Lee Harvey Oswald’s Secret CIA Contact After Assassination

The long-rumored connection between Lee Harvey Oswald and the Central Intelligence Agency is now irrefutable — thanks to evidence I'm able to present linking President John F. Kennedy's suspected assassin to a murder conspiracy rooted in rogue elements of the CIA!

Following Oswald's arrest on Nov. 22, 1963, Dallas Police Homicide Capt. Will Fritz (left) interrogated the suspect for 12-plus hours. Amazingly, no stenographic record or tape was made. In 1968, I (right) interviewed Dallas Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig as part of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s murder probe.

According to Alveeta A. Treon — one of two police switchboard operators on duty the night of Nov. 23, 1963 — Oswald submitted two Raleigh, N.C., numbers and asked to be connected to a man later identified as former U.S. Army Counterintelligence agent John Hurt (pictured with his wife, Billie).

According to Treon’s sworn affidavit, after she arrived for her evening shift with co-worker Louise Sweeney, two men who identified themselves as “Secret Service” agents told her Oswald would be making a call that night — and instructed the women how to handle it.

According to Treon, minutes later “a red light came up on the board, showing a call from the jail. Mrs. Sweeney and I both plugged in simultaneously to take it, but when I realized we both had the call, I … let her handle it alone.” What happened next is a bombshell.

After Oswald gave two numbers, Treon said Sweeney put Oswald on hold. But she never made the calls. Sweeney then returned to the line and — as the agents sequestered in the nearby equipment room listened in — told Oswald, “I’m sorry, the numbers do not answer.”

She then abruptly disconnected the call. “She appeared very nervous and visibly shaken,” Treon recounted. “She just sat there trembling.” Just hours later, Oswald was shot dead in the Dallas police department basement by Jack Ruby, as shown in this vintage TV image.

For years, Treon secretly kept the call slip she made the night of Oswald’s aborted communication. On Jan. 15, 1968, she gave the slip to the FBI — where it vanished. I believe FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover — the true mastermind of the cover-up, but not the conspiracy — made it disappear.

The slip would not resurface until years later after Treon told her story to Dr. Grover B. Proctor Jr., a noted JFK murder researcher, who in turn gave the information and call slip copy to me. In 1980, Proctor interviewed Hurt, who confirmed his service in Army Counterintelligence during World War II. Still, he disavowed any connection to Oswald and insisted he was merely an insurance adjuster.

In 2010, I interviewed U.S. Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden, who was on duty in the agency’s Chicago office on Nov. 23, 1963. “Two nights after the events in Dallas, I received a call from [Special Agent in Charge] Forrest Sorrels of the Dallas office at about 10 p.m.,” Bolden told me. “Sorrels said he was in the Dallas police station, and he and Inspector [Thomas] Kelley had interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald, who had mentioned the name John Hurd.

"I don’t know if it’s spelled H-e-a-r-d, H-u-r-d, H-e-r-d or H-u-r-t. I’m giving you the phonetic sound.” Bolden said Sorrels then told him to “drop everything … and put every agent possible on tracking down anyone who has the name John Hurd. This is top priority.” I believe Sorrels and Kelley were the two agents mentioned by Treon who’d intercepted Oswald’s call.