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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate / Re: Applying Logic and Critical Thinking to the JFK Assassination
« Last post by Michael T. Griffith on Today at 07:23:08 PM »
A few follow-up points about the alleged shooting feat, zeroing the rifle, and Oswald's Marine Corps rifle scores:

-- Marine Corps rifle expert MSG Jamess Zahm explained to the WC why using the iron sights would have made the shooting feat harder:

Mr. SPECTER. Can you characterize the increased efficiency of a marksman in using a four-power scope as opposed to using only the iron sights?

Sergeant ZAHM. Well, with the iron sights you have more room for error in the fact that you have three variables. You have your targets, your front sight and your rear sight, and you have the possibility of an error in aligning the sights, and then you also have the possibility of an error in the sights on the targets, which we refer to as the sight picture. Looking through aperture or even the open buckhorn type sights, when you are concentrating on your sights, your targets tend to become blurred because of the close focus of your eye in aligning the sights. (11 H 307)

-- Not a single bullet was found in Oswald's possessions. In addition, no gun-cleaning equipment, no gun-cleaning oil, no spent cartridges, no nothing related to maintaining or using a rifle was found among his possessions.

-- The three Master-rated riflemen in the WC's rifle test failed to duplicate Oswald's alleged shooting feat, even though two of them took 6.45 to 8.0 seconds to fire their two sets of three shots. Moreover, they fired their most inaccurate shots on their second and third shots, i.e., the shots fired at the two farthest targets, the same two shots that Oswald allegedly nailed in 5.6 seconds. And they were firing from only 30 feet up, took as much time as they wanted for their first shot, and were allowed to fire practice shots before the test began.

-- Here's what FBI firearms expert Robert Frazier told the WC about the problems they discovered when he and other FBI technicians tried to sight-in (zero) the rifle with the scope:

When we attempted to sight in this rifle at Quantico, we found that the elevation adjustment in the telescopic sight was not sufficient to bring the point of impact to the aiming point. In attempting to adjust and sight-in the rifle, every time we changed the adjusting screws to move the crosshairs in the telescopic sight in one direction-it also affected the movement of the impact or the point of impact in the other direction. That is, if we moved the crosshairs in the telescope to the left it would also affect the elevation setting of the telescope.

And when we had sighted-in the rifle approximately, we fired several shots and found that the shots were not all landing in the same place, but were gradually moving away from the point of impact. This was apparently due to the construction of the telescope, which apparently did not stabilize itself--that is, the spring mounting in the crosshair ring did not stabilize until we had fired five or six shots.

We found in this telescopic sight on this rifle that this ring was shifting in the telescope tube so that the gun could not be sighted-in merely by changing the screws. It was necessary to adjust it, and then fire several shots to stabilize the crosshair ring by causing this spring to press tightly against the screws (3 H 405-406)

-- As for the specious suggestion that the supposed lone gunman would not have needed to zero the rifle in the weeks leading up to the shooting, WC staffer Wesley Liebeler addressed this issue in an internal WC memo:

There is a great deal of testimony in the record that a telescopic sight is a sensitive proposition. You can't leave a rifle and scope laying around in a garage underfoot for almost 3 months, just having brought it back from New Orleans in the back of a station wagon, and expect to hit anything with it, unless you take the trouble to fire it and sight the scope in.

This would have been a problem that should have been dealt with in any event, and now that it turns out that there actually was a defect in the scope, it is perfectly clear that the question must be considered. The present draft leaves the Commission open to severe criticism. Furthermore, to the extent that it leaves testimony suggesting that the shots might not have been so easy out of the discussion, thereby giving only a part of the story, it is simply dishonest. (11 HSCA 230)

-- Regarding the fact that Oswald barely qualified in the second of three rifle qualification categories in the Marine Corps, it would be helpful to note just how relatively easy the Marine Corps rifle qualification standards were when compared to the alleged shooting, keeping in mind, too, that Oswald was using a superb semi-automatic rifle (the M1):

In Stage One-Slow Fire, the person had 12 minutes (yes, minutes) to fire 10 rounds.

In Stage Two-Slow Fire, the person had 6 minutes (yes, minutes)   to fire 5 rounds.

In Stage Five-Rapid Fire, the person had 50 seconds to fire 10 rounds.

In Stage Six-Rapid Fire, the person had 50 seconds to fire 10 rounds.

