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This is all just based on timing? You caused me to spend $548.97 on "Clyde stuff" and this is all just about ... timing?

We will await your NEW Visual Evidence with eager anticipation - but, as a former competitive runner and enthuistic walker who has a pretty good grasp of 5 minutes, that route doesn't look too difficult to me. To say anything definitive, you would have to know the EXACT time, EXACTLY how Haygood walked/jogged/ran, and the EXACT route Haygood took. You would also have to have a compelling explanation for your Haygood doppelganger; was there some compelling reason he had to be in full motorcycle cop regalia?

As always, going back to my interactions with Cliff Varnell ("The holes in the shirt and jacket prove the SBT is impossible!!!"), I suspect we are going to end up with you declaring something "Impossible!!!" that is "Impossible!!!" due only to assumptions, inferences and speculation on your part. Assumptions, inferences and speculation are not the stuff of which "Impossibilities!!!" are made.

Anyone want to buy some "Clyde stuff" at a steep discount? Photos, autographs, a signed obituary? My wife warned me I was jumping the gun when I tried to corner the market on the basis of thinking Royell was about to blow the LN narrative out of the water.
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Just a last update of the route Haygood took through the railroad yard.
Below is a pic by Jim Murray taken shortly after the assassination. Circled on the left is Haygood stood under a tree. Circled on the right is Harkness.



There is only one tree in the railroad yard itself. Below is the updated route of Haygood.
1] Haygood gets off his bike
2] Haygood in Cancellare on the underpass
3] Haygood in Darnell behind Craig
4] Haygood in Darnell walking towards TSBD
5] Haygood in Murray pic under the tree



Can Haygood make this route in 5 minutes?
Easily.
Photographic evidence has Haygood at point [2] about 1 min 40 seconds after shooting. This gives him three to four minutes to walk the route. There is absolutely no reason to believe he could not complete the route in this given time. It's easily done.

   As you can see above, this is a rough estimate as to the extended route that the alleged Officer Haygood would need to take after parking his motorcycle near the Triple Underpass. The 5 minute clock for Officer Haygood started all the way back on Main St as Haygood was turning his motorcycle onto Houston St. Tick/Tock/Tick/Tock. The "One Glove Cop" is NOT Officer Haygood.  ...............  NEW Visual Evidence Coming Soon! ......................... 
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I haven’t seen the footage that shows one glove missing from Michael Jackson

 :D :D



    If this is Officer Haygood, he has to be back at his motorcycle, down by the Triple Underpass, by 12:35 in order to make his Documented Radio Transmission. It is already past 12:35 when we see this "One Glove Cop" above. This "One Glove Cop" is proof of a Conspiracy.
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I have close relatives that are cops, both active and retired. They NEVER refer to themselves or those on their 6 as "Policemen".  You show the signs of having been "influenced". Tis a pity.

How many incidents have you had?
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  I have close relatives that are cops, both active and retired. They NEVER refer to themselves or those on their 6 as "Policemen".  You show the signs of having been "influenced". Tis a pity.
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[...]

FPR posted while I was editing and expanding my previous post, so here it is again:

Here's an excerpt from what FPR had posted:

"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.)


Here's my edited-and-expanded reply:

Sez Trump-loving Fancy Pants Rants, who evidently doesn't have the gonads or the horse sense to read Tennent H. Bagley's 2007 Yale University Press book, Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games, or even his 2014 follow-up article, "Ghosts of the Spy Wars," but would rather take KGB-and-Trump-approved cheap shots at Bagley, Angleton, and Golitsyn from the Fancy Pants Rants Peanut Gallery.


https://archive.org/details/SpyWarsMolesMysteriesAndDeadlyGames

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


It's funny that Fancy Pants keeps referencing HSCA perjurer John L. Hart, even after I showed him Bagley's 170-page HSCA testimony in which he ripped Hart the proverbial new one.

Here it is again.

Note: "Mr. X" is KGB true defector Anatoliy Golitsyn.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32273600.pdf


As I said in a previous post,

FPR thinks Bagley, a PhD'd former Marine Lieutenant during WW II whose father and two older brothers were Admirals, whose Great Uncle on his mother's side was Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, who received a medal when he retired from the Agency, and whom Richard Helms said, in so many words, was on the fast track to become Director of CIA until putative KGB staff officer Yuri Nosenko physically defected to the U.S. -- was a scam artist.

