I agree with Fred Litwin about Clay Shaw

[Tom Graves]

Fred Litwin said at another forum in 2024, "I don't think the CIA cared about Clay Shaw. If you read my book, and I wish you would, you will see that Shaw's lawyers spent a lot of time in Washington asking for help from the CIA and the FBI. They were continually turned down [...]."

A question for Fred Litwin:

Do you say anything in your book about CIA officer Bruce Leonard Solie?

National Archives denizen (and JFKA conspiracy theorist!) Malcom Blunt says near the end of this 2021 YouTube interview that probable KGB "mole" Solie was "all over the Kennedy investigation and all over Clay Shaw for Jim Garrison."

Note: At one point, Blunt says, "Jim DiEugenio . . . Jim DiEugenio" . . . when he obviously meant to say "Jim Garrison . . . Jim Garrison."

[Fred Litwin]

I know nothing about Solie and I don't believe he had any involvement with Clay Shaw.

[Tom Graves]

I know nothing about Solie and I don't believe he had any involvement with Clay Shaw.

Fred,

National Archives habitue Malcolm Blunt suggests in the video that the CIA's primary mole hunter, probable KGB agent Bruce Solie in the Office of Security, helped Garrison prosecute Clay Shaw.

Given that, it's a pity you "know nothing" about him.

Here's an article I wrote about Solie which Wikipedia refused to publish because "not enough established authors have written about him." LOL

https://en.everybodywiki.com/Bruce_Leonard_Solie

Someone who did write (scathingly) about Solie in his 2007 Yale University Press book, Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games, was Yuri Nosenko's former CIA case officer, Tennent H. Bagley.

You can read Bagley's book for free by googling "spy wars" and "archive" simultaneously.


(Wikipedia did publish my article on Bagley, btw.)


Keep up the good work, Fred!

I particularly appreciate your showing us that J. Kenneth McDonald of the CIA's history department really messed up in 1992 when he published a cobbled-together 82-page memo that made it look as though Shaw was a "highly paid contract source" for the CIA instead of the highly valued contact source from 1948 to 1956 that he was.

-- Tom