sheep-dipping - what it is - and isn't

This is a subject that I had planned on addressing in my next book...

Buit Steve Thomas provided a link at the 13 Inch Head Forum that pretty much nails the definition


https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-culture/sheep-dipping/

“While “sheep dipping” isn’t the official term for moving a troop from military service to the clandestine service, it’s the term the Agency uses to describe the process of taking a career soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine out of their branch of service on the surface. Instead of really removing the subject, the intelligence agency will just pull their official records, leaving behind their official record, the one which says the troop is retired, separated, or otherwise not in the military anymore.


The agency will take care of your real official record from there but there’s still work to be done on the service member’s part. They will be establishing an entirely new identity for themselves, after all. Their job is to make the move plausible, writing to friends and family telling them why they got out, what they’re going to do after leaving the military, and whatnot.”


 As above -- sheep-dipping is the PROCESS - what Oswald did in NO regarding the FPCC for example, is one possible "job" resulting from that process. 

Lost count over the years of how many have claimed his FPCC efforts, for example, consitituted the sheep-dipping. Nope. That sheep had already been dipped in 1959 and now it's fleece was white as snow.

The dipping was the Marine training in Russian, earning the nickname Osvaldavich on base, the phony early out and his phony letters home - at least one of which was a direct copy of a letter home from Cuba by William Morgan 

Other potential sheep-dippees?

Larry Crafard - kicked out of the army on a section 8 but then worked on a secret joint USAF/NASA/FAA experiment on the effects of sonic booms on populations and infrastructure

The real passenger on the bus to Mexico City. Had a shortened stint in the US Army for reasons unknown, then had a lengthy career on the rump end of domestic intel. 

Russell Langelle - Head of Security in the Moscow US Embassy as cover for CIA. Was running Popov. Faked leaving the CIA bearing alleged grudge against the agency, for other CIA cover jobs stateside which included being on the surveilance mailing list for Oswald. 

Grier Raggio - applied to join army intel at outbreak of WWII but was knocked back because of work in the alleged Soviet infiltrated Department of Algriculture. His job was investigating alleged fraud involving food stamps - which does not sound very subversive to me.

In any event, he toured Europe during the war and spent most of that time writing letters home with complaints about the army. 

After the war, he spent even more time claiming he was being harrassed by the US government.

In 1963 he was a member of the ACLU and he and his wife ran a lucrative divorce practice out of the same building that had the Dallas office of the 112th MIG - and his wife was the lawyer for Ruth P in dvorce proceedings while Grier was a member of that farcical DCLU delegation that went to check on Oswald's rights under arrest.

Correction on this entry:

The real passenger on the bus to Mexico City. Had a shortened stint in the US Army for reasons unknown, then had a lengthy career on the rump end of domestic intel. 

Double-checked sources. He got an early out from the army on medical grounds after one year of service. The medical grounds were totally bogus (hurt back).