Is anyone other than Tom able to follow the logic of what I lovingly call the “KGB stuff?" It quickly loses me. (Don’t bother, TG. You’re on Eternal Ignore. I now wear a COVID mask to avoid being exposed to even the tiniest micro-nuttiness from your invisible posts. I’m just wondering if anyone else can actually follow whatever it is TG is talking about.)
As I understand it (while not pretending to actually understand it) ...
LHO is dispatched to the USSR, apparently unwittingly, to ferret out moles (I love saying that! :D). While there, he attends the mysterious “KGB school” in Minsk and is somehow trained for an eventual mission (what mission?) in the U.S., even though those closest to him have absolutely no clue that this is going on. He returns to the U.S., presumably at the behest of his KGB masters, with his KGB-indoctrinated wife Marina (indoctrinated when and for what purpose?), and they proceed to live pretty much like impoverished bums (their KGB cover?).
LHO then engages in activities and writes things that are hard to square with any KBG mission (proof of just how clever the KGB is?). The time finally arrives for LHO to assassinate JFK (for what KGB-related purpose?), and Marina then lives the next 60+ years in pretty thorough Texas-housewife obscurity (for what KGB-related purpose?), evolving from a veritable LNer to a CTer (for what KGB-related purpose? was this her KGB mission?).
The supermen of the KGB then spend the next 50+ years destroying America from within via their infiltration of the CIA, the proverbial “long march through the institutions” and whatnot (and having rather astonishing success as far as I can tell). The chaotic Monty Python skit that calls itself the “JFKA research community” is apparently part of this dastardly plot (how? why?).
In 2016, the KGB, or at least KGB guy Putin, then causes Kremlin stooge The Donald to defeat Hillary Clinton, even though Hillary is a card-carrying "Rules for Radicals" sort of leftie and The Donald’s platform consists mostly of promises to unravel all that the KGB has accomplished over the past 50+ years (how does that work?). But wait, then Putin and the supermen of the KGB fumble the ball and Team Biden is somehow elected in 2020 (what the heck?). Team Biden, which apparently doesn't grasp the KGB's new Trumpian agenda, then does its best to restore the long march through the institutions, doing quite an excellent job of it, and Team Kamala promises to pretty well finish off the destruction of America (why would Putin and the supermen of the KGB not want this?).
But, no, Vladimir and the gang once again step in and cause their stooge The Donald to be elected in 2024, even though The Donald is now even more hellbent to stop the long march through the institutions and restore America to its former glory as a chest-thumping, war-mongering capitalist state and may be slightly unhinged to boot (the KGB wants this – why?).
Perhaps I’m just not seeing the Big Picture. Or perhaps I'm actually an unwitting KGB stooge, sent here to ferret out moles! I have literally no idea what the “KGB stuff” is all about or how it makes any sense at all. Anyone seeing it more clearly than I am?
Tom explained it but I still don't understand it.
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Tom explained it but I still don't understand it.Well, that's one vote for my sanity.
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Is anyone other than Tom able to follow the logic of what I lovingly call the “KGB stuff?" It quickly loses me. (Don’t bother, TG. You’re on Eternal Ignore. I now wear a COVID mask to avoid being exposed to even the tiniest micro-nuttiness from your invisible posts. I’m just wondering if anyone else can actually follow whatever it is TG is talking about.)
As I understand it (while not pretending to actually understand it) ...
LHO is dispatched to the USSR, apparently unwittingly, to ferret out moles (I love saying that! :D). While there, he attends the mysterious “KGB school” in Minsk and is somehow trained for an eventual mission (what mission?) in the U.S., even though those closest to him have absolutely no clue that this is going on. He returns to the U.S., presumably at the behest of his KGB masters, with his KGB-indoctrinated wife Marina (indoctrinated when and for what purpose?), and they proceed to live pretty much like impoverished bums (their KGB cover?).
LHO then engages in activities and writes things that are hard to square with any KBG mission (proof of just how clever the KGB is?). The time finally arrives for LHO to assassinate JFK (for what KGB-related purpose?), and Marina then lives the next 60+ years in pretty thorough Texas-housewife obscurity (for what KGB-related purpose?), evolving from a veritable LNer to a CTer (for what KGB-related purpose? was this her KGB mission?).
The supermen of the KGB then spend the next 50+ years destroying America from within via their infiltration of the CIA, the proverbial “long march through the institutions” and whatnot (and having rather astonishing success as far as I can tell). The chaotic Monty Python skit that calls itself the “JFKA research community” is apparently part of this dastardly plot (how? why?).
In 2016, the KGB, or at least KGB guy Putin, then causes Kremlin stooge The Donald to defeat Hillary Clinton, even though Hillary is a card-carrying "Rules for Radicals" sort of leftie and The Donald’s platform consists mostly of promises to unravel all that the KGB has accomplished over the past 50+ years (how does that work?). But wait, then Putin and the supermen of the KGB fumble the ball and Team Biden is somehow elected in 2020 (what the heck?). Team Biden, which apparently doesn't grasp the KGB's new Trumpian agenda, then does its best to restore the long march through the institutions, doing quite an excellent job of it, and Team Kamala promises to pretty well finish off the destruction of America (why would Putin and the supermen of the KGB not want this?).
