Were Jim Garrison And Oliver Stone Taken In By KGB Disinformation?

[John Tonkovich]

Charles,

Another interesting thing involving Cuba and the KGB as they relate to the JFK assassination is the fact that KGB Colonel Nikolai Leonov, the guy whom Cuban consul Eusebio Azcue in 1978 described to a "T" as being the "Oswald" he'd dealt with ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH OR THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH was the dude who had turned Raul Castro onto Soviet Communism in 1953 while Raul was returning to Cuba by boat after attending a Young Communists' convention in ... gasp ... Italy,  and then later Raul introduced Leonov to ... gasp ... Che Guevara in Cuba in 1955, iirc.

--  MWT 

Che was not in Cuba in 1955. He was in Mexico. He very well could have met Leonov in Mexico.
Che witnessed Operation PBSUCCESS and PBFORTUNE in Guatemala in 1954, which led him to the 26 July folks in Mexico.

[Thomas Graves]

Che was not in Cuba in 1955. He was in Mexico. He very well could have met Leonov in Mexico.
Che witnessed Operation PBSUCCESS and PBFORTUNE in Guatemala in 1954, which led him to the 26 July folks in Mexico.

Nice catch.

The point is, though, that short, blond, skinny, very thin-faced Nikolai Leonov turned both Raul and Che onto Soviet-style Communism, and a few years later, when he was a KGB colonel working as "Third Secretary" and "Assistant Cultural Attache" at the Soviet embassy in Mexico City, probably gave Sylvia Duran or Azcue some passport-sized photos of Oswald that had been taken in the USSR, and maybe even some forged-by-KGB Cuban visa application forms based on writing / printing samples from Oswald's letters, etc, and told Duran, Mirabal and Azcue what to do and say (all with Fidel Castro's blessings, one would think).

During his June, 1975, Church Committee testimony, Angleton tried to point out that Leonov's business card or calling card was found in Castro's notebook when he and Che, et al., were arrested in Mexico City in 1956.

--  MWT   

[Charles Collins]

Charles,

Another interesting thing involving Cuba and the KGB as they relate to the JFK assassination is the fact that KGB Colonel Nikolai Leonov, the guy whom Cuban consul Eusebio Azcue in 1978 described to a "T" as being the "Oswald" he'd dealt with ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH OR THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH was the dude who had turned Raul Castro onto Soviet Communism in 1953 while Raul was returning to Cuba by boat after attending a Young Communists' convention in ... gasp ... Italy,  and then later Raul introduced Leonov to ... gasp ... Che Guevara in Cuba in 1955, iirc.

--  MWT 

The Oliver Stone movie inspired me to begin my own research. Before that, I was intrigued, but I wasn’t interested enough to get more involved. The first books that I read tried to convince the readers that American leaders such as LBJ, JEH, etc were responsible for the assassination. They cashed in on the distrust of authority that has become so fashionable in my lifetime. For years I thought that it could have happened that way, but there just wasn’t anything more than conjecture and innuendo to support the ideas. A new approach with an open mind to the official report convinced me that LHO was responsible for the assassination. And that he most likely had no assistance. However, there is some evidence that suggests that the Cubans knew that there was going to be an assassination attempt beforehand. I suggest that people should learn more about Castro and compare his prior behavior and motivations to the other’s. Guerrilla Prince by Georgie Anne Geyer is a great place to do just that.

[Thomas Graves]

The Oliver Stone movie inspired me to begin my own research. Before that, I was intrigued, but I wasn’t interested enough to get more involved. The first books that I read tried to convince the readers that American leaders such as LBJ, JEH, etc were responsible for the assassination. They cashed in on the distrust of authority that has become so fashionable in my lifetime. For years I thought that it could have happened that way, but there just wasn’t anything more than conjecture and innuendo to support the ideas. A new approach with an open mind to the official report convinced me that LHO was responsible for the assassination. And that he most likely had no assistance. However, there is some evidence that suggests that the Cubans knew that there was going to be an assassination attempt beforehand. I suggest that people should learn more about Castro and compare his prior behavior and motivations to the other’s. Guerrilla Prince by Georgie Anne Geyer is a great place to do just that.

Unfortunately, the Oliver Stone movie inspired a lot of people.

--  MWT 

[Charles Collins]

Unfortunately, the Oliver Stone movie inspired a lot of people.

--  MWT 

Yep, I agree. I have written a letter to Ken Burns requesting that he consider producing one of his excellent documentaries about the JFK assassination. He replied that he is too busy. Maybe if he gets enough requests he might consider it. That would be a good antidote to Stone’s movie.

[Richard Rubio]

More than anything, I'd say JFK sparked more interest in the subject and helped get the classified information, a lot of it released.  Take the good with the bad.

Stone's movie is pretty exciting vs. the usual fair of computer graphics OR rifle tests....and on the other hand, I'd say some parts of JFK have not aged well.

[Thomas Graves]

More than anything, I'd say JFK sparked more interest in the subject and helped get the classified information, a lot of it released.  Take the good with the bad.

Stone's movie is pretty exciting vs. the usual fair of computer graphics OR rifle tests....and on the other hand, I'd say some parts of JFK have not aged well.

Oliver Stone inadvertently(?) advanced the cause of the "KGB" and made a buck at the same time.

By playing fast and loose with the facts on the silver screen, Stone rekindled the interest of gullible people in Garrison's anti-CIA, Commie-influenced "investigation," thereby giving tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists grist for their anti- "Military Industrial Itelligence Community Complex" / "Deep State" mill.

And I give you President Donald J. Trump ...

--  MWT