Lee Harvey Oswald

Oswald was and is today the official assassin of President John F Kennedy (JFK). In the original inquest (Warren Commission) it was determined that Oswald acted alone, without the support of any third party or government. He was the lone assassin, a mad man driven by his communist disillusions.

Today most people believe that the state of the evidence points to a more complex answer that can not be explained by a simple lone gunman theory. (time between shots (Zapruder film), the rifle used (the Carcano rifle is possible the worst rifle in the world)

So who was Oswald then? A pawn in a larger game ? A patsy framed ? A government agent, possible ONI (former or active) ? An active participant in the assassination, who was later framed?

These are not easy question, with simple answers. What we do know is that he apparently “defected” to the Soviet Union in 1959, stayed there for 20 months and then returned to America with a Russian wife. The KGB officially claimed that they had no interest in him, a claim that was backed up by the “defector” Yuri Nosenko in early 1964. Nosenko who himself was most likely a dispatched KGB agent (who later in life probably became a genuine defector)

The idea that Oswald was allow to defect and then return with out any legal problems and the support from the KGB to the lone gunman theory points to some government connection and if so, does it help us answer the questions above?

Not really, except that it points to a sinister answer that Oswald was at least at some point involved with the ONI and that he was either used or willingly participated in the assassination and if he participated he was later abandoned by his co-conspirators.

To be continued……

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Additional information on Nosenko

For those who wish to know more about the Nosenko case I can also recommend an excellent article on subject by American journalist Edward J Epstein, which is available on his website.

In his article he reveals that when he was researching information on Oswald for his book in the seventies both the KGB and CIA recommended Nosenko as the best source on Oswald’s stay in the Soviet Union.

It appears to me, very strange that the KGB would recommend the use of defector and that the CIA at this point saw him as completely reliable considering the facts that the relevant case officers still considered him to be a KGB plant.

The CIA regime that replaced Richard Helms in 1973 was quick to publicly declare Nosenko bona fide and to fire those who disagreed with this decision. Rumors were also spread that the decisions to have Nosenko undergo hostile interrogation was made by the former Counter Intelligence Chief, James Jesus Angleton and that there was no real basis for the interrogation.

Yet today it is known from documentation released under the foa act that there was serious faults and inconsistencies in the story told by Nosenko that was the decision to place him in solitary confinement. In addition information released by the CIA (as described in my last post) in 1993 proved that many of the statements made by Nosenko on Oswald were false.

In addition former CIA director Richard Helms told the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1993, that the reason for releasing Nosenko and paying him off was that it could not be determined whether he was a KGB plant or a genuine defector.

So why was there this cooperative action between the CIA and the KGB? What did the new regime at the CIA know about Nosenko or Oswald that made them accept his story without any scrutiny and why did the KGB support this action.

Could it be that the KGB was in fact running Nosenko as a false defector and that they wanted to keep him in place? This would seem logical and the KGB story on Oswald could very likely have been written to protect the Soviet Union against rash action by the USA, after all the defection came at a very convenient time.

The question that remains is why did the CIA accept it? Was Oswald an agent of some American agency that operated without the knowledge of the CIA, like the ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence). This could explain why Helms & Co. did not know of the importance of Oswald and maybe the new regime at the CIA was privy to some secret background information?

So in summary

1. Was Nosenko dispatched by the KGB? Most likely
2. Did the Warren Commission accept Nosenko’s version of Oswald’s stay in Russia as it perfectly matched their version of him as a lone loon? Definitely
3. Was Oswald a government agent while staying in the Soviet Union? Unknown

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Yuri Nosenko.

I want to start off by talking about a well-known defector and self proclaimed KGB Colonel Yuri Nosenko contacted the CIA in 1962 while he was visiting Geneva on a public relations mission. He walked in from the street and volunteered high quality information for petty cash, cash he claimed he needed as he had spent KGB money on booze and women.

The information was like a god sent and the CIA was thrilled by the idea. The information later turned out to be contracting information given by Golitsyn, a defector who was believed to be genuine. The most striking fact was however that two different defectors would have access to near identical information (albeit with different conclusions, as the KGB operated on a strict need to know basis.

