FBI agent
24:38entered his garage
24:39and requested
24:39to use one of
24:40the Secret Service
24:41cars'
24:42dark green Studebaker.
24:44The next day,
24:45Alba observed
24:45the FBI agent
24:47in the car
24:47handing a white envelope
24:49to Oswald
24:49in front of
24:50the Riley Coffee Company.
24:52There was no exchange
24:53of words.
24:56What is that about?
24:57Yeah, we came here
25:00to New Orleans
25:01looking for a Cuban connection,
25:02and now what we found
25:04is a connection
25:05to the federal government.
25:07It's a bit of a curveball,
25:09but we need to find
25:10the context for this.
25:12I mean,
25:12his actions
25:13are not random.
25:15What does all this add up to?
25:16This is what
25:17the Warren Commission
25:18didn't do.
25:19Bob and Adam
25:21dig into the documents
25:22to construct a chronology
25:24of Oswald's time
25:25in New Orleans,
25:26searching for evidence
25:27the Warren Commission
25:28missed or ignored.
25:30All right, here we go.
25:32Oswald left
25:33for New Orleans
25:34on April 24, 1963.
25:374-24,
25:38he goes to New Orleans.
25:40That's the start here.
25:41Yep.
25:43May 9th,
25:43Oswald completed
25:44an application
25:45for employment
25:46at William B. Riley Company
25:48at 640 Magazine Street.
25:50On June 24, 1963,
25:53Oswald applied
25:53for a U.S. passport
25:55at the passport office
25:56in New Orleans, Louisiana.
25:57On July 19,
25:58Oswald was dismissed
26:00by Riley
26:00because of inefficiency
26:02and inattention
26:03to his work.
26:04On August 5,
26:04he visited a store
26:05managed by Carlos Brunier.
26:07He told Brunier
26:08that he had been a Marine
26:10and was trained
26:11in guerrilla warfare
26:12and that he was willing
26:13not only to train Cubans
26:14to fight,
26:15but also to join
26:16the fight himself.
26:16Oswald was arrested
26:18on August 9th
26:19in connection
26:20with a scuffle
26:21which occurred
26:22while he was distributing
26:24pro-Castro leaflets.
26:27And on August 21st,
26:29he debated
26:29over radio station
26:31WDSU, New Orleans.
26:33I would very definitely
26:33say that I am a Marxist.
26:36That is correct.
26:37But that does not mean
26:38however I'm a communist.
26:40It's interesting
26:41that he debated
26:42Carlos Brunier,
26:43the same guy
26:44he scuffled with
26:45and was arrested
26:45for an interaction with.
26:47Just bizarre.
26:48On September 17th,
26:50he obtained
26:50from the Mexican
26:51Consulate General
26:52in New Orleans
26:53a tourist card.
26:55Oswald departed
26:56from New Orleans
26:57on September 25th
26:58and arrived in Mexico City
27:00on September 27th.
27:03That's going to be
27:04our end point.
27:07Are you seeing
27:08what I'm seeing?
27:09I'm seeing a whole month
27:11where we cannot account
27:12for Lee Harvey Oswald.
27:14Right here
27:15from 821
27:18to 917
27:20where he's just disappeared.
27:21Essentially,
27:22he falls off the grid
27:23for a month
27:24and when he resurfaces,
27:25he's on his way
27:26to Mexico
27:27and we know
27:28what happened in Mexico.
27:30This is an anomaly
27:31I do not like.
27:33This dark period
27:34is key.
27:35Oswald wasn't one
27:36to sit home
27:37and watch television.
27:38He was up to something.
27:40We are going to get
27:41to the bottom of this.
27:42This could completely
27:43alter the course
27:44of this investigation.
27:55CIA veteran Bob Baer
27:57and former police lieutenant
27:59Adam Bercovici
27:59are investigating
28:01Lee Harvey Oswald's
28:02time in New Orleans
28:03before he murdered Kennedy,
28:05searching for ties
28:07to possible accomplices.
28:08Are you seeing
28:09what I'm seeing?
28:11The team has discovered
28:12a dark period
28:13in Oswald's timeline,
28:15one month
28:16where no one
28:17can account
28:17for his whereabouts.
28:19This is an anomaly
28:20I do not like.
28:22Oswald wasn't one
28:24to sit home
28:24and watch television.
28:25He was up to something.
28:27I think the answers
28:28lie in this dark period.
28:29Here's the question.
