Walt,
You probabably missed this:
"Do you believe KGB-boys Nechiporenko, Yatskov, Kostikov, and (Duran's/Azcue's) 'short, blond, thin, blue-eyed, 35-ish, very thin-faced' (KGB colonel) Nikolai Leonov, because, you know, The Cold War was like over man by 1993 (when Passport to Assassination was published), and the KGB had become a freakin' truth-telling humanitarian organization by that time?"
LOL
-- Mudd Wrassler Tommy
PS Cakebread asked: "Who benefited by the death of JFK?"
My answer: Well, in the longrun, KGBMafia-boy Vladimir Putin did, seein' as how Kennedy's murder gave rise to oodles and gobbs of anti-U.S. government Tinfoil Hat Conspiracy Theories, which in turn paved the way for Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear and Guccifer 2.0 and Putin's lackey-agent Julian Assange, and how they successfully trolled American voters who had already been properly "conditioned" by said CTs to forego fact-checking altogether, and just go with whatever clickbait kinda "resonated" with them, be they on the Left, or on the Right.
But in the shorter run, Khruschev certainly stood to benefit from JFK's sudden demise, especially since he knew CIA would figure out that he and/or Castro had done the foul deed.
I've alread posted about that on another thread. Did you miss that, too?
-- Mudd Wrassler Tommy