A question for John M. Newman about Solie's sending LHO to Moscow

[Tom Graves]

A question for John M. Newman, author of "Uncovering Popov's Mole"

Given the fact that GRU Lt. Col. Pyotr Popov allegedly told his case officer, probable mole George Kisevalter, about the U-2 leak in April of 1958, is it realistic that probable mole Solie in the Office of Security would take seventeen months to choose U-2 radar operator Oswald and prepare him to go to Moscow as an ostensible "dangle" in a planned-to-fail hunt -- in the wrong part of the CIA -- for the source of that leak (Solie)?

Was it really necessary for Oswald to learn Russian before he walked into Consul Snyder's office, say he wanted to renounce his American citizenship and tell him (and the microphones in the walls) that he planned to commit espionage against the US?