But, no, Vladimir and the gang once again step in and cause their stooge The Donald to be elected in 2024, even though The Donald is now even more hellbent to stop the long march through the institutions and restore America to its former glory as a chest-thumping, war-mongering capitalist state and may be slightly unhinged to boot (the KGB wants this – why?).
Perhaps I’m just not seeing the Big Picture. Or perhaps I'm actually an unwitting KGB stooge, sent here to ferret out moles! I have literally no idea what the “KGB stuff” is all about or how it makes any sense at all. Anyone seeing it more clearly than I am?
Ah, what a small world it is. Tom embarked on what eventually became his KGB mania in 2007, when Douglas Caddy posted at the Ed Forum a Washington Post review of Bagley’s book Spy Wars. "Interesting stuff!" Tom said back then. Ironically, the review concluded “Take a stroll with Bagley down paranoia lane …” Even more ironically, Caddy is the leading proponent of the theory that JFK knew the dark truth about UFOs and was killed because he was going to reveal the Alien Secret. But now Tom takes his little dig at my longtime interest in UFOs. And so it goes.
I know the rudiments of the Nosenko affair and the Angleton/Bagley KGB paranoia. I have no idea what Nosenko was all about and really don't care. My guess would be, a genuine defector who pretended to be more than he was. He certainly didn’t defect for any reason directly related to the JFKA.
Regardless of what, if anything, Nosenko actually knew about Oswald, what he had to say is surely pretty close to the truth even if he was operating on the basis of nothing more than common sense and guesswork. In the preparation of Oswald’s Tale, Norman Mailer spoke with KGB officers and viewed KGB files. The portrait of Oswald that emerged was entirely consistent with what Nosenko said and what common sense would tell us: The KGB quickly realized Oswald was a pathetic loser, of no conceivable intelligence use.
Certainly, the KGB would have assessed and monitored Oswald. Pretty much everyone from Rimma (his Intourist guide) on down had some KGB affiliation. Were there really no formal intelligence-type interviews, as Nosenko said? Quite possibly. Oswald had nothing to offer them about the U-2 program they didn’t already know; their only puzzle was how to reach, with aircraft or missiles, the height at which they knew the U-2 was flying. Apart from the U-2 stuff they already knew, Oswald had nothing to offer them. Indeed, he was such unlikely intelligence material that the KGB at one point speculated as to whether weirdos like him were some new CIA program (so obviously not intelligence material that he actually was intelligence material!).
Does it make any rational sense that the Soviets would send a false defector, and that Nosenko would endure all he endured (dying as a U.S. citizen in 2008), to spread the tale that “We really had no interest in Oswald” when pretty much no one thought they did? Since Nosenko defected at just about the time the WC was getting rolling, I would assume he included his Oswald material because he knew ears would perk up.
When I first joined this forum several months ago, I and my especially my wife, who lived in Minsk for decades and was in a responsible position with the city until 2008, helped Tom identify the KGB school that Oswald supposedly lived near. It was a graduate-level training academy that began in Gomel in 1946 for those who wanted to join the KGB in any capacity. It was not a school for spies. There is a description of it beginning on page 20 of this document: https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32989481.pdf.
My wife tells me it’s “invisible” in the sense that Minsk citizens like her never give it a thought (she didn’t even know what the building was until she started trying to help Tom!). Ernst Titovets said in a fairly recent interview that he had no awareness of it and that it had only been brought to his attention in connection with questions about Oswald. No one – Marina, Titovets or anyone else in Minsk – has ever suggested any connection whatsoever between Oswald and this school.
Yet, all over the internet, Tom continues to trumpet the fact that “Oswald lived within a half mile of a KGB school” as though this were some major smoking gun. The fact is, Oswald was given an extremely nice (by Soviet standards) apartment near the Svisloch River (yes, I’ve seen it). It’s in midtown Minsk. One walks from the apartment, across Victory Square (which is the center of Minsk), and either walks or takes the bus down the main street to the radio factory (two bus stops down the road but within easy walking distance). The KGB school is on the other side of the main street – i.e., separated from Oswald’s apartment by Victory Square.
This would be like saying that everyone living within a half mile of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington is somehow suspicious, with utterly no connection apart from the bare fact of this proximity. Or, as CTers are wont to do, like saying that someone whose distant second-cousin Shirley is a secretary in building maintenance at Langley has, on this basis alone, “suspicious CIA connections.”
Tom, I now realize, is in the grip of some obsessive KGB fixation that I was not aware of when I joined. This is a different Tom than I had encountered at the Ed Forum years ago, who was goofy but kind of fun (like me!). I find his KGB mania boring and slightly scary.
