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FL-

That was not the way Blunt put it. He described Solie as being "all over" Garrison.

John Newman has posited Solie, a KGB asset, was running LHO.

If true, that might explain Solie's intense interest in what LHO had been doing in N.O.

If not true, Solie might have legitimately been interested in finding out if LHO was a G2 asset.

Gus Russo has said LHO interacted with G2 assets in N.O.

The CIA historian in writing referred to Clay Shaw, who perjured himself in the Garrison trial, as a "highly paid" CIA asset. This is rather explicit.

Shaw was a domestic asset, but of course had international connections and information, and traveled as well.

TG-

Nothing. I can't even get in touch with him.

Solie was head of the domestic contact division in 1967....and so was advised about clay shaw...who
was just a domestic contact.

fred

FL--

Thanks for your reply.

I am still curious why Bruce Solie would become actively involved in the CIA reaction to the whole Garrison investigation and prosecution.

Joan Mellen being a crackpot aside.

She's always full crackpot.

Her Garrison book was full of nonsense, and she believed Thomas Beckham, who was just a conman. She even believed he was now a Rabbi.

I could go on and on about her Garrison book. How anybody could take her seriously is beyond me. She even believed Raymond Broshears.

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/what-do-jfk-conspiracy-books-say-about-raymond-broshears

fred

Dear Fweddie,

Since you enjoy my posts on probable mole Bruce Leonard Solie so much, here's one about Joan Mellen that I posted at Substack some time ago in which she refers to Solie without actually mentioning him:

Tinfoil-Hat JFKA Conspiracy Theorist Joan Mellen

The following is a partially paraphrased excerpt from an article by tinfoil-hat JFKA conspiracy theorist Joan Mellen, whose former husband, Ralph Schoenman (Bertrand Russell’s secretary in London), according to Mellen, gave New Orleans DA Jim Garrison the L’ Humanite’s version (which Richard Billings refers to in his journal on 16 March 1967) anti-CIA / anti-Clay Shaw article that was published in the Communist-owned Italian newspaper "Paese Sera" three days after Garrison had arrested Shaw on suspicion of having masterminded the "homosexual thrill-kill" assassination of JFK.

My comments are in brackets.

Mellen, slightly paraphrased:

CIA's Security Research Staff of the Office of Security (OS/SRS) shared information with only one other CIA component, James Angleton's Counterintelligence / Special Investigation Group (CI/SIG).

It is instructive to look into how the CIA [i.e., Bruce Solie’s Security Research Staff in the Office of Security] avoided compliance with the Church Committee’s requests bearing on the Kennedy assassination — in particular one handwritten sheet issued from Bruce Solie at OS/SRS. It refers to "sensitive documents which were pulled from Office of Security files prior to their being reviewed by Frank Church’s Senate Select Committee."

There were two figures about whom the CIA [i.e., Bruce Solie’s Security Research Staff] was worried and decided to protect. One was marked the "Oswald File, and contained documents dating from April 1959, prior to Oswald’s departure for the Soviet Union, a period for which the CIA [i.e., Bruce Solie] insisted [to FBI’s liaison to CIA, Sam Papich, on 4 November 1959 — four days after Oswald “defected” to the USSR] that it had no knowledge of him.

My comment:

Former high-level Army Intelligence analyst and NSA officer John M. Newman says in his 2022 book, “Uncovering Popov’s Mole,” that Bruce Solie sent (or duped his confidant, protégé and mole-hunting subordinate, James Angleton, into sending) Oswald to Moscow in 1959 as an ostensible “dangle” in a planned-to-fail hunt for “Popov’s Mole” (Solie) in the wrong part of the CIA.

You can read Mellen’s complete article by googling “Clay Shaw Unmasked: The Garrison Case Corroborated.”

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Your buddy,

-- Tom