Nosenko Virus?

[Pamela McElwain-Brown]

I was wondering if Nosenko might have been a hot potato sent over here by KGB in order to foment discord over the Assassination?

While Nosenko's defection might have been a victory for the west on the surface, his knowledge of Oswald would serve as a problem to the cover-up that would work as a silent disrupter by causing those involved in the cover-up to react to Nosenko in a way that would instigate doubt. By just coming over here and causing Angleton to put him in a torture vault he would bring doubt down on the cover-up and cause it problems. Perhaps KGB thought Nosenko would be a hot potato serving the purposes of those who doubted the Warren Commission and just by being here would serve as a catalyst and source of momentum for those working to expose the US government.

If I have this right Angleton tortured Nosenko in order to press him to admit Oswald was a KGB operative. Nosenko refused to do it and eventually said KGB determined Oswald was a nebbish and was mentally unstable and of no consequence to them. By doing this Nosenko would very subtly serve the purpose of going against the Mexico City Kostikov ruse. So, once again, while offering something that appears to back the Lone Nut premise, Nosenko is actually offering something that will work against the cover-up in the long term and foment discord at the deep level.

So while appearing to be a victory for the west, the Nosenko defection could actually be a shrewd KGB attempt to destabilize the US government by sending a hot potato in to disrupt the cover-up. I believe Angelton's actions towards Nosenko may reveal his awareness of this and need to contain it.

You may be on the right track, but it seems to me the strategy of KGB was greater than just Nosenko. Golitsyn had already defected, and JJA listened to whatever he had to say. There was a thorough gutting of not only our operatives, but those of the SDECE based on what he said. Nosenko may have been fed information by the inner KGB to troll JJA and CIA on their supposed lack of interest in LHO. Of course, JJA refused to believe Nosenko, though he was eventually recompensed for his imprisonment and relocated. JJA and CI were pretty thoroughly discredited, and the KGB two-pronged approach may have been more successful even than we realize. So, yes, I agree that there was a KGB initiative to destabilize our intelligence system and Nosenko was an unwitting part of it as he could only speak of which he knew or had been told. But an even larger question might be why this was done and what connection there was to the JFK assassination? JJA never found his mole, and few believed that LHO was a lone assassin. Was there even more?