. . .
Michael, Michael, Michael ...
Army Sgt. Dayle W. Smith was referenced in the FBI document you posted a couple of posts ago, in which document he was correctly posited (thanks to oh-so-helpful but oh-so-coy Nosenko) as being "Andrey," ... gasp ... "the most important American Intelligence asset the KGB has ever recruited," according to what fake-defector Nosenko told Bagley in Geneva in 1962, and the ostensible reason "The Three Musketeers" (Kovshuk, Guk and Kislov) had journeyed to Washington D.C. in early 1957 -- to "reestablish contact" with this very, very, very, very important spy!
LOL
In reality, Sgt. Smith, aka "Andrey," was a former cipher machine
mechanic who had never had access to secret codes,
who wasn't even prosecuted when he was "uncovered," and whom the KGB, given the fact that it
had to know that true-defector Anatoliy Golitsyn had already told CIA identifying and "connect-the-dots" clues about the Three Musketeers, conveniently used Poor Dayle to hide the real reason the three mysterious swashbucklers had come to D.C. and hung out around (and inside) movie houses for so many months, i.e., to reestablish contact with (or possibly re-recruit) "Popov's Mole,"
former CIA officer Edward Ellis Smith, and, very probably, to recruit someone in CIA's Soviet Russia Division
he had turned KGB onto.
LOL
You really do need to read Bagley's
Spy Wars and
Ghosts of the Spy Wars, my fwiend.
Have you seen Bagley's "Twenty Questions About Nosenko" near the end of
Ghosts of the Spy Wars?
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2014.962362Can you answer any of them?
(I sincerely hope
Spy Wars and
Ghosts of the Spy Wars aren't too complicated for you, Michael. All those Russian names, and the KGB's artful interweaving, since 1959, of traditional "Active Measures CI Ops" with newfangled Sun Tzu-like "Strategic Deception CI Ops," and everything.)
Cheers!
-- MWT
