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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion & Debate => JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate => Topic started by: Michael T. Griffith on September 10, 2025, 03:20:58 PM
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Warren Commission (WC) apologists reject the key findings of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). Many WC apologists claim it is unpatriotic and even harmful to attack the WC and to reject its lone-gunman finding, noting that it was a presidential commission whose seven members were chosen by President Johnson and that it was headed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
However, WC defenders fiercely attack the HSCA and reject its conspiracy finding, even though the HSCA was a committee created by the U.S. House of Representatives by an overwhelming bipartisan vote, even though its 12 members were all respected members of Congress, and even though its staff included respected and experienced prosecutors and investigators such as G. Robert Blakey, Gary Cornwell, Gaeton Fonzi, Kenneth Klein, and Peter Beeson.
Let's compare the WC and the HSCA:
-- The WC investigated for only nine months. The HSCA investigated for two years.
-- Three of the WC's seven members rejected its key conclusions. Only three of the 12 HSCA members rejected the Committee's conspiracy finding.
-- The WC refused to acknowledge that three of its members dissented from its key findings, and also refused to include Senator Richard Russell's dissent in the final report after promising him it would do so. The HSCA acknowledged that three of its 12 members dissented, and it published their written dissents in its final report.
-- The WC was aware of the Dallas police dictabelt recording but failed to have it analyzed for gunfire. The HSCA hired a respected scientific firm, BBN, that specialized in acoustical science to do the first analysis of the dictabelt tape. To review and refine the BBN analysis, the Committee hired two respected acoustical experts from Queens College who specialized in military-related acoustics and who were recommended to the Committee by the Acoustical Society of America.
The HSCA's six acoustical experts determined that the police tape contains four gunshot impulses and that one of the shots came from the grassy knoll.
In doing research for his 2021 book Last Second in Dallas, Dr. Josiah Thompson spent several months consulting with BBN acoustical scientists James Barger and Richard Mullen, who agreed to reanalyze key aspects of the acoustical evidence. Barger and Mullen developed new evidence that supports the HSCA's conclusions about gunfire on the dictabelt. For example, Dr. Mullen established via a PCC test and spectral analysis that the Fisher "I'll check it" transmission is positively crosstalk, proving that the gunshot impulses occurred during the assassination.
Barger and Mullen also found that Decker's "hold everything" transmission and the two Bellah transmissions were recorded during a separate recording session and not during the session that recorded the three scientifically established crosstalk transmissions, and that, crucially, they were recorded at a different recording speed. Barger and Mullen present this new research in separate chapters in Thompson's book.
Thompson makes a good case that the dictabelt contains five gunshot impulse patterns, and that the reasons given for rejecting the 140.3 impulse pattern as gunfire are invalid.
-- The WC rejected the account of Silvia Odio, even though WC attorney David Slawson said Odio was “checked out thoroughly” and that “the evidence is unanimously favorable, both as to her character and reliability, and as to her intelligence." The HSCA concluded that Ms. Odio was credible and that her account was truthful.
One of the reasons the WC rejected Odio's account is that it shows that Oswald was being framed for the assassination weeks before it occurred. Her account also suggests someone was impersonating Oswald, either in Mexico City or in Dallas, before the assassination.
-- The WC concluded that Jack Ruby had no Mafia ties, that he shot Oswald in a spontaneous fit or rage and grief, and that he entered the basement of the Dallas Police Department via the Main Street ramp. The HSCA established that Ruby had significant Mafia ties, that Ruby did not shoot Oswald in a spontaneous fit of rage, and that Ruby did not enter the basement via the Main Street ramp but must have entered through a side door and probably had help from someone already in the basement.
-- The WC concluded there was nothing suspicious about Ruby's phone calls in the weeks before the assassination. The HSCA found that Ruby made numerous phone calls to Mafia contacts all over the country in the weeks leading up to the assassination, and that not all of the calls could be explained as calls relating to Ruby's labor issues.
