The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union

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Many people helped bring this book to fruition, and I have, no doubt, forgotten some of them. Those whom I have not forgotten are:

Friends and/or fellow journalists who offered criticism, humor, and generosity: Miriam Elder, Dan Shea and Yulia Golobokova, Stephen Bier-man, Charles Case and Will Mauldin. Thank you also to Andrew Kramer, for raising some thoughtful questions, and Julia Ioffe, for putting me in touch with her lovely grandmother Emma Bruk, who gave me a tour of Botkinskaya Hospital, where she was once a doctor and Lee Harvey Oswald was once a patient.

In Moscow, Sima Horunzhaya and Tatyana Voronina helped unearth former KGB officers and Intourist guides, and Lena Kamenskaya and her husband, Sasha, told me the way things really were in the time of Nikita Khrushchev. In Minsk, I was helped by Olga Nenadovets, Katya Lysenko, Katya Yakukhina, Nikolai Ovsianko, and Tatyana Schastnaya. Eduard Sagindikov, the current resident of Apartment 24, Kommunistichiskaya Ulitsa, put up with innumerable visits and queries.

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