"What portions? the surviving Scott inquired.

"Well, there was some mention of Lee Harvey Oswald in some area," the CIA officer said, "and we don't want to make that public."

The CIA treated the son of one of its veteran officers no differently than it treated congress and the American public. It held back or destroyed who-knows-how-many documents that could have illuminated the background of the JFK assassination many relating to its formerly supersecret alliance with the mob to clip Castro.

Helms lied to the Warren Commission when he testified that the CIA never "contemplated" using Oswald as a contact. In fact in 1960 according to internal CIA memos that were preserved the agency "showed intelligence interest" in the then-obscure Oswald. During his condolence call at the Scott residence, Angleton scooped up a tape recording purportedly of Oswald. The CIA tape came from Oswald's now-famous visit to Mexico City in the summer of 1963, just a few months before the Kennedy assassination.

Oswald or someone pretending to be Oswald or someone identified as Oswald went to the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City petulantly and obstreperously demanding a visa to Castro's Cuba. He also reportedly met with Soviet intelligence agents and tried to a visa back to the Soviet Union where he had once defected (and returned to the United States strangely unmolested). Why? There are a number of theories. Perhaps Oswald was a disaffected nut smitten by delusions of Marxist grandeur (who later took out his private frustrations on JFK). Or he was working for an intelligence agency in an anti-Cuban operation. There were many underway at the time.

Or perhaps someone was trying to make Oswald look like a Communist so that, the theory goes, the Soviets could take the blame for the subsequent assassination. After the assassination, there was an attempt by CIA operatives and powerful right-wingers (led by oilman H.L. Hunt) to finger Castro and/or Kruschev as the kingpin.