Perhaps FPL is a scam artist, himself, and projects his defective character onto anyone, dead or alive, who appears to him to challenge the legitimacy of The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx")?

FPR doesn't want to learn about said mole-protecting putative KGB staff officer / false defector-in-place in Geneva in June 1962 / false (or perhaps rogue) physical defector to the U.S. in February 1964 Yuri Nosenko because Nosenko isn't a "hoot," and because he intuits that if he did learn about him, he'd have to consider the possibility that the KGB* really DID install The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") as our "president."

*Today's SVR and FSB


Bagley wrote the following in Spy Wars:


There is no indication that CIA ever answered the extraordinary and unprecedented number of questions that arose about the defector Yuri Nosenko. Here is a sample of thirty of them, with references to the pages where they are discussed in Spy Wars.

Nosenko claimed that through the entire years 1960-61 he was deputy chief of the American-Embassy section of the American department of the Second Chief Directorate (SCD) of the KGB. It was this post (especially his claim to have there personally supervised all KGB work against the embassy's code clerks and security officer) that gave him access to all the most important information he gave CIA.

1. Why then, while supervising this top-priority work, was Nosenko performing low-level tasks for a different department? (Spy Wars pp. 94-95, 160-62, 235, 250, 280)

[He himself described his activity during this period, handling street-level homosexual provocateurs of the Tourist Department, recruiting homosexual tourists (one as far away as Sofia), helping the Tourist Department chief in meeting a visiting American travel agent, and traveling abroad repeatedly as watchdog for Soviet industrial delegations.]

2. Why did at least three KGB insiders later state that Nosenko never held that position? [They included i) a visitor to that section at the time, ii) a former member of the section itself, and iii) a former head of foreign counterintelligence, Oleg Kalugin.

3. How does one explain Nosenko's many changes of stories about his KGB career, even about when and how he entered service, and the evidence that the stories were false? (pp. 93, 160-62, 235, 248-50) .[Not a single KGB source during or after the Cold War, even among those who insisted that Nosenko genuinely defected, has confirmed the dates and assignments of his claimed KGB career.]

4. How does one explain Nosenko's authoritative claim that, up to the time he defected, the KGB did not recruit any American Embassy code clerk? (pp. 156-59, 241-42)

[in fact that section of the KGB recruited at least one code clerk and there were compelling signs that Nosenko was hiding the truth about two others.]

5. Why was Nosenko unaware of the operational mission to Helsinki during that period of his direct subordinate Kosolapov as part of a promising attempt to recruit an American Embassy cipher clerk? (pp. 157-60, 242)

6. How could Nosenko err by an entire year - and thus destroy his story about holding this job - by reporting i) that under his supervision KGB surveillants had spotted the American Embassy security officer visiting a certain dead drop site in late 1960 and ii) that for many weeks thereafter, as supervisor, he had received regular reports on the KGB's stakeout of that site. (pp. 88-89, 147-50, 186, 203-4)

[The visit actually happened in late 1961, so any stakeout would have been conducted after Nosenko left the job.]

7. Why did Nosenko fail to mention that dead drop visit when he was telling CIA in 1962 about his coverage of the security officer? (pp. 16, 147, 203)

8. If Nosenko was personally watching over the American Embassy's security officer, why did he not know that the officer traveled from Moscow to his ancestral homeland, Armenia? (Nosenko himself recognized that his failure to answer this question undermined his whole life story.) (pp. 186-87)

Nosenko preserved and brought to Geneva in 1964 the KGB's authorization for his travel in December 1963 to search for a fleeing KGB officer, Vladimir Cherepanov. (pp. 87, 167-68, 250-51)

9. How did he keep this document and why did he bring it to Geneva, whereas KGB regulations - as Nosenko agreed -- required that it be turned in before the next payday and before any further official travel could be authorized?

10. Why was that travel authorization (signed by the SCD chief Gribanov) made out to "Lt. Col. Nosenko", the rank he claimed, whereas under detailed questioning he admitted having been only a captain (as even the KGB now confirms)?

11. Is it mere coincidence that in 1962, long before this erroneous travel authorization, he was already lying about his rank, then calling himself a major,?

