How The Stories Of These Soviet Cold War Defectors Reveal The Intelligence Abyss pt. 6

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How The Stories Of These Soviet Cold War Defectors Reveal The Intelligence Abyss pt. 6

Within the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination the Central Intelligence Agency had internally declared Lee Harvey Oswald guilty within forty-eight hours.i The Federal Bureau of Investigation granted the alleged shooter seventy-two hours before its determination of guilt the same day Jack Ruby shot Oswald. American intelligence groups were desperate to find an expedient solution and their suspect’s inability to defend himself was ideal. However, some within the CIA’s leadership believed this had to be another Soviet plot and Oswald was cast in the role of Soviet agent. Such ideas endangered the US government’s allegations that Oswald acted by himself but those not privately endorsing this idea became suspects in Central Intelligence Agency’s hunt for traitors…

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How The Stories Of These Soviet Cold War Defectors Reveal The Intelligence Abyss pt. 5

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How The Stories Of These Soviet Cold War Defectors Reveal The Intelligence Abyss pt. 5

As the calendar fell upon the days of late 1962, the mole hunt inside Western intelligence began to expand within the United States. Fears of disinformation, false defectors, and the assumption of a traitor within its ranks began to internally damage the Central Intelligence Agency. Official attempts to discover and track disloyal intelligence employees had yet to render any solid leads or suspects. The effort to seek turncoats within the US intelligence community gained momentum with each new accusation and it began to spread. Other nations soon would be influenced by America’s search for penetration agents based upon the claims of a single defector…

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THE IMPROVED CONSOLIDATED CIA FILES

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The Consolidated CIA files section has been enhanced with a new subject directory, hundreds of new files, and expanded biographic information. It now contains seventy intriguing Central Intelligence Agency figures related official documents, new photographs, code names, and operational information. Each subject is now featured with a page containing an expanded biographic profile and most contain new documents and less redacted versions of prior releases.

How The Stories Of These Soviet Cold War Defectors Reveal The Intelligence Abyss pt. 4

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How The Stories Of These Soviet Cold War Defectors Reveal The Intelligence Abyss pt. 4

The endless accusations of moles being present in most of Western intelligence services by Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn was like a supernova but was unseen or heard by most in related intelligence groups. Much like the subsequent events that may follow a supernova, Golitsyn’s mole claims backed with the power of the CIA’s Counterintelligence leadership and staff formed a proverbial black hole. This became another part of the vast intelligence abyss, and its pull on the careers and lives of many people would slowly be felt and most were unable to escape the tendrils of this massive investigation for traitors. As 1961 passed Golitsyn would accurately describe some details of yet unknown betrayers within British intelligence and this information when added to later revelations added to the weight of the mole hunt. Yet this larger hunt for CIA moles was precipitated upon ideas that were unproven and relied largely upon a single defector and his supporters…

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Consolidated CIA Files and Cryptonym Collection Updates

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Four CIA Consolidated Files biographies with additional new and related files that regard counterintelligence leader James Angleton, officer Charlotte Bustos Videla, David Christ, defector Anatoliy Golitsyn, mole hunt target Serge Peter Karlow, and Soviet division case officer George G Kisevalter.

Additionally, four new verified cryptonyms for your review, AMPARTY-1, DULAUREL-1, LINIMENT, and LINOZZLE.

How The Stories Of These Soviet Cold War Defectors Reveal The Intelligence Abyss pt. 3

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How The Stories Of These Soviet Cold War Defectors Reveal The Intelligence Abyss pt. 3

The proverbial intelligence abyss expanded with the revelations of each new defector, exposure of double agents, and fed a growing suspicion of hidden moles within Western clandestine groups. Due to a nearly perfect storm of facts mixed with paranoid speculations a significant expansion in hunting for such agents would commence following the appearance of two final related defectors. As familiar intelligence officers dealt with the latest defectors and longstanding suspicions mounted over the prior years, it was a matter of time before the right defector and claims inspired certain intelligence leaders to adopt the belief that a hidden traitor likely existed within their own group. The 1960s had just begun and before that decade ended several careers, some lives, and multiple intelligence group operations would lay in shambles…

