When it comes to the nine days onboard of the Maasdam, lots is insecure. There were plenty of activities like sports, playing cards, some bars, a cinema, et cetera. We don’t know what the Oswalds did, we only know that other passengers did not see them a lot. Marina about it to the Warren Commission, February 3, 1964: "Basically, I stayed in my cabin while Lee went to the movies and theyhave different games there. I don’t know what he did there."

Well, we do know one thing for sure. Lee wrote. A lot. His writings survived through time, like so many other things in Oswald’s life. One big writing is a long monologue on the problems of capitalism and communism. Lee knew what he was writing: he had lived in both opposite worlds. He wrote his monologue on stationary of the SS Maasdam: click on the picture for an enlargement. The writing begins pretty negative on the United States: ‘I have often wondered why it is that the communist, capitalist, andeven the fascist and anarchist elements in America, always professpatriotism toward the land and the people, if not the government;although their movements must surely lead to the bitter destruction ofall and everything.’

It goes on and on. In all of his writings, like researcher John McAdams correctly points out on his famous website, Oswald has revealed thinking that is broad, but not necessarily deep. Writings filled with a huge number of spelling and grammatical mistakes. Much of his writing is undisciplined, filtered through the eyes of someone who absolutely despises authority. Oswald writes he thinks it’s immature to take the sort of attitude which says ‘a curse on both your houses!’ but in this writing it’s exactly what he does. Communism and capitalism, it both didn’t work out for Lee Harvey Oswald.

More mysterious is the questionnaire. Oswald   imagined that he would have a press conference once he returned to America   from Russia. He wrote two sets of answers to the imagined questions. In one set Oswald presents himself a bit provoking as a communist, while the other set of answers suggests thatOswald  remained a loyalAmerican, an anti-communist. In his imagination journalists would say "thank you sir, you are a real patriot!" to the last version of Lee Oswald.

Question is of course: why did Oswald create two identities by making the two totally different sets of answers? What were his motives? Did he on purpose make two different Lee Oswald’s on board of the SS Maasdam? A year later, when living in New Orleans, Lee did exactly the same: he was an active member of the communistic Fair Play for Cuba Committee but visited fanatical right-wing Cuban exile Carlos Bringuier at his clothing store in New Orleans where he offered to join his fight against Castro. Why was Oswald creating a myth all the time?

The purpose of the questionnary has always been a mysterie. By the way, when Lee arrived in the US, not a single journalist was there to ask some questions. It seemed as if Lee was a bit dissapointed.