The Elusive Kostikov Book?

[Mark A. Oblazney]

Litman says that Kostikov was a former "client" and that he died in 2002. Litman also says he arranged the book deal for Nechiporenko but doesn't mention, as far as I can tell, what happened on the planned book by Kostikov. He also says that Kostikov et al. did meet Oswald.

His "biography" - such as it is - on Kostikov is here:  https://medium.com/@bdlitman/col-valery-vladimirovich-kostikov-kgb-aka-comrade-kostin-33f7d730adb1

Dang, Litman was his tovarich!  Historic !

[Tom Graves]

Kostikov was connected to Department 13 of the First Chief Directorate (today's SVR).

A Kremlin-loyal triple agent, Soviet Embassy Security Officer Ivan Obyedkov, "volunteered" the radioactive name "Kostikov" to a forgetful Lee Harvey Oswald or "Oswald" over a sure-to-be-tapped-by-CIA phone line on 10/01/63.

The only reason the CIA and the FBI believed on 23 November 1963 that KGB Colonel-diplomat Kostikov was Department 13 was because another Kremlin-loyal triple agent, KGB Major Aleksey Kulak (J. Edgar Hoover's shielded-from-CIA "Fedora" at the FBI's NYC field office), had told the FBI in 1962 that Kostikov's charge at the UN, Igor Brykin, was Department 13.

Kulak was the guy who tried to support false defector-in-place in Geneva in June 1962 / false (or perhaps rogue) physical defector to the US in February 1964 Yuri Nosnko's bona fides by "confirming" that he was a Lieutenant Colonel and that he had received a "return to KGB headquarters immediately" telegram in Geneva in late January or early February 1964, only to have to lamely retract those two "confirmations" when Nosenko later confessed during harsh (but non-tortuous) interrogation that he was only a "captain" and that he hadn't received said telegram.

Fun fact: Gerald Posner befriended Nosenko while writing "Case Closed" because Nosenko was telling him exactly what he wanted to hear -- that the KGB had absolutely nothing to do with "abnormal" former Marine sharpshooter and U-2 radar operator Oswald during the two-and-a-half years he lived in the USSR.

LOL!

[Benjamin Cole]

LHO may have been a KGB or DGI-G2 asset. The link could be through Bruce Solie. And of course, amplified during LHO's stay in Minsk.

LHO leads to Havana and Moscow were snuffed out by the WC.

And no one those capitals will reveal anything, and most who might have known anything are dead by now.

[Tom Graves]

And no one those capitals will reveal anything, and most who might have known anything are dead by now.

Huh?

[Benjamin Cole]

Havana and Moscow have no qualms about murdering anyone who hurts the regime. No one will be a whistleblower in those two capitals.

And by now, people who knew the truth about LHO and the DGI-G2, and KGB are likely dead. 

[Steve M. Galbraith]

LHO may have been a KGB or DGI-G2 asset. The link could be through Bruce Solie. And of course, amplified during LHO's stay in Minsk.

LHO leads to Havana and Moscow were snuffed out by the WC.

And no one those capitals will reveal anything, and most who might have known anything are dead by now.

These KGB agents below defected to the West and said Nosenko was a legitimate defector and that Oswald wasn't recruited by the KGB. They weren't in Moscow; they left Moscow and could freely talk without being arrested.

Vasily Mitrokhin, Oleg Kalugin, Yuriy Loginov, Igor Kochnov, Oleg Lyalin, Rudolf Herrmann, Ilya Dzhirkvelov, Vladimir Kuzichkin, Viktor Gundarev, Vitaliy Yurchenko, Ivan Bogattyy and Oleg Gordievskiy.

Were they all liars? Triple agents?

It seems to me there is no evidence you would accept on this question. If the evidence shows Oswald wasn't recruited you view that as disinformation indicating he was recruited.

You are making an unfalsifiable claim. At least by your standards. Oswald was recruited and no evidence indicating he wasn't will be believed.

[Mark A. Oblazney]

And then, there’s the Manchurian Candidate Theory by Jerry Leonard.  I was stuck on that one back in the Mae Brussel daze.  Sigh.