Here’s the school in its present incarnation as the National Security Academy. They even have a website: https://aml.university/en/uchastniki-aml/akademiya-nacional-noy-bezopasnosti-respubliki-belarus. If you visit, tell them Comrade Lance sent you.
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Now that I think about it, this is the virtue of the LN narrative: It actually makes sense, from A to Z. It is quite easy to state in 200 or so words of plain English. The "problems" tend to be technical/forensic ones within the context of Dealey Plaza - the timing and number of shots, the holes in the clothing vis-a-vis the throat wound, the SBT, etc., etc. None of those is an absolute LN deal-breaker, and the overarching LN narrative simply makes sense, with the need for an absolute minimum of speculation, mental gyrations and implausible, non-real-world aspects. Even such cover-up as their actually was makes entire sense for reasons that do no damage to the LN narrative (an epiphany for which I must give credit to Larry Hancock).
Ditto with the LN+ narrative: It's merely the LN narrative with Oswald perhaps having been encouraged by or even having "conspired" with one or more fellow pro-Castroites. It makes as much sense (perhaps more) than the LN narrative, but the "conspiracy" aspects are pure speculatiion and probably always will be.
One step down is my Marcello/Mafia scenario with Oswald as a pro-Castro patsy. Tidy as this is, it EXPONENTIALLY increases the complexity and risk. It has VASTLY more problems than the LN scenario (and, of course, bumps its head on the very things that make the LN narrative most plausible).
EVERY OTHER conspiracy scenario, it seems to me, borders on science fiction: Utterly implausible in any real-world sense, filled with fantastic risks at every turn, and just simply not the way a Presidential assassination would ever have been carried out by anyone this side of the Three Stooges. These scenarios inevitably involve massive cover-up activities that are simply silly. Even a more limited scenario such as Larry Hancock apparently posits would have been exponentially more complex and risky than even my Mafia scenario, and it posits events in Dealey Plaza for which there is simply no good evidence.
To the extent I understand the KGB stuff at all, the JFKA doesn't really seem to have been a conspiracy per se. It was more just an LN cog in a Monster Plot dating back to long before the JFKA and extending to the election of Trump, with the entire 62-year JFKA "conspiracy" brouhaha likewise being mostly just a KGB-fueled cog in the Plot. As with many conspiracy theories, this more-or-less LN scenario strikes me as more in the vein of science fiction and simply not plausible.
Ergo, my little Bayesian probability analysis says something like LN = 60% probability; LN+ = 26%; Mafia = 14%; everything else, including the KGB stuff = fuggedaboudit.
I admire TG's command of all things KGB, and he is a tonic to all the lefties that usually flood the JFKA zone.
LP--To paraphrase: You have no idea what he's talking about either.
I admire TG's command of all things KGB, and he is a tonic to all the lefties that usually flood the JFKA zone.
I have refreshed my understanding of G2/KGB thanks to TG, reviewing Tennent Bagley, Gus Russo and John Newman, and TG's writing.
I still don't know who perped the JFKA, and I still suspect a very small conspiracy, literally three guys, including LHO. No one above them.
However, whereas before I tended to lean towards Alpha 66, I am now open to a G2-KGB (likely, lower level dudes) plot.
Interestingly, many Cuban exiles were thought to be double agents, including Rolando Cubela.
That leaves open the possibility of G2 assets, who appeared to anti-Castro exiles, linking up with LHO.
I advise TG to be more civil in his commentary, and avoid current-day politics, but there are far worse, such as the leftist anti-Semitic crackpots running the Education Forum.
I will take TG by a country mile over the Education Forum ghouls.
Trying to make the location selection of Dealey Plaza make sense seems problematic to me for anyone other than LHO to be involved. I doubt that anyone else would have chosen Dealey Plaza for a hit. There were way too many people and law enforcement officers present. However, since he worked there, it makes perfect sense for LHO. It just seems to have been a coincidence that everything essentially fell into LHO’s lap. I do give LHO credit for planning and executing an effective surprise ambush from behind and above.
[Tom's] "grasp of all things KGB" is, of course, completely at odds with the CIA's own analyses in 1976 (Hart) and 2011 (Royden), as well as the many CIA colleagues who derided Angleton and Bagley's obsession with the imaginary "Monster Plot," and is derived almost entirely from the dubious sources he cites ad nauseam, which are rejected by the majority of intelligence scholars.
Hey, hey, hey, people, Serious Researcher Lance has done what we serious researcher types do: I went to the Ed Forum and quickly skimmed all 405 posts in which the term "Bagley" is mentioned. I even found a few by me, in which I (in 2018) apparently knew more about this Bagley-Nosenko-KGB stuff than I recall now. I pointed out that the CT enthusiasm for Bagley seems almost entirely to relate to his very latter-day revelations to Blunt and Newman that Oswald was a "witting asset" of the CIA, which he (Bagley) seemed to know nothing about while he was employed by the CIA or, indeed, until he encountered Blunt at age 85.
