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The transcript in Malice (page 208, 2nd edition Kindle version) has Unit 109 report “10th and Jefferson”. The more straightforward interpretation is that was the deputy’s current location though it could also be interpreted as where he should go to look for the Dallas Police squad car.

Good on you, trying to nail that down. Unfortunately, I don’t recall. Could be it’s in the book Fetzer edited. I can check that.

To add a further point to this, if I'm Rusk, and I receive that message from Dobrynin, I could very easily interpret his not-so-subtle hint that the Soviets know of the mail-opening program as a threat. That is, don't do anything that disrupts our mole, lest we will blow Angleton's mail-opening program and your CIA will be humiliated. By Dobrynin's message alone, the Soviets are indicating to the U.S. that they have the leverage here.

As immediately above, "details" refers to the timing issue -- why Soviets feel need to say it arrived at a date later than it did -- and the existence of the mail-opening program. "The CIA knew that Azcue was going to be replaced." No, again, that is only assumed. "So why wouldn't the Soviets have not also known that?" They did know it. They might have been the only ones who knew it. There's no evidence anyone else did. That's the point. "With the Azcue replacement date in hand, and the Kostin letter in hand, the Soviets had all the details that you've pointed out. No mole needed to get it for them." Those are not the details that a mole provided. Yes, the Soviets do not need to be told a decision (azcue's replacement) they themselves have made. The detail most at issue here that appears to have come from CIA to KGB is the existence of the mail-opening program. That is information a mole could have provided. That is what indicates a security breach.

Does this mean I wouldn't have to read any more posts by you where you claim that William Scoggins was literally lying face down in the street beside his cab and therefore never got a good look at the fleeing cop-killer? Maybe I could let this go if you'd ever FINALLY admit you were wrong to say such a thing.

The instructions to Dobrynin indicate that the Kremlin is aware of some issue with regard to the timing of the letter. The Soviets apparently don't want to say they received the letter when they in did (the 9th evidently) and for some reason feel the need to state to the U.S. that it was received on a later date (the 18th). Why? The instructions don't resolve the timing issue, whether "in the Americans' eyes" or other. Indeed they perpetuate it. More however, what the instructions do is inform the Americans that there counter-intelligence program is blown -- that it's useless. How did the Soviets learn of the mail-opening program? How did they know to tell the U.S. that there could be delays in its delivery? That is the question.

Kevin, I appreciate your comments. First, I didn't say Oswald walked all the way to Marsalis. Second, I said the Deputy reported from near Tenth and Marsalis, not Tenth and Jefferson.

Helms says he doesn't know how Oswald learned of the Azcue replacement. You believe Oswald's knowledge of Azcue's replacement is irrelevant because Oswald didn't write the letter in the first place. I agree. Helms' statement provides no information either way as to the outstanding question: how did the author of the letter know about Azcue's replacement? You simply say the CIA "must have known.". You can only get to the "must" if you assume CIA wrote the letter. Nothing you've written establishes that. It is merely an assumption.

You write "The CIA must have known about Azcue's replacement, or planned replacement." That IS the issue I raised. Simply stating that you have reached a conclusion as to the question is non-responsive, without explanation as to how you can justify that conclusion. And whether Azcue was in fact replaced or whether merely the decision to replace had been made, you have not answered the question as to how the author of the letter, whoever that might have been, knew either of those scenarios.

Well, Duran was apparently arrested at CIA instructions sent on the 23rd along with instructions that she be held incommunicado. The leak to the paper would seem to violate that second instruction. But it is a possibility that information obtained during her interrogation could have been a source for the goings-on inside the Cuban embassy -- albeit a very fast turnaround to get it into the paper on the 25th -- but that doesn't account for the paper's information as to the goings-on inside the Soviet embassy.

Here is Part 2, this includes a review of Parts 4-6. Again, its still free and it links directly to the article. At the end, I take note that it surprising to me that in their discussion of New Orleans, there is 1.) No mention of David Phillips and 2.) No mention of 544 Camp Street. Concerning the latter, not that Oswald was there, but they don't even talk about the fact that he put that address on some of his literature! That was really weird, especially in relation to some of the tenuous stuff they did include. And although they make a big deal over Northwoods, I did not detect any mention of the records of the May, 1963 Sec/Def conference in Hawaii, where its made clear that Kennedy has instructed McNamara that he is getting out of Vietnam. Third, in their review of Oswald and his possible connection to the CIA, although they include that very tenuous stuff about Hartogs--which I would not have-- there was no mention of Betsy Wolf from the HSCA, who first discovered the paradoxes in the Oswald file and talked to a few CIA officials about it. All in all so far a decidedly mixed bag. https://substack.com/home/post/p-143698630?source=queue