-- The WC said there were only three shots and one gunmen. The HSCA concluded there were four shots and two gunmen.
-- The WC said nothing about Oswald's association with radical right-winger and virulent JFK hater David Ferrie. The HSCA acknowledged the Oswald-Ferrie association and found new evidence relating to it.
-- The WC said Oswald acted entirely alone. The HSCA's photographic experts found photographic evidence that someone was rearranging boxes in the sixth-floor sniper's window within two minutes after the shooting, i.e., at a time when Oswald could not have been the one moving the boxes. The HSCA concluded that Oswald had accomplices.
-- The WC concluded that the bullet of the single-bullet theory (SBT) hit JFK while he was behind the freeway sign, that he is clearly reacting to a wound in frame 225 of the Zapruder film (when he reemerges from behind the freeway sign), and that Connally experienced a "delayed reaction" to his wounds because the Commission accepted his insistence that he was not hit before Z231. The HSCA determined that JFK was hit no later than Z190.
The HSCA also concluded that Connally was hit long before he said he was hit, opining that Connally shows a wound reaction in Z224, even though he insisted to the WC that he was not hit before Z231. The HSCA concluded that Z224 shows Connally reacting to a wound because he "appears to be frowning, and there is a distinct, stiffening of his shoulders and upper trunk."
Critics argue that a much more logical conclusion is that these slight reactions did not occur because Connally had been hit yet but because he had already recognized the sound of gunfire and was concerned about JFK--and that naturally Connally would frown and become tense after realizing he had heard gunfire. When Connally later viewed Zapruder frames under high magnification for Life magazine, he said he was certain he was not hit before Z229, and chose Z234 as the moment the bullet struck him.
-- The WC said the back wound was actually in the neck, at around C6 or C7 judging from the illustration in the WC's report. The HSCA's forensic experts determined that the back wound was at T1, least 1 inch lower than where the WC placed it, and they specifically described it as a "back" wound.
-- The WC said and illustrated that the back-wound bullet hit JFK at a downward angle. The HSCA's forensic experts determined from the autopsy photo of the wound that the bullet struck the back at a slightly upward angle and that the interior of the wound was tunneled upward.
-- The WC concluded there was nothing suspicious about Oswald's actions in Mexico City. The two HSCA staffers who investigated the Mexico City episode, Dan Hardway and Ed Lopez, wrote a 305-page report that raised questions about Oswald's activities there, that presented evidence that someone was impersonating Oswald in Mexico City, that the "Oswald" who called the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City could not have been the real Oswald.
https://share.google/AiLj9mDxqRwHrFpLp
-- -- The WC exonerated the Secret Service for their performance in Dallas. The HSCA was strongly critical of the Secret Service's performance, saying that the security for the motorcade "may have been uniquely insecure." Read the 28-page report filed by Belford Lawson, the HSCA attorney who conducted the Committee's investigation into the Secret Service's performance.
"The Warren Commission's Failed Investigation"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12x-2gGg50JQPrEfxZSxha_EYjgSfq0kJ/view
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Bumping this thread for the sake of any visitors who are new to the JFK case to let them know that the last official government investigation into the JFK assassination, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1979, concluded that there were two gunmen, that Jack Ruby lied about why he shot Oswald, that Jack Ruby lied about how he entered the police basement to shoot Oswald, that a shot was fired from the grassy knoll, that someone was moving boxes around in the sixth-floor sniper's window within 2 minutes after the shooting at a time when Oswald could not have been there, that Jack Ruby had significant Mafia ties, that Silvia Odio's account is credible (showing that someone was trying to frame Oswald for JFK's murder weeks before the assassination), that the witnesses who saw Oswald associating with rabid right-winger and JFK hater David Ferrie were credible, that certain Mafia leaders had the motive and the means and the opportunity to assassinate JFK, that one of the shots from behind was fired at a time when Oswald's view of JFK would have been obstructed by an intervening oak tree, and that the Warren Commission's investigation was inadequate, among other conclusions.
For more info, see the OP (the first post in the thread).
