Did LHO's Sov case officer defect to the US because the CIA did something bad?

[Tom Graves]

Did KGB Major I mean Lt. Col. I mean Captain Yuri "The KGB Had Absolutely Nothing To Do With Oswald In The USSR" Nosenko "defect" to the U.S. in February 1964 to prevent Nuclear Armageddon because . . . gasp . . . the evil, evil CIA had impersonated Oswald in Mexico City seven weeks before the assassination and connected his (Oswald's) name, via a 10/1/63 telephone call, with that of the ostensible head of the KGB's Assassinations & Sabotage department, Col. Valeriy Kostikov (whose name had been made Dept. 13 "radioactive" a year earlier by a Kremlin-loyal triple agent at the FBI's NYC field office by the name of KGB Major Aleksei Kulak -- J. Edgar Hoover's shielded-from-CIA FEDORA)?

Or did the false defector-in-place-in-Geneva-in-June-1962 "go rogue" in February 1964 in Geneva and use the above scenario as his ticket to The Land Of Opportunity?

Regardless, Nosenko ended up a few years later being compensated generously for his troubles, receiving a CIA medal, and teaching "counterintelligence" to the CIA's and the FBI's new recruits . . .

It would be nice if Loomer, Morley, Stone and DiEugenio would ask the CIA to un-redact and release this file on Ivan Obyedkov, the guy who volunteered the radioactive name "Kostikov" to Oswald or "Oswald" over a sure-to-be-tapped-by-CIA phoneline on 10/1/63.

James Angleton revealed during his Church Committee testimony that Obyedkov (misspelled "Byetkov?" in the 19 June 1975 transcript) was a Kremlin-loyal triple agent, i.e., the CIA mistakenly believed that it had successfully recruited him.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=157254#relPageId=26&search=201-779495

[Benjamin Cole]

This whole topic of KGB infiltration of the CIA is fascinating, though, like everything about the JFKA, on the murky side.

Victor Marchetti, embedded within the CIA in a senior position during the 1960s, wondered about this as well.

But if even a well-placed Marchetti couldn't figure it out, with all the scuttlebutt and info he could get...

We can rest assured KGB files that reveal Soviet, Belarus, G-2 connections to LHO will never see the light of day in the West. If there were connections.

Sheesh, even CIA files that confirm KGB infiltration will never see the light of day.