12. Why was it "Colonel" Nosenko's story that a Soviet official journalist tried to peddle to the Western press shortly after Nosenko's defection in 1964? (page 163)

13. And why would Nosenko be sent out to search for Cherepanov if, as suggested in questions 1-7 above, Nosenko was not deputy chief of the SCD's American-Embassy section?

Nosenko in 1962 volunteered information that his boss Kovshuk had traveled to the United States five years earlier to restore contact with a KGB-recruited American cipher-machine mechanic codenamed "Andrey." [it became evident that the real reason for Kovshuk's travel was to exploit the KGB recruitment of a CIA officer.] (pp. 67-71, 185)

14. Is it mere coincidence that just when Nosenko was telling CIA about Kovshuk's trip, the two KGB officers closest to him in Geneva, his sole KGB companion there, Yuri Guk, and his hotel roommate Kislov, were precisely the two KGB operatives who had worked with Kovshuk on that trip?

15. Why did Nosenko, having read Kislov's KGB file, certify to CIA that Kislov had no connection with the KGB? (pp. 65-67)

16. Why did Nosenko in 1962 say (and repeat) that "Andrey" was recruited in "1949¬1950" but later, in 1964, report that he himself had been in the KGB (entered 1953) while "Andrey" was still in Moscow?

17. Nosenko told CIA in 1962 that he had personally participated in the KGB Moscow attempt to recruit CIA officer Edward Ellis Smith. Why then did he in 1964 deny any knowledge of the name or the case? (p. 188)

Other questions:

18. Why did he refer in 1962 to KGB relations with the Finnish president, but then in 1964 deny any knowledge of it? (p. 186)

19. How does one explain Nosenko's mention in 1962 of the name "Zepp" - which at that moment was of intense interest to KGB counterintelligence - and his failure to recognize the name by early 1964? (pp. 15-16, 150-55, 162, 203)

20. If Nosenko was really in Geneva in 1962 and 1964 as the security watchdog of a Soviet conference delegation, as he claimed, why did even his KGB bosses say, after the Cold War, that he had gone there for other, "serious operational purposes"? (pp. 5, 237, 253)

21. How does one explain Nosenko's inability to describe even the most routine KGB procedures? (pp. 83-86, 191-92, 251-55)

22. How come this eleven-year veteran of KGB CI operations was unable to disclose to the U.S. a single KGB spy who at the time of uncovering, i) was still active and ii) had current access to US or NATO-country official secrets and iii) had previously been unsuspected by Western counterintelligence?

23. Is it true, as Nosenko authoritatively reported, having heard it from three different KGB authorities directly involved, that it was by chance Moscow surveillance of British diplomats that the KGB first learned of the treason of CIA's great spy Oleg Penkovsky? [KGB authorities have since denied it and suggested that the source was a mole.] (pp. 2I-22, 86-87, 235, 243)

Nosenko highlighted to CIA in 1962 that the KGB first uncovered Pyotr Popov, CIA's spy in the GRU (Military Intelligence) by chance surveillance of an American diplomat mailing a letter in Moscow in late January 1959. (pp. 11-12, 16-17, 24, 68¬75, 189, 241-43)

24. How does one equate this with the KGB's later admission that the GRU chief was fired from his post as a result of Popov's treason, almost two months before the letter mailing?

25. Or with the fact that KGB surveillants spotted Popov meeting CIA twice, at least two weeks before the letter mailing?

26. Or with the KGB's admission, in a book published in Moscow in 2000, that it had earlier recruited Edward Ellis Smith, the CIA officer who had supported the Popov case in Moscow?

Nosenko claimed inside knowledge about Lee Harvey Oswald in the Soviet Union, having participated in early decisions when Oswald defected to the USSR and later having read the KGB file on Oswald. Later, the KGB chairman at the time and other KGB veterans denied it and stated that Nosenko was lying about this. (So too did the House Select Committee on Assassinations after interviewing Nosenko many times in 1977-78.) (pp. 83-86, 95-96, 191, 210, 249)

27. If Nosenko did not have his claimed access to the Oswald case and did not really study the KGB's file, where did he get his information? And why does he continue to make that claim to this day?