Would the CIA use an asset that they had used extensively in the USSR that could be easily tied to them for a domestic assassination or frame him for it? How could they be sure he wouldn’t talk if captured alive? On the other hand, if a foreign interest had been able to “turn” Oswald, they could count on the CIA to cover up the assassination just to cover their own asses. How many of those thousands of anti-Castro Cuban exiles were actually infiltrators sent by Castro’s intelligence service? We are still uncovering Cuban moles in US intelligence and they have had very long careers before getting caught. Ana Montes had been in various US intelligence agencies since the mid-1980s before she was caught a few years ago. I agree that the DPD was not involved in the JFKA pre-event. I don’t think they were competent enough. Actually, I don’t think the CIA was competent enough (killing Castro with exploding seashells?) If the JFKA was time critical and the chosen opportunity was a motorcade with an open car, the choice of locations was limited by climate at that time of the year.

His name is James H. Taylor and he needs an alibi because he was involved in Oswald's pre-planned arrest.

The only evidence we have of "Oswald" visiting the Soviet Embassy, that I am aware of, is the phone call made by an Oswald impersonator On October 1, 1963. That is the only call where the name "Lee Oswald" was given. In the call, the Oswald impersonator spoke in broken Russian to the embassy guard, saying that he had visited with an officer there on September 28. The guard suggested that the officer he had visited was Valeriy Kostikov. If a person actually did visit Soviet Embassy that day, I believe it was probably an imposter, just like the "Oswald" that visited the Cuban Consulate was an imposter. As for how the Excelsior newspaper got the information so quickly about the so-called Oswald visits, I suppose they could have gotten it from the Mexican police. After all, the Mexican police did hold Silvia Duran and a number of her friends for questioning, and did actually beat her, likely because she wouldn't admit to the charges made against her by Elena Garro, who was being held in "protective custody" at the time in a hotel. Garro's story painted Oswald as being a friend of Duran's and associating with her friends. So the story the Mexican Police got from Duran was the innocent/real one (according to their understanding), where Oswald was there to get a transit visa. (Not to negotiate an assassination deal with the Cubans and Russians.) Yes, I believe the Kostin letter was planted by the CIA in order to strengthen the evidence that Oswald had (supposedly) contracted with the Cubans and Soviets to have Kennedy killed. (Allegations made by Gilberto Alvarado.) As for the comment in the letter about Azcue being replaced: The CIA must have known about Azcue's replacement, or planned replacement. We don't really know if there was a timing issue as to the date of Azcue leaving, because when the Kostin letter said, "I am glad he has since been replaced," for all we know the CIA writer of the letter could have meant more specifically that the DECISION for his replacement had been made, and that soon the actual replacement will take place. Or it could be that the CIA writer of that letter simply made a mistake... he might have merely assumed that the replacement had taken place prior to his writing of the letter. Actually, I've never thought that Helms was one of the plotter. Though I suppose he might have been. But even if he wasn't, I don't understand how what he said would contradict my beliefs as I've stated them here. Maybe you can explain. First, Matt, I don't know if the following statement: “When sending the photocopies, say that the letter of November 9 [discussed above] was not received by the embassy until November 18, obviously it had been held up somewhere.” has anything to do with the Azcue replacement timing issue. The two dates, Nov. 9 and Nov. 18, might just be coincidences. Even if that sentence does relate to the Azcue timing issue, I don't see how the instruction of that sentence, given to Ambassador Dobrynin, supposedly resolves the timing issue in the Americans' eyes. Especially in light of the fact that the U.S. knew precisely the date of the letter and the date the Soviets received it, a fact that apparently the Russians were aware of (since they knew of the U.S. mail intercept program). What details? The Azcue replacement timing issue dates? The CIA knew that Azcue was going to be replaced. So why wouldn't the Soviets have not also known that? With the Azcue replacement date in hand, and the Kostin letter in hand, the Soviets had all the details that you've pointed out. No mole needed to get it for them.

