In 1959 Oswald defected to the communist Soviet Union, lived there for 2 1/2 years, and applied to become a Soviet citizen.<ref>https://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2012/11/10/kgb-files-on-lee-harvey-oswald-offer-peek-into-accused-assassins-time-as-defector-in-russia</ref> Oswald married the niece of a KGB colonel there.<ref>http://www.amazon.com/Guilty-Liberal-Victims-Assault-America/dp/030735346X/</ref> Declassified CIA documents dating back to the assassination that were released in 2015 revealed that, among other things, the CIA found out on September 28, 1963 that Oswald prior to assassinating Kennedy proceeded to pay a visit to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in an attempt to gain visas, indicating he had plans to leave the country very soon.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3237770/Declassified-CIA-memo-reveals-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-visited-embassies-Cuba-Soviet-Union-plot-escape-assassinating-John-F-Kennedy.html</ref> | In 1959 Oswald defected to the communist Soviet Union, lived there for 2 1/2 years, and applied to become a Soviet citizen.<ref>https://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2012/11/10/kgb-files-on-lee-harvey-oswald-offer-peek-into-accused-assassins-time-as-defector-in-russia</ref> Oswald married the niece of a KGB colonel there.<ref>http://www.amazon.com/Guilty-Liberal-Victims-Assault-America/dp/030735346X/</ref> Declassified CIA documents dating back to the assassination that were released in 2015 revealed that, among other things, the CIA found out on September 28, 1963 that Oswald prior to assassinating Kennedy proceeded to pay a visit to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in an attempt to gain visas, indicating he had plans to leave the country very soon.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3237770/Declassified-CIA-memo-reveals-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-visited-embassies-Cuba-Soviet-Union-plot-escape-assassinating-John-F-Kennedy.html</ref> |