Dear Michael,
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Bottom line, we've got a lot to "talk about" when I've finished going through Heuer's inaccurate, disingenuous, P.O.S. essay.
But here's a preliminary one for you from the very beginning of the article: What do
you think Nosenko's true rank was in the KGB?
Like Heuer says,
"mid-level" (a sneaky-safe, non-informative "categorization" if there ever was one)?
Hmm?
Somewhere between captain and a lieutenant colonel?
See, it's not so much his rank,
per se, that matters in the context of his case, but the fact that he
changed it so often to accomodate his different narratives.
Would a true defector
do that, do you think?
LOL
It's interesting that the KGB "Okay, Nosenko, You Can Hunt For Cherepanov" travel doc Nosenko brought with him to Geneva in January 1964 (which he should have turned in to KGB weeks before) stated that he was a lieutenant colonel, and was signed by none other than General Gribanov, head of the effing Second Chief Directorate (today's FSB), don't you think?
As Bagley points out in Spy Wars:Nosenko preserved and brought to Geneva in 1964 the KGB document authorizing
“Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Nosenko” to travel on a search for a fleeting would-be KGB defector named Cherepanov in December 1963—whereas KGB regulations (as Nosenko agreed when confronted) required that this document be turned in before the next payday and before any further travel could be authorized. (Spy Wars, pp. 87, 167–168, 250–251)
12. How did he keep this document?
13. Why did he bring it to Geneva?
14. Why was that travel authorization (signed by the SCD chief Gribanov) made out to a lieutenant colonel (the rank he claimed) whereas under detailed questioning he admitted having been only a
captain (as even the KGB later confirmed)?
15. Is it mere coincidence that Nosenko was already lying about his rank back in 1962, then calling himself a
major?
16. Why, after Nosenko's defection in 1964, did a Soviet official in Paris—no doubt acting on KGB authority—try to peddle to the Western press the defector “Colonel” Nosenko's family story? (He moreover presented Nosenko's defection as a disaster for the KGB.) (Spy Wars, p. 163)
17. And why would Nosenko have been sent to search for Cherepanov when another KGB unit does such searches and if, as suggested by questions 1–7 above, Nosenko had not been supervising Cherepanov in the SCD's American-Embassy section—his own explanation for his participation?
LOL
-- MWT
PS Have you read Bagley's comments on your boy John L. Hart's "performance" in front of Congress?
PPS Regarding SB's and CI Staff's very, very, very, very unfair "preconceptions" of Nosenko's guilt, said "preconceptions" were fact-based. The problem for "sadistic" Bagley and that evil, evil, evil Angleton was that Nosenko simply wouldn't "break". It was as though he'd been psychologically conditioned to persevere "hostile" American interrogations, without "spilling the beans". "MKUltra-ed," or some-such thing. Da?
