JFK Assassination Forum

On the Big Stuff -- is Newman right, Solie was a KGB asset?

I believe so, so the question in my mind now becomes, "Was Solie not only protecting himself, but arranging for Oswald to be trained as a KGB assassin?"

I don't know what the usual timeline for recruiting someone and sending them to the USSR in 1963 was [sic; Oswald arrived in Moscow in October 1959], or if Solie felt constrained and therefore bided his time in his scheming.  (paraphrased by T.G.)

In Newman's theory, "Popov's U-2 Mole" Solie found out from (probable mole, imho) George Kisevalter in April 1958 that Popov had told him in Berlin that he had overheard a drunken GRU colonel boast at a New Years Eve party that the Kremlin had all of the top-secret specifications of the U-2 spy plane (this is verified by former high-level CIA officer William Hood in his book, "Mole," in which Kisevalter is referred to as "Gregory Domnin").

In this scenario, one would think that Solie would want to deflect any upcoming investigation into the leak away from his (ironically, mole-hunting) Security Research Staff in the Office of Security and therefore wouldn't dawdle for sixteen or seventeen months, making sure that the false defector he was sending to Moscow -- to toss his passport on Consul Richard Snyder's desk and announce to the microphones in the walls that he was planning on telling the Soviets "something of special interest" -- could speak Russian.

TG--

One can accept that Solie was running LHO, without accepting John Newman's Grand Narrative regarding the JFKA.

I don't know what is the usual timeline for recruiting someone to send them to the SU in 1963, or if Solie often felt constrained at times, and bided his time in his scheming. 

An interesting topic is connections between LHO, KGB and G2, and Bruce Solie.

Does that prove a conspiracy? No.

Could G2 guys have manipulated LHO, who had a propensity to shoot at major public figures (see Walker), into taking a role in the JFKA.

Maaaaaaayyyyyybbbbbbbeeeeee...........

LP--

Hancock is still on the UFO beat, doing more recent work. I am a non-UFO'er. (Fermi paradox. Also, nothing travels faster than the speed of light, and even that is too slow). 

Hancock is a very smart and decent fellow, btw.

In one small way I agree with you.

Hancock does not really have a solid answer for why LHO acted like a complicit party, post-JFKA. Going home and arming himself, skulking around so obviously that the shoe-store owner, Johnny Calvin Brewer, followed him and saw then saw LHO sneak into the TT.

Hancock holds that LHO was seeking passage to Cuba (likely true) but thought he was going to hijack an airplane with some pro-Castro Cubans.

What has that got to do with LHO's post-JFKA drama? Not sure. Why did not LHO leave the TSBD before the motorcade got there, if he planned a hijacking from Love Field?

So how does LHO's M-C end up in the TSBD?

I still lean towards a JFKA CT---but one that includes LHO makes more sense.



 

RS--Thanks!

For what?