Some sources say 60 seconds for the two rapid-fire phases, but I recently found a source that says 50 seconds, so I'll err on the side of caution and go with 50 seconds. That still means Oswald had 5 seconds per shot in the "rapid fire" phases.
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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate / Re: Anyone but Tom understand what the "KGB stuff" is all about?
« Last post by Lance Payette on Today at 07:19:17 PM »
Another thread I don't even remember starting. So many crazies, so little time.

Note to sane readers: "Citations" in scholarly parlance means "number of times this piece has been cited in other scholarly journals." The journal in which Bagley's piece was published would love to say "Citations: 432." In fact, it says "Citations: 0." "Citations" in scholarly parlance does not mean "number of times works by the author of this piece have been mentioned somewhere." Jesus. If that were the defintion, Bagley's works would have 9,312 "citations" just in KGB Loony Bird's posts alone.
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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate / Re: The Wound In Gov. Connally's Back
« Last post by John Corbett on Today at 07:18:13 PM »
Quote from: Michael T. Griffith on Today at 05:51:10 PM
As usual, very good stuff, Ben.


Ben is typical of he kinds of experts MTG likes to cite.

It's a perfect example of he blind leading he blind.

If you guys really had figured this all out, you would be able to answer the key questions of who, what, where , wand when. The WC answered all four of these quesstions. The where and the when are the easy parts. You guys trip all over yourselves trying to explain the who and the how.
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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate / Re: Undeniable Proof of Fraud: The Impossible JFK Autopsy Brain Photos
« Last post by John Corbett on Today at 07:13:10 PM »
Quote from: Michael T. Griffith on Today at 06:16:02 PM
LOL! The "great work"? You mean his continued ducking and dodging and refusal to engage on any of the facts I've presented? He still has not responded to a single fact I've documented.

You don't present facts. You present opinions. Very amateurish opinions based on a minimal amount of evidence and FUBAR figuring.
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His silly line of "oh the experts have looked into all this and don't agree, and so there's nothing to see here" is naked evasion. Ditto for his humorous argument that I must be wrong because I point out that the conspiracy view of the JFK case is the majority view and because I frequently cite experts to support my arguments!

You cite cherry picked quotes taken out of context. Nowhere can you cite an expert in the field of forensic evidence who has had access to the evidence you shares your FUBAR conclusion that the autopsy photos are fraudulent. That one is all on you.

Your line of thinking demonstrates what I have said for decades. CTs don't try to explain the evidence. The invent excuses to explain away the evidence. They try to substitute their analysis of the evidence for that of recognized experts in the various technical fields. Then they get terribly frustrated when others don't accept their conclusions.
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To give just one example: He says he leans toward the EOP site, but he refuses to explain how he can still believe the autopsy brain photos are authentic when the FPP demonstrated beyond any rational doubt that the brain photos prove that no bullet could have entered at the EOP site. So either the EOP site did not exist or the brain photos are fraudulent. There's no third option.

There is a third option. Your opinions are silly.
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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate / Re: Summary of Some of the Major Problems with the JFK Medical Evidence
« Last post by Paul J Cummings on Today at 06:55:27 PM »
You keep proving my point. Where is your research that counters his? He went into detail on it but I've yet to see you or anyone refute it. I'm done asking for the counters because It's multiple times with the same takes. Several people in here are more interested in a mob mentality of attacking the person instead of the content.

Quote from: Lance Payette on Today at 06:15:16 PM
Look at the roster of characters to whom MTG refers you: Mantik, Horne, Hornberger. These are 33rd-degree, card-carrying, one-dimensional, believe-anything CT proselytizers. The late John Hunt, indefatigable document hound, was a purchasing manager at Jamestown Distributors, purveyors of building a maintenance products; his essay relies heavily on Mantik. I don't mean to demean any of these individuals, but fallacious appeals to fantastically biased "authorities" such as these are not what research looks like.

