Very nicely done, very specific, meaty and detailed. A great way to truly appreciate strong will, commitment and character. Shoe shiner to Ambassador to India and US representative in the UN and a well storied Senatorial career. His ability to communicate comes through in your article. No doubt, the most important aspect of his entire life. Excellent work, I appreciate your presentation. It did justice to his career and personal character.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the antidote to everything wrong with today’s Democrat Party. He believed in data, consequences, and moral seriousness—three things modern Democrats openly sneer at. Moynihan could work for Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon without having a meltdown or demanding ideological purity tests. Today’s party would cancel him in a heartbeat for the Moynihan Report, for “benign neglect,” or simply for talking honestly about social decay. He understood that compassion without truth is cruelty, and that policy divorced from facts is just theater. Moynihan wasn’t “evolving.” He was thinking. That kind of Democrat no longer exists.
So true Richard! Moynihan was classy and morally grounded in a way that would have made him unelectable today. He voted against abortion as a devout Catholic. He was a thoughtful man who was willing to listen and collaborate with Reagan.
The guaranteed income idea always bounces around. Interesting idea, yet it must be coupled with the end of all other social welfare systems. No more Section 8, SNAP, WIC, Medicaid, Pell grants, etc.We will need a few social workers to look after all those who cannot manage but we cannot keep all these inefficient programs and add another social welfare program.
With all the programs we have to prevent “ hunger” we changed the language to call it “ food insecurity” to provide an excuse for why 80% of minority females are obese. Not the “ fat gene” but just fatsicolas who eat too much.
Yes, they're insecure about food so they consume as much of it as possible in each sitting, because who knows when their next meal will be? (Usually a few hours later.)
Long gone. Folks keep addressing and talking about it as if it exists. Died longs go hi jacked by card carrying socialists, fascists, communists, atheists. Gone Every ist representing every ism under the sun. And we slept through it. Long gone. Fact.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a great man and a great statesman. He is sorely missed among the leadership in Congress, and by extension, missed by the nation.
He was brought into the Kennedy campaign by former communist turned Joe McCarthy-ite Paul Corbin, himself the very inspiration for your "dirty tricks."
When Tennent H. Bagley wrote in his 2007 book, "Spy Wars," that "one his KGB-veteran interlocutors" told him that the KGB commission (which had been set up to assess the damage Anatoly Golitsyn's December 1961 defection had done to the KGB) told him that Golitsyn had uncovered him, Bagley was referring to former KGB General Sergey Kondeachev, not to your hated former boss, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, as indicated by what Bagley wrote in his 2013 book about Kondrashev, "Spymaster":
"[After Golitsyn defected] the KGB leaders quickly found out how much they had lost. Only hours after learning that Golitsyn had fled, the KGB Chairman set up a three-man commission, consisting of himself and the chiefs of his foreign intelligence and personnel directorates. They set their subordinates to work examining all the files Golitsyn had ever handled and ordered interviews of his former colleagues to find out what they might have inadvertently exposed to him. Kondrashev, who was acting KGB chief in Vienna, got a cable from Moscow within a few days after Golitsyn's defection, instructing him to query all his officers. Three weeks later, Moscow informed him which of them Golitsyn had actually exposed -- including Kondrachev himself -- and warned them to be ready for Western 'provocations.'"
I told YOU it was Kondrashev you fraud. Two years ago. The important point is how Kondrashev knew Golitsyn had uncovered him -- something which Bagley says on p. 236 of Spy Wars was a "startling indication of penetration of the CIA staff" which has never gone investigated.
On your lame Twitter page, you conflate Bagley’s "KGB-veteran interlocutor" (Kondrashev, whom Bagley couldn't name in his 2007 book because he was still alive), with your former boss, Moynihan.
On 7 January 2025, you posted the following reply to Michael Kalin at the so-called JFK Assassination Debate – Education Forum:
“The mole [in the CIA] is not blown at this point [i.e., at the time of Gary Powers' 10 February 1962 release] -- and indeed [Tennent H.] Bagley suggests, he's never blown; he is simply relaying what Golitsyn is telling CIA back to Moscow somehow. I think, based on his other book, Spymaster, that the revelation to Bagley from his "veteran KGB interlocutor" [sic; one of his KGB-veteran interlocutors] came much later, in the '90s.”
Dear Grasshopper,
Perhaps the following explanation will help you to understand what Bagley was implying on page 236 of his 2007 book, Spy Wars (bear in mind that Kondrashev was still alive and therefore he couldn’t name him) when he wrote:
"One of my KGB-veteran interlocutors said, 'The commission told me
Golitsyn had uncovered me.'
