Dear Michael,
Regarding the Heuer essay that you've evidently fallen in love with, aren't you glad I turned you onto it?
So it can reinforce all of your misconceptions about Nosenko (the guy who said KGB had absolutely nothing to do with Oswald and, more importantly, that there were no KGB/GRU moles in U.S. Intelligence), and about all of the KGB and GRU officers (whom you've probably never heard of, anyway) who were sent here as triple-agents so that they could, one way or another, build up Nosenko's "bona fides" in the eyes of The Gullibles Or Worse (Hoover, McCoy, Hart, Solie, Kisevalter, et al.) at the FBI and CIA so he could more effectively detract from true defector Anatoly Golitsyn and the leads
he was giving Bagley and Angleton about moles in the CIA (and in the governments and security services of some of our allies -- France in particular)?
You're welcome, Michael, but please do try to get around to reading that "unreadable"
Spy Wars some day, won't you?
After all, John Newman did. Thank God.
-- MWT
PS Here's a little tid-bit (plus annotations referenced therein) for you from page 282, in the Glossary (Appendix D):
Kochnov, IgorKGB officer who [on a Sunday morning called Richard Helms "out-of-the-blue" at home and] volunteered to work for CIA while on a temporary mission to Washington in June 1966. To promote his KGB career, CIA and FBI allowed him to "recruit" his [witting] target, Nikolay Artamonov*. His prospects to rise in the KGB disappeared, as indeed so did he a couple of years later. He uncovered no spies who were arrested, but told CIA that his other KGB assignment was to locate [and assassinate, if possible] the important defectors Yuri Golitsyn* and Yuri Nosenko*. This convinced some in CIA, including Bruce Solie* [one of Kochnov's "handlers"] that Nosenko was genuine.
*
Artamonov, Nikolay FedorovichSoviet naval officer (destroyer captain) who defected in the 1950s and moved to the United States where (under the assumed name of Nicholas Shadrin) he worked as a consultant for the U.S. navy. Agreed to work as a double agent for the Americans and thus allowed himself to be "recruited" by KGB officer Igor Kochnov*. In the course of the operation [run jointly by CIA's Office of Security and FBI because Angleton feared KGB penetration of the Soviet Block Division) kidnapped him [in Vienna, under the nose of Solie*] and inadvertently killed him [allegedly by giving him too much of a "knockout" drug while smuggling him across the border].
*
Golitsyn, AnatolyKGB officer who was stationed in Austria 1953 - 1955 and defected to the CIA in Helsinki on 15 December 1961 years of memorizing cases and documents that had come to his attention. His pointers exposed active KGB spies in several Western governments, including three intelligence services.
*
Nosenko, Yuri IvanocichKGB officer who approached CIA in Geneva at the end of 1962 and gave information over the course of a few [five] meetings [to Bagley and flown-in fluent-in-Russian "super handler" George Kisevalter] before his visiting [Disarmament] delegation returned to Moscow. Came back to Geneva in late January 1964 and defected six days after several more meetings with CIA. His good faith came under suspicion but CIA later certified him as a genuine defector. He has since resided in the United States [he died on 8/23/08].
*
Solie, BruceCIA security officer who worked on personnel security matters. Was assigned as a case officer for Igor Kochnov* in 1966 and came to believe Yuri Nosenko* was a genuine defector. Criticized the 1967 [condensed-down-to-450-pages from the "thousand pager" written by Bagley] report by CIA's Soviet Block Division and then spent months
devising a new story
with Nosenko. Solie wrote a report that, by 1 October 1968, finally cleared away CIA
official doubts about Nosenko's bona fides.[emphasis added 3x]