For an entirely CT-oriented but at least somewhat more balanced discussion, I kind of like Gary Aguilar's "How Five Investigations Into JFK's Medical/Autopsy Evidence Got It Wrong," https://www.history-matters.com/essays/jfkmed/How5Investigations/How5InvestigationsGotItWrong_tabfig.htm. What he means by "got it wrong," of course, is that all five investigations reached conclusions CTers don't like. I have no problem acknowledging legitimate puzzles and conflicts in the evidence, but MTG's work is neither research nor balanced discussion.
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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate / Re: Plumlee: LHO was trying to reach not only John Hurt but Edward Gibson Moore, CIA
« Last post by Michael T. Griffith on Today at 06:52:16 PM »
Quote from: Karl Kinaski on Today at 06:38:47 AM
Quote from Tosh Plumlees book: DEEP COVER, SHALLOW GRAVES ---

"The Municipal Building is also where Oswald requested that the operator place two calls to phone numbers in North Carolina the night before he was killed. Around a quarter to ten Alveeta A. Treon arrived for her shift at the telephone switchboard. Treon was there to relieve her co-worker, Louise Swinney, who had been given orders by their supervisor to assist two men in listening to a call that would come through their switchboard. Treon assumed the men were Secret Service. She suspected that Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin who was being held there, would be making another call. He had already phoned his Russian wife, Marina, and an ACLU lawyer in New York. This call was treated differently. Oswald rang the switchboard at a quarter till 11, Dallas Time. Swinney took the call and scribbled Oswald’s information as the two self-proclaimed Secret Service men listened in. “I was dumbfounded at what happened next,” Treon later told a Senate investigator. “Swinney told [Oswald], ‘I’m sorry, the number doesn’t answer.’ Swinney then unplugged and disconnected Oswald without ever really trying to put the call through.
Afterward, Swinney tore the sheet from her notepad and threw it into the trash. When her shift ended, she left. Treon retrieved the wadded piece of paper from the trash and copied the information onto a standard long-distance telephone call slipp was a souvenir.  The slip Oswald had given Treon two phone numbers and a name associated with one of them – “John Hurt” and “Raleigh N.C.” A decade later independent researcher Michael Canfield secured a copy of the slip, while conducting research for his book Coup d’Etat in America. When Canfield called and spoke to John Hurt of Raleigh, NC, Hurt said he didn’t know Oswald, but also revealed, “I was in the counterintelligence corps in the Army during World War II.” In an interview with JFK researcher and university dean Walter Proctor, Victor Marchetti – the 14-year CIA veteran who had served as executive assistant to Deputy Director Richard Helms – said that in calling Hurt, Oswald was clearly following standard procedure for a CIA asset under duress. “[Oswald] was probably calling his cut-out. He was calling somebody who could put him in touch with his case officer,” Marchetti told Proctor. “He couldn’t go beyond that person. There’s no way he could. He just had to depend on this person to say, ‘OK, I’ll deliver the message.’ Now, if the cut-out has already been alerted to cut him off and ignore him, then …” Marchetti was absolutely correct. As an operative that’s exactly the same procedure I would have followed.
But Marchetti, Proctor, Canfield and others all seemed to have forgotten the second number Oswald was trying to reach that night. It belonged to CIA operative Edward Gibbons Moore II, who was the manager of the Nags Head Casino. The casino in the ‘50s and ‘60s was operating as a CIA cut-out base. All of us operatives who were trained at the School of Illusionary Warfare had that number and knew to call Moore if we drank too much and got arrested or had another kind of run-in with law enforcement. We’d call Ed Moore and he would arrange to have the problem taken care of.
Oswald was trying to enlist Moore’s help the night before he died, but the call was never placed. The two men posing as Secret Service agents made sure of that. The Nags Head casino was later used to house Cuban survivors of the Bay of Pigs. In the ‘70s when Moore was called to testify before the Church Committee and started to spill the beans about Nags Head and his activities, the government accused and found him guilty of trying sell documents to the Soviet Union. (I refer you to the May 5, 1977 article by Robert Meyers in the Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1977/05/06/moore-guilty-of-trying-to-sell-ciafiles/e7987987-a9f0-434f-b8ce-55601f215fa9/) It was their way of discrediting Moore. "  Close quote ---
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For those who don't know about Oswald's attempt to call John Hurt in North Carolina, I recommend watching Dr. Grover Proctor's two-hour presentation on the subject:





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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate / Re: Anyone but Tom understand what the "KGB stuff" is all about?
« Last post by Tom Graves on Today at 06:18:14 PM »
Dear Fancy Pants Rants,

In your lame attempt to belittle former CIA officer Tennent H. Bagley, you posted:

The journal in which Bagley's 35-page opinion piece, "Ghosts of the Spy Wars," was published (after his death at age 88) shows "Citations: 0."


Question:

The journal (The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence), or Taylor & Francis Online?

Factoids:

Bagley died of cancer in February 2014, one day after he finished writing it.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2014.962362

Bagley's article has been cited plenty of times, as have his books, Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games (2007) and Spymaster (2013).