'You mean,' I said, 'that they had determined that Golitsyn knew you
and presumably identified you to the Americans.'
'No. I mean what I said. They said Golitsyn had. They knew.'
This startling indication of penetration of the CIA staff is, as far as I
know, unknown to CIA. It deserves investigation."
Bagley simply relayed what one of his KGB-veteran interlocutors, Kondrashev, told him in the 1990s – that a three-man KGB commission was set up immediately after Golitsyn’s December 1961 defection to determine how much damage he was doing to the KGB, and that said commission told him that it knew for a fact (from a KGB mole in the CIA) that Golitsyn had betrayed him to the CIA.
Rhetorical question: To whom in the CIA did Golitsyn betray KGB officers?
Answer: Counterintelligence Chief James Angleton, and possibly Bruce Leonard Solie (with whom Golitsyn had met four days after his arrival in the U.S., and who tricked him into choosing Peter Karlow’s name -- former name Klibansky -- from a list of SASHA suspects by simply withholding from the list the name Alexander “Sasha” Kopatzky, the former name of Igor Orlov.
Rhetorical question: When Angleton, Soviet Russia Division Chief David E. Murphy, and Angleton’s right-hand-man, Ray Rocca, were trying in vain on 29 June 1964 to get Golitsyn to resume working with the CIA’s primary mole hunter, Bruce Solie, which CIA office did Angleton volunteer was the only one he didn’t fear was penetrated by the KGB?
Answer: The mole-hunting Security Research Staff of the Office of Security (OS/SRS), where Bruce Solie was Deputy Chief (and Chief of its Research Branch).
Point being?
Solie was not only naïve Angleton’s mole-hunting superior, but his Philby-like confidant and mentor, to boot.
Bottom line:
In late December 1961 or early January 1962, a recent KGB defector, Major Anatoly Golitsyn, told Solie and/or James Angleton that Sergey Kondrashev, who, as a KGB colonel, was Acting Rezident (i.e., KGB station chief with diplomatic cover) in Vienna at the time, was . . . well . . . KGB!
If it was only Angleton that Golitsyn told this to, naïve Angleton then told his confidant, mentor and mole-hunting superior, Solie, what Golitsyn had said.
In any event, Solie quickly got word to the three-man KGB commission that Golitsyn had betrayed Kondrashev, and at some point, after Kondrashev and Bagley had become friends in 1964, Kondrashev told Bagley about it.
In 2013, Bagley wrote further about it in his biography of Kondrashev, Spymaster.
Said penetration was very probably naive James Angleton’s Nosenko-clearing / Shadrin-losing confidant, mentor, and mole-hunting superior in the Office of Security, Bruce Leonard Solie, or Nosenko-protecting / Shadrin-losing Leonard V. McCoy in the Soviet Russia Division’s Reports and Requirements department. (Look them up.) Interestingly, someone in the Office of Security’s mole-hunting Security Research Staff (where Solie was Deputy Chief) arranged with the Office of Mail Logistics and the Records Integration Division for all of the incoming non-CIA cables on Lee Harvey Oswald’s upcoming October 1959 “defection” in Moscow to be sent to it instead of where they would normally go — the Soviet Russia Division. They disappeared into a “black hole” in OS/SRS for at least six weeks, and the most alarming ones — the ones that reported Oswald’s threatening to Consul Snyder and the hidden KGB microphones in his office to commit U-2 espionage against the U.S. — didn’t resurface until after the assassination of JFK.
He espoused lots of bad ideas. Better than any present day demotard but still a "bleeding heart" liberal. I don't care what clothes he wore, as long as it is respectful and not a slob like Sen Fetterman.
What was his final act in politics? He walked Hillary Clinton by the hand through her listening tour. Annointing her as his replacement in the senate. All that came before seems small in comparison.
What a great article about a truely great patriot. Don't you wish the Hakeem Jeffreys of this current house, would take a few lessons from his bi-partisan approach, honest motives for the American public and his classic style? Surely, one might try to emerge from the dung heap to do something great for our nation. Instead they approach it like a bunch of old maids gossiping continually about what they hate and who they hate.
Please write a “history” book, these columns are gold! I remember when people could agree to disagree and not start riots or have temper tantrums. Thank you again.
You moron. He was Harriman's executive assistant, carrying the briefcase -- literally -- for one of the most important figures of the 20th century, back and forth to Geneva, back and forth to Joe Kennedy's NY apartment.
