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Was A Mexico City KGB Operations Officer Eusebio Azcue's "Blond, Very Thin-Faced" Oswald"?


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On October 2, 1963, a Russian KGB officer was photographed near the Mexico City Soviet Embassy.  It was one day after the "Oswald / Kostikov" phone call, and eleven minutes before the famous, burly "Mexico City Mystery Man" was caught on film by the same CIA camera.

Here's the dude I'm talking about, KGB officer Nikolai Leonov.  

(Leonov, a staunch Putin supporter, rose in the KGB to the rank of Lt.General and is currently a member of the Russian Parliament.)

 

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Above::  The same guy photographed on the same day and in the same place but by a different CIA camera (LILIMITED)
 

Below: The same guy interpreting for Fidel Castro and Mister K in Moscow a couple of months earlier. 

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The Wikipedia article on Leonov:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Leonov

 

Edit:  Look at that weak chin in all the photos, above.

Please note the thin face in the photo of Leonov interpreting for Castro, above, and in another photo of him, below. Cuban Consul Eusebio Azcue said the thin, blond-haired Oswald he'd dealt with had "a very thin face".

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Reason for edit: The Agency made me do it. At first I thought it was just the Devil, again.
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In his HSCA testimony Eusebio Azcue Lopez, former Cuban Consul in Mexico City, said the "Oswald" he had dealt with in the Cuban Consulate was "a man over 30 years of age," "very thin, very thin faced," and was "blond, dark blond."

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/jfkinfo/Hscaascu.htm

Edit:  Note Leonov's thin face in this photo.

NikolaiLeonovFidelNikitaBrezhnev.jpg

 

From the For What It's Worth Department:

According to the translation of the Mexican Police interrogation of Sylvia Duran on November 23, 1963, she said the "Oswald" she had dealt with was "blond, short, and poorly dressed."

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=3025#relPageId=7&tab=page

(The 5' 3 1/2" Duran has stated elsewhere that blond "Oswald" she dealt with was about the same height as her.)

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If Mexico City Soviet Embassy-based KGB officer Nikolai Leonov was, as I firmly believe, the blond guy photographically "captured" in the October 2, 1963, LILYRIC and LILIMITED photos, above, then the CIA most certainly knew who and what he was at the time (as is indicated by their writing his abbreviated name "Leon" below photo #6 of the October 2 film strip -- and by typing it on the October 2 LILYRIC index), so the most intriguing question for me is why the CIA didn't "out" him to the HSCA, and the only non-conspiratorial reason I can think of is that the CIA didn't want the Ruskies to know that they knew who and what the little, thin-faced, blond dude was -- a KGB officer based in the Mexico City Soviet embassy.

All of which makes me wonder:  Could Leonov's photos have been the ones Head of Station Winn Scott was writing about in a 11/23/63 letter to CIA's Head of Western Hemisphere, J.C. King when he said "they are of a certain person who is known to you", or words to that effect?  Could he have been referring to the October 2 photos of KGB officer Nikolai Leonov rather than one of the same-day photos of big, burly, balding "Mexico City Mystery Man"?

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On 3/17/2017 at 11:53 AM, Thomas Graves said:

OK, how About An Easier Question?:

Was Leonov photographically "captured" near the Soviet Embassy at 12:05 pm, just eleven minutes before the famous "Mexico City Mystery Man" (KGB officer Yuri Moskalev?) was "captured" by the same LILYRIC camera?

 

The man below was photographed at 12:05 pm on Wednesday, October 2, 1963, near the Mexico City Soviet Embassy. (This was one day after someone calling himself "Lee Oswald, O-S-W-A-L-D" phoned the Soviet Embassy, and the Russian Embassy employee on the other end of the line suggested, when prompted by "Oswald," that the Embassy official "Oswald" had met with a few days earlier was "Kostikov".  I believe this guy is KGB officer Nikolai Leonov.  (Leonov became a KGB Lt.General, is now a member of the Russian Parliament, and is a big supporter of Vladimir Putin.)

 

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On the left:  The same man photographed on the same day in the same place by the same LILYRIC camera.  On the right: Nikolai Leonov interpreting for Fidel Castro in Moscow. 

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The Wikipedia article on Leonov:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Leonov

Edit:  Look at that weak chin in all the photos, above.

Please note the very thin face in the photo of Leonov interpreting for Castro, above, and in another photo of him, below, and please remember that Eusebio Azcue said that the Blond Oswald he'd dealt with had "a very thin face".

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Are "researchers" afraid to admit that the putative "Blond Oswald" captured in two photos [ #6 (which the CIA labeled "LEON") and #on the contact sheet ] by the LILYIRIC camera at 12:05 pm on October 2, 1963, (11 minutes before the more famous Mexico Mystery Man was captured by the same LILYIRIC camera) was Mexico City-based KGB officer Nikolai Leonov because they're afraid it would suggest that the Ruskies killed JFK?

Hmmm. 

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On 3/20/2017 at 2:07 PM, Thomas Graves said:

Are ""researchers" afraid to admit that the putative "Blond Oswald" captured in photos # 6 (labeled "LEON") and # 7 by the LILYRIC camera at 12:05 pm on Saturday, October 2, 1963 was probably Mexico City-based KGB officer Nikolai LEONov?  