According to Google Scholar, these are the works that have cited at least one of Bagley's three 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 Innocent1
Roxana 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. …


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
[BOOK] From Washington to Moscow: US-Soviet relations and the collapse of the USSR
L Sell - 2016 - books.google.com
When the United States and the Soviet Union signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
accords in 1972 it was generally seen as the point at which the USSR achieved parity with


[BOOK] Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies
M Hollingsworth - 2023 - books.google.com
There's no such thing as a former KGB man...'A gripping story filled with remarkable
revelations.'Tom Bower, author of Revenge Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of …


[PDF] tandfonline.com
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
State Department cipher machines and communications security in the early Cold War, 1944–1965
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
The US government should establish a nongovernmental institute of expert spokespersons
to counter foreign disinformation and propaganda more effectively. Such an institute would …


Save Cite Cited by 3 Related articles All 2 versions
[PDF] kyleorton.co.uk
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 …


[BOOK] The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
S Walker - 2025 - books.google.com
The definitive history of Russia's most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the
Soviet Union to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden …


[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
This survey article critically evaluates books about the Soviet-era state security and
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
has attempted to influence global events with varying degrees of success. In 2016, one of …


Penkovsky, the Spy Who Tried to Destroy the World
BB Fischer - International Journal of Intelligence and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) lore and popular culture tout Col. Oleg Penkovsky
as “the spy who saved the world” during the Berlin and Cuban missile crises. In fact, his …


[PDF] state.gov
[PDF] More Than a Century of Antisemitism: How Successive Occupants of the
GE Center - 2024 - 2021-2025.state.gov
For over a century, Tsarist, Soviet and now Russian Federation authorities have used
antisemitism to discredit, divide, and weaken their perceived adversaries at home and …


[BOOK] Gli infiltrati: La vera storia del più riservato programma di spionaggio russo in Occidente
S Walker - 2025 - books.google.com
Nel 2010 negli Stati Uniti furono arrestate dieci spie russe che, sotto false identità, si erano
infiltrate nella società americana per trasmettere informazioni riservate a Mosca. Nessuno …


[PDF] proquest.com
[BOOK] Propaganda on Steroids: A Case Study on How Communication Technology" Pumped-Up" Russian Black Propaganda
RE Rosin - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Propaganda is a tool used to exercise power through an act of communication. It is a type of
communication that this study refers to as manipulative communication, where an actor …


[PDF] joanmellen.com
[BOOK] Blood in the water: How the US and Israel conspired to ambush the USS liberty
J Mellen - 2018 - joanmellen.com
FIVE: MEIR AMIT ON THE MOVE SIX: HEROES IN THE SEAWEED SEVEN:
CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY EIGHT: WITH THE SIXTH FLEET NINE: COVER UP TEN …


[BOOK] The Spy who Would be Tsar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-right Underground
K Coogan - 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Michal Goleniewski was one of the Cold War's most important spies but has been
overlooked in the vast literature on the intelligence battles between the Western Powers and …


SPIES IN THE WORLD OF FICTION
IF Carré, T Clancy, A Judd… - The Psychology of Spies …, 2022 - books.google.com
An evaluation of the role of plot and characterisation in fiction, followed by a focus on how
writers in the spy fiction genre develop the personalities when they face critical decisions …


The Soviet International Agenda on Human Rights and the" Second Helsinki Process"
RM Cucciolla - Gorbachev, Italian communism and human rights …, 2022 - torrossa.com
In the second half of the 1980s, the USSR attempted to play an active role in the promotion
of human rights at an international level. In addition to the personal vision of Mikhail …


Spies
SN Kalic - 2019 - torrossa.com
Description: Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International,[2019]| Includes
bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018049628 (print)| LCCN …


[PDF] jyu.fi
Aktiivisten toimenpiteiden heijastumia
J Kotakallio - 2023 - jyx.jyu.fi
The study observed the Cold War-era term Active Measures. The term is associated with
Soviet and Russian intelligence. Efforts have been made to find different attributes for this



[PDF] Kleine Brüder des KGB
C Nehring - Die Kooperation von Ddr-Auslandsaufklärung und … - bundesarchiv.de
Kleine Brüder des KGB - Page 1 Christopher Nehring Kleine Brüder des KGB Die Kooperation
von DDR-Auslandsaufklärung und bulgarischer Staatssicherheit BF informiert 42 (2019) Page 2 …


