Tom Graves, and the 167-page Kostikov File?

[Benjamin Cole]

TG--

https://www.rferl.org/a/us-ussr-kennedy-assassination-oswald-kgb-contact-mexico-assassinations-officer/28819941.html

Radio Free Europe reported in 2017 that the 167-page Kostikov file "has yet to be released."

You know anything?

Have link, will travel.

[Tom Graves]

TG--

https://www.rferl.org/a/us-ussr-kennedy-assassination-oswald-kgb-contact-mexico-assassinations-officer/28819941.html

Radio Free Europe reported in 2017 that the 167-page Kostikov file "has yet to be released."

You know anything?

Have link, will travel.

You mean THIS 167-page file on Kostikov from 3/18/25 (earlier versions of which were released on 11/3/17, 4/26/18 and 12/15/22) ? ? ?

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=239452

[Tom Graves]

TG--

https://www.rferl.org/a/us-ussr-kennedy-assassination-oswald-kgb-contact-mexico-assassinations-officer/28819941.html

Radio Free Europe reported in 2017 that the 167-page Kostikov file "has yet to be released."

You know anything?

Have link, will travel.

Here's an excerpt from the article you've shared with us:

In a now-declassified memo to the CIA's director in September 1964, FBI head J. Edgar Hoover said his agency's files "do not contain any information to fully support" the CIA's assessment that Kostikov worked for the KGB's 13th Department.

My comments:

This is about the only time J. Edgar Hoover was correct about anything KGB.

As I've stated elsewhere, the only reasons the CIA believed on 11/23/63 that Kostikov was Department 13 were:

1) the fact that Hoover's very own shielded-from-CIA Kremlin-loyal triple agent, KGB Major Aleksei Kulak (FEDORA), had told the Bureau a year earlier that Kostikov's charge at the UN, Igor Brykin, was a Department 13 operative, and

2) the FBI's / CIA's TUMBLEWEED agent, a "former" KGB agent German national crop duster from Snyder, Oklahoma, by the name of Guenter Heinz Schulz (CIA crypt AEBURBLE), told the FBI in February 1963 that Kostikov and Brykin had given him a sabotage-related assignment (pinpointing targets) when he'd met with the former in Mexico City and with the latter in New York.

3) Bonus point: The CIA and the FBI became aware of Oswald's or "Oswald's" alleged meeting with Kostikov only because a Kremlin-loyal triple agent by the name of Ivan Obyedkov "volunteered" his Department 13 radioactive name to him over a sure-to-be-tapped-by-CIA phone line on 10/1/63.

[Benjamin Cole]

TG-

What is your theory/explanation of why there are no photos of LHO in MC?

Thanks for the link to the Kostikov file.