Possible that he was an Angleton counter-intelligence dangle. Angleton sent him to defect to Moscow to see if the Soviets would bite on such an attractive defector who had U-2/perhaps even CORONA program knowledge. If they ignored him by and large, which they did, that would confirm existence of a mole in CIA. Therefore, setting him u…
Possible that he was an Angleton counter-intelligence dangle. Angleton sent him to defect to Moscow to see if the Soviets would bite on such an attractive defector who had U-2/perhaps even CORONA program knowledge. If they ignored him by and large, which they did, that would confirm existence of a mole in CIA. Therefore, setting him up with the assassination would neuter Angelton if it came out that Oswald had been an Angleton operation.
Possible that he was an Angleton counter-intelligence dangle. Angleton sent him to defect to Moscow to see if the Soviets would bite on such an attractive defector who had U-2/perhaps even CORONA program knowledge. If they ignored him by and large, which they did, that would confirm existence of a mole in CIA. Therefore, setting him up with the assassination would neuter Angelton if it came out that Oswald had been an Angleton operation.