Jefferson,
In your anti-Angleton book,
The Ghost, why did you mention true-defector Pyotr Deriabin only one time, and, incongruously, not to denegrate false defector Yuri Nosenko's credibility, but to cast aspersions on his nemesis, true defector Anatoliy Golitsyn (by relaying Deriabin's
mind-blowing observation that Golitsyn had had a reputation as a "troublemaker," or some such thing, in the KGB)?
Your doing so seems disingenuous, given the fact that Deriabin, after interviewing Nosenko twelve times and correcting the transcripts of possible mole George Kisevalter, etc, was convinced Golitsyn's and Bagley's and Angleton's "take" on Nosenko was correct: he was a false defector sent here to discredit Golitsyn and to convince the FBI and CIA that the KGB had had, implausibly, nothing to do with Oswald in the USSR.
On the Nosenko issue, you are aware, aren't you, that John Newman convinced Peter Dale Scott in March of 2018 that Nosenko was a false defector, dispatched to the U.S. to discredit Golitsyn, and that Newman was basing his information on Bagley's books
Spy Wars and
Spymaster (the latter with a former general in KGB's First Chief Directorate -- today's SVR -- Sergei Kondrashev)?
As far as I'm concerned, Nosenko's well-recieved pronouncements on Oswald's alleged non-relationship with the KGB, although perhaps mostly true, were solely intended to serve as an "icebreaker" of sorts so that Nosenko would be quickly deemed credible by the gullible FBI and CIA, and so that his discrediting of Golitsyn would appear to be that much more effective.
-- Thomas Graves
(Known here as "Mudd Wrassler Tommy")