28:31How does Oswald's
28:32connections with the Cubans,
28:34his connections
28:35with the FBI
28:36and the CIA
28:37at the Alba garage?
28:39How do they fit together?
28:41Somewhere there's going
28:42to be an intersection.
28:43My hunch is
28:46we're going to find
28:47the answer
28:47in this dark period
28:49right here.
28:51Okay, let's do
28:52a document search
28:53starting August 21st
28:56when he last goes
28:57on the radio
28:59to September 17th
29:01when he applies
29:01for a visa.
29:02What we need to do
29:03is widen our scope
29:04and see what else
29:06was going on
29:07in and around
29:08New Orleans
29:08at that time.
29:12All right, here we go, Bob.
29:15Old hands at station
29:17confirmed JM Move
29:19located about 15 miles
29:21from New Orleans.
29:23What the hell
29:24is JM Move?
29:26JM Move
29:28is probably
29:28a CIA cryptonym.
29:30A cryptonym
29:31is a code word
29:32for a CIA project.
29:3415 miles
29:35out of New Orleans.
29:36Can we get any more
29:37detail in the location?
29:42Okay, classification
29:43is secret.
29:44This comes up
29:45under the keywords
29:46of JM Move.
29:49Subject,
29:49Bell Chase, Louisiana.
29:51We got to go there
29:52and see what this is.
29:53I've been poring
29:54over the documents
29:55in this case for years
29:57and there have been
29:58a lot of dead ends
29:59along the way.
30:00But this is the type
30:01of lead that gets me
30:02excited because it seems
30:04to connect a lot of dots.
30:08Bob and Adam focus
30:10on Bell Chase, Louisiana
30:11and discover multiple addresses
30:14tied to JM Move.
30:16The team targets
30:17the largest
30:18and most remote site
30:19associated with the operation.
30:21JM Move,
30:23any of these CIA facilities,
30:25you're doing stuff
30:27you don't want people
30:27to see.
30:28You can't have
30:29casual observers.
30:30Right.
30:31I mean,
30:32this really is a black hole.
30:34And the last thing
30:35the CIA ever wants
30:37is a bright light
30:38shown in.
30:40Yeah.
30:44Keep out
30:45means let's go in.
30:46Yeah.
30:54Look at that.
30:55It looks like
30:56an artificial hill almost.
30:57Like it doesn't really
30:57belong, you know?
30:58Yeah.
30:59That's all about it.
31:00Some sort of berm.
31:04Man, oh man.
31:05Look at that.
31:06Look at that.
31:08This is eerie.
31:08No, seriously.
31:09Yeah.
31:29I've seen a lot
31:30of bunkers,
31:31but that's
31:32on the bigger end.
31:33Yeah.
31:35Here's another scary part.
31:37Look how far
31:38they go down there.
31:38This is not the only one.
31:40There's a whole row
31:41of them down here.
31:43Yep.
31:43Somebody sunk a lot
31:44of cash into this place
31:45to make it happen.
31:46In today's dollars,
31:47we're talking
31:47a billion-dollar base here.
31:49This place is enormous.
31:52We've got to figure out
31:53what they were doing here.
31:55It's going to be
31:56a big job.
31:56Yeah.
31:57Let's get everybody here.
31:58Start looking
31:59at these things.
32:00All right.
32:05Former Army Ranger
32:06Marty Scoveland
32:07and UN War Crimes
32:08Investigator John Sensich
32:10joined Bob and Adam
32:11to begin a search
32:13of the JM Move facility.
32:15looking for any connection
32:17between the clandestine
32:18operation
32:19and Lee Harvey Oswald.
32:20This is it.
32:21Some kind of bunker
32:23just goes right down here.
32:24They go on
32:25and on
32:26and on.
32:28The proximity
32:29of New Orleans,
32:30this CIA facility,
32:32and Oswald
32:33is a lead
32:33we cannot overlook.
32:35We've got to get out
32:36and look at these bunkers,
32:37figure out
32:38what they were used for.
33:04Be careful for glass.
33:08Yep.
33:09Look at this.
33:13It's an old computer.
33:171960s era.
33:19Look at this.
33:20It's got a dial.
33:21An actual dial.
33:23I've been on a lot
33:23of military bases.
33:25Even in the 1960s
33:26when I was a kid,
33:27this looks just like
33:28the type of equipment
33:29that you'd find.
33:33This infrastructure
33:35is incredible.
33:36Obviously,
33:37a storage facility.
33:41Look at this.
