Who Planted the Oswald Camera at the Paine Residence?

[Herbert Blenner]

Who Planted the Oswald Camera at the Paine Residence?

It is well known that Robert Oswald had possession of Oswald’s camera
and made it available to the FBI in February of 1964. What is surprising
is that he took the camera from the Paine residence after, not before, the
arrest of his brother. So this means that the camera was not at the Paine
residence when searched by DPD on November 22 and 23 and was present in
December of 1963 to be taken by Robert Oswald.

So I ask why did the WC not ask how Oswald’s camera appeared at the
Paine residence after the searches by the DPD?

The FBI attempted to neutralize problems arising from the belated finding
of the Imperial Reflex camera. They presented a less than convincing story
to the WC in CE 2557.

Source: 25H,793

http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/html/WC_Vol25_0411b.htm

CE 2557 explains that Detective McCabe found the Imperial Reflex camera
during the search on November 23 and ignored it as unimportant. This
explanation is difficult to accept. McCabe belonged to the Irving Police
Department and was not privy to the investigation being conducted by the
Dallas Police Department. So McCabe was not prepared to decide the
importance of items discovered at the Paine residence. Nevertheless the
FBI expects us to believe that members of the DPD entrusted an outsider
such as McCabe to decide what was important and what was to be ignored.

Detective Rose undermined McCabe’s excuse for overlooking the camera. He
testified that McCabe was present during the discovery of the two
negatives and a developed picture of the backyard photographs.

Source: 7H,231

http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh7/html/WC_Vol7_0120a.htm

Mr. BALL. Did you find some pictures?
Mr. ROSE. Yes; I found two negatives first that showed Lee Oswald
holding a rifle in his hand, - wearing a pistol at his hip, and right
with those negatives I found a developed picture I don’t know what you
call it, but anyway a picture that had been developed from the
negative of him holding this rifle, and Detective McCabe was standing
there and he found the other picture of Oswald holding the rifle.

End of quotation.

Since McCabe found the second backyard photograph, he could not could
not plead ignorance of the significance of the camera.

CE 2557 also reports that on December 6, Robert Oswald took the box of
items that belonged to his brother and ignored by McCabe. In addition to
the Imperial Reflex camera, this box contained a book on Marxism and a
book by Dr. Benjamin Spock. The FBI considered these items so important
that they reserved the first and second spots on their inventory list for
these particular books.

Herbert