Benjamin Cole, Sandy Larsen, and Department 13-radioactive Valery Kostikov

[Benjamin Cole]

TG--

Kostikov in Dept. 13 or not is relevant, if one suspects the KGB/G-2 instigated the JFKA through LHO.

Kostikov would be better-informed about how to bring about the JFKA, compared to a bona fide cultural-exchange diplomat.

[Tom Graves]

TG--

Kostikov in Dept. 13 or not is relevant, if one suspects the KGB/G-2 instigated the JFKA through LHO.

Kostikov would be better-informed about how to bring about the JFKA, compared to a bona fide cultural-exchange diplomat.

Which "bona fide cultural-exchange diplomat" are you referring to?

PS I don't believe you when you say you've read Bagley's 2007 Yale University Press book, Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games.

https://archive.org/details/SpyWarsMolesMysteriesAndDeadlyGames

[Benjamin Cole]

Which "bona fide cultural-exchange diplomat" are you referring to?

PS I don't believe you when you say you've read Bagley's 2007 Yale University Press book, Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games.

https://archive.org/details/SpyWarsMolesMysteriesAndDeadlyGames

It is available on Internet Archives....and I read parts/50% of it, on your recommendation.

That is what prompted me to read Solie's unconvincing interview with the HSCA.

[Tom Graves]

It is available on Internet Archives....and I read parts/50% of it, on your recommendation.

That is what prompted me to read Solie's unconvincing interview with the HSCA.

To get an idea of how thoroughly the CIA and the FBI were penetrated, how truthful Golitsyn was and how disingenuous Nosenko was (starting in Geneva in June 1962), etc., you need to read Bagley's whole book and his 2014 follow-up article, "Ghosts of the Spy Wars," too.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2014.962362


BTW, in case you haven't read Bagley's HSCA testimony, here it is!

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32273600.pdf

[Benjamin Cole]

Thanks for your recommendations.

[Tom Graves]

Thanks for your recommendations.

You're welcome.

(I'll be quizzing you on them, later.)