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Dear Comrade Griffith,
Did you know that a probable KGB mole by the name of Bruce Leonard Solie hid Office of Security documents on Oswald from the Church Committee and the HSCA and even explained in their cover letters how he did it?
Didn't think so.
-- Tom
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Good summaries of the differences between the WC and the HSCA.
The HSCA also suggested there had been a very small JFKA CT, possibly connected to the Mafia. In two years of searching, the HSCA never generated any leads to a large JFKA conspiracy, or really to anybody at all. They had a lot of smart and skeptical guys on staff. I contend that is because there are no leads. The JFKA CT was small.
The HSCA (IMHO) correctly concluded there had been two gunsels on 11/22, but that the shots that hit JFK came from behind. (I am open to a shot from the GK, but who knows?)
The HSCA said the BYP were real, and the M-C was the rifle found in the TSBD.
The HSCA accepted the authenticity of related x-rays, photos, and the autopsy.
I think HSCA about got it right. In my view, the other gunsels on 11/22 could have been Cuban exiles, not Mafia, although there was overlap in those two groups.
It also possible LHO, a sincere Marxist (see Larry Hancock, David Boyle), was manipulated by KGB, or G-2 assets.Who knows? Not James Douglass.
Just IMHO, caveat emptor and draw your own conclusions.
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Dear Comrade Griffith, Did you know that a probable KGB mole by the name of Bruce Leonard Solie hid Office of Security documents on Oswald from the Church Committee and the HSCA and even explained in their cover letters how he did it? Didn't think so. -- Tom
So obviously these documents were hidden from the WC as well. The WC was kept in the dark about a lot more material than were the Church Committee and the HSCA. You might recall that Allen Dulles was on the WC, yet he breathed not a word about any of these things to his fellow commission members.
In fact, at the first meeting of the WC, Dulles handed out a book that argued that all presidential assassinations had been done by lone gunmen. Wow, now there was an open mind determined to find the truth, hey?
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So obviously these documents were hidden from the WC as well. The WC was kept in the dark about a lot more material than were the Church Committee and the HSCA. You might recall that Allen Dulles was on the WC, yet he breathed not a word about any of these things to his fellow commission members.
In fact, at the first meeting of the WC, Dulles handed out a book that argued that all presidential assassinations had been done by lone gunmen. Wow, now there was an open mind determined to find the truth, hey?
It's interesting that Solie tried to talk W. David Slawson into allowing KGB false defector-in-place-in-Geneva-in-June-1962 Yuri "The KGB Had Nothing To Do With Oswald In The USSR" Nosenko to testify to the Warren Commission even though the Soviet Russia Division and the Counterintelligence Staff were convinced he was fake, and that if not for some marginalia Slawson wrote on a memo, we wouldn't know about it today because Solie's letter to Slawson on the issue went missing some time ago
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TG--
You may be on to something here.
What happened in the JFKA research world is that in the 1960s the field was dominated by lefties, in a time of civil rights concerns and the Vietnam war. Tink Thompson has addressed this. On those issues, I was a leftie too, in that era.
For the lefties, the bad guys are (always) the US, the US national security state, the military-industrial complex, right-wingers etc. So "they" murdered JFK, who wanted to make peace in the world.
This became de rigueur for decades (reaching a silly apex with the James Douglass book), but left other possible JFKA explanations unexplored. As in, was LHO actually a de facto KGB asset, or manipulated by G-2 assets?
Due to the timing of shots that struck JFK and JBC, I remain a CT'er. I think the HSCA about got it right; there was a small conspiracy to perp the JFKA. Mafia? Maybe, but I think more likely Cuban exiles or G-2.
Insights such as yours, and Fred Litwin's, are necessary leavening in the JFKA research world.
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You may be on to something here.
LOL!
Have you googled "Bruce Leonard Solie" yet?
"Fauces mea cochleari nefanda KGB opprimite."
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https://thomasgraves.substack.com/p/was-cia-officer-bruce-leonard-solie
Well, this was interesting. And well-written.
