Is JMN's belief that O was a Belarusian KGB agent based on bad intel?

[Tom Graves]

John M. Newman says in his book, Uncovering Popov's Mole, that a KGB defector by the name of Sergey Papushin (IJDECANTER / FLASH RUN) claimed to have been told by some colleagues who taught at the KGB school in Minsk (which was about half-a-mile from Oswald's apartment) that Oswald was an intelligence source, i.e., "an agent," for the Belarusian KGB.

Problem is, Papushin, who allegedly committed suicide by drinking too much bourbon one day in February 1992, was probably a false defector.

Even gullible former Soviet Russia Division Chief, Milton Bearden, and slow-motion-Aldrich-Ames-catcher Sandra Grimes (both of whom naively allege that Yuri Nosenko was a true defector) say in their respective books, The Main Enemy and Circle of Treason, that Papushin was not to be trusted regarding the "intel" he gave the CIA and the FBI about Aleksandr Zhomov, a KGB defector who had been sent to the CIA in May 1987 to distract the Agency and the Bureau from Aldrich Ames, the traitor who wasn't uncovered by Grimes, et al., until 1994.