NEW ASSASSINATION THEORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000200990026-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: December 12, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/27: CIA-RDP90-00965R000200990026-7
BEVERLY TIMES (MA)
12 December 1985
New assassination tneory
Author questions the identity of Lee Harvey Oswald
By WENDY GOLDHIRSH
Times correspondent
MANCHESTER - R.B. Cutler
of Union Street has spent the last
20 years trying to prove that the
real killers of President John F.
Kennedy have not yet been
identified.
In his recent book, "Alias Os-
wald," Cutler contends that the
man accused of assassinating the
president was not Lee Harvey Os-
wald but Alek James Hidell, a CIA
agent who had served in R is
under Oswald's name.
Cutler is a professional "assas-
sinologist" and publishes "The
Grassy Knoll Gazette," a newslet-
ter on assassinations. He has
strong opinions about who killed
Robert Kennedy ("It was not Sir-
han," he said,) and Martin Luther
King. He also has his own theories
about the assassination attempts
on Alabama Gov. George Wallace
and President Reagan, and the
downing of a Korean airliner in
1983.
In "Alias Oswald," Cutler says
Hidell, when he returned from
Russia in 1962, still under the alias
of Lee Harvey Oswald, was .as-
signed the task of investigating
rumors of a presidential assassi-
nation. He succeeded in penetrat-
ing the group of conspirators,
Cutler claims, and then, because
of his experience in Russia, was
targeted by the conspirators as a
likely patsy for the assassination.
Cutler claims that the conspira-
tors were supported by oil money
and West Coast money and were
made up of members of the John
Birch Society. "It was a paramili-
tary operation," Cutler said.
Cutler, who has been an archi-
tect for most of his working life,
said he first became interested in
Kennedy's assassination when he
laid out, graphically, the single-
bullet theory promoted by the
Warren Commission Report.
Wendy Goldhirsh photo
R.B. Cutler, author of a new book "Alias Oswald," contends that the
man accused of assassinating the president was not Lee Harvey
Oswald but Alek James Hidell, a CIA agent.
"I matched the wound and the
scars in the men with the shots. I
measured Dealey Plaza, where
the president and the governor
were shot. The idea that a single
bullet could have penetrated the
president's neck and then wound-
ed the governor in two different
places, is ludicrous," Cutler said.
Cutler believes Kennedy was
shot by two different people, one
using a flechette or small dart-
shaped projectile that is clustered
in an explosive warhead and fired
from a hand-held gun, and by one
using a standard gun. He said the
two members of the conspiracy
were trained by the CIA as part of
the Cuban invasion effort. It is the
CIA connection to the gunmen,
Cutler believes, that motivates a
government cover-up of the
assassination.
Cutler, who is accustomed to
having his assassination theories
rejected, said, "I'm interested in
finding the truth. Someday, and it
may not be in my lifetime, some-
one will be able to get through
with the truth."
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/27: CIA-RDP90-00965R000200990026-7