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A Traitorous Shade: The Betrayals of FBI Double Agent Robert Hanssen

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A Traitorous Shade: The Betrayals of FBI Double Agent Robert Hanssen

Spies, moles, and double agents are similar but varying types of designations that populate the history of global intelligence. A loyal spy is among the most common type of employee within many national clandestine groups operating throughout history and in modern times, they may be found monitoring and engaging with various parts of a country’s bureaucratic infrastructure or enemy agencies and diplomatic personnel. Moles are much rarer because the classic definition of a mole requires them to be indoctrinated by enemy groups before they obtained access to classified information. Double agents however are less rare than moles because while they do betray the important secrets of their original agency, this betrayal is not premised upon a long planned ideological motivation. A mole is usually a strategically planned infiltration based upon years of training and plans but a double agent often develops upon other circumstances and grievances. Yet some double agents have strategic access to intelligence than might allow them to produce damage comparable to a mole, and one such person deemed among the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s most destructive betrayers was named Hanssen…

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New Documents reveal Officials Destroyed far more Evidence related to the Kennedy Assassination than prior believed

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New Documents reveal Officials Destroyed far more Evidence related to the Kennedy Assassination than prior believed

Even in modern times the illegal possession, loss, or destruction of government files appears within recent media and has been a consistent means of depriving the public access to documents that may incriminate or embarrass leading bureaucrats. Over last five decades hundreds of thousands pages of documents have been released concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, nevertheless thousands of documents were by intent or ignorance destroyed or lost. Whether you consider the dozens of files lost within Lee Harvey Oswald’s 201 file or those destroyed by at least one medical expert that conducted the autopsy, some officials have desired that feasibly important files never reach public eyes. Upon this lack of knowledge some reasonable ideas turn and the illegal destruction or loss of files leaves related officials but two unsavory choices, malfeasance or ignorance. The destruction of documents by officials has rendered public claims that were scoffed at or diminished by those who support the official version of events greater credibility. Yet more recent less redacted files support the amount of documents destroyed has been largely underestimated despite the claims of several government leaders…

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How The Stories Of These Soviet Cold War Defectors Reveal The Intelligence Abyss pt. 2

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How The Stories Of These Soviet Cold War Defectors Reveal The Intelligence Abyss pt. 2

Within the murky depths of the historical intelligence abyss lies a nearly ceaseless array of unanswered questions and varying accusations, some affirm or deny the credibility of several figures related to unresolved historical mysteries. The last article in this series began a descent into reviewing the valuable but often inconsistent nature of multiple defectors that dealt with intelligence groups. From Pyotr Popov, a reliable double agent that was later exposed and executed, to Peter Deriabin a source of valuable intelligence who later offered less reliable claims regarding significant world events based on mere postulations are just two varying historic tales. Defectors can each offer vital intelligence, but they simultaneously might also render consequential negative effects for those dealing with them. The question is how much weight the claims of a defector should be given, at what point could they be wrong, and even if they are false defectors or moles intent on misinforming the very people they claim to aid. Defectors and moles can both appear nearly the same in the vastness of historical intelligence and in rare cases are precisely that…

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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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Primary Evidence Collections Update

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Offered for your inspection are three new cryptonyms (Project KLANVIL, KLAMBROSIA-29, and QK) and new personnel files regarding notable Central Intelligence Agency members. The Consolidated CIA Files collection includes new and less redacted files with further biographic information regarding William Broe, Viola June Cobb, Ross Lester Crozier, George A. Fill, Daniel Flores, William K. Harvey, Balmes “Barney” Hidalgo, Jacques G. Richardson, and Robert P. Wheeler.

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.

Miller Center Fellow Promotes JFK Assassination Myths

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A featured Wall Street Window article by C.A.A. Savastano offers evidence and some of the several flaws within official and academic claims regarding the latest release of Kennedy assassination documents.

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

C.A.A. Savastano returns to The Ochelli Effect

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Join authors Mike Swanson and Carmine Savastano as they discuss this year’s ongoing 2022 JFK Lancer Conference, Savastano’s presentation, and items of interest regarding the case. In the second hour Chuck and historian Larry Hancock chat about his upcoming Lancer presentation and the subjects related to the case as well.