33:43Magazine capacity,
33:4528,000 cubic feet.
33:47They're measuring
33:48for ammunition.
33:50It looks like
33:52JM Move
33:52may have been
33:53a military-grade operation
33:55and that Lee Harvey Oswald
33:57may have been
33:58right in the middle of it.
34:05Just outside of New Orleans
34:08in Belchase, Louisiana,
34:10Bob Bear and his team
34:11are investigating
34:12a mysterious CIA operation
34:14with the codename
34:15JM Move.
34:17They're measuring
34:18for ammunition.
34:19Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
34:21may have been connected
34:22to the operation
34:23in the months
34:24before he murdered
34:25President Kennedy.
34:27We have two goals
34:29at JM Move.
34:29We need to know
34:30what was going on there
34:31and we need to find out
34:33how it's connected
34:34to Lee Harvey Oswald.
34:36It's crucial
34:36to understanding
34:37his motivations.
34:38To determine
34:39the nature
34:40of the operation,
34:42former Army Ranger
34:43Marty Scoveland
34:43examines Bunker 14
34:45for clues.
34:50Based on my
34:51military experience,
34:52this JM Move
34:52facility was very
34:54obviously a weapons depot.
34:58It just reeks
34:59of covert operation.
35:08Yeah, I'm not seeing
35:09what I'm looking for
35:10in here,
35:10but I wonder
35:11if we can do
35:12an explosives test
35:13and see if at one time
35:14this was holding
35:15anything more
35:16than just ammunition.
35:23Marty utilizes
35:25the Seeker System,
35:26a state-of-the-art
35:28technology created
35:29for the United States
35:30Department of Defense
35:31to test for both
35:32narcotics
35:33and explosives.
35:34Utilizing automated
35:36color-metric technology,
35:38it can detect
35:39trace amounts
35:39of explosives
35:40from a sample
35:41as small
35:42as a grain of sand.
35:51I think I see
35:52some spotting here.
35:53Let's run this.
36:01We got a positive detection.
36:03We got nitro aromatics,
36:06nitro esters,
36:07inorganic nitrates.
36:08There are multiple classes
36:10of arms, ammunition,
36:11explosives,
36:12some of them
36:12very high grade.
36:14This was not your average
36:15run-of-the-mill
36:16military installations.
36:18Really begs the question,
36:19what exactly was this facility
36:21being used for?
36:29So we want to get
36:30an aerial perspective,
36:31take some aerial photography.
36:34We're going to throw
36:35this drone up in the air.
36:36It's going to take stock
36:37of the area
36:38and map the area.
36:40After identifying
36:41explosives inside
36:42the bunkers,
36:43Marty launches
36:44a mapping drone
36:45to reveal a macro
36:46perspective
36:47of the JM Move facility.
36:50We want to find out
36:51the scale of the
36:51of this place.
36:54If you're running
36:55a covert operation,
36:56it'd be very hard
36:57to see this
36:57from the sky.
36:59We've got the overhead
37:00cover from the
37:01dense vegetation.
37:09Look at the size
37:10of this thing.
37:12I would say we're
37:13around 50 bunkers
37:14in total.
37:14I mean,
37:15this is a large-scale
37:15operation if you're
37:16using this kind
37:17of facility,
37:18these kind of grounds.
37:28We've got the
37:28Mississippi River
37:30right here.
37:31You can store
37:33an incredible amount
37:34of ammunition,
37:35equipment,
37:36and move it at ease
37:37without being discovered.
37:39When you're setting up
37:40a covert supply point,
37:42you need a way
37:43to get arms,
37:44ammunition,
37:44equipment in
37:45and out of there
37:46right on the
37:47Mississippi River.
37:48You can move anything
37:49that you need
37:49to have moved
37:50in the cover of darkness
37:51without ever leaving
37:52a trace.
37:53With the Mississippi River
37:55next to this facility,
37:56weapons could easily
37:58be shipped upriver
37:59undetected.
38:00The question is,
38:02were they headed
38:03to Lee Harvey Oswalt
38:04and his accomplices?
38:06This JMU facility
38:07jumped out to me
38:09as what you would use
38:10for a guerrilla
38:11training operation.
38:18CIA veteran Bob Baer
38:20is following new evidence
38:22from declassified
38:23government files
38:24investigating assassin
38:26Lee Harvey Oswalt.
38:28Bob and former
38:29police lieutenant
38:30Adam Bercovici
38:31have discovered
38:32a CIA operation
38:33codename J.M. Move,
38:35possibly connected
38:37to Oswalt
38:37during his time
38:38in New Orleans.
