George Mohrenschildt
From The Kennedy Assassination Resource
George Sergei De Mohrenschildt
A wealthy Russian émigré who had been involved in intelligence work and befriended Oswald, suggesting he move to Dallas.
De Mohrenschildt's father, a Baron in the province of Minsk, escaped from Russia at the time of the Bolshevik revolution taking his wife and young George with him.
George grew up on the family's estate in Poland, went to university in Belgium and moved to the USA in 1938. As a wealthy émigré, he was welcomed into wealthy society, including the Bouvier family. He seems to have been close to young Jacqueline Bouvier, who referred to him as "Uncle George". He was dating Jacqueline's mother at the time of her parents divorce and had been engaged to Jacqueline's Aunt Michele.
He qualified with a master's degree in petroleum geology from the University of Texas. During World War II, according to FBI reports, he was involved in intelligence work ostensibly for Nazi Germany, although there is considerable doubt about his actual allegiance. For example, in 1942 he was deported from Mexico as a result of allegations of spying for Germany. However, he was carrying letters of credit worth $6,000 from the Chase Manhattan; Nelson Rockefeller's bank. Rockefeller was closely linked with Allied intelligence and had set up an operation to prevent oil reaching Germany from Latin America. As the war progressed, and in subsequent years, his connection with the CIA became more clear-cut.
His lawyer and friend, Patrick Russell, has said that every time De Mohrenschildt returned to the USA, he underwent a debriefing, and that his association with Oswald went a little deeper than friendship.
There are several versions of how De Mohrenschildt and the Oswalds met, most of them contradictory.
De Mohrenschildt himself has said that he was encouraged to associate with Oswald by J. Walton Moore, a CIA agent based in Dallas. Oswald and De Mohrenschildt became friendly and in October 1962 De Mohrenschildt suggested to Oswald that he should move to Dallas from Fort Worth. According to De Mohrenschildt's wife and daughter, he organised Oswalds new job with Jaggers-Stiles-Stovall, a graphic arts company which handled map contracts for the U.S. Army Map Service.
According to a rough draft of a book by De Mohrenschildt written after the assassination, Oswald admired both JFK and Martin Luther King, saying of JFK's attempts to improve racial tolerance and relationships with the Communist world, "If he succeeds he will be the greatest President in the history of this country."
[edit] Mysterious Death
On the day he was supposed to be meeting an investigator from the House Assassinations Committee, De Mohrenschildt apparently shot himself. His wife Jeanne said in a newspaper interview that she did not believe that he had committed suicide. She also feared for her own life, saying "they may get me too, but I'm not afraid…" She died in 1992 a few weeks after contacting the author Robert J Groden.
