Is John Simkin right?

[Tom Graves]

Is British far-leftist John Simkin correct in saying at his so-called "JFK Assassination Debate - Education Forum" that CIA Counterintelligence Chief James Angleton "monitored Oswald’s private life and political activities for four years before JFK was killed," or is he thinking of father-figure-requiring Angleton's confidant, mentor, and mole-hunting superior, probable KGB "mole" Bruce Leonard Solie, who kept his own Security Office "Black Hole" file on LHO and whom John M. Newman believes sent (or duped Angleton into sending) Oswald to Moscow in October 1959 as an ostensible "dangle" in a (unbeknownst to Angleton and Oswald) planned-to-fail hunt for "Popov's U-2 Mole" (Solie) in the wrong part of the CIA?

Simkin posted a list of CIA documents that Comrade Jefferson Morley wanted in January of this year to be released. The following is one which has been released since then -- the unredacted transcript of Angleton's testimony to the Church Committee on 19 June 1975.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=238702#relPageId=63

It's interesting to note that the very first word on page 63 is "Byetkov," the transcriptionist's misspelling of "Obyedkov," as in Ivan Obyedkov, the KGB officer and Embassy security officer who "volunteered" to Oswald or an Oswald impersonator over a sure-to-be-tapped-by-CIA phone line on Tuesday, 1 October 1963, the Department 13-radioactive name "Kostikov," and that Angleton goes on, either in this testimony or the testimony he gave to the Church Committee on 6 February 1976 (I'm going from memory here), to say that the CIA realized later that Obyedkov was a Kremlin-loyal triple agent, i.e., it mistakenly believed it had successfully recruited him.

Also mentioned by Angleton on 19 June 1975 (and by inference on 6 February 1976) is surname of Sylvia Duran's, Alfredo Mirabal's and Eusebio Azcue's "Blond Oswald in Mexico City" -- KGB Colonel / Soviet "Diplomat" Nikolai Leonov (whose name is butchered every-which-way by Angleton and/or by the transcriptionist).

Enjoy!

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1434#relPageId=1&search=Angleton


PS The Church Committee's Chief Counsel, Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., really screws up on the previous page (page 62) when he alleges that a photo of Leonov was found in Oswald's pocket when he was arrested in Mexico.

It's no wonder that Angleton's reply was, "There is an allegation."

Factoid: It wasn't a photo of Leonov, but one of his "calling cards," and it wasn't found in Oswald's pocket when he "was arrested in Mexico" (Oswald was never arrested in Mexico), but in the notebook of none other than Fidel Castro when he was arrested in Mexico City with Che And Da Boys in 1956.

Scroll down to see a photo of Leonov and Fidel and Raul Castro that was taken several years later:
https://www.escambray.cu/2022/muere-en-moscu-nikolai-leonov-gran-amigo-de-cuba/

 

[Benjamin Cole]

John Simkin rehashed the standard old-guard lefty (and MAGA-Moscow-Putin) line that the CIA/MIC did it, as they wanted to have wars, not global peace as pursued by JFK. A globalist cabal of commercial bigwigs likely helped too in the JFKA.

Simkin's views stem from his doctrinaire socialist-leftist woke ideologies, which results in an agenda, and that writes his  narrative.

Simkin (and Jeff Morley more so) make a big deal out of the fact the US intel agencies occasionally monitored LHO. Given that he defected to Russia, and made a show of Marxist leanings...that is to be expected.

LHO may have been impersonated in MC, although maybe by Russians. Valerie Kostikov, who may or may not have been Dept. 13, said he met with the real LHO, and was filmed and recorded by Gus Russo in that statement. 

I am trying to follow up on some old stuff by Gus Russo to the effect G-2 monitored or did something more with LHO in New Orleans.

My take remains if there was a JFKAC, it was very small, just two guys and LHO.

No one has ever come up with a shred of evidence, or believable confession, of a larger JFKAC. You can say the Mafia, or KGB, or CIA, Mormons or Mossad perped the JFKA. Why not?

People are so obsessed with the acronym "CIA," that (even from a lefty viewpoint) overlooked there is some evidence of an Army Intel-Alpha 66 connection to LHO. There is a lone eyewitness of LHO at the Alpha 66 house on Harlandale, a group so fanatic the CIA washed their hands of it in 1963, but they were picked up by Army intel.

My take is Alpha 66 guys had been involved in kinetic terror for a while, were incorrigible, often at odds with US overseers. A couple of nuts from Alpha 66 would not need permission from anyone to perp the JFKA.

That's my story and I am sticking with it.

[Tom Graves]

That's my story and I am sticking with it.

1) I can "buy it" if your two "flash-bang" boys was some combination of Gilberto Policarpo Lopez, Miguel Casas Saez, and Igor Vaganov.

2) Why do you think a Kremlin-loyal triple agent (Ivan Obyedkov) "volunteered" to a "forgetful" Oswald or Oswald impersonator the Department 13 radioactive name "Kostikov" over a sure-to-be-tapped-by-CIA phone line seven weeks before the assassination, which name "Kostikov" had been made Department 13 radioactive a year earlier by another Kremlin-loyal triple agent, Aleksei Kulak -- J. Edgar Hoover's shielded-from-CIA FEDORA at the FBI's NYC field office?

3) And why did "The Blond Oswald In Mexico City" -- KGB Colonel Nikolai Leonov -- tell the National Enquirer on 11/22/93 that he had met with a weeping and pistol-brandishing Oswald at the Soviet Embassy (not the Consulate) on Sunday, 9/29/63?

[Benjamin Cole]

TG-

I don't know the answers to your questions.

[Tom Graves]

TG-

I don't know the answers to your questions.

Well, at least give them some thought.

[Benjamin Cole]

TG-

You are much more deeply grounded in this topic than I.

You tell me.

I suspect LHO had two confederates on 11/22. Parties unknown, and that was the whole plot.

If G-2/KGB was involved, I don't understand the motives of Obyedkov or Fedora or Leonov.

If Alpha 66 was involved, I still don't understand their motives.

Sometimes spooks act to create confusion for the sake of confusion, as even confusion eats up adversary resources.

Given that the Kennedy Administration was trying to assassinate Castro even into November 1963...G-2 vengeance may have been a motive.

[Tom Graves]

TG-

You are much more deeply grounded in this topic than I.

You tell me.

I suspect LHO had two confederates on 11/22. Parties unknown, and that was the whole plot.

If G-2/KGB was involved, I don't understand the motives of Obyedkov or Fedora or Leonov.

If Alpha 66 was involved, I still don't understand their motives.

Sometimes spooks act to create confusion for the sake of confusion, as even confusion eats up adversary resources.

Given that the Kennedy Administration was trying to assassinate Castro even into November 1963...G-2 vengeance may have been a motive.

Could be.

But can't you tie in the evil, evil CIA, or, like John M. Newman, some evil, evil high-level military officers?