Another thread I don't even remember starting. So many crazies, so little time.
Note to sane readers: "Citations" in scholarly parlance means "number of times this piece has been cited in other scholarly journals." The journal in which Bagley's piece was published would love to say "Citations: 432." In fact, it says "Citations: 0." "Citations" in scholarly parlance does not mean "number of times works by the author of this piece have been mentioned somewhere." Jesus. If that were the defintion [sic], Bagley's works would have 9,312 "citations" just in KGB Loony Bird's posts alone.
Dear Fancy Pants Rants,
I don't know if you think "the KGB no longer exists," "it does, but it's inept," "the evil, evil CIA is much more evil," or "it's been unjustly accused of having installed Donald J. Trump as our president on 20 January 2017," but as far as I know, when he died in February 2014, Tennent H. Bagley, PhD, still believed Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK all by himself.
But that doesn't mean that Bagley believed your and Gerald Posner's boy, Yuri Nosenko, was telling the truth about Lee Harvey Oswald in the USSR -- or anything else, for that matter.
Bagley KNEW that Nosenko was a false defector-in-place in Geneva in June 1962 -- sent there to discredit what a recent true defector, KGB Major Anatoly Golitsyn, was telling James Angleton about probable KGB penetrations of the CIA (can you say Bruce Solie, Leonard V. McCoy, and George Kisevalter?), the FBI, and the intelligence services of our NATO allies.
But "Pete" couldn't understand why Nosenko was implausibly proclaiming the KGB had absolutely nothing to do with the former Marine U-2 radar operator during those two-and-a-half years he lived in The Worker's Paradise.
In 2013 a former CIA officer by the name of W. Alan Messer wrote an article* titled "In Pursuit of the Squared Circle: The Nosenko Theories Revisited." In it, he agreed with Bagley that Nosenko was a false defector-in-place in Geneva in June 1962 but posited that Nosenko, using his "intel" on Oswald as his ticket to The Promised Land, was a rogue physical defector to the U.S. in February 1964 whose bona fides the KGB, via the likes of Aleksey Kulak (FEDORA) and Igor Kochnov (KITTY HAWK) had no choice but to support.
*International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 26: 427-452, 2013
Which makes a lot of sense to me.
By the way, did you know that
Major Lt. Col. "Captain" Nosenko (who, although he claimed to have been Deputy Chief of the American Embassy section of the Second Chief Directorate, didn't know how to send a cable, didn't know how many floors of the Embassy were dedicated to the CIA (3), didn't know if his secretary was assigned to him or came from a "pool," and didn't know where the cafeteria was at KGB headquarters) claimed to have read the KGB file on Oswald four times -- twice before the assassination, and twice after it?
Do you believe him?
Sad. Very, very sad.
-- Tom
