Why the first shot missed

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Not only that, but KGB true defector Pyotr Deriabin (1954) wrote a couple of days after the assassination that (former KGB "swallow") Marina had to be at least a low-level KGB informant to be permitted to marry Oswald and leave the USSR with him, and, according to Richard Russell in his book, "The Man Who Knew Too Much," CIA counterintelligence analyst Clare Edward Petty read some WW II VENONA decrypts in the early 1970s which convinced him that GdM was very probably a long-term KGB "illegal."

I mean, I mean, I mean . . . how equivocal do you want me to be? (LOL)

The truly important thing, however, is that whether or not the KGB (or the DGI) killed JFK, the former has been "making hay" out of the anomaly-replete assassination since virtually Day One, and the tinfoil-hat conspiracy theories is has promulgated and encouraged over the past sixty years have helped to make cynical, paranoiac and apathetic our body politic to such an extent that "former" KGB officer Vladimir Putin was able to install The Traitorous Orange Dude as our "president" in 2017 and 2024.

IMHO, Russia won The Cold War on 5 November 2024.

So I didn't misread you. You *do* believe there was a Soviet role in Oswald's act. That is, a conspiracy.

As to the Venona intercepts: the names in those messages have been identified (largely by the historians Haynes and Klehr). DeMohrenschildt isn't among them. Although the identification is still a work in progress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Americans_in_the_Venona_papers

[Tom Graves]

So, I didn't misread you. You *do* believe there was a Soviet role in Oswald's act.

Correction: I *do* believe that there *may* have been a Soviet role in Oswald's act.

For all of the reasons I mentioned, above.

As to the Venona intercepts: the names in those messages have been identified (largely by the historian Haynes and Klehr). DeMohrenschild isn't among them.

I don't have access to the VENONA decrypts Russell was referring to.

All I know is that he said that in Petty's opinion, GdM matched the description of an NKVD "illegal" who:

1) Was from "Poland," or some-such country.

2) Was in the U.S. before WW II.

3) Had lived in Mexico during WW II.

4) Was a real "wheeler-dealer."


Factoids:

George "von" Mohrenschildt was born in Mazyr, Belarus, about 300 miles east of the Polish border.

He immigrated to the U.S. in May 1938.

He and his girlfriend, Lilia Larin, lived in Mexico for several months in 1942.

He was an insurance salesman.

He marketed his own artwork.

He was a sugar speculator.

He was an oil speculator.

He was a film producer.

And . . . gasp . . . he married at least one woman for her substantial moo-la (sp?),