At least John M. Newman, author of "Uncovering Popov's Mole," is half-right.

Although John M. Newman – author of the 1995/2008 book Oswald and the CIA and the 2022 book Uncovering Popov’s Mole -- is undoubtedly correct in believing CIA’s Office of Security’s Bruce Leonard Solie sent, or duped his confidant, protégé, and mole-hunting subordinate, James Angleton, into sending, Lee Harvey Oswald to Moscow in 1959 as an ostensible “dangle” in a (unbeknownst to Angleton and Oswald) planned-to-fail hunt for “Popov’s Mole” / “Popov’s U-2 Mole” (Solie) in the wrong part of the CIA – for some strange reason he believes Oswald was a Ukrainian (sic) KGB agent in Minsk, Belarus, and that somehow this ties in with his theory that some high-level military officers killed JFK because he refused to nuke Moscow and Peking in 1963.

Got that?

Don’t feel bad, neither do I.

All I know is that he bases his current JFKA conspiracy theory on what an ostensible 1989 KGB defector by the name of Sergei Papushin allegedly heard from some instructor friends of his at the KGB’s Higher School for counterintelligence about half-a-mile from Oswald’s luxury apartment in Minsk, and that even CIA’s Milton Bearden and Sandra Grimes (who fervently believe Yuri Nosenko was a true defector!) thought the “intel” Papushin gave the FBI regarding the Aldrich Ames investigation was uncredible.

I guess I’ll just have to wait for Newman’s next book to get a handle on all of this.

In the meantime, I’ll keep pushing his idea that Solie was the KGB “mole” that Angleton hunted, Ahab-like, for so many years, and that, whether or not the KGB was behind the assassination of JFK, he did send JFK’s future assassin, former sharpshooting Marine U-2 radar operator Lee Harvey Oswald, to Moscow in late 1959.