Very nicely done, very specific, meaty and detailed. A great way to truly appreciate strong will, commitment and character. Shoe shiner to Ambassador to India and US representative in the UN and a well storied Senatorial career. His ability to communicate comes through in your article. No doubt, the most important aspect of his entire life. Excellent work, I appreciate your presentation. It did justice to his career and personal character.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the antidote to everything wrong with today’s Democrat Party. He believed in data, consequences, and moral seriousness—three things modern Democrats openly sneer at. Moynihan could work for Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon without having a meltdown or demanding ideological purity tests. Today’s party would cancel him in a heartbeat for the Moynihan Report, for “benign neglect,” or simply for talking honestly about social decay. He understood that compassion without truth is cruelty, and that policy divorced from facts is just theater. Moynihan wasn’t “evolving.” He was thinking. That kind of Democrat no longer exists.
So true Richard! Moynihan was classy and morally grounded in a way that would have made him unelectable today. He voted against abortion as a devout Catholic. He was a thoughtful man who was willing to listen and collaborate with Reagan.
The guaranteed income idea always bounces around. Interesting idea, yet it must be coupled with the end of all other social welfare systems. No more Section 8, SNAP, WIC, Medicaid, Pell grants, etc.We will need a few social workers to look after all those who cannot manage but we cannot keep all these inefficient programs and add another social welfare program.
With all the programs we have to prevent “ hunger” we changed the language to call it “ food insecurity” to provide an excuse for why 80% of minority females are obese. Not the “ fat gene” but just fatsicolas who eat too much.
Yes, they're insecure about food so they consume as much of it as possible in each sitting, because who knows when their next meal will be? (Usually a few hours later.)
Can you imagine Moynihan debating identity politician Obama on issues of race?
Nice remembrance of a singular figure in our history, Roger.
Long gone. Folks keep addressing and talking about it as if it exists. Died longs go hi jacked by card carrying socialists, fascists, communists, atheists. Gone Every ist representing every ism under the sun. And we slept through it. Long gone. Fact.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a great man and a great statesman. He is sorely missed among the leadership in Congress, and by extension, missed by the nation.
He was brought into the Kennedy campaign by former communist turned Joe McCarthy-ite Paul Corbin, himself the very inspiration for your "dirty tricks."
Dear Grasshopper,
When Tennent H. Bagley wrote in his 2007 book, "Spy Wars," that "one his KGB-veteran interlocutors" told him that the KGB commission (which had been set up to assess the damage Anatoly Golitsyn's December 1961 defection had done to the KGB) told him that Golitsyn had uncovered him, Bagley was referring to former KGB General Sergey Kondeachev, not to your hated former boss, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, as indicated by what Bagley wrote in his 2013 book about Kondrashev, "Spymaster":
"[After Golitsyn defected] the KGB leaders quickly found out how much they had lost. Only hours after learning that Golitsyn had fled, the KGB Chairman set up a three-man commission, consisting of himself and the chiefs of his foreign intelligence and personnel directorates. They set their subordinates to work examining all the files Golitsyn had ever handled and ordered interviews of his former colleagues to find out what they might have inadvertently exposed to him. Kondrashev, who was acting KGB chief in Vienna, got a cable from Moscow within a few days after Golitsyn's defection, instructing him to query all his officers. Three weeks later, Moscow informed him which of them Golitsyn had actually exposed -- including Kondrachev himself -- and warned them to be ready for Western 'provocations.'"
Your mentor,
-- Tom
I told YOU it was Kondrashev you fraud. Two years ago. The important point is how Kondrashev knew Golitsyn had uncovered him -- something which Bagley says on p. 236 of Spy Wars was a "startling indication of penetration of the CIA staff" which has never gone investigated.
https://x.com/realmattcloud/status/1829607994101023190
On your lame Twitter page, you conflate Bagley’s "KGB-veteran interlocutor" (Kondrashev, whom Bagley couldn't name in his 2007 book because he was still alive), with your former boss, Moynihan.
Show me.
Dear Grasshopper,
On 7 January 2025, you posted the following reply to Michael Kalin at the so-called JFK Assassination Debate – Education Forum:
“The mole [in the CIA] is not blown at this point [i.e., at the time of Gary Powers' 10 February 1962 release] -- and indeed [Tennent H.] Bagley suggests, he's never blown; he is simply relaying what Golitsyn is telling CIA back to Moscow somehow. I think, based on his other book, Spymaster, that the revelation to Bagley from his "veteran KGB interlocutor" [sic; one of his KGB-veteran interlocutors] came much later, in the '90s.”
Dear Grasshopper,
Perhaps the following explanation will help you to understand what Bagley was implying on page 236 of his 2007 book, Spy Wars (bear in mind that Kondrashev was still alive and therefore he couldn’t name him) when he wrote:
"One of my KGB-veteran interlocutors said, 'The commission told me
Golitsyn had uncovered me.'
