Talk:Rufus Taylor

Re: Angleton and Nosenko

Why does this article make it sound as though Angleton made his decision about Nosenko all by himself, and why does it not mention Tennent H. Bagley's long HSCA refutation of John L. Hart's assessment?

You wrote:

"In late 1967, DCI Richard Helms asked [Rufus] Taylor to oversee a difficult, intra-CIA dispute involving Yuri Nosenko, who had defected from Soviet intelligence in 1964. CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton had almost immediately accused Nosenko of being a double agent and provocateur sent by the Soviets to penetrate American intelligence. As a result of this dilemma Nosenko was held for several years by CIA pending resolution. Taylor conducted his "independent review" of the "immense files" and began to interview the CIA officers involved. Finally Taylor concluded that Nosenko was not a double agent and that Helms should set him free.[11][12] In his exhaustive review Taylor also had relied on an internal CIA report by Bruce Solie of October 1968. Despite strong objections from CIA counterintelligence, in March 1969 Nosenko was released and put on the CIA payroll as a consultant. Angleton, however, kept insisting Nosenko was a counterspy, until in 1974 Angleton resigned from CIA. A further internal CIA report by John Hart in late 1976 confirmed Nosenko's bona fides.[13][14][15]"

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1) Angleton did not act on his own in determining that Nosenko was a false defector. He asked Tennent H. Bagley, who had just finished interviewing Nosenko in five "safehouse" meetings in Geneva in June of 1962, to read the thick file on another recent defector, Anatoliy Golitsyn (who had defected six months earlier) to see if their narratives complemented or contradicted each other. Bagley, disappointed that the latter was the case and that Nosenko seemed to be trying to discredit what Golitsyn was telling CIA about "moles" and Kremlin-loyal triple-agents in the intelligence agencies of the U.S. and its allies, convinced Angleton that Nosenko was a false defector, not the other way around.

2) If one believes the HSCA testimony of my hero (and Nosenko's former CIA "handler"), Tennent H. Bagley, it's pretty obvious that John L. Hart perjured himself in his earlier Nosenko-supporting / Bagley-assassinating HSCA testimony. You can read Bagley's 170 pages of HSCA rejoinder below. (Note: "X" signifies true-defector Anatoliy Golitsyn, and "Y" signifies the British traitor in The Admiralty, John Vassall.)

Please read Bagley's 2007 book "Spy Wars" while you're at it for the full story on false-defector Nosenko. https://archive.org/details/SpyWarsMolesMysteriesAndDeadlyGames/mode/2up

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32273600.pdf Was Kisevalter Nash? (talk) 09:25, 1 January 2022 (UTC)