Is it The Truth?
I am not in a position to say. I suspect so.
As I have posted a few times, Marchetti was not sure who in CIA was compromised or a KGB asset, and who was not, but he indicated the CIA seemed riddled with Moscow minions.
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https://thomasgraves.substack.com/p/was-cia-officer-bruce-leonard-solie
Well, this was interesting. And well-written.
Is it The Truth?
I am not in a position to say. I suspect so.
As I have posted a few times, Marchetti was not sure who in CIA was compromised or a KGB asset, and who was not, but he indicated the CIA seemed riddled with Moscow minions.
Here's the article I wrote about Solie which Wikipedia refused to publish because "not enough established authors have written about him."
LOL!
What, if anything, do you suspect might not be true?
BRUCE LEONARD SOLIE was a commendation-garnering, career-long officer in the CIA's mole-hunting Office of Security who was best known for his exoneration of controversial KGB defector Yuri Nosenko, his uncovering of Igor Orlov / Alexander Kopatzky as Anatoliy Golitsyn's mole "Sasha," and his involvement in the tragic (?) Nicholas Shadrin spy case.
Solie, as the CIA’s chief mole hunter in the Office of Security, was Counterintelligence Chief James Angleton's mole-hunting superior. He was also, like British traitor Kim Philby, Angleton’s highly trusted confidant and mentor. Solie was described by former CIA counterintelligence officer Tennent H. Bagley as being "dour, plodding, risk-averse, and ultra-cautious ... a country boy made good," and by espionage writer David Wise as "given to long pauses between sentences." Former high-level Army Intelligence analyst and NSA officer John M. Newman believes Solie sent (or duped Angleton into sending) President John F. Kennedy's future accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, to Moscow in 1959 as an ostensible "dangle" in a planned-to-fail hunt for “Popov’s U-2 Mole” / “Popov’s Mole” (Solie) in the wrong part of the CIA, i.e., the Soviet Russia Division. The hunt for the mole lasted nine years, tore the SRD apart, and drove Angleton nuts. Bagley, who was Nosenko's primary case officer for five years, wrote scathingly about Solie in his book, “Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries and Deadly Games,” and near the end of his life came to suspect he was a KGB "mole." He suggested that Solie be "put on the list" of mole suspects because he had inexplicably provided "rock-like protection" for Nosenko over the years, he had lobbied a Warren Commission lawyer to allow Yuri Nosenko to testify to the Warren Commission before the issue of his bona fides had been settled, and because Solie's sister-in-law had allegedly married the ostensible KGB defector (we now know that Nosenko married a different woman and that Solie was his best man). Author John M. Newman and his British colleague, National Archives denizen Malcolm Blunt (who befriended Bagley in 2008 and showed him CIA documents that he hadn’t been privy to in 1959 - 60), contend that Solie was probably a KGB agent at the heart of the CIA.
Solie’s Supporters
At the time of the revising of this article (April 2025), I’m not aware of any historian, espionage writer, or former or current intelligence officer who has attempted to rebut Blunt's or Newman's evidence, or Bagley's (late-in-life) suspicion that Solie was a KGB "mole." Lots of so-called experts in the past have, however, sided with Solie in his assessment that Nosenko was a true defector, that Igor Kochnov was a really spying for the U.S., that "Popov's Mole" was ensconced in the Soviet Russia Division, and that Aleksei Kulak (J. Edgar Hoover’s shielded-from-CIA FEDORA) was really spying for the FBI for fifteen years (1962 to 1977) and Dmitry Polyakov for one (1962). Among these “experts” are former CIA officers like Leonard V. McCoy, John L. Hart, George Kisevalter, Cleveland Cram, Richards J. Heuer, and espionage writers like Tom Mangold, David Wise, and Jefferson Morley.
