How The Stories Of These Soviet Cold War Defectors Reveal The Intelligence Abyss

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How The Stories Of These Soviet Cold War Defectors Reveal The Intelligence Abyss

Among the most desired agents related to the ceaseless game of global historical intelligence is a defector. Every related organization from the Soviet Komitet Gosudarstevnnoi Bezopasnasti (KGB) to the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sought foreign traitors who could provide damaging information concerning enemy agents, operations, and clandestine services. A defector can emerge for numerous reasons, some have opposed their government’s practices, others desire more plentiful foreign resources after living in relatively meager conditions, and rarer cases are those seeking to become important historical figures by using the intelligence field to gain power and influence. However, a defector’s usage is limited to their prior access, knowledge, and with the passage of time classified information becomes less valuable as security measures are undertaken to prevent further damage. Defection is treason and cuts off those who undertake it from their family, homeland, and the society in which to which they were accustomed. Intelligence groups utilizing a defector often provide them with some temporary financial arrangements (a stipend or employment), housing relocation, and other potential benefits. Nevertheless, rarely do such arrangements last forever, unlike the desire for retribution many betrayed groups harbor toward defectors…

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Intelligence, Inconsistent Allies, and Illegality

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“Deep CIA History: The Consideration of Artichoke Methods To Achieve “Narco-Hynosis” In The “Kelly Case” is the latest article by C.A.A. Savastano. It offers a view into some of the earliest attempts of the Central Intelligence Agency to neutralize a former asset with illegal incarceration and drugs. Related official files present the lengths Agency officers would contemplate to stop a rogue agent they considered a danger to continued Eastern European intelligence operations prior to similar more well known later programs.

JFK Lancer 2022 Conference Presentation

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Information provided by author Carmine Savastano with respect to his speech “Infamous yet unproven suspects and a viable but largely unknown one” as discussed at the JFK Lancer 2022 Conference. Included below are several links to related research and information relevant to his evidentiary inspection of three public figures in the Kennedy Assassination case.

QJWIN-1: Jose Marie Andre Mankel
Article: Who was QJWIN-1?
Evidence: QJWIN-1 Mary Ferrell Foundation Cryptonym Listing

WIROGUE-1: David Tzitzichvili
Articles: Who was WIROGUE-1?
Who was WIROGUE-1? part II
Evidence: AEASPIC Mary Ferrell Foundation Cryptonym Listing
WIROGUE-1 Mary Ferrell Foundation Cryptonym Listing

John Henry Hill
Article: The Man About Town

JFK Lancer Website

Other Men in Mexico City II

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Other Men in Mexico City II

According to United States officials just months before they accused Lee Harvey Oswald of assassinating President John F. Kennedy he went to Mexico during the end of September. Intelligence leaders would assume these purported visits were connected to later events, despite that Oswald did not yet work at the Texas Schoolbook Depository and they neglected to account for the parade route not being established until mid-November. Without that foreknowledge provided by another party Oswald cannot perceive the endgame of all these various actions occurring later. Taken by itself the incidents in Mexico City attributed to Lee Harvey Oswald are without direct connective evidence a possible occurrence unto themselves without links to subsequent events beyond Oswald’s alleged visits. The focus of US intelligence regarding Oswald reasonably dominates most inspections but the actions of Soviet and Cuba groups regarding this peculiar historical figure are often less reviewed…

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September 29 and The Blond Man

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September 29 and The Blond Man

The Wall Street Window Podcast returns! Join your host Mike Swanson and his guest Carmine Savastano as they review new information regarding the JFK assassination timeline and a KGB figure that was suppressed by officials likely due to the questions his behavior and statements created.

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Other Men In Mexico City

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Other Men In Mexico City

Despite the extensive reviews of governments, legal experts, researchers, and members of the public some controversial topics of discussion still lay entangled within historical shadows. The scene and occurrence of the crime is of primary concern but in some cases the crucial related events span not just a given time and place but great distances that add further problems to discerning verifiable facts. A different nation, different cultures, and languages can provide almost insurmountable challenges to investigators who are unprepared for them. In some cases, it may be that certain groups and leaders counted on this fact to occlude a complete accounting and spare mistakes or deception from being revealed. While officials might currently discount and reproach members of the public for spurring on myths or rumors, these lies are within the very tools of the intelligence trade. Such means were repeatedly utilized by several intelligence groups and in Mexico City during the nineteen sixties and some of those deceptions persist…

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The KGB agent, Speculations, and Evidence

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C.A.A. Savastano joins the Chuck Ochelli to discuss a matter of some historical debate with additional evidence that challenges both official claims and later public assumptions about a KGB agent that was long shrouded in history.

The Proven QJWIN on Midnight Writer News w/ C.A.A. Savastano

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Author Carmine Savastano returns to the MWN podcast with S.T. Patrick to discuss CIA foreign agents QJWIN (Jose Mankel), WIROGUE-1 (David Tzitzichvili), and the evolution of American political assassination programs.

A Dive into the Pond

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J.V. Grombach and his group "The Pond" might be the least well known development in wartime US intelligence because of a commitment to pursuing his political enemies using the power of an unknown intelligence group. In total secrecy, he would attempt to destroy or purge official groups of those he found unacceptable and it would require other officials to stop his increasingly damaging attacks from within their own ranks.  

A Look at CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith

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The Past American Century has a look at the important historical policies of Director of Central Intelligence Walter Bedell Smith who restructured the Agency with a military bent during a period of uncertainty to secure its future eminence.

The OSS: History and Documents

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Inspecting the foundations of the modern historical American intelligence system and its military origins reveals the influences that created the Office of Strategic Services from which all later intelligence groups would evolve. Additionally noted are some resulting power struggles between civilian and military departments about the policies and future path of American intelligence.

The Past American Century continues its Allen Dulles review

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Historian Mike Swanson and author Carmine Savastano return to complete their prior study of former Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles in another look at the whether he was the legendary spymaster or merely presenting the crafted image of one.

The Past America Century reviews Allen Dulles

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Historian Mike Swanson and The Past American Century podcast return with author C.A.A. Savastano to discuss the historical successes and failures of Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles. They consider whether he is truly the mastermind of lore or perhaps his legend is founded upon less than substantial evidence.

Who controls Covert Action?

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The Past American Century podcast is back featuring a discussion with author C.A.A. Savastano and historian Mike Swanson. They review US covert action operations while considering if decades of official and public debate and restructuring have diffused responsibility so much that no official or government agency completely does.