These crossovers worried the CIA, and so when Nosenko suddenly decided to defect in January 1964 it was mixed feelings about his real intentions, that is was he genuine (bona fide in spy terminology) or dispatched by the KGB.

When Nosenko was debriefed in Washington the inquisitors at the CIA noticed deep discrepancies from what he had said in 1962 and that he had near identical information to that given by Golitsyn with the exception of the facts:

For instance Nosenko claimed that the KGB never managed to recruit a code clerk from the CIA in Moscow, yet evidence pointed to the contrary.

Nosenko also seemed to have completely forgotten about the safety of his family, while in 1962 it was a reason for him to stay in the Soviet Union.

The list of faults in his story were to many to be written in this note, however there is an excellent account of the numerous false information provided by Nosenko in the autobiography of the agent who handled him from the first meeting in Geneva (Spy Wars by Tennent H. Bagley)

Nosenko later went through a long period of illegal detention and interrogation before being cleared by officials who never bothered with the details of his inconsistencies. Both the officials who handled him and the late Richard Helms who was CIA director during the period today question his innocence (as stated in his self-biography: A look over my shoulder by Richard Helms

The question of Nosenko’s innocence was never proven definitely, however it is clear that he was not the man he claimed to be and that he delivered false information to the American intelligence services.

So, what does a suspected KGB mole have to do with the greater conspiracy theories in the 20th centcury, Well nothing really. What is interesting is that Nosenko defected less than two months after the assassination of President Kennedy and he offered staggering information that he had seen the entire KGB file on Lee Harvey Oswald. What was more staggering was that the file indicated that the KGB had no contact with Oswald during his stay in Russia and that it was originally claimed that he should be deported as he was considered mentally instable.

At a time when the Warren commission was searching the intelligence world for scraps on Oswald and particularly his Soviet bloc connections. This was again information that was too good to be true and in fact to good to be ignored.

The best part of the information was that it supported the official theory that Oswald was a crazy loon who did the deed on his own.

The information provided by Nosenko on Oswald has later been proven to be false. The main source for the claim that Nosenko was lying about Oswald can be found in a 1993 report from KGB Colonel Nechiporento, which revealed that:

1- The KGB did interview Oswald
2- The KGB suspected that Oswald might have been a CIA agent
3- Correspondence between Oswald and the American Embassy in Moscow was intercepted by the KGB

Nechiporento came to the conclusion that Nosenko never did see the Oswald file as he would not have had access to it and that he was providing information completely inconsistent with what was actually in the Oswald file.

Additionally material given to President Bill Clinton by Boris Yeltsin in 1993 indicated that the KGB was scared that they would be falsely implicated in the assassination of Kennedy and this may be a reason for sending Nosenko on a false flag operation to the CIA, in order to divert attention away from the Soviet Union a mission if true succeed as it was early concluded that Oswald acted alone.

What is more interestingly is that the KGB suspected that Oswald was himself dispatched by the CIA and was working in the Soviet Union as an American intelligence agent.

The information from Nosenko, and his timely defection was a clear factor in diverting attention away from any Soviet involvement in the assassination, The possibility of Oswald’s involvement with the CIA is not proven in any documents and the KGB probably suspected that all Americans were CIA agents, however not all Americans could give up their citizenship as Oswald did, and then a few later get a free travel back the USA with a new Russian wife without a the smallest hassle.

The reason for the Soviet disinformation could simply be self-preservation to avoid an open conflict with USA and the KGB’s suspicions of Oswald’s involvement could be a result of Cold War paranoia.

However there is the clear possibility that Oswald was employed by the CIA or less plausible the KGB

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Is the truth out there?

Probably. But what is the truth? My experience is that when you ask a question today the government gives you a hundred different answers. They release hundreds of documents to a simple question. Why? Because the most effective way to hide something is to place it in the open where no one will look. This is why the foa act request always results in overwhelming information that no one has the capacity to analyze. This most excellent method of disinformation can be seen in the Warren report which was released without an index thus making it impossible to read while giving people too much information.

This is my small contribution to the truth and those who seek to expose those who abuse their Power. So welcome to my site!

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