Overall, the enthusiasm for Bagley at the Ed Forum was distinctly muted. Some enthusiasm, yes (on the part of "witting asset" fans), but little for the Monster Plot and even considerable skepticism that Bagley himself was a disinformation agent. My skepticism relates primarily to the reality that (1) he had pretty obvious monetary incentives for the bombshells he revealed long after he had been given the boot by the CIA, and (2) it's pretty easy to view those bombshells as late-in-life grudge-settling efforts. But I digress ...
What I found was the VERY FIRST thread in which TG floated his "KGB stuff." It was in 2018, and he called it a "Theory in Progress." The responses were not kind. Jim Di dismissed it as "Tommy's mole madness." Kirk G. said any KGB theory was way out of the ballpark because the Soviets had "no motive." But I disgress again ...
The value is that TG actually explained his fledgling theory fairly succinctly, as set forth below. I now understand the Trump tie-in. Yeah, it's nuts, but at least I understand it. As you can see, TDS was the motivating factor from the get-go.
Here ya go, from the keyboard of TG in 2018:
Now let me ask YOU a question:
*IF* there was a mole or a network of embedded KGB-types, would they have been willing to kill JFK (or any other U.S. president for that matter) if they had been instructed by their KGB / GRU handler(s) to do so, to enable ever-increasing KGB / GRU influence on our country through "active measures counterintelligence operations" (which started in 1921) and "strategic deception operations" (which started in 1959), thereby giving rise to paralyzing, cancer-like propaganda and disinformation (e.g., "The evil, evil CIA killed JFK," and "The evil, evil CIA killed JFK via the 'Harvey & Lee and Two Marguerites Program,'" and "The evil, evil CIA and the Mafia ... ")?
So that, you know, ..... EVENTUALLY a Russian Mafia-compromised (and therefore eminently blackmail-able) anti-NATO "useful idiot" like Donald James Trump could be installed as our president?
(Or do you believe that some disgruntled DNC or NSA insider not only hacked the DNC's and Podesta's e-mails, but gave said e-mails to Julian Assange and DNCLeaks? And that Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear and Guccifer 2.0 are just an evil, evil CIA "cover story" or "fantasy"?)
LOL
-- Tommy
PS: I would suggest that pieces of the puzzle lie in Bill Simpich's "State Secret," John Newman's "Oswald and the CIA," and Tennent H. Bagley's "Spy Wars" and "Ghosts of the Spy Wars," and Mark Riebling's "Wedge".
Still, someone needs to clarify for me: First, what did the KGB gain by offing JFK in favor of LBJ? Second, if the KGB had been almost fantastically successful over a period of more than 100 years in virtually deconstructing America, culminating in the election of a left-leaning president like Obama and the candidacies of lefties like Hillary and Kamala, why would said KGB have done an about-face and blessed us with The Donald? Why would Hillary, Biden and Harris not have meshed perfectly with the deconstruction of America via the continuing long march through the institutions? If the KGB actually thought installing The Donald would advance their deconstruction agenda more than Hillary and Kamala, one can only conclude that, far from being supermen, they are in fact more like - yep - the Three Stooges.
Is it possible I'm just not clever enough to grasp the nuances of TG's KGB stuff?
TG has apparently spoken. Did he say anything I should know?
Dear Fancy Pants Rants,
Knowing you, you'll get so antsy that you'll have to read this:
Why didn't you include the first two sentences (in bold, below) in my reply to Sandy Larsen (RIP) on 15 January 2018 at the so-called JFK Assassination Debate - Education Forum when he asked me,
Tommy,
What makes you think that a mole might have had something to do with the assassination? Or with Oswald? Or is this sheer speculation?
[Dear Sandy,]
Pure speculation in a wilderness of mirrors, Sandy.
All hypothetical at this point, but a paradigm that might help to explain some apparent anomalies ...
No, wait, there's more! The genesis of TG's theory actually predates the election of The Donald.
Here is TG floating his "joint KGB / CIA assassination" theory in 2012:
Did They "Do It" Together?
I mean, of course, the KGB and the CIA and the assassination of JFK, not something of a kinkier nature, you naughty boys and girls!
You know, maybe they had some common "vested interests" --- that sort of thing?
Or, maybe it was a case of "You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours, and we'll both get filthy rich ...
... or at least a shiny new Lada / Ferrari and a dacha / house on the Black Sea / in La Jolla!)".
--Tommy
David Josephs of Harvey & Lee fame then fleshed it out, to which TG replied "Exactly!":
Hold up a second Robert [Morrow, who had described TG's idea as having a one-in-a-trillion chance of being correct] ...
Are you trying to tell us that you cannot see how HAWKS in the KGB as well as the ruling economic elite in Russia (yes virginia, there really are wealthy people in communist nations) would not want to perpetuate the Cold War and avoid peace at all costs...? Yet you have no problem with the HAWKS of the USA, in the Military and CIA, to perpetuate the Cold War?
