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The JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate => JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate => Topic started by: Tom Graves on September 04, 2026, 07:16:38 AM
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In a recent Substack blurb for his soon-to-be-released book(?) about Lee Harvey Oswald, Codename: “NALIM,” Brian D. Litman — the guy who produced, arranged, or somehow put together the 1993 bit of (unwitting?) KGB disinformation known as Passport to Assassination by “former” KGB officer Oleg Nechiporenko — which book, although ostensibly about the former Marine sharpshooter and U-2 radar operator’s two-and-a-half years in the USSR and his controversial trip to Mexico City seven weeks before the assassination, inexplicably devotes fifty pages to how stupid and sadistic CIA officer Tennent H. Bagley was to so grossly misunderstand and mistreat February 1964 physical defector to the U.S., Major I mean Lieutenant-Colonel I mean Captain Yuri Nosenko — included the following excerpt from the upcoming book, or whatever it is:
At a different meeting, [former KGB Chief] Vladimir Yefimovich [Semichastniy] told me that he was personally devastated with the defection of Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko in February of 1964.
“A false defection, they say? [as some in the West thought],” he said ironically. “I could only wish that it had been so!” he shot. “I saw new grey hairs spontaneously sprout during the fallout,” he told me. “I wanted to strangle the privileged little [rhymes with snit]” he said of Nosenko. “Such a betrayal! Unforgivable!!” said the long-serving spymaster. [final set of brackets in original]
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Here’s the reply I posted to Brian D. Litman’s blurb:
Dear Brian,
You (and Gerald Posner, et al.) have been played like a fiddle, my friend.
As detailed by Yuri Nosenko’s primary case officer, Tennent H. Bagley, in his 2007 Yale University Press book, Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games, and his 2014 book, Spymaster, putative KGB staff officer Nosenko was a false defector-in-place in Geneva in June 1962, sent there by Second Chief Directorate Chief Oleg Gribanov to discredit what KGB headquarters knew (probably, we now know, via Angleton’s confidant, mentor, and mole-hunting superior in the Office of Security, Bruce Solie) what recent true defector Anatoly Golitsyn was telling CIA Counterintelligence Chief James Angleton about penetrations of the CIA, the FBI, and the intelligence services of our NATO allies.
You really owe it to yourself to read Bagley’s books, Brian, so you can become well-informed for a change and stop unwittingly(?) spreading KGB disinformation.
They’re FREE to read at Internet Archive!
It won’t cost you one thin . . . uhh . . . dime!
And, while you’re at it, you should read the pertinent parts of John N. Newman’s 2022 book, Uncovering Popov’s Mole, as well.
(He dedicated it to Bagley.)
-- Tom
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Dear Tom (may I call you Tom?),
I recently decided to exorcise from myself from certain demons which have haunted me for the past ~34 years since I began my relationship with the Soviet cum Russian intelligence community. The last time I got more vigorously engaged was in 2013 when I spoke at the two principal symposia on assassination (the Wecht Institute and the Dallas "Lancer" conference).
After that, I assure you, I was not positively reinforced to continue to expend temporal resources in the JFK Domain.
That was not difficult to do because there were/are many other areas that captured my fancy. This, especially given that I … with the assistance of my then-client KGB Colonel Oleg Maximovich Nechiporenko - and his rich cache of notes taken from the Minsk Archives … answered fully my questions as to … “who did it?” It was abundantly clear to me.
Ergo, with my own curiosity adequately sated. I moved on for the next 34 years with very little diversion.
That said, the Historical Record makes its demands known and there are internal gremlins who demand expiation.
Especially when I see how "the Mexico City intermezzo" is now being perceived and worse, clownishly-presented by presumptively intelligent people who have been denied the perspective with which - by some inscrutable fate - I have been availed.
A correct Exorcism requires that I re-acquaint myself with the State-of-the-Art in JFK discourse. Or at least those which are pre-eminent in the Public Fora
of which pertain to this beloved Topic.
I rediscovered the "http://jfkassassinationforum.com" and I observed that you are very active there.
It is abundantly clear that you are very passionate about Nosenko being a Gribanov plant. Fine.
Now, besides that, might you advise me as to within which "who did it?" orbit you rotate?
Just so I can get properly oriented since I can already sense the presence of a passionate expositor with the tenacity of a under-caloried Belgian Malinois.
So … in which direction do you bend, Sir?
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Dear Brian,
Assuming that you’ve read more than just three or-so of my posts in both the “JFK Assassination” and the “Politics” sections at that forum, you probably have a correct inkling that I’m anti-Trump, anti-Putin (anti-all-things-KGB, actually), and that I’m convinced that all three shots were fired, over 10.2 seconds, from the sixth-floor sniper’s nest from Oswald’s short-rifle to the exclusion of any other firearm on Earth.
Yes, Brian, . . . gasp . . . after years of study, I think the so-called “Single Bullet Theory” is correct.
Given the above, if Oswald wasn't the shooter, then the evil, evil, evil CIA, or the evil, evil, evil [fill in the blank] must have had oodles and gobs of bad guys and bad gals involved in the planning, the patsy-ing, the planting of evidence, the shooting, the planting of more evidence, the getting-away, the alteration of oodles and gobs of films, photos, and X-rays, and the (evidently ongoing!) cover-up.
Which I find highly implausible.
On the other hand, if the Russians and/or the pro-Castro Cubans were involved, it must have been “only” of a logistical or diversionary (flash-bang-smoke-in-the-bushes?) nature.
If I were to suspect anyone in that rather farfetched scenario, I suppose it would be Igor Vaganov, Gilberto Policarpo Lopez (with whose estranged daughter I was in e-mail contact about five years ago), and/or Miguel Casas Saez.
Regarding your boy, Nosenko, having read Bagley’s Spy Wars (have you read it, yet?), I’m convinced that he was a false defector-in-place in Geneva in June 1962, sent there by Gribanov to discredit what Golitsyn was telling personally-duped-by-a-mole Angleton about penetrations of the CIA, the FBI, and the intelligence services of our NATO allies, and I lean toward W. Alan Messer’s theory that he was a rogue physical defector to the U.S. in February 1964 who used the Kremlin-approved message, “The World-Class* Humanitarian Organization Known as the KGB Had Absolutely Nothing to Do with Oswald in the USSR” as his “ticket” to The Land of Milk and Honey, and whose bona fides Kulak, Kochnov, and Yurchenko, et al., had no choice but to support.
*Pardon the pun.
-- Tom