'You mean,' I said, 'that they had determined that Golitsyn knew you
and presumably identified you to the Americans.'
'No. I mean what I said. They said Golitsyn had. They knew.'
This startling indication of penetration of the CIA staff is, as far as I
know, unknown to CIA. It deserves investigation."
Bagley simply relayed what one of his KGB-veteran interlocutors, Kondrashev, told him in the 1990s – that a three-man KGB commission was set up immediately after Golitsyn’s December 1961 defection to determine how much damage he was doing to the KGB, and that said commission told him that it knew for a fact (from a KGB mole in the CIA) that Golitsyn had betrayed him to the CIA.
Rhetorical question: To whom in the CIA did Golitsyn betray KGB officers?
Answer: Counterintelligence Chief James Angleton, and possibly Bruce Leonard Solie (with whom Golitsyn had met four days after his arrival in the U.S., and who tricked him into choosing Peter Karlow’s name -- former name Klibansky -- from a list of SASHA suspects by simply withholding from the list the name Alexander “Sasha” Kopatzky, the former name of Igor Orlov.
Rhetorical question: When Angleton, Soviet Russia Division Chief David E. Murphy, and Angleton’s right-hand-man, Ray Rocca, were trying in vain on 29 June 1964 to get Golitsyn to resume working with the CIA’s primary mole hunter, Bruce Solie, which CIA office did Angleton volunteer was the only one he didn’t fear was penetrated by the KGB?
Answer: The mole-hunting Security Research Staff of the Office of Security (OS/SRS), where Bruce Solie was Deputy Chief (and Chief of its Research Branch).
Point being?
Solie was not only naïve Angleton’s mole-hunting superior, but his Philby-like confidant and mentor, to boot.
Bottom line:
In late December 1961 or early January 1962, a recent KGB defector, Major Anatoly Golitsyn, told Solie and/or James Angleton that Sergey Kondrashev, who, as a KGB colonel, was Acting Rezident (i.e., KGB station chief with diplomatic cover) in Vienna at the time, was . . . well . . . KGB!
If it was only Angleton that Golitsyn told this to, naïve Angleton then told his confidant, mentor and mole-hunting superior, Solie, what Golitsyn had said.
In any event, Solie quickly got word to the three-man KGB commission that Golitsyn had betrayed Kondrashev, and at some point, after Kondrashev and Bagley had become friends in 1964, Kondrashev told Bagley about it.
In 2013, Bagley wrote further about it in his biography of Kondrashev, Spymaster.
Your mentor,
-- Tom
You are a babbling, incoherent buffoon.
Said penetration was very probably naive James Angleton’s Nosenko-clearing / Shadrin-losing confidant, mentor, and mole-hunting superior in the Office of Security, Bruce Leonard Solie, or Nosenko-protecting / Shadrin-losing Leonard V. McCoy in the Soviet Russia Division’s Reports and Requirements department. (Look them up.) Interestingly, someone in the Office of Security’s mole-hunting Security Research Staff (where Solie was Deputy Chief) arranged with the Office of Mail Logistics and the Records Integration Division for all of the incoming non-CIA cables on Lee Harvey Oswald’s upcoming October 1959 “defection” in Moscow to be sent to it instead of where they would normally go — the Soviet Russia Division. They disappeared into a “black hole” in OS/SRS for at least six weeks, and the most alarming ones — the ones that reported Oswald’s threatening to Consul Snyder and the hidden KGB microphones in his office to commit U-2 espionage against the U.S. — didn’t resurface until after the assassination of JFK.
He espoused lots of bad ideas. Better than any present day demotard but still a "bleeding heart" liberal. I don't care what clothes he wore, as long as it is respectful and not a slob like Sen Fetterman.
What was his final act in politics? He walked Hillary Clinton by the hand through her listening tour. Annointing her as his replacement in the senate. All that came before seems small in comparison.
What a great article about a truely great patriot. Don't you wish the Hakeem Jeffreys of this current house, would take a few lessons from his bi-partisan approach, honest motives for the American public and his classic style? Surely, one might try to emerge from the dung heap to do something great for our nation. Instead they approach it like a bunch of old maids gossiping continually about what they hate and who they hate.
Please write a “history” book, these columns are gold! I remember when people could agree to disagree and not start riots or have temper tantrums. Thank you again.
You moron. He was Harriman's executive assistant, carrying the briefcase -- literally -- for one of the most important figures of the 20th century, back and forth to Geneva, back and forth to Joe Kennedy's NY apartment.