38:39For me,
38:40the Cuban connection,
38:42the CIA,
38:43Oswalt's dark period,
38:44they all come together
38:45in J.M. Move.
38:46J.M. Move
38:47is centered around
38:49a huge ammunition depot.
38:53You look at
38:54Marty's drone pictures,
38:56you've got security,
38:57you've got bunkers
38:58to store the stuff,
39:00you've got the Mississippi River,
39:01and it's the perfect site.
39:03What kind of
39:03operation would that
39:04be in support of?
39:05My hunch is
39:07that facility
39:08was a storage facility
39:10in support
39:11of some training activity
39:13here in Louisiana.
39:14And I think
39:15whatever that training was,
39:17we're going to find
39:17a connection with Oswalt.
39:19After visiting that place,
39:21what's clear,
39:22it was strictly
39:22a place to store
39:24ammo and explosives.
39:25There was no evidence
39:26of actual training
39:28taking place there.
39:29The question now becomes,
39:30where was all that
39:31ammo and explosives going?
39:33Where was
39:34the training facility?
39:35My guess,
39:36we'll find evidence
39:37of training ground
39:38someplace upriver.
39:41Let's put in
39:42Oswald,
39:43training,
39:45Louisiana,
39:52CIA.
39:53All right,
39:54we've got the testimony
39:55of Robert Tannenbaum.
39:56He is the deputy chief counsel
39:59for the House Select Committee
40:00on Assassinations.
40:02That's the follow-up investigation
40:03to JFK,
40:04to the Warren Commission,
40:05in the 70s.
40:07We had information
40:08of Oswald being involved
40:09in Louisiana
40:10with various individuals
40:11who were contracted employees
40:13of the CIA.
40:14We came across
40:15a film of these Cubans
40:16and these soldier
40:17of fortune types
40:18in a military training setting.
40:21I mean,
40:21this guy's very credible.
40:22He's telling us
40:24in an official testimony
40:25there's a film
40:27of Cubans
40:28training in Louisiana.
40:31Where is this film?
40:53My God,
40:54not a damn thing.
40:55Look at that.
40:56Disappeared.
40:57Yep.
40:58And when stuff disappears,
41:00that means people want
41:00to hide s***.
41:02None of this surprises me.
41:04When I was in the CIA
41:05in 1976,
41:08I asked for a file.
41:09It was black tape
41:11related to Kennedy's assassination
41:13and it disappeared.
41:15People at archives
41:16had no idea.
41:18As the saying goes,
41:19there's no lost file,
41:20there's just missing files.
41:21Yeah, exactly.
41:22It looks like
41:23he was dealing
41:24with these people
41:25that were being trained
41:26in the bayou.
41:27The more we get into this,
41:29the more this guy
41:30does not look like
41:30a lone wolf.
41:31There's overwhelming evidence
41:33to assume
41:34he had accomplices.
41:36The whole reason
41:37we came to New Orleans
41:38was to connect
41:40Oswald to the Cubans
41:42and this film
41:43would have shown that.
41:44Without the film,
41:45we have to take
41:46the next best thing
41:47and that's get out
41:48in the bayou.
41:49If we can find proof
41:51of this training grounds,
41:52we're going to be
41:53one step closer
41:54to finding out
41:56if Oswald had accomplices
41:58in the murder of JFK.
42:08next on Tracking Oswald.
42:11What we're looking for
42:12is an off-the-grid
42:13CIA training base.
42:15You can go four or five days
42:17without seeing another person.
42:19Anything you can see down there
42:21that looks out of the ordinary,
42:22pull it up.
42:25This is all being covertly done
42:27right in our backyard.
42:29That's pretty shocking.
42:30People were out here training.
42:32How could they miss this?
42:34Oswald is going
42:35out of his way
42:36to meet Cuban exiles.
42:39All of those Cuban exiles
42:41are being run out of Miami.
42:44There are security cameras
42:46all over this place.
42:47Oswald was involved
42:48with people committing acts
42:50that are either secret
42:50or illegal.
42:52Doesn't remind me
42:53of a lone wolf.
42:54It reminds me
42:54of a wolf pack.
42:56Sometimes you can be eaten
42:58by your own monster
42:59that you created.
43:00This is closer
43:02than anybody's ever been
43:03to solving this case.
43:05This is the smoking gun
43:06the world's been waiting for.
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