I think you are missing the role of the emerging global corporations, financed by the international banks and the benefit derived by the constant state of Cold (and Hot) War.
Billions upon billions of "officially spent money" was lost in Russia when the Cold War finally ended... Where the US government & companies just shifted focus from the WAR on Communism to the WAR on Terrorism and continued to spend accordingly, the Russian economy was corrupted by organized crime taking on all shapes and persona.
Richard Case Nagell was not even sure which side was ordering him to kill Oswald...
I believe if you step back and see the overriding focus was on MONEY and POWER... and that the groups that desired control of such things continue regardless of ideology, theology, political party or any other such nonsense... AND add that the CIA as well as a number of other agencies were choked full of "communists" who thought it crucial NEVER to give in to the USA..
It is not such a stretch to see cooperation among thieves to keep their livlihoods AND organizations intact.
To dovetail back to your thesis - LBJ - he cooperated cause of all the money involved, and his freedom. "None Dare Call It a Conspiracy" helps in this question to see that the CIA and KGD were in the same business... perpetuate the organization, protect the organization, expand the organization so that a state of fear persists and people will be more and more willing to give up personal freedoms and liberty to FEEL protected...
JFK's future dictated that these two agencies would no longer be needed - or at least be seriously curtailed... and they both knew it.
And this is why men like Dub'ya Bush do not get executed... He's one of THEM.
Now you can see where I have gone awry: Silly me thought TG's notion of the superman-level success of the KGB in deconstructing America related to the long march through the institutions and the election of lefties such as Obama, Biden, Hillary and Kamala. Silly me thought it had something to do with advancing Marxist/socialist ideology and that sort of thing. No, no, no - it was all about the Benjamins from the get-go - or at least that was the theory in 2012 - and Dubya was as much of a useful idiot as The Donald.
I can't even begin to keep this stuff straight. I won't bore you further. If it all makes sense to you, keep it to yourself because I no longer care.
Breaking news: Jim Di started a thread specifically to deal (not kindly) with TG's KGB stuff. It isn't worth reading, but at last I understand: EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENDED IN AMERICA since 1921 has been KGB-orchestrated. Trump, Biden, the collapse of the educational system, my Milwaukee Braves winning the World Series in 1957, everything. At least that narrows it down.
Since TG just keeps posting, he is quite correct: I did look at this post and will respond as follows to the following. Then I, at least, am done.
Well, let's see: TG's exchange with the late Sandy was in 2018, more than eight years ago. Since the KGB stuff - oops, sorry, the KGB Deconstruction of America, Including Without Limitation the JFKA stuff - now appears to occupy TG's every waking hour, I assumed he would no longer characterize it as "pure speculation."
If he does still characterize it as pure speculation ... well, I for one am heartened to learn this.
[LP] may have overstated the case against Bagley/Angleton. There were (and are?) plenty of people in the CIA skeptical about Nosenko.
John Newman is a serious researcher, and he has posited Bruce Solie was a KGB mole and running LHO.
LHO spoke of assassinating JFK while in MC.
Tom is roughly right that the KGB, or other Soviet assets, have been running disinformation campaigns in the US during the entire postwar era, and surely they often manipulated left-wing assets in doing so.
Tom now contends Moscow is manipulating right-wing assets also. Tucker Carlson anyone?
I rather suspect John Simkin is deep into his dotage.
LP-
You may have overstated the case against Bagley/Angleton. There were (and are?) plenty of people in the CIA skeptical about Nosenko.
In addition, John Newman is a serious researcher, and he has posited Bruce Solie was a KGB mole and running LHO.
There was a KGB'er in Minsk who said he was running LHO, but stopped once LHO returned to the US, and that yes, Marina was a "swallow." She lso stopped being of service upon departing the SU.
LHO contacted not only KGB, but G2 assets in Mexico City. LHO spoke of assassinating JFK while in MC. Castro spoke of revenge assassination attempts on the Kennedy brothers, in September of 1963.
TG is roughly right that the KGB, or other Soviet assets, have been running disinformation campaigns in the US during the entire postwar era, and surely they often manipulated left-wing assets in doing so.
I rather suspect John Simkin is in his dotage....like deep into his dotage....
"Skeptical about Nosenko" is one thing. "Skeptical about Nosenko" scarcely describes the Angleton/Bagley paranoia that came to be called the Monster Plot. "Skeptical about Nosenko" scarcely describes the breadth and depth of TG's KGB stuff insofar as the CIA is concerned. "Skeptical about Nosenko" greatly understates the reality. Do we actually know there were and are "plenty" of people in the CIA (as opposed to the CT community) skeptical about Noskenko [sic]? Were there protests against the Hart Report or Royden's peer-reviewed article in Studies in Intelligence? One can certainly be skeptical that Nosenko was all he said he was and knew all he said he did without thinking he was a KGB-sponsored false defector. There was essentially no suspicion the Soviets were responsible for the JFKA, so why would the KGB and Nosenko himself undertake this fantastically risky mission - and why would Nosenko endure the ghastly treatment he received? (emphasis added by T.G.)