After the Cold War much was learned about a previously unknown SCD department for operational deception, which was actively handing false sources to Western intelligence services to mislead them. It was learned that this department was closely supervised by Nosenko's sponsor General Oleg Gribanov. And that among its officers were Nosenko's friend Yuri Guk, who was meeting Nosenko before and after each CIA meeting in Geneva in 1962 (pp. 6, 9, 66, 236); Aleksandr Kislov, who was rooming with Nosenko in Geneva in 1962 (p. 7, 66, 70-71, 235, 236); and Vladimir Chelnokov, who took him along on an operational mission to Odessa in 1960 (p. 235).

28. Why did Nosenko not report on the existence of this department?

29. Why did Nosenko not tell that his close KGB associates at various times were members of it?

30. Is it mere coincidence that Nosenko replayed to CIA in 1962 each of these specific cases that six months earlier had been compromised to the Americans by KGB defector Anatoly Golitsyn?

i) Vassall (pp. 14, 24, 97, 179, 187, 189, 206, 261)

ii) Preisfreund (pp. 25, 28, 158-59)

iii) Belitsky (pp. 17, 25, 179)

iv) Kovshuk's "trip" to Washington (pp. 24, 65-66, 69, 75-78)

v) Nine others including a Canadian and a French ambassador and a French businessman (pp. 4, 14, 25, 165, 206).

While an objective observer tries to answer each of these thirty questions in a manner consistent with his answers to the other questions, a thirty-first question will have occurred to him. How could so many questions - even a fraction of this number - have arisen about any genuine defector?
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I suppose I could be accused of a fallacious appeal to authority here, but wouldn't most folks agree that Larry Hancock is solidly in the sane wing of CTers? Wouldn't most folks agree that he is among the most thorough, thoughtful and respected of CTers and of JFKA researchers in general?

Almost a year ago, I started a thread about Larry and David Boylan's latest book, THE OSWALD PUZZLE: https://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php/topic,4162.8.html.

Larry described at the Ed Forum the intense work that went into this book. The book is, absolutely, the LN narrative right up to the events in Dealey Plaza. Oswald was simply who the LN narrative says he was. Then it goes off the deep end, IMO: Oswald knew nothing about the assassination and was a complete patsy of anti-Castro types. Alas, the book really just doesn't deal with how this would have worked and all the (to me) unanswerable questions it raises. But that's OK - Larry and David will surely flesh it all out at some point.

My point here is that they COMPLETELY REJECT all the CIA/KGB intrigue stuff. Oswald was simply who and what I believe he obviously was: Just a garden-variety defector who quickly became as disillusioned with the USSR as he had been with America. Neither CIA material, witting or unwitting, nor KGB material by a long shot.

Look, the CIA/KGB stuff is fun, way more fun than the LN narrative. Spy stuff in general is fun - "Mission Impossible" and all that. Opportuniies for speculation are endless: Oswald was on the CIA payroll; no, wait, he was an unwitting dangle; no, wait, he was a witting dangle; no, wait, he was a patriotic ultra-right-winger; no, wait, yada yada. It's fun, but NONE OF IT really fits the facts.

I am struck by how much conspiracy theorizing requires Oswald to be the EXACT OPPOSITE of who he was, 180 degrees removed from the real man. Ditto for other people and events connected with the JFKA - conspiracy theorizing requires them to be the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the evidence tells us. This is perhaps the most bizarre aspect of conspiracy thinking - i.e., its fondness for up being down, white being black, and absolutely nothing being the way common sense and the evidence tells us it is.

Anyway, TG's KGB stuff is just fun (up to a point) and entertaining (up to a point) goofiness. That's all. And that's all I'm going to say about that.

I leave TG and you (as far as this thread is concerned, anyway) with a quotation from Senator William J. Fulbright, ironically enough from a book published in 1963:

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done,
but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures.
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https://imgur.com

 I don't know what happened to imgur, but all of a sudden when I want to sign into it, it sets off my Anti virus program.   

 Is anyone else experiencing this with imgur?
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Still more examples:

-- If Silvia and Annie Odio were not mistaken, the lone-gunman theory collapses.

