I almost forgot. Yesterday was a big anniversary for Lee Harvey Oswald.

[Tom Graves]

I almost forgot that yesterday was the sixty-seventh anniversary of former Marine sharpshooter and U-2 radar operator Lee Harvey Oswald’s arrival in Moscow.

Oswald had gotten out of active duty via a sketchy hardship deferment (his mother had hurt her nose when a box fell on it at work), and he entered the USSR from Helsinki as a tourist, but on 30 October 1959, he walked into the Embassy and told Consul Richard Snyder, Consular Officer John McVickar, and the KGB microphones in the walls that he had applied for Soviet citizenship, that he wanted to renounce his U.S. citizenship, and that he planned on telling the Soviets everything he had learned as a Marine radar operator. (After the JFK assassination, the KGB claimed that it hadn’t realized that Oswald had been stationed at a U-2 base in Japan).

Snyder and McVicker later reported that Oswald seemed amazingly well-prepared for a twenty-year-old high school dropout.

Author John M. Newman believes Bruce Solie (about whom Tennent H. Bagley wrote scathingly in his 2007 book, Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games) in the CIA’s mole-hunting Office of Security was a KGB mole, himself, and that when (probable mole, imho) George Kisevalter sent a cable to CIA headquarters in April 1958 telling it that its spy, GRU Lt. Col. Pyotr Popov, had just told him in West Berlin that the Kremlin had all of the top-secret details of the U-2 spy plane, Solie sent Oswald to Moscow as an ostensible “dangle” in a (unbeknownst to Angleton and Oswald) planned-to-fail hunt for “Popov’s U-2 Mole” (Solie) in the wrong part of the CIA — the Soviet Russia Division.

If true, Kisevalter's and Solie’s doing so caused a mole hunt that not only lasted nine years, tore the Soviet Russia Division apart and drove CIA Counterintelligence chief Angleton nuts, but prevented Solie from being uncovered.

P.S. 16 October 1959 was also, ironically(?), the same day that Popov was publicly arrested in Moscow after having been secretly arrested there in early December 1958. (In other words — contrary to what Cherepanov and Nosenko, et al., said and the zombified CIA now says — Popov wasn’t uncovered due to "superior KGB surveillance and sloppy CIA tradecraft" in early 1959, but was betrayed by a mole significantly earlier than that.)

[Tom Graves]

I almost forgot that yesterday was the sixty-seventh anniversary of former Marine sharpshooter and U-2 radar operator Lee Harvey Oswald’s arrival in Moscow.

Oswald had gotten out of active duty via a sketchy hardship deferment (his mother had hurt her nose when a box fell on it at work), and he entered the USSR from Helsinki as a tourist, but on 30 October 1959, he walked into the Embassy and told Consul Richard Snyder, Consular Officer John McVickar, and the KGB microphones in the walls that he had applied for Soviet citizenship, that he wanted to renounce his U.S. citizenship, and that he planned on telling the Soviets everything he had learned as a Marine radar operator. (After the JFK assassination, the KGB claimed that it hadn’t realized that Oswald had been stationed at a U-2 base in Japan).

Snyder and McVicker later reported that Oswald seemed amazingly well-prepared for a twenty-year-old high school dropout.

Author John M. Newman believes Bruce Solie (about whom Tennent H. Bagley wrote scathingly in his 2007 book, Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games) in the CIA’s mole-hunting Office of Security was a KGB mole, himself, and that when (probable mole, imho) George Kisevalter sent a cable to CIA headquarters in April 1958 telling it that its spy, GRU Lt. Col. Pyotr Popov, had just told him in West Berlin that the Kremlin had all of the top-secret details of the U-2 spy plane, Solie sent Oswald to Moscow as an ostensible “dangle” in a (unbeknownst to Angleton and Oswald) planned-to-fail hunt for “Popov’s U-2 Mole” (Solie) in the wrong part of the CIA — the Soviet Russia Division.

If true, Kisevalter's and Solie’s doing so caused a mole hunt that not only lasted nine years, tore the Soviet Russia Division apart and drove CIA Counterintelligence chief Angleton nuts, but prevented Solie from being uncovered.

P.S. 16 October 1959 was also, ironically(?), the same day that Popov was publicly arrested in Moscow after having been secretly arrested there in early December 1958. (In other words — contrary to what Cherepanov and Nosenko, et al., said and the zombified CIA now says — Popov wasn’t uncovered due to "superior KGB surveillance and sloppy CIA tradecraft" in early 1959, but was betrayed by a mole significantly earlier than that.)

According to the "intel" on this forum, KGB vs. CIA expert Steve M. Galbraith is posting in this thread.

For like an hour, now.

Question:

Will he decide, as he almost always does, not to post whatever it is he's writing?

A fevered defense of Yuri Nosenko, perhaps?

A refutation of "brainwashed-by-Golitsyn-and-Angleton" Bagley?

Whatcha got, Steve M.?

LOL!