Karl Koecher, CIA Double Agent

In 1934, Karl Koecher was born in Czechoslovakia. When he was 28, Koecher joined the Czech intelligence agency.

In the mid-1960s, he moved to the United States and received a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University.

Koecher then obtained a position with the CIA and became a spy for the USSR. He is one of only a few people to have penetrated the CIA for the Soviet Union. A large percentage of information on his life has never been revealed.

It is unclear what tipped the CIA off that Koecher was a double agent, but in 1984 he was arrested and accused of being a spy.

The CIA attempted to make him turn against the USSR, but Koecher was eventually deemed to be unreliable.

After the FBI made mistakes in his case, Koecher was set free. On February 11, 1986, he was part of a spy exchange that involved Anatoly Shcharansky.

Upon his return to Czechoslovakia, Koecher was named a hero and given a job with the government.

In 1989, it was suggested that Koecher was involved with the Velvet Revolution, but he denied the claims.

After the fall of communism in the USSR, little information was published on his life. However, he has been accused of being connected to the CIA.

It was alleged that Koecher was involved in a defrauding scheme that provided Mohammed Al-Fayed with false documents that supported the conspiracy surrounding the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed.

"Lee Harvey Oswald", A Series of Conspiracy Theories

On May 5, 1979, a man named Raymond Lee Harvey was arrested by the Secret Service for concealing a loaded starter gun only 10 minutes before President Jimmy Carter was set to give a speech in Los Angeles.

Harvey was arrested only 15.2 meters (50 ft) from where Carter was going to talk.

After being interrogated by the police, Harvey admitted to being part of a four-man plot to kill the president.

His role in the attack was to shoot into the air, while another assassin killed Carter.

Harvey conspired with a 21-year-old named Osvaldo Espinoza Ortiz, who was arrested by the police. Ortiz admitted to being with Harvey, but denied a plot to kill the president.

Raymond Lee Harvey had a history of mental illness. His story was initially thought to be fabricated, however, after investigators found corroborative testimony, the claims were taken seriously.

The assassination attempt was reported by the mainstream media, but then quickly disappeared. Many of the details surrounding Raymond Lee Harvey remain a mystery.

After a series of revelations, Harvey and Ortiz were held on bond, but the charges were eventually dropped.

As you would expect, people have connected the fact that the potential assassin was named Raymond Lee Harvey and his conspirator was Osvaldo Ortiz.

In Spanish, Osvaldo is the equivalent to Oswald, which makes the pair “Lee Harvey Oswald.”

The coincidence has spawned a series of conspiracy theories that say the assassination attempt was fabricated in order to scare the Carter administration.