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One more, which is somewhat off-topic, but the epistemological aspects of what we see on forums such as this continue to fascinate me.
It occurred to me on our morning walk (4 miles after Achilles surgery on August 21, thanks for asking) that, apart from all the psychological/sociological jargon, there are really four defining characteristics of far-fetched conspiracy thinking (as opposed to more rational conspiracy thinking, such as I credit Larry Hancock with doing). We see these again and again throughout this forum and the JFKA community in general:
1. An inability – more than a mere stubborn refusal, I think – to step back and view things from the proverbial 30,000-foot level. An ability to ask, “How would my theory have worked, from A to Z, out in the real world? What would it actually have looked like, out in the real world? Would it have made any sense, out in the real world?”
2. An obsession with irrelevant minutiae – attaching huge importance to people and evidence that are actually of little or no importance at all. Together with #1, this results in the proverbial inability to see the forest for the trees (and the shrubs, and the weeds, and the pine cones).
3. A perverse desire for everything to be different – indeed, the very opposite – from what common sense and the evidence tell us it is. Those who simply follow the evidence and apply common sense just don’t “get it,” just don’t grasp how diabolical the conspirators were.
4. An almost cult-like reliance on authorities and sources that mainstream historians, academics and researchers regard as being of dubious expertise and reliability. To the conspiracist, the mainstream thinkers likewise just don't "get it" and are either pawns of or fellow travelers with the conspirators.
These collectively result in the conspiracy theory being almost bullet-proof and the conspiracist’s belief being almost unshakeable.
Why these are the defining characteristics of believers in far-fetched conspiracy theories, even believers who are otherwise intelligent and rational and high-functioning, is where the psychological and sociological studies kick in. But you don’t need them to be able to look at many of the denizens of JFKA World and say, “Yes, that’s exactly who he is and what he's doing.”
Whether this has anything to do with anyone on this thread I leave to others to decide. ::)
I would be far out over my skis if I purported to speak knowledgeably about the Bagley stuff with which TG is obsessed, so I don't want to give that impression. I did, however, read a number of reviews of Bagley's Spy Wars, which apparently serves as TG's bible. One noted that Bagley "rather conveniently" relies heavily on information provided to him by supposed - but unnamed - KGB sources. More than one noted Bagley's bitterness at his downfall with the CIA, a motivation that I believe simply must be taken into consideration in regard to all of Bagley's latter-day revelations.
Set forth below is the review from the London Sunday Times. The reviewer, Christoper Andrew, had met with Nosenko and is the co-author, with defector Vasili Mitrokhin, of several books on the famed 300,000 document Mitrokhin Archive. As you can read, he was distinctly unimpressed with Spy Wars.. The review itself appears at: https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/spy-wars-moles-mysteries-and-deadly-games-n7j9f67n78p.
I'm going to have to get at least one of the Mitrokhin Archives books, which all seem to be available at Amazon:
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Mitrokhin Archive can be read online here: https://archive.org/details/mitrokhinarchive0000andr
The KGB went through great efforts to try and locate Nosenko. The plan was to try and isolate him and kill him. Kalugin book also goes over the plans the KGB had to try and either kidnap or kill Nosenko. Kalugin, who was head of counter intelligence for the KGB (sort of a Soviet equivalent of James Angleton), said Nosenko caused a lot of damage to the KGB including forcing him to return to the USSR. I used to believe that Nosenko was a false defector - the evidence was strong; but a great deal of new evidence that came out, particularly after the fall of the Soviet Union, indicates he was legitimate. Yes, he told lies, made up stories, puffed up his credentials; but so did Golitsyn, e.g., the Sino-Soviet split was a ruse.
Nut graf from Mitrokhin:
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LP--
John Newman is a pretty serious researcher, and he seems to give credence to Bagley, and does Malcolm Blunt.
Newman goes even further, positing that Bruce Solie was a KGB mole.
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Instead of bandying about terms like "serious researcher," folks should challenge kooky Newman as to why he self-publishes and, despite his academic connections, has NEVER submitted ANYTHING for peer review. Just ONE "Oswald CIA" nugget, pal, just ONE.
I'm starting to feel somewhat guilty about kicking TG's butt, but I saw his post when I logged out and, hey, I actually read Bagley's article.
Uh, no, TG, back to the drawing board for you.
Bagley's article is not a peer-reviewed research piece. The title - duh - kind of tells you that. TG conveniently doesn't give you the full title:
"Ghosts of the Spy Wars: A Personal Reminder to Interested Parties."
In case you didn't catch that:
A PERSONAL REMINDER
By far the greatest number of citations are to Bagley's own book. IT'S AN OPINION PIECE, TG. Jesus.
Know how many times it's been cited since it was publshed in 2014. Correct: ZERO.
