The Unraveling of Richard Case Nagell

[Tom Graves]

Didn't Solie try to convince the WC and HSCA that Nosenko was an authentic defector?

Warren Commission -- In April of 1964, just when the Soviet Russia Division was starting to subject Nosenko to harsh (but not tortuous) interrogation, Solie tried to convince W. David Slawson into letting poor misunderstood Nosenko testify to the Warren Commission. Solie's original letter or memo has, of course, gone missing -- as has, apparently, Volume V of the Office of Security's files on Oswald*), but luckily there's a different document in the margins of which Slawson wrote some notes about Solie's entreaties, and which document, I believe, was found by British researcher Malcolm Blunt.

HSCA -- Yes, as did another Nosenko apologist, John L. Hart, whose wife, Katherine Colvin Hart, was probable mole Leonard V. McCoy's boss in the Soviet Russia Division's omniscient and omnipresent Reports & Requirements section.

* https://aarclibrary.org/2017/08/26/analysis-and-opinion/

[Benjamin Cole]

TG-

In addition, Malcolm Blunt said Solie was all over Clay Shaw and New Orleans. Why?

John Newman says Solie was running LHO.

Is it really "Case Closed" who influenced, instigated or manipulated LHO?

[Tom Graves]

TG-

In addition, Malcolm Blunt said Solie was all over Clay Shaw and New Orleans. Why?

John Newman says Solie was running LHO.

Is it really "Case Closed" who influenced, instigated or manipulated LHO?

Dear "BC",

Beats the heck out of me.

-- "TG"

[Mitch Todd]

See my earlier posts on J. Sloss.

Regarding your comment, ". . . if they are indeed the same people in his notes," Ernst Leibacker and Joseph Francis Davanon are unusual names, wouldn't you agree?

What's the probability that they just happened to have the same names of two LA CIA officers, but, in reality, were just too guys Nagell happened to know at his favorite bar or from his bowling league?

TG: See my earlier posts on J. Sloss.

The don't really pile up to much without a lot of supposition and innuendo.


TG: Ernst Leibacker and Joseph Francis Davanon are unusual names, wouldn't you agree?

Neither "Enrst" nor "Joseph Francis" appear in Nagell's notes, now do they? And I did note that the two men's last names are fairly uncommon. You seem to have missed that.  You also appear to have missed the significance of their working at a DCS field office in LA at the same time Nagell lived in the City of Angels. Any Tom, Dick, or Harry could walk into a DCS office off the street and give information to a CIA officer. Therefore, even if  Ernst Leibacker and Joseph Francis Davanon are indeed the guys in Nagell's notes, their presence does not indicate any special relationship in and of itself. He could have just walked into the office and picked their names off the directory board Keyser Soze style.

[Tom Graves]

The two men's last names [Leibacker and Davanon] are fairly uncommon.

Fairly uncommon?

LOL!

How about very rare and extremely rare in 1963?