Telling differences between what Nechiporenko and "The Blond LHO in M.C." said

[Tom Graves]

Regarding Lee Harvey Oswald’s alleged meetings with Russian officials at the Soviet diplomatic compound in Mexico City on Friday September 27, SaPersonay September 28, and Sunday September 29, 1963, JFKFacts (sic) writer Chester “Chad” Nagle, Jr., in his article “Oswald and the KGB, Part II,” rationalizes away the discrepancies between said meetings as they are related in Oleg Nechiporenko’s 1993 book, Passport to Assassination and in Nikolai Leonov’s 11/22/93 “National Enquirer” interview and the slightly different account he gave in his 2015 Russian-language book, Hard Times.

Nagle cleverly does so by recounting the official CIA line that Oswald met with Nechiporenko and some other “Soviet diplomats” on FRIDAY and SAPersonAY, but then “Chad” says that Oleg, in order to “cash-in” on the JFKA craze had been sparked by Oliver Stone’s movie, “JFK,” made his book more marketable by saying Oswald . . . gulp . . . was the lone assassin. Nagle goes on to say that Leonov, who claimed to have met with Oswald on SUNDAY, was likewise just trying to take advantage of the commercialization of the JFK assassination by making the meeting up out of whole cloth . . . even though he claimed, in so many words, “He was such a nervous guy [during the meeting that evidently never happened] that he couldn’t possibly have carried out the assassination!”

Other than that, Nagle fails to mention:

1) That Nechiporenko implausibly dedicated fifty pages of his book to proclaiming that the CIA, and Yuri Nosenko’s primary case officer Tennent H. Bagley in particular, were really, really stupid to not realize that false defector-in-place in Geneva in June 1962 / rogue physical defector to the U.S. in February 1964 Yuri Nosenko was a true- and-chock-full-of-intel-goodies-for-the-CIA defector.

2) That Nechiporenko and Leonov forgot to reference each other’s (alleged) weekend meetings with Oswald.

3) That KGB Colonel Leonov (who had introduced Raul Castro and Che Guevara to Soviet-style Communism in 1955 or so, and who eventually became a general and a member of the Russian Duma) was blond-haired, 35 years old, 5’ 6” or 5’ 7”, blue-or-green-eyed, skinny, and had a very thin face when 5’ 9.5”, brown-haired, 24-years-old Oswald was allegedly in Mexico City in 1963, and that he (Leonov) therefore closely matched the descriptions that Sylvia Duran and Eusebio Azcue gave of the “Oswald” who’d met with them on Friday at the Cuban Consulate. Consul Azcue even said "Oswald" was wearing a (diplomat-like) blue Prince of Wales suit with reddish pinstripes.

4) The fact that the only reason the CIA and the FBI believed one of the guys at the Consulate, Valeriy Kostikov, to be in charge of assassinations and sabotage in the Western Hemisphere on 11/22/63 was because Kremlin-loyal FEDORA at the FBI’s NYC field office had told the Bureau a year earlier that Kostikov’s charge at the U.N., Igor Brykin, was a Department-13 (assassinations and sabotage) guy.

5) The fact that the KGB officer / security officer at the Soviet Embassy who “volunteered” the Department-13 radioactive name “Kostikov” to Oswald or “Oswald” over a sure-to-be-tapped-by-CIA phone line on 2 October 1963, Ivan Obyedkov, was a Kremlin-loyal triple agent, i.e., the CIA mistakenly believed it had successfully recruited him.

And last but not least:

6) The fact that Leonov claimed Oswald was wearing a grey suit.

A grey suit?

Regardless, at the end of his article, Nagle writes (my comment is in brackets):

There is a very small fringe of the JFK assassination research community that attributes the murder of President Kennedy to a Soviet KGB plot, by which Soviet intelligence manipulated Lee Harvey Oswald — a former resident of the U.S.S.R. — into killing JFK. The strange Leonov-Nechiporenko discrepancy has fed this marginal strand of thinking. There is no logical connection, however, between that discrepancy and any plan or motive [wrong] on the part of the Russians to kill JFK. As we will see in the next installment of this series, Leonov had other reasons to publicly reject the Warren Report’s “lone gunman” theory.


I don’t know about you, dear reader, but I can hardly wait!

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Edit: A highly intellectual member of a JFK assassination forum replied to my post by writing the following:

This seems to be a tortured lost-cause attempt [by Tom Graves]to suggest that a seriously disturbed young man whose main pattern was isolation glommed onto a plan. Oswald's mental state per se is sufficient to explain his actions.

My reply to the intellectual:

Dear Xxxxxx,

It's actually an attempt to point out the KGB's changing narratives regarding what happened in Mexico City between 27 September and 2 October, 1963, the telling contradictions and mistakes they made in them, and how Russia-loving / Angleton-and-Golitsyn-hating "Chad" Nagle at JFKFacts (sic) is apparently trying to rationalize said contradictions and mistakes in a way that supports the JFKA conspiracy theorist narrative.

-- Tom