Steve Inskeep published a detailed expose of Uri Berliner's fraudulent claims about NPR at Substack this week. How my NPR colleague failed at “viewpoint diversity” (substack.com) Pundits throughout the MAGA-verse-- and Donald Trump, himself-- have seized on Berliner's fraudulent article to denounce NPR, and demand that it be de-funded. WaPo published an overview of the anti-NPR MAGA sh*t storm today. NPR editor Uri Berliner resigns after Free Press essay accuses network of bias - The Washington Post Among other errors documented by Inskeep, Berliner's claim about all of NPR's staff being registered Democrats is false. But, more importantly, almost all of Berliner's claims about NPR's journalistic modus operandi are blatantly untrue. Several of Inskeep's points-- e.g., about reporting on Trump's Russiagate scandal and Giuliani's 2020 Hunter Biden laptop "October Surprise"--are the same ones enumerated (above) by Kevin Drum.

Who is this motorcycle officer and why does he need an alibi?

Interesting article regarding internecine struggles within the CIA over espionage vs. covert ops that came to a head in the wake of tge Bay of Pigs. https://warontherocks.com/2016/12/spy-vs-spy-the-bay-of-pigs-and-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-cia/

To quote Bill Safire's Lewis Carroll-like wordplay (New York Times, Jan. 22, 1979), let us go through a glass, darkly: "Beware the Family Jewels, my son The leaks that spring, the tips from SMERSH -- Taste not Nosenko's Plant, and shun The myriad Seymourhersh! Gotitzen to the Bagley man Go find who serves another skipper; Promotion lies with those who can Win one for the Double Dipper. But high in Langley's ranks he stands, The Jabbermole, untouched is he -- Kampiles' heel, a friend of Stan's He snuckles in his glee. 'Board Brillig did the bearish spies Snatch Paisley's prints before he blabbed; All flimsy were the alibis While the mole laughs, ungrabbed." https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80B01554R003300280025-3.pdf

Has anyone in any of these legacy groups ever grappled with the very clear and alarming evidence that the CIA misled JFK about the prospects for the invasion fully knowing it would likely fail? Or, with that in mind, the fact that overtly committing air power after would be a clear violation of international law and norms? I keep waiting for them to shift the blame to where it belongs as we have known this for at least 20 years now (the latter point since 1961). Stu

At the point where Lancaster, Jefferson and 10th converge there is a Dallas County Court building. But it looks very new. I wonder if it replaced a similar facility that was there in 1963. It would explain the presence of a Dallas County Sheriff Deputy being in the area. Oswald would have to be pretty close to Marsalis to see a police car at 10th and Jefferson. The round trip distance from the Tippit killing site to Marsalis and back is 0.33 miles. At a walking pace of 5 feet per second that adds about 5 minutes to Oswald’s total travel time since leaving the rooming house.

I have heard this before but I can't seem to find a verification source. I thought it might be in the Shaw trial transcripts, which I have, but I now can't find where Zapruder said he never stopped filming.

I just took a closer look at the pictures of the shirt and tie in the Archives (https://www.maryferrell.org/photos.html?set=NARA-JFKCLOTHES) and pictures of JFK in the motorcade before the shooting. The bottom of the collar below the top button of the shirt shows holes that would line up if the shirt was buttoned. There are also corresponding holes in the tie (see photo 8, several inches to the right of where the tie was cut off, and on the right edge next to the fold on the long piece). In the pictures of JFK pre shooting, the collar pretty much covers the Adam’s apple, with the tie knot covering about where the throat wound shows in the autopsy photos (albeit altered), which is below the Adam’s apple. The holes in the clothing were penetrating, not cut from the edge as the nurses would have done (as the cut across the tie was done, at some point in the back or side of the neck). If the nurses in were to have done that, they would have had to poke through the layers of both sides of the collar and two layers of the tie with the point of the scissors, which I think is very unlikely. Conclusion: the throat wound was shored by the shirt and tie, which gave it the appearance of an entrance (with an abrasion/contusion collar) when it was really an exit. I contend that it was caused by a small fragment rather than an intact bullet, which further confused the issue with its small size.

David, Thank you. Steve Thomas

Donnie wants a cut. If you're running for public office, and you use Donald Trump's name or likeness in your fundraising efforts, Donald Trump now want a percentage of your take. He'll happily endorse you for office, you just have to pay him for the privilege. I think I'll go and copyright my name. Steve Thomas

For those inclined to research this spooky subject, here's a link to Bagley's Spy Wars - Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games -- https://dn790003.ca.archive.org/0/items/SpyWarsMolesMysteriesAndDeadlyGames/Spy Wars - Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games.pdf It's a cure for the belief that Captain Nosenko was a bonafide defector.