17-03-2014, 03:34 PM
Jim Hargrove Wrote:Even though the "defection" didn't work, it was still very clever. Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald was never at Atsugi or in the radar bubble observing the U-2s. That was American-born LEE Oswald. When HARVEY Oswald said he would tell the Russians everything he knew, he didn't know squat about the spy planes.
All easily overcome by providing the defector Oswald with microfilm and a briefing. If the defector Oswald provided good intel he might easily get a Russian wife, an assignment at a radio factory that tried to make it look like he wasn't taken seriously, and ultimately and easy pass back home with his KGB monitor wife to make sure his American assignment was carried out. Child's play for Cold War espionage.