What, nothing about Solie?
Dear Nuts-and-Bolts Fwedie,
Evidently you don't like the idea that Bruce Leonard Solie, James Angleton's confidant, mentor, and mole-hunting superior, was a KGB "mole" in the CIA's mole-hunting Office of Security, that he betrayed the U-2's specifications and CIA's spy, GRU Lt. Col. Pyotr Popov, to the KGB in January 1957, and that when another probable mole, Russia-born George Kisevalter, reported to CIA headquarters in April 1958 that Popov had told him he'd heard a drunken GRU Colonel brag at a New Years Eve party that the Kremlin had the top-secret U-2 specs, decided to send former Marine U-2 radar operator Lee Harvey Oswald to Moscow as an ostensible "dangle" in a (unbeknownst to Angleton and Oswald) planned-to-fail hunt for "Popov's U-2 Mole" (Solie) in the wrong part of the CIA -- which hunt lasted nine years, protected Solie from being uncovered, tore the Soviet Russia Division apart, and paved the way for the likes of Robert Hanssen in the FBI and Aldrich Ames in the CIA.
I know, I know.
It's way too complicated for you, and besides, as you learned in your Teenage Freak Years, most of the problems in the world are caused by the evil, evil CIA.
Pity that.
-- Tom
*Today's SVR and FSB
