The Warren Commission Sham

[Tom Graves]

*who had left the TSBD

[Jim Hawthorn]

The CIA and the FBI didn't want anyone to know that Oswald had been in contact with a putative Department 13 (assassinations and sabotage) KGB officer, Valeriy Kostikov, at the Soviet Consulate in Mexico City. The CIA and the FBI believed Kostikov was Department 13 only because a Kremlin-loyal triple agent at the NYC field office, KGB Major Aleksei Kulak (J. Edgar Hoover's shielded-from-CIA FEDORA), had told the FBI in 1962 that Kostikov's charge at the U.N., Igor Brykin, was Department 13.

Exactly, but those agencies were involved in covering information but weren't necessarily involved in an assassination plot.

[Tom Graves]

Exactly, but those agencies were involved in covering information but weren't necessarily involved in an assassination plot.

Not necessarily, but the KGB may have been.

IIRC, John M. Newman and Peter Dale Scott used to think (I think Scott still does) that evil, evil, evil James Angleton had somehow caused Kostikov's radioactive name to be mentioned by Soviet Embassy security officer Ivan Obyedkov to Oswald or an Oswald impersonator over a sure-to-be-taped-by-the-CIA phoneline on 10/1/63 so that the CIA and the FBI, in the interest of preventing Nuclear Armageddon, would be forced seven weeks later to cover up the CIA's hand in the assassination.