Based on your extensive research into US intelligence activities I'm sure.
No. Based on my extensive reading of the research published in books, articles and documentary film, the last 50 plus years.
Because, unlike the Soviet Union, the United States in not a police state. I can walk up to my Congressman and tell him to shove it without fear of arrest.
Nonsense. It is against the law even to threatening of revealing military secrets to a foreign state. Oswald was still formally in the Marines and considering his knowledge of radar installations all over the Pacific theater and in proximity to the top secret U2 flights over China and Soviet, he should have been arrested on the spot, brought back to the US, court marshalled and put away for a very long time.
If it not were a well rehersed act, that is.
Defection is not against the law. We're not a police state.
See above.
The same way I know that getting a visa to visit Iran can take up to a year, but if I go to Iraq and drive to the border the guards will give me a visa on the spot for up to 2 weeks.
He asked.
What? How did Oswald know that Helsinki was the only place in the world where he could get a visa to the Soviet Union in a couple of days, when this knowledge was restricted to a very limited few belonging to the State Department and the CIA?
Who cares? He wasn't flying first class
He had to been flying from London to Helsinki if the documented time schedule is correct. Problem is, no comercial flights was available at the time period Oswald stayed in London.
So, who flew him to Helsinki?
He stayed at the two most expencive hotels in Helsinki.
Because he was in a communist country.
What? Why would the Red Cross support a US Marine defecting to communist Soviet Union? He earned more than the boss of the factory he worked in, in Minsk.
The Red Cross doubled that sum, making him one of the most afluent factory workers in recorded time. Why?
Because the USA is cool like that. US-born citizens cannot have their citizenship revoked.
Can they not? But they can have their passports withdrawn if they threatens to commit treason, couldn’t they?
Good PR, and Oswald was broke.
A Marine defecting to the enemy, renouncing his citizenship, threatening to disclose all he knows from his service as a radar operator in the Pacific, next door to CIA’s most top secret U2 spying over same Soviet enemy, and they pay for his and his new family’s return ticket back home? No questions asked?
Are you kidding me?
Had the CIA needed to know about how the Soviets made TV sets they would have called. Had Oswald been important they would have met him at the airport. The fact is that at that time the CIA knew more about the Soviet Union than Oswald did, and that's why Oswald left.
Lol. They were not interested in what Oswald may have disclosed to the enemy? How about the U2 being shot down over Russia a couple of months after Oswald defected? How about all the radar codes and everything else he could have given the enemy?
CIA was not, interested? Are you kidding?
Yes.