Background
Solie was born to a dairy farmer and his wife in Wisconsin on November 12th, 1917, and he died on December 23rd, 1992. He became a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, and met his future wife (Mary Elizabeth Matthews) during WW II at Rosecrans Field (known today as Rosecrans Air National Guard Base) in St. Joseph, Missouri. They were married on February 22, 1944, and lived in Memphis, Tennessee, and Homestead, Florida, until Solie was stationed overseas as a bomber pilot. They eventually had a son and two daughters. At the conclusion of WW II, they moved to "Badger Village," a housing facility devised to handle the influx of WWII veterans attending the University of Wisconsin at Madison, from which school he earned degrees in economics and law. In 1951 they relocated to the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., where he began a career with the CIA which lasted until his retirement in 1979.
Indications that Solie May Have Been a KGB “Mole”
Travel Records
Researcher Newman found some of Solie's travel records which had been posted on a genealogical website in 2010. Since he was told by his publisher that they were too faint to be published, they weren't included in his 2022 book, "Uncovering Popov's Mole," and were put his on his website, instead. (Go to https://jmnjmu.com/ and click on “Uncovering Popov’s Mole — Supplement”) They indicate that Solie, not known to have been on official business at the time, flew to Beirut, Lebanon, in February of 1957 — six months after Kim Philby had moved there — and visited Paris twice within one month in 1962 -- the first time just before Nosenko walked into the CIA in Geneva, and the second time on the last day that Nosenko met with Bagley and Kisevalter in Geneva. Newman believes Solie visited Philby to learn from him how to control Angleton, and that his short and close-together visits to Paris were to meet with some high-level KGB “moles” in French Intelligence and a shadowing high-level KGB officer from Moscow by the name of Mikhail Tysmbal so that they could convey to Nosenko's case officer in Moscow, General Oleg Gribanov, what recent true-defector Anatoliy Golitsyn was telling Angleton (and Angleton was naively confiding to Solie) about possible KGB penetrations of U.S and other NATO countries' intelligence services. Newman believes Solie's second visit to Paris was to inform those "moles" and Tsymbal what he had learned about Bagley's and Kisevalter's interactions with Nosenko in Geneva.[1]
The Popov's Mole / Lee Harvey Oswald Defection Cases
According to former high-level CIA officer William Hood in his book “Mole: The True Story of the First Russian Intelligence Officer Recruited by the CIA,” in April of 1958, GRU Colonel Pyotr Popov told his CIA handler, George Kisevalter (whom Hood called “Gregory Domnin” in his book), in West Berlin that he had recently heard a drunken GRU colonel brag that the Kremlin knew all of the technical specifications of the CIA's U-2 spy plane. According to Newman, Solie and his mole-hunting subordinate, CIA's Chief of Counterintelligence, James Angleton, decided to initiate a top-secret search for the leaker of the intel, and sent former Marine U-2 radar operator Lee Harvey Oswald (who had served at a U-2 base in Japan) to Moscow in late 1959 as a "dangle" in a search for the mole whom Solie said had to be in the Soviet Russia Division.
Newman determined that all of the incoming non-CIA cables (e.g., from State and Navy) about Oswald's 31 October defection had been arranged in advance with the Records Integration Division and the Office of Mail Logistics to be routed to the Security Research Staff (where Solie, as Deputy Chief, was effectively Chief due to Paul Gaynor’s being preoccupied with projects ARTICHOKE and BLUEBIRD) in the Office of Security rather than where they would have normally gone, the Soviet Russia Division. This led Newman to conclude that Solie must have known ahead of time that Oswald was going to defect to the USSR, which in turn led him to conclude that Solie was a KGB "mole" and that he had sent Oswald to Moscow on a planned-to-fail mole hunt. Newman points out that all of those cables disappeared into a “black hole” in the Office of Security, and that they didn’t resurface for at least six weeks (and that some of them didn’t reappear until after the assassination of JFK).
Solie Apparently Hid Information on Oswald's Defection From the FBI
Although the CIA had received a cable about Oswald's defection from the Department of the Navy on 4 November 1959, when he was asked on that date by the FBI's liaison to the CIA, Sam Papich, if the Agency knew anything about Oswald, Solie wrote to Angleton's Counterintelligence liaison, "Mr. Papich was advised that we had no info on subject."
