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Read my Wikipedia article on CIA counterintelligence officer Tennent H. Bagley. He's my main source of information on the (ongoing) CIA-KGB war.
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Let’s be Frank (opens the original)
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Imagine that you’re a CIA officer named Frank in Washington, D.C. It’s January 1957, and you run into an acquaintance who you know has just been fired from the Agency and already has a job lined up at the Hoover Institution. You ask him, “So, what are you doing these days?”, and he tells you, “Nothing much. Just killing time, waiting to go out to California. Spending a lot of time in the movies.”Hmm.A guy who’s recently been fired by the CIA and who’s spending a lot of time in movie houses.Would
Locust Cloud (opens the original)
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They knew. (opens the original)
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What does Matt Cloud believe? (opens the original)
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Dear Grasshopper,It seems that you believe that your former boss, Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (RIP), was a KGB mole, and that his alleged “tool,” high-level CIA officer John N. McMahon — Deputy Director of CIA from 1982 to 1986 — was one, too.As you know, I believe Bruce Solie, James Angleton’s mole-hunting superior and Philby-like confidant in the Office of Security, was a mole, as were Leonard V. McCoy in the Soviet Russia Division’s omniscient and omnipresent Reports & Requirem
I educate Grasshopper about the very first CIA officer the KGB recruited (opens the original)
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Matt Cloud wrote:It is beyond dispute that [false defector Yuri Nosenko’s putative KGB boss, Vladislav] Kovshhuk and [Norman] Borodin worked together. (Evidently, according to Nosenko, the two also recruited the US embassy code-clerk, ANDREY.) My reply:Dear Grasshopper, Your ANDREY (Dayle W. Smith) wasn’t a code clerk. He was an army-sergeant cipher machine mechanic at the U.S. Embassy who was recruited by the KGB but who had no real access to classified information. As Tennent H. Bagley tells u
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