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

[Tom Graves]

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Point being?

[Tom Graves]

This is too complicated for me to understand.

Let me simplify it for you.

It doesn't matter if Kostikov was Department 13 or not (CIA's official historian, David Robarge, said in 2005 that the Agency never proved that he was).

What's important is that the KGB, through a Kremlin-loyal triple-agent at the FBI's NYC field office by the name of Aleksei Kulak (FEDORA) and a probable KGB agent by the name of Guenter Heinz Schulz (AEBURBLE in FBI/CIA operation TUMBLEWEED) and Kremlin-loyal triple-agent Ivan Obyedkov at the Soviet Embassy, and maybe even a 9.27.63 virtual impersonator of Oswald / 10.1.63 telephonic impersonator of Oswald -- KGB Colonel Nikolai "The Blond Oswald In Mexico City" Leonov? -- seems to have gone to great efforts to make the CIA and the FBI believe that he was, and the overall effect was to cause J. Edgar Hoover to convince LBJ that the KGB may have killed JFK, and that if he wanted to prevent Nuclear Armageddon, he'd better cover up any suggestion that it had.

https://www.maryferrell.org/php/cryptdb.php?id=AEBURBLE

[Tommy Shanks]

Sandy Larsen didn't have a blessed clue about the Kennedy assassination.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Sandy Larsen didn't have a blessed clue about the Kennedy assassination.

If a neophyte wanted to quickly learn about the assassination in a sort of "JFK Assassination for Dummies" manner all he has to do is read Larsen's claims and take the opposite view. If Larsen said "A" happened then you can safely conclude that "A" didn't happen. Whether Mexico City or JFK and Vietnam, or the shots, anything; all one has to do is take the opposite and you'll get a good idea as to what happened.

[Tom Graves]

Sandy Larsen didn't have a blessed clue about the Kennedy assassination.

He was a devotee of the "Harvey and Lee and Hank and Harry and the Four Marguerites" Cult.

[Tommy Shanks]

If a neophyte wanted to quickly learn about the assassination in a sort of "JFK Assassination for Dummies" manner all he has to do is read Larsen's claims and take the opposite view. If Larsen said "A" happened then you can safely conclude that "A" didn't happen. Whether Mexico City or JFK and Vietnam, or the shots, anything; all one has to do is take the opposite and you'll get a good idea as to what happened.

Truer words have rarely been spoken, Steve. Sadly the people in charge over there now are even worse.

[Benjamin Cole]

TG-

Verily, I have read some of the stuff you are referring to, and Bagley's book, etc.

I recently read Solie's interview with the HSCA, in which Solie comes off very poorly, and cannot explain why he believes Nosenko on the JFKA/KGB. You might get a kick out of the interview.

https://aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/hsca/secclass/pdf/Solie_6-1-78.pdf

Since we do not have accurate organizational charts of the KGB circa 1963, I cannot prove Kostikov was Dept. 13. The biographer quoted above, who claims to have been friends with Kostikov, says he was Dept.13.

I take it you never met Kostikov, nor have seen accurate organizational charts of the KGB circa 1963.

Bruce Solie as a KGB asset sounds plausible, as does the KGB running LHO, possibly through G-2 assets in the US, which by most accounts had thoroughly infiltrated the Cuban community.

That hardly proves the KGB/G-2 had a role in the JFKA. But, I wouldn't rule it out, either.

[Tom Graves]

I recently read Solie's interview with the HSCA, in which Solie comes off very poorly, and cannot explain why he believes Nosenko on the JFKA/KGB. You might get a kick out of the interview.

I've already read it about five times.

His answering a couple of questions with an "Uh huh" is telling.

Since we do not have accurate organizational charts of the KGB circa 1963, I cannot prove Kostikov was Dept. 13.

Reread my last longish post.

Bottom line: It doesn't matter if he was Department 13 or not.

The biographer quoted above, who claims to have been friends with Kostikov, says he was Dept.13.

BFD.

Pardon my German.

I take it you never met Kostikov, nor have seen accurate organizational charts of the KGB circa 1963.

Point being?

Bruce Solie as a KGB asset sounds plausible, as does the KGB running LHO, possibly through G-2 assets in the US, which by most accounts had thoroughly infiltrated the Cuban community.

Just "asset"?

That hardly proves the KGB/G-2 had a role in the JFKA. But, I wouldn't rule it out, either.

Maybe.

Maybe not.

Maybe.

Maybe not.

Maybe.