The "Sasha" Case
KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn defected to the U.S. in Helsinki, Finland. Four days after he arrived in the U.S. he told Solie that, based on what he had surreptitiously read in a KGB file in Moscow ten years earlier, there was a "mole" in the CIA whose codename was "Sasha" (the Slavic nickname for "Alexander"), that “Sasha” had served in U.S. Intelligence in West Germany, that his name started with a "K" and ended in "-ski" or "-sky," and that he had leaked information about the development of a top-secret CIA listening device.[2] Solie showed Golitsyn a list of CIA personnel who had been stationed in Germany, whose names started with a "K" and ended with the suffix "-ski" or "-sky." The list evidently didn't include the name Alexander Kopatzky, one of the many earlier names of Igor Orlov -- a Russia-born CIA agent who had worked for the Agency in West Germany after WW II and whose agents were often uncovered by the KGB in the USSR -- so Golitsyn chose the name "Peter Klibanski" (the original name of Peter Karlow) from the list, instead.[3] Karlow, who was already under suspicion of being a "mole" because he had directed the leak-plagued top-secret "Easy Chair" electronic-listening project and had managed several agents who had been caught by the KGB, was summarily fired from the CIA. Karlow was later cleared of suspicion of being "Sasha" and financially compensated for his troubles. The aforementioned Igor Orlov / Alexander "Sasha" Kopatzky, who had been forced to retire from the CIA in 1961 after he’d caused an automobile accident in Germany and he and his wife had moved to the U.S., was belatedly determined by Solie to have been Golitsyn's "Sasha.” This identification was confirmed by controversial KGB defector Igor Kochnov in 1966, who in-so doing enhanced both his and Solie's reputations with the CIA and the FBI.
The Yuri Nosenko Case
In late May or early June (accounts vary) of 1962, putative KGB officer Yuri Nosenko "walked in" to the CIA in Geneva, Switzerland and offered to exchange some KGB intelligence for $250 of "desperately needed" funds. Tennent H. Bagley flew in from Bern and met with Nosenko one-on-one in a CIA "safe house," and they were joined two days later by Russia-born agent-handler George Kisevalter. There were five meetings altogether, and during the final one on 15 June, Solie showed up unannounced, hoping to show Nosenko a list of suspected "moles" in the CIA. Kisevalter and Bagley, who had already become Nosenko's primary case officer, didn't allow Solie to meet face-to-face with Nosenko, but they did let him sit in the next room and pass questions to him. Bagley wrote in his book that Nosenko "drew a blank" on all of the names and codenames that were presented to him, and that he later learned that they were leads which recent KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn had given to the CIA.[4] Solie flew to Paris for the second time in six months that same day, and Nosenko, who was ostensibly serving as the security officer for a Soviet arms negotiation delegation, flew back to Moscow with the delegation the next day.[5]
Nosenko recontacted Bagley and Kisevalter in Geneva in late January 1964, two months after the assassination of JFK. Nosenko told Bagley and Kisevalter that he wanted to physically defect to the U.S., now, and leave his wife and two daughters behind in Moscow to fend for themselves, because he suspected that the KGB was aware of his treason. Nosenko then claimed that he had been Lee Harvey Oswald's case officer in the USSR, and that he therefore knew for a fact that the KGB hadn't even interviewed the "abnormal" former Marine radar operator during the two-and-one-half-years he lived there. When he told Bagley and Kisevalter a few days later that he had just received a recall telegram from Moscow, CIA headquarters gave Bagley and Kisevalter permission to take him to Frankfurt, West Germany so that he could be processed for possible entry into the U.S. Once Nosenko was actually in the U.S., he refused to cooperate fully with his Agency debriefers.[6] After being taken by Bagley to Hawaii on a two-week vacation, Nosenko was detained in April in a Maryland "safe house" by the CIA and subjected to a polygraph exam and hostile interrogations.[7]
That same month, April 1964, Solie tried to convince Warren Commission lawyer W. David Slawson that Nosenko should be permitted to testify to the Commission and that the reason he had given contradictory and constantly changing information to Bagley and Kisevalter in Geneva and to other debriefers in the US was because he had been drunk at his meetings in Geneva, because there had been a severe language problem between himself and Bagley (who met one-on-one only during the first meeting), and because he was under intense stress now in America. British researcher Malcolm Blunt, who befriended Bagley in 2008, says he was astounded when Blunt showed him some documents which suggested Solie had tried to convince Slawson that Nosenko was a true defector so soon after his physical defection to the US.