In September 1963, two Hispanics using the "war names" of Leopoldo and Angelo visited the apartment of Silvia Odio in Dallas, Texas. Leopoldo and Angelo were accompanied by an American whom they introduced as "Leon Oswald." Silvia's sister Annie was in the apartment at the time and witnessed the meeting. "Leon" the American said virtually nothing. Leopoldo did most of the talking. He wanted Silvia, whose father had been deeply involved in anti-Castro efforts, to help in the anti-Castro cause. Silvia declined because she did not want to be involved with a group that would commit violence. The three men sat a few feet from Silvia, so she got an up-close prolonged look at them.

Within 48 hours after the visit, Leopoldo phoned Silvia and told her that the American, "Leon Oswald," was an expert marksman and a former Marine. He said Oswald believed the Cubans should have shot JFK after the Bay of Pigs:

"He said that the Cubans, we did not have any guts because we should have assassinated Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs." (10 HSCA 27)

Disturbed by such talk, Silvia told Annie about the troubling phone call.

Silvia Odio wrote to her father about the encounter and also told several of her friends about it.

Soon after the assassination, Silvia and Annie independently recognized Oswald on TV as the "Leon Oswald" who had visited Silvia's apartment two months earlier. They were both very frightened and worried about their safety. They feared that the two anti-Castro Cubans and the American had been involved in JFK's death.

David Slawson, the WC attorney who interviewed Silvia Odio, said Silvia was "checked out thoroughly” and that “the evidence is unanimously favorable, both as to her character and reliability, and as to her intelligence." WC attorney William Coleman agreed with Slawson about Silvia Odio. Both Slawson and Coleman went so far as to suggest in an internal memo, based on the evidence they had uncovered, that Oswald, despite his public posture as a Castro sympathizer, was actually an agent of anti-Castro exiles. We now know that WC chief counsel J. Lee Rankin and WC attorney Wesley Liebeler also believed Silvia Odio was credible.

Silvia Odio and her story posed a serious problem for the WC, since her sister Annie was in the room when Leopoldo introduced the American as "Leon Oswald." The WC asked the FBI to check into the matter. The FBI provided a fraudulent explanation for the Odio incident. The FBI explanation was based on a fabricated story told by Loran Hall, who said that he and two associates were the ones who visited the Odios, and that one of his associates looked a lot like Oswald. This gave the WC an excuse to conclude that the Odio incident was a case of mistaken identity.

Forced into a corner by the force and character of Odio's account, WC apologists have resorted to the lame claim that she was prone to hyper hysteria and panic attacks to the point of being mentally ill, even though she was educated and earned a good income, even though her sister Annie backed up every essential part of her account, and even though the WC attorneys who investigated the matter believed she was credible.

-- If JFK's coat and shirt did not significantly bunch, and bunch in nearly perfect correspondence with each other, just before the back-wound bullet struck, the lone-gunman theory collapses.

WC defenders have floated the zany and demonstrably false bunched-clothing theory because the holes in the back of JFK's coat and shirt are over 5 inches below the collar and place the back wound far too low for the single-bullet theory to be even theoretically possible.

Photographic evidence proves that JFK's coat was not markedly bunched, and was barely bunched at all, just before the bullet struck. I discuss this issue at some length in my online article "JFK's Clothing Proves the Single-Bullet Theory Is Impossible,"  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MAgWA0frOLVeWY6ok9nzdrgpRN4Wv1AL/view.

-- If the Dallas law enforcement officers who reported encountering phony Secret Service agents in Dealey Plaza soon after the assassination were not mistaken, the lone-gunman theory collapses.

Dallas police officer Joe Smith and Dallas police sergeant D. V. Harkness both reported encountering men who identified themselves as Secret Service agents, but we know that no Secret Service agents were in Dealey Plaza after the shooting.

Naturally, lone-gunman theorists reject these accounts. They offer weak, unconvincing explanations for these officers' straightforward accounts. I discuss this issue in detail in my online article "The Man Who Wasn’t There: Were There Phony Secret Service Agents in Dealey Plaza?," https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xIXl_HXM5_y_L5sLRGv1XO_vLUc8sHdC/view.




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Un, no, we need an objective, credible analysis of the videos of the Renee Good shooting, not Myers' error-riddled analysis. Are you just not aware of the glaring errors in Myers' JFK computer simulations that other researchers have pointed, including myself?
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