The NKVD General: Boris Volodarsky: Stalin's Agent: The Life and Death of Alexander Orlov Oxford University Press, London and New York, 2015, 789 p., $34.95.
N West - 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Alexander Orlov is a legendary figure in the counterintelligence world for several reasons.
Although he abandoned the Soviet cause in 1938 and fled to the United States with his wife …


[PDF] jeremydfoote.com
Transparency, control, and content generation on Wikipedia: editorial strategies and technical affordances
SA Matei, J Foote - Transparency in Social Media: Tools, Methods and …, 2015 - Springer
Wikipedia is perhaps the most culturally influential example of “peer production” principles in
action, and is certainly the most visible. As the sixth most popular web site on the Internet …


La “seconda Helsinki” sovietica
RM Cucciolla - Diritti umani e la trasformazione delle culture politiche …, 2021 - torrossa.com
Nella seconda metà degli anni Ottanta, l'Urss sperimentò un ruolo attivo nella promozione
dei diritti umani a livello internazionale. Oltre alle visioni personali di Michail Gorbačëv e …


[CITATION] The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West
S Walker - 2025 - Profile Books


[CITATION] Oleg Penkovsky
O Penkovsky   


[BOOK] Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games
TH Bagley - 2007 - books.google.com
Chosen by William Safire in the New York Times to be the publishing sleeper-seller of the
year for 2007. In this rapid-paced book, a former CIA chief of Soviet bloc counterintelligence …


Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games
JR Clark - 2009 - JSTOR
tion, the Hungarian-Soviet Cultural Society, which was entrusted with the dissemination of
Soviet culture. This proved to be a Page 1 tion, the Hungarian-Soviet Cultural Society, which …


A Review of: “The Nosenko Affair Revisited” Tennent H. Bagley: Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries and Deadly Games Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007, 313 p …
RD Chapman - 2008 - Taylor & Francis
It’s a powerful book. Tennent ‘‘Pete’’ Bagley’s Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries and Deadly Games
is like none we’ve read before. It rocks the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with the Yuri …



Bagley, Tennent H. Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games
D Pitt - Booklist, 2007 - go.gale.com
Bagley, who oversaw the CIA's operations against the KGB in the 1960s, takes us deep
inside the cold war spy game. He focuses on a notorious case, one he was intimately familiar …


My Two Moles: A Memoir
BB Fischer - International Journal of Intelligence and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
During my career, I had the dubious experience of crossing paths with the two most notorious
foreign intelligence penetrations (“moles”) of the US Intelligence Community (IC) during …


Morley, Jefferson. Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA
E Goedeken - Library Journal, 2008 - go.gale.com
As the Cold War recedes into history, we are starting to see a number of books dealing with
many of the remarkable characters who worked quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) …


Spymaster: startling Cold War revelations of a Soviet KGB chief
KF Jensen - 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Two old spies got together regularly in Brussels over a period of many years. Both were
retired. One was senior KGB officer Sergey Kondrashev. The other was his sometime opposite …

A Controversial Memoir
BB Fischer - 2014 - Taylor & Francis
For 50 years the late Tennent (Pete) Bagley pursued Yuri Nosenko, a KGB (Soviet Committee
for State Security) officer who defected in 1964. He believed that the Russian was a liar …


[CITATION] Spy wars: Moles, mysteries, and deadly games.
E Goedeken - 2007 - REED BUSINESS INFORMATION …



Spymaster


Spymaster: startling Cold War revelations of a Soviet KGB chief
KF Jensen - 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Two old spies got together regularly in Brussels over a period of many years. Both were
retired. One was senior KGB officer Sergey Kondrashev. The other was his sometime opposite …


A Controversial Memoir
BB Fischer - 2014 - Taylor & Francis
For 50 years the late Tennent (Pete) Bagley pursued Yuri Nosenko, a KGB (Soviet Committee
for State Security) officer who defected in 1964. He believed that the Russian was a liar …
[CITATION] Spy wars: Moles, mysteries, and deadly games.
E Goedeken - 2007 - REED BUSINESS INFORMATION …


[PDF] wiley.com
Through a glass, darkly: the CIA and oral history
A Hammond - History, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This article broaches the thorny issue of how we may study the history of the CIA by utilizing
oral history interviews. This article argues that while oral history interviews impose particular …


Kim and Jim Redux: Michael Holzman: Spies and Traitors: Kim Philby, James Angleton and Betrayal that Would Shape MI6, the CIA, and the Cold War Pegasus …
BB Fischer - 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Harold Adrian Russel (Kim) Philby and James (Jim) Angleton were two of the most notorious
figures of the Cold War. Philby was the first and most important of the famous Cambridge …


