Did the Warren Commission See the KGB's Post-Assassination Report on Oswald?

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Apparently they did. Or an edited version of it. Max Holland mentions it in his piece linked at the end of this (it's a good read).

From the piece:



Background: The evidence (for me) is that right after the assassination and the arrest of Oswald, the KGB hurriedly put together a report on their involvement with Oswald when he lived there (Norman Mailer goes over this in some detail in his book "Oswald's Tale"). Vladimir Semichastny, head of the KGB, then presented that report to the Central Committee of the CPSU, specifically Anastas Mikoyan. Mikoyan was a top Soviet official (how he survived the Stalin era is a story in itself) and then deputy chairman of the above committee.

On November 25, Mikoyan gave a edited copy of that report to State Department officials in Moscow.

Later, the Warren Commission was given access to the report. Or a summary of it. It's not clear whether it was the report Mikoyan gave or a summary of it. However, the Commission did not include or mention it in its report, e.g., it's not among the Commission's exhibits.



Oleg Nechiporenko, one of the three KGB agents who met Oswald at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City, quoted part of that report/memo in his book "Passport to Assassination."



The Holland piece in its entirety can be read here (it starts on page 12): https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/publication/f-research_notes.pdf

[Tom Graves]

Apparently they did. Or an edited version of it. Max Holland mentions it below:



Background: Right after the assassination and the arrest of Oswald, the KGB hurriedly put together a report on their involvement with Oswald (Norman Mailer goes over this in greater detail in his book "Oswald's Tale"). Vladimir Semichastny, head of the KGB, then presented it to the Central Committee of the CPSU, specifically Anastas Mikoyan. Mikoyan was a top Soviet official and then deputy chairman of the committee. On November 25, Mikoyan gave a edited copy of that report to State Department officials in Moscow.

Later, the Warren Commission was given access to the report. But the Commission did not include it in their report.



Oleg Nechiporenko, one of the three KGB agents who met Oswald at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City, quoted part of that report/memo in his book "Passport to Assassination."



The Holland piece in its entirety can be read here: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/publication/f-research_notes.pdf

Dear Steve M.,

Oleg Nechiporenko?

The "former" KGB officer who implausibly included in his Oswald-in-Mexico-City book fifty pages on how damaging to the CIA Yuri Nosenko would have been if only stupid and sadistic Tennent H. Bagley hadn't mistakenly taken him for a false defector?

That Oleg Nechiporenko?

Regardless, why in the world would the KGB want to interview and possibly recruit Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine radar operator who had been stationed at a U-2 base in Japan?

Oh, that's right -- as your boy Nosenko said, the KGB didn't even know Oswald had been a radar operator!!!



My bad.


-- Tom

[Benjamin Cole]

SMG: Thanks for posting, interesting.

The WC and the KGB, after the JFKA, had a common goal:

Establish that LHO acted alone.

That does not mean LHO was a G2 or KGB asset, or a CIA or Alpha 66 asset.

It does mean---

Caveat emptor and draw your own conclusions.