I don't know if the Wikipedia article on the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence was written by TG, but it is not accurate. From the journal itself:
"The International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence serves as a medium for professionals and scholars to exchange opinions on issues and challenges encountered by both government and business institutions in making contemporary intelligence-related decisions and policy."
In case you didn't catch that:
EXCHANGE OPINIONS
Peer review is limited to research articles. Bagley's "personal reminder" was not a research article.
"Peer Review Policy: All papers submitted to the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence undergo initial editorial screening. Once deemed suitable, research articles are sent out for double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent referees."
Give it up, TG. Thank God I don't see most of your posts, but you are embarrassing yourself in the ones I do see.
The journal in which Bagley's opinion piece was published (after his death at age 88) shows "Citations: 0."
Dear Fancy Pants Rants,
According to Google Scholar, these are the works that have cited Bagley's three different publications (in chronological order): Spy Wars, Spymaster, and "Ghosts of the Spy Wars."
Spy Wars:
The spies who came to the East: Soviet illegals in the post-World War II Japan
G Serscikov - Journal of Intelligence History, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article describes the Soviet illegals intelligence program that was established one
hundred years ago. It offers a brief overview of the Soviet intelligence organizations involved in …
Rethinking US Counterintelligence: A Game Theoretical Approach
R Breeden - 2024 - search.proquest.com
For a field as complex as counterintelligence, a carefully thought-out rationalization for
observations of the world in which practitioners, decision-makers, and academia reside continues …
“We're Supposed To Have A Special Relationship.” Cold War Men and Espionage Narratives of Operation Stopwatch/Gold in Ian McEwan's The Innocent
R Oltean - War, Espionage, and Masculinity in British Fiction, 2023 - books.google.com
This paper takes a comparative approach to early Cold War British and American masculinities in Ian McEwan's The Innocent, contextualizing the analysis with non-fictional American …
“An Ominous Talent”: Oleg Gribanov and KGB Counterintelligence
F Kovacevic - International Journal of Intelligence and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Lieutenant General Oleg Gribanov was one of the most enigmatic and controversial leadership figures in the history of Soviet counterintelligence. Having joined the ranks of Soviet state …
[PDF] abin.gov.br
Como pegar um espião
AR Pereira - Revista Brasileira de Inteligência, 2023 - rbi.abin.gov.br
A espionagem é utilizada na obtenção de informações para apoiar o processo decisório
estatal. Os Estados praticam a contraespionagem para proteger seus segredos. Três casos
…
[PDF] esg.br
DEZ LIÇÕES QUE PODEMOS APRENDER COM OS “ILEGAIS”
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AM Mayers - 2018 - search.proquest.com
Cyber economic espionage is the use or facilitation of covert, forcible, or misleading means
by a nation-state or its proxies to acquire economic intelligence by using computer networks. …
The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War
MC Morgan - 2018 - torrossa.com
Names: Morgan, Michael Cotey, author. Title: The final act: the Helsinki Accords and the
transformation of the Cold War/Michael Cotey Morgan. Description: Princeton: Princeton …
[HTML] dukeupress.edu
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L Sell - 2016 - books.google.com
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M Hollingsworth - 2023 - books.google.com
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revelations.'Tom Bower, author of Revenge Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of …
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John Cairncross, RASCLS and a reassessment of his motives
C Smith - Intelligence and National Security, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT In 1990, John Cairncross was identified as the 'fifth man'of the Cambridge Ring
of Five. Historians have provided various motivations for Cairncross' decision to spy for the …
[PDF] tandfonline.com
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D Easter - Intelligence and National Security, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT From 1944 the State Department attempted to improve its communications
security by creating a Division of Cryptography and mechanising the encryption process …
The need to up our game in countering disinformation
T Leventhal - Comparative Strategy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
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Doubles Troubles: The CIA and Double Agents during the Cold War
BB Fischer - International Journal of Intelligence and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Double agents are a special breed of people. They pretend to spy for one foreign
intelligence service while actually spying for another. All intelligence services fall victim to …
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S Walker - 2025 - books.google.com
The definitive history of Russia's most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the
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[PDF] mit.edu
Glorified Images of Soviet State Security and Intelligence Services: A Survey of Books Published in Putin's Russia
F Kovacevic - Journal of Cold War Studies, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
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intelligence services published in Russia over the past quarter century by eight major pro …
[PDF] jhu.edu
Covert Networks: A Comparative Study of Intelligence Techniques Used By Foreign Intelligence Agencies to Weaponize Social Media
S Ogar - 2019 - jscholarship.library.jhu.edu
Abstract From the Bolshevik Revolution to the Brexit Vote, the covert world of intelligence
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Penkovsky, the Spy Who Tried to Destroy the World
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Abstract Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) lore and popular culture tout Col. Oleg Penkovsky
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[PDF] state.gov
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RE Rosin - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Propaganda is a tool used to exercise power through an act of communication. It is a type of
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K Coogan - 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
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SPIES IN THE WORLD OF FICTION
IF Carré, T Clancy, A Judd… - The Psychology of Spies …, 2022 - books.google.com
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J Kotakallio - 2023 - jyx.jyu.fi