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=4490&relPageId=3

If so, why?

Because they're afraid it would suggest that the Ruskies killed JFK?

Hmmm.  

 

Why did Nikolai Leonov say years after the assassination that the real Oswald showed up unannounced at the Soviet Embassy on Sunday, September 29, and met with him "when the guard was the only other person in the building because it was a Sunday"

He was lying, of course, but to what end?

OR WAS HE?

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On 3/20/2017 at 2:54 PM, Thomas Graves said:

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Tommy,

At first glance (and second and third) these two guys really do look the same. Especially with the blond hair, the hair style, and receding chin.

And then you compare noses, and all bets are off. The guy on the left appears to have a Roman nose, whereas the guy on the right has more of a pointed nose. Or perhaps Grecian. No.... pointed. Nearly the opposite of Roman.


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1 hour ago, Sandy Larsen said:


Tommy,

At first glance (and second and third) these two guys really do look the same. Especially with the blond hair, the hair style, and receding chin.

And then you compare noses, and all bets are off. The guy on the left appears to have a Roman nose, whereas the guy on the right has more of a pointed nose. Or perhaps Grecian. No.... pointed. Nearly the opposite of Roman.

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Sandy,

You do realize, don't you, that you're looking at his nose from different angles?  Regardless, I believe it's possible that his "Roman nose" was distorted in that photo by something dark in the background.

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--  Tommy :sun

Cuban Consul Eusebio Azcue said the blond Oswald he dealt with had blond hair and a very thin face.

Nikolai Leonov interpreting for the boys. NikolaiLeonovFidelNikitaBrezhnev.jpg

 

When answering specific about the Oswald she'd dealt with, she didn't mention the thin face, but she did say he was blond, and that he was about the same height as she was (she was 5' 3 1/2").  Nikolai Leonov was 5' 6".

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27 minutes ago, Thomas Graves said:

Sandy,

You do realize, don't you, that you're looking at his nose from different angles?  Regardless, I believe it's possible that his "Roman nose" was distorted in that photo by something dark in the background.

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--  Tommy :sun

FWIW,

Cuban Consul Eusebio Azcue said the blond Oswald he dealt with had blond hair and a very thin face.

Blond, thin-faced Noiklai Leonov interpreting for the boys. NikolaiLeonovFidelNikitaBrezhnev.jpg

 

When answering specific about the Oswald she'd dealt with, Sylvia Duran didn't mention his thin face, but she did say he was blond and short, about the same height as her (she was 5' 3 1/2").  Nikolai Leonov was 5' 6".

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On 3/20/2017 at 2:54 PM, Thomas Graves said:

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I have doubts that the angle of a photograph could create the hump we seem to see on the nose in the left photo. But I think it is possible that the hump is an artifact of a poor photograph. And you do seem to have quite a strong strong case if the hump isn't factored in.

in short, I think you could be right about this guy.

But tell me this... what are the implications if these guys are the same? Does it mean James D. and the others are wrong, and there was indeed a mole hunt in MC? (I'm afraid I have only a superficial understanding of the MC trip. I get lost in the MC threads because of that. Actually, it seems very complicate with all the cables sent out, disappearing audio tapes, etc, etc.)

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On 3/21/2017 at 11:41 PM, Sandy Larsen said:

I have doubts that the angle of a photograph could create the hump we seem to see on the nose in the left photo. But I think it is possible that the hump is an artifact of a poor photograph. And you do seem to have quite a strong strong case if the hump isn't factored in.

in short, I think you could be right about this guy.

But tell me this... what are the implications if these guys are the same? Does it mean James D. and the others are wrong, and there was indeed a mole hunt in MC? (I'm afraid I have only a superficial understanding of the MC trip. I get lost in the MC threads because of that. Actually, it seems very complicate with all the cables sent out, disappearing audio tapes, etc, etc.)

"Does it mean James D. and the others are wrong, and there was indeed a mole hunt in MC [and that Bill Simpich was right and that Harvey and Lee is not only wrong but counter-productive because it mistakes the bogus, "marked card" information about the one-and-only (Lee Harvey) Oswald that was intentionally put into his ever-bifurcating Intelligence files since at least early 1960,  for "proof" that there were two Oswalds and two Marguerites (perish the thought!) in a some kinda long, weird quadrupleganger project?]?"

Perish the thought, Sandy!

You infidel, you!

--  Tommy :sun

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They do look alike, but since they're from the same period(3 years), the man on the left looks considerably older.

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6 minutes ago, Kirk Gallaway said:

They do look alike, but since they're from the same period(3 years), the man on the left looks considerably older.

Kirk,

Not sure what you mean by "3 years".  Both photos (the fuzzy one and the clear one showing Leonov interpreting) were taken in 1963.

Regardless, do you think the fuzziness / poor resolution makes whoever it was older-looking than he really was?

--  Thomas :sun

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You said " On the left:  The same man photographed on the same day in the same place" And I understood that day was Oct 2,1963.( the photo above) right?

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