McCone memo to Rankin 3/3/64 real or fake?

[Jim Hargrove]

Thank you all. It looked too good to be true. Was the Babushka Lady filming? Did Barbara Newman produce any film?

Jim: you forgot to mention that Gary Powers was shot down in his U@ after Oswald's "defection."

I thought about it but didn't because the evidence shows that the guy who sat in the radar bubble watching U-2 flights from Atsugi didn't defect to the Soviet Union, and therefore "Oswald" had nothing to do with the downing of the plane. When you think about it, why would U.S. Intel send a guy with real info about the top secret U-2 to "defect" to the Soviet Union? If he had any real knowledge, it would be too dangerous.