[Ben Holmes]

Jean Davison Wrote:HT/Lingual monitored mail between this country and the Soviet Union, not mail within the U.S. itself.

Some authors seem to think that because this program picked up some of the Oswalds’ mail to or from the Soviet Union it meant that the CIA was reading all of Oswald’s mail and monitoring his activities, but that’s not what the evidence indicates. (If I’m wrong about that, please show me.)

There’s a good bit about HT/Lingual at the maryferrell.org site because the HSCA looked into it in the mid-1970s.

This is the sort of nonsense that believers actually believe.

Let me try to sort this out...

If mail came from the Soviet Union - it went to another post office box that belonged to Oswald?

I'm just guessing, because Jean wasn't specific about how a program that intercepts & reads mail only to the Soviet Union would have been picked up mail without noticing a rather large package containing a rifle.

And, of course, she's simply wrong. HT/Lingual clearly DID NOT only target the Soviet Union... a quick Google search reveals names that had NO FOREIGN CONTACTS AT ALL - such as Martin Luther King.

Why is it that critics are constantly correcting believers on such easily located historical facts?