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N West - 2015 - Taylor & Francis
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[CITATION] Oleg Penkovsky
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TH Bagley - 2007 - books.google.com
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RD Chapman - 2008 - Taylor & Francis
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D Pitt - Booklist, 2007 - go.gale.com
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E Goedeken - Library Journal, 2008 - go.gale.com
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KF Jensen - 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Two old spies got together regularly in Brussels over a period of many years. Both were
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Spymaster
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A Hänni, M Grossmann - Intelligence and National Security, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
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T Riegler - Journal of Austrian-American History, 2020 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
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C Nehring, A Hänni - Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda & …, 2020 - search.ebscohost.com
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D Petruzzi, MFN New - search.ebscohost.com
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WA Messer - International Journal of Intelligence and …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
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FJ Stech, KE Heckman, BE Strom - Cyber Deception: Building the Scientific …, 2016 - Springer
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KR Tuomi - 2013 - books.google.com
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P Dubovský - Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem: Story, History …, 2014 - brill.com
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This dissertation explores Western intelligence services’ early Cold War employment of former
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Of revelatory histories and hatchet jobs: propaganda and method in intelligence history
RG Hughes - Intelligence and National Security, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores a number of issues in the contemporary study of intelligence. These
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D Easter - Intelligence and National Security, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines Soviet Bloc and Western bugging of their opponents’ diplomatic
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Marianne is Watching: Knowledge, Secrecy, Intelligence and the Origins of the French Surveillance State (1870-1914)
DS Bauer - 2013 - escholarship.org
"Marianne is Watching" presents a history of the institutionalization of professional intelligence
and counterintelligence services in France from 1870 to 1914. As the practice of secret
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M Reiss - 2022 - JSTOR
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P McBurney - European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, 2011 - Springer
In this paper I discuss some of the purposes and functions of building models, particularly
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T Riegler - Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda & Security …, 2018 - search.ebscohost.com
Austria's intelligence services are a virtual" black box". There is no access to historical files
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Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets: The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1944–1948
L Borhi - 2009 - JSTOR
Peter Kenez writes that “nationalist and conservative politicians... partial to a certain exclusivist,
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P Schliefsteiner - Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and …, 2018 - thomas-riegler.net
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Z Bogumił, M Głowacka-Grajper - 2019 - library.oapen.org
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[CITATION] Ensiklopedia Dunia
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Ghosts of the Spy Wars
Ghosts of the spy wars: A personal reminder to interested parties
TH Bagley - International Journal of Intelligence and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
… Ghosts of the Spy Wars: A Personal Reminder to Interested Parties … KGB traveler to
Washington was never identified, as far as I know, and joins the company of ghosts of the spy wars.) …
The spies who came to the East: Soviet illegals in the post-World War II Japan
G Serscikov - Journal of Intelligence History, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article describes the Soviet illegals intelligence program that was established one
hundred years ago. It offers a brief overview of the Soviet intelligence organizations involved in …
Rethinking US Counterintelligence: A Game Theoretical Approach
R Breeden - 2024 - search.proquest.com
For a field as complex as counterintelligence, a carefully thought-out rationalization for
observations of the world in which practitioners, decision-makers, and academia reside continues …
“We're Supposed To Have A Special Relationship.” Cold War Men and Espionage Narratives of Operation Stopwatch/Gold in Ian McEwan's The Innocent One
R Oltean - War, Espionage, and Masculinity in British Fiction, 2023 - books.google.com
This paper takes a comparative approach to early Cold War British and American masculinities
in Ian McEwan's The Innocent, contextualizing the analysis with non-fictional American …
“An Ominous Talent”: Oleg Gribanov and KGB Counterintelligence
F Kovacevic - International Journal of Intelligence and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Lieutenant General Oleg Gribanov was one of the most enigmatic and controversial leadership
figures in the history of Soviet counterintelligence. Having joined the ranks of Soviet state …
[PDF] abin.gov.br
Como pegar um espião
AR Pereira - Revista Brasileira de Inteligência, 2023 - rbi.abin.gov.br
A espionagem é utilizada na obtenção de informações para apoiar o processo decisório
estatal. Os Estados praticam a contraespionagem para proteger seus segredos. Três casos …
[PDF] esg.br
DEZ LIÇÕES QUE PODEMOS APRENDER COM OS “ILEGAIS”
AR Pereira, RA de Arruda - Revista da Escola Superior de Guerra, 2025 - revista.esg.br
O mundo da inteligência é hermético e o usuário final da inteligência, via de regra, é um
político com pouco ou nenhum conhecimento sobre o assunto. Este ensaio visa, a partir de um …
A study on how cyber economic espionage affects US national security and competitiveness
AM Mayers - 2018 - search.proquest.com
Cyber economic espionage is the use or facilitation of covert, forcible, or misleading means
by a nation-state or its proxies to acquire economic intelligence by using computer networks. …