Spy dust and ghost surveillance: How the KGB spooked the CIA and hid aldrich ames in plain sight
BB Fischer - International Journal of Intelligence and …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Presidents Day fell on the 21st of February in 1994. While other government employees
were relaxing on the federal holiday, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer Aldrich Hazen …


Counterintelligence
HB Peake - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, 2010 - oxfordre.com
“Counterintelligence”(CI) is a term with multiple meanings—its definitions vary, even when
applied to a single nation. Yet it can be understood by identifying the common CI functions in …


Death to traitors? The pursuit of intelligence defectors from the Soviet Union to the Putin era
A Hänni, M Grossmann - Intelligence and National Security, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This article argues that Russia’s use of lethal violence against intelligence defectors has to
be understood as a public spectacle in which Russian leaders and intelligence officials never …


[PDF] scholarlypublishingcollective.org
The Spy Story Behind The Third Man
T Riegler - Journal of Austrian-American History, 2020 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
The Third Man symbolically stands for espionage. Indeed, though its storyline concerns
friendship and the hunt for an unscrupulous black-market dealer, the film has been connected to …


WIE ERFOLGREICH SIND GEHEIMDIENSTLICHE TÖTUNGSOPERATIONEN? EIN VIER-EBENEN-MODELL.
C Nehring, A Hänni - Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda & …, 2020 - search.ebscohost.com
This article develops a model to holistically analyze the aims, effects, and the success of
assassination operations carried out by intelligence services. Our four-level model consists of a …


Indice degli autori e dei volumi recensiti
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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate / Re: Undeniable Proof of Fraud: The Impossible JFK Autopsy Brain Photos
« Last post by Michael T. Griffith on Today at 06:16:02 PM »
Quote from: Tommy Shanks on Yesterday at 09:22:57 PM
Keep up the great work, Lance!

LOL! The "great work"? You mean his continued ducking and dodging and refusal to engage on any of the facts I've presented? He still has not responded to a single fact I've documented.

His silly line of "oh the experts have looked into all this and don't agree, and so there's nothing to see here" is naked evasion. Ditto for his humorous argument that I must be wrong because I point out that the conspiracy view of the JFK case is the majority view and because I frequently cite experts to support my arguments!

To give just one example: He says he leans toward the EOP site, but he refuses to explain how he can still believe the autopsy brain photos are authentic when the FPP demonstrated beyond any rational doubt that the brain photos prove that no bullet could have entered at the EOP site. So either the EOP site did not exist or the brain photos are fraudulent. There's no third option.

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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate / Re: Summary of Some of the Major Problems with the JFK Medical Evidence
« Last post by Lance Payette on Today at 06:15:16 PM »
Quote from: Paul J Cummings on Today at 05:39:00 PM
Thanks for your opinion. Where's your counter research to dispute his?

Look at the roster of characters to whom MTG refers you: Mantik, Horne, Hornberger. These are 33rd-degree, card-carrying, one-dimensional, believe-anything CT proselytizers. The late John Hunt, indefatigable document hound, was a purchasing manager at Jamestown Distributors, purveyors of building a maintenance products; his essay relies heavily on Mantik. I don't mean to demean any of these individuals, but fallacious appeals to fantastically biased "authorities" such as these are not what research looks like.

For an entirely CT-oriented but at least somewhat more balanced discussion, I kind of like Gary Aguilar's "How Five Investigations Into JFK's Medical/Autopsy Evidence Got It Wrong," https://www.history-matters.com/essays/jfkmed/How5Investigations/How5InvestigationsGotItWrong_tabfig.htm. What he means by "got it wrong," of course, is that all five investigations reached conclusions CTers don't like. I have no problem acknowledging legitimate puzzles and conflicts in the evidence, but MTG's work is neither research nor balanced discussion.
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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate / Re: Summary of Some of the Major Problems with the JFK Medical Evidence
« Last post by Michael T. Griffith on Today at 06:04:05 PM »
Quote from: Paul J Cummings on Today at 05:13:43 PM
Perhaps instead of giving your opinion on MTG's research you will counter research of your own?

Oh, yes! You hit the nail on the head!

Mark my words: They will do everything but provide any specifics in response to the facts I've presented. They will offer a myriad of excuses for their ducking and dodging, but they will never get around to engaging me on a single one of the facts I've documented.
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