Indications that a KGB "mole" in the CIA sent JFK's future assassin to Moscow in 1959
Was James Angleton Duped By The "Mole" Into Sending Him?
There’s strong circumstantial evidence that Bruce Solie in the CIA’s mole-hunting Office of Security was himself a KGB “mole.” (See my Substack articles on him for details.)
When JFK’s future assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, defected to Moscow in October of 1959, all of the incoming non-CIA cables (e.g., from Department of the Navy and the State Department) about his defection were routed to Solie’s department, the Research Branch (RB) of the Security Research Staff (SRS) in the Agency’s Office of Security (OS), rather than where they normally would have gone — the Soviet Russia Division (SRD). Given Solie’s many “mole”-like activities from 1957 to 1978, it’s logical to assume that it was he who arranged with the Mail Integration Division and the Office of Mail Logistics to have those cables rerouted to him that way, which in turn suggests that that he knew in advance that Oswald would be defecting to the USSR.
In April of 1958, CIA’s spy GRU Colonel Pyotr Popov had allegedly told his case officer, George Kisevalter (see my articles about him) in West Berlin that he had recently heard a drunken GRU officer brag that the Kremlin knew all of the technical details of the CIA U-2 spy plane. FWIW, the U-2 was an Office of Security project and Solie would have had access to its secrets.
Oswald was a Marine Corps radar operator who had been stationed at a U-2 base in Japan in the late 1950s (he may have been recruited by the KGB or the GRU there) and who had taught himself Russian. He was even tested by the military on his (below-average) Russian language proficiency.
Professor John M. Newman (who used to be a high-level Army Intelligence analyst and a NSA officer) believes Solie, fearing that the drunken officer’s revelation would point to him as the traitor, sent — or duped James Angleton into sending — Oswald to Moscow as an ostensible “dangle” in a planned-to-fail hunt for “Popov’s U-2 Mole” (Solie) in the wrong part of the CIA, the “mole-infested” Soviet Russia Division.
Oswald assassinated JFK in late 1963, and whether or not the Kremlin was behind the assassination, it has “made hay” from it ever since. I give you, for example, “useful idiot” Oliver Stone’s 1991 self-described mythological (“to counter the myth of the Warren Report”) film “JFK,” and it’s 2021 spin-off, “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass.”
The mole hunt for “Popov’s U-2 Mole” lasted nine years and tore the CIA apart.
Solie was given a commendation by the Agency and retired from it in 1979.
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PS: KGB true defector major Pyotr Deriabin (1954) told the CIA that the assassination and sabotage folks in Department 13 of the KGB’s First Chief Directorate (today’s SVR) automatically interviewed all military defectors to the USSR. If true, why didn’t Oswald’s ostensible case officer in the USSR, Yuri Nosenko, say anything about Oswald’s being interviewed by Department 13 when he (Nosenko) physically defected to the U.S. two months after the assassination of JFK?
PPS: A few years ago, British researcher and JFK assassination conspiracy theorist Malcolm Blunt found CIA documents at the National Archives that indicate Solie hid Office of Security documents on Oswald from the 1975-76 Church Committee and the 1967-68 House Subcommittee on Assassinations (HSCA), and that he tried to convince Warren Commission investigator David Slawson just two months after Yuri Nosenko had physically defected to the U.S. that Nosenko had made contradictory statements in 1962 and 1964 due to stress, alcohol, and language difficulties.