30-06-2015, 12:53 AM
Drew Phipps Wrote:If information about Oswald was the "deck of marked cards", the whole operation could have begun with his defection. Apparently lacking any nibbles from the Russian side, they could have simply decided to set him into the Cuban situation rather than discard him and start fresh with someone new.
So I don't see why the "intrusion" and the molehunt needs to post-date the anti FPCC operation.
You could speculate that the foiling of several Castro assassination attempts might have suggested a need for a molehunt.
Drew: (from my friend again)
If you are trying to find out who is leaking info, that is a mole hunt. If you are just trying to get a double agent to be accepted into a foreign intel circle, that's not a mole hunt.
Bill, as far as I know, does not claim that the Webster/Oswald business was part of a mole hunt. If anything, false info about LHO enters with the "HENRY" of his 201 file, not before. Bill, as I recall, thinks, like Scott, that LHO may have also been sent to MC as some sort of "dangle", but that Morales knew that he could get Angleton to think there was a mole in the midst of CIA MC Station by using the imposter on the phone, i.e., doubling LHO. The "mole hunt" in this case, if I understand Bill correctly (though it is possible I don't ...), begins with the twin cables containing varying bad or incomplete info concerning the identity of LHO.
In any case, how could using an imposter at the embassies be part of a mole hunt? Did they expect the surveillance photos themselves to be leaked (but as far as I know they weren't)? But that would mean you'd need one real/one imposter, or two imposters, to do the same thing with the photos that was done with the cables.
This all gets so speculative at times, and this is a major problem with the scenario. Its indefiniteness.