For security reasons, Nosenko was moved from the residential-area "safe house" to a more austere, bunker-like building that was built especially for him at Camp Peary, and he was subjected to two more years of hostile (but not tortuous, according to Bagley) interrogations and, in 1966, another polygraph exam.
In 1967, Solie was given the task of conducting a new, independent investigation to determine whether or not still-incarcerated Nosenko was a true defector. To do this, he moved Nosenko into a more comfortable "safe house," and proceeded to elicit explanations from him that could make his previous contradictory statements more plausible. A year later, after administering a final polygraph exam to Nosenko (which polygraph expert Robert O. Arther later read at CIA headquarters and said was unreliable[8]) Solie, contradicting the negative assessment of Nosenko by the Soviet Russia Division's 450-page condensation of Bagley's 840-page report, concluded in his own report that Nosenko was a true defector. This conclusion was quickly accepted by CIA leadership, and Nosenko was released, "cleared," financially compensated, resettled under a new name, and hired by the CIA to teach counterintelligence to its new recruits.[9]
The Igor Kochnov / Shadrin Affair
In June of 1966, shortly before he assumed the position of Director of Central Intelligence, Richard Helms received a phone call at home from Washington-based KGB officer Igor Kochnov. Kochnov told Helms he was willing to spy for the CIA on the condition that the Agency would help boost his status in Moscow by pretending to turn over to him Nicholas Shadrin (original name Artamonov), a former Soviet destroyer captain who had defected to the U.S. several years earlier. Helms and Angleton, believing Kochnov to be a "plant" and still fearing that the Soviet Russia Division was penetrated by a KGB "mole," decided to "play" Kochnov back against the Soviets, and turned him over, for handling, to Solie from the Office of Security and FBI agent Albert "Bert" Turner. Before Kochnov returned to Moscow a few months later, never to return to the U.S., he turned Shadrin over to another KGB officer at the Soviet embassy. Out of fear that he would be kidnapped or killed by the KGB, Angleton warned Shadrin's handlers to not let him leave the country, but they soon allowed him to travel to Canada in an espionage intrigue, and in 1975 permitted him (and his wife) to travel to Vienna, Austria, so that he could meet with Kochnov. Due to his handlers failure to provide counter-surveillance for the meeting, Shadrin was kidnapped by the KGB and he died, according to Oleg Kalugin, when he was he was given too much of a "knock out" drug. According to Henry Hurt's 1980 book, "Shadrin: The Spy Who Didn't Come Back, Solie, dour and non-apologetic, accompanied Mrs. Shadrin back to the U.S.
The Clay Shaw Trial
In a September 2021 YouTube video in which researcher Malcolm Blunt is interviewed about Yuri Nosenko, Blunt says Solie was omnipresent in the JFK assassination investigation, and that he was "all over" Clay Shaw for New Orlean's District Attorney Jim Garrison. [10]
OH, AND ONE OTHER THING
Solie hid some Office of Security documents on the JFK assassination from the Church Committee and the HSCA. See Malcolm Blunt’s 10/9/21 YouTube interview on Yuri Nosenko. (Google “malcolm blunt” and “nosenko” simultaneously.)
Amazingly, Solie described his technique in a 1978 memo you can read by googling "david l christ" and "bruce l solie" simultaneously and scrolling down to page 2.