Did CIA's Bruce Solie send Oswald to Moscow?

[Tom Mahon]

John Newman says in his 2022 book "Uncovering Popov's Mole" that, based on documents showing that the incoming non-CIA cables on Oswald's defection were routed to Bruce Solie's department in the Office of Security (and disappeared there for at least six weeks) rather than to the Soviet Russia Division where they would normally go, Solie must have sent Oswald to Moscow in October 1959 to unwittingly participate in a fake mole hunt and thereby prevent Solie's being uncovered as the KGB mole who 1) betrayed CIA's spy Pyotr Popov in early 1957, and 2) leaked the specifications of the U-2 spy plane to the Soviets around April 1958.

If Newman is correct, it means Oswald believed he was working for the CIA but was actually working for a KGB-controlled part of it.

[Tom Mahon]

In his 2007 book, "Spy Wars," former CIA officer Tennent H. Bagley said that in October 1968 Solie "cleared," via a bogus polygraph exam and a specious report, false defector Yuri Nosenko, an ostensible KGB officer (who didn't know how to send cables or where the cafeteria was in KGB headquarters, etc) who had been sent to the CIA in Geneva in June 1962 to discredit what recent true defector Anatoliy Golitsyn was telling James Angleton about KGB "moles" in the CIA, the FBI, and the intelligence services of our NATO allies.

In "Uncovering Popov's Mole," John Newman says Angleton told his confidant, mentor and mole-hunting superior, Solie, what Golitsyn had told him, and that Solie relayed this information to KGB headquarters via moles in French intelligence and a highly mobile KGB officer by the name of Mikhail Tsymbal so that Nosenko's boss in Moscow, KGB General Oleg Gribanov, could modify his legend and make him more effective at discrediting Golitsyn.