In Search of the Oswald Operation, Part Two

[Steve M. Galbraith]

I think you are right. I'll add more information on Lev S. and LHO to the timeline and I added you to the acknowledgements section in the preface-thanks.

Sure, you are welcome. As McMillan concluded it was probably just the KGB checking Oswald out. Still, odd that Nosenko/Mailer's interviews didn't mention it though.

[Tom Graves]

Sure, you are welcome. As McMillan concluded it was probably just the KGB checking Oswald out. Still, odd that Nosenko/Mailer's interviews didn't mention it though.

Dear Steven,

Why in the world would anyone place any significance on something Yuri Nosenko did or did not say, other than to try to figure out who the KGB "moles" in the CIA and the FBI were that he was trying to protect (can you say "Bruce Leonard Solie," "Leonard V. McCoy," "George Kisevalter" and/or [fill in the blank]?).

Speaking of McMillan, it's interesting that her CIA contact in 1956 (in Frankfurt?) was a KGB "mole" by the name of U.S. Army Major Alexsander "Sasha" Sogolow, who just happened to be the boss of Golitsyn's mole "Sasha" (Igor Orlov, aka "Alexander "Sasha" Kopatzky").

Scroll down to page 4.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32272679.pdf

But I digress . . .

-- Tom

PS Sogolow confessed to being a "mole" several years later, but he was "played back" against the KGB and not prosecuted.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Tracy: Peter Wronski (or Vronksy) had an entire section on Setyaev and this question at his now defunct website. If you use the Wayback machine you can read what he found. He interviewed Setyaev in Moscow in 1991 and was told that the tape was too political and of no interest to the "tourist-oriented" type of program Setyaev broadcast. Okay.

Also, Newman has more in his book "Oswald and the CIA." Including the rumor that Setyaev was working for the CIA. Of course.

More details here: https://web.archive.org/web/20030501052436/http://www.russianbooks.org/

[Lance Payette]

Tracy: Peter Wronski (or Vronksy) had an entire section on Setyaev and this question at his now defunct website. If you use the Wayback machine you can read what he found. He interviewed Setyaev in Moscow in 1991 and was told that the tape was too political and of no interest to the "tourist-oriented" type of program Setyaev broadcast. Okay.

Also, Newman has more in his book "Oswald and the CIA." Including the rumor that Setyaev was working for the CIA. Of course.

More details here: https://web.archive.org/web/20030501052436/http://www.russianbooks.org/

Not really relevant to this thread, but I corresponded with Vronsky several years ago because his excellent site (with many photos) of "Lee Harvey Oswald in Minsk" included photos of the "experimental shop" at the radio and TV factory where my wife's sister and her husband had worked. Vronsky said he had gone to Minsk with every expectation of making a documentary and blowing the WC out of the water. He came home, he said, thinking "the WC basically got it right."