An extremely sensitive and reliable source, the source known as TOPHAT: William Sullivan to Alan Belmont, 12/4/63, FBI-HSCA Subject Files, C-D/FBI-SCA Subject File: Church Committee, NARA Record Number: 124-10287-10185
Tophat was Lt. General Dmitri Fedorovich Polyakov, exposed by Aldrich Ames - the real mole inside the CIA - whose motivation was money and not ideology: Elaine Shannon, Time Magazine, "Death of the Perfect Spy", 8/8/94.
Scott Van Wynsberghe, Third Decade, Jan.-Mar. 1992, "Stray Shots VIII", p. 21: "In 1978, Epstein exploited his contacts with the Angleton crowd to reveal the existence of one traitor in the Soviet U.N. delegation. Epstein apparently thought this individual, Dmitri Polyakov to be another fake, but Mangold says Polyakov, too, was genuine. In fact, he was executed in 1988." Also see Tom Mangold, Cold Warrior, pp. 205-214.
For more on TOPHAT, see Mangold, Cold Warrior, pp. 227-236; David Wise, Molehunt, pp. 153-154.Khrushchev eventually "gave the okay" to shoot down
the Powers U-2 aircraft at a time when he thought it would do the most good for
Soviet prestige: William Sullivan to Alan Belmont, 12/4/63, FBI-HSCA Subject Files,
C-D/FBI-SCA Subject File: Church
Committee, NARA Record Number: 124-10287-10185.
His widow admitted to the FBI that Dunlap told her before his suicide that he had been selling secrets to the Soviets: No Title, FBI memo from William Sullivan to Alan Belmont, 12/4/63, FBI - HSCA Subject File: Church Committee/RIF#: 124-10287-10185.
By 1960...all of the sites on Francis Gary Powers' flight path were protected by SA-2 missile sites: Gerald McKnight, Breach of Trust (University Press of Kansas, 2005), p. 440, citing Dino A. Brugoni, Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis (New York: Random House, 1991), pp. 43-44.
On details surrounding the U-2"sources such as Richard Helms and Richard Bissell. Bissell: U-2s provided "more than ninety percent of all its hard intelligence about the Soviet Union.": Edward Jay Epstein, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald (Reader's Digest Press, 1978) p. 119.
Kelly Johnson designed the U-2: Press Release, "Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works Celebrates Diamond Anniversary". www.lockheedmartin.com/news/press_releases/2003/LockheedMartinSSkunkWorksCelebrates.html
Delivering in 1955 the first U-2 to the infamous top-secret base Area 51: Jeffrey Richelson, Wizards of Langley (Westview Press, 2002), p. 14.
Johnson: The Soviets either penetrated US radar countermeasures, or, by some other means, the ability to take precise measurements of the U-2's radar signals: Epstein, Legend, at p. 119.
Powers: "Oswald's familiarity with MPS 16 height-finding radar gear and radio codes...are mentioned in the testimony of John E. Donovan, a former first lieutenant assigned to the same El Toro radar unit as OSWALD.": Francis Gary Powers, Operation Overflight (Brassey's Inc., paperback version 2004), pp. 304-305.
Lt. John Emmett Donovan was Oswald's commanding officer in 1959, and had discussed more than radar gear and codes: "(Oswald) had the access to the location of all bases in the west coast area, all radio frequencies for all squadrons...: Testimony of John E. Donovan, Warren Commission Hearings, Volume 8, p. 298.
Donovan was Oswald's commanding officer in 1959: Incident Report Re. John E. Donovan's Acquaintance with Lee Harvey Oswald, 12/1/63, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 41/RIF# 104-10113-10241
On the same day of this Secret Service interview, Donovan was contacted by Evening Star reporter Jeremiah O'Leary who was also a Marine reservist: Remarks on routing slip re John E. Donovan, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 47/RIF#: 104-10132-10126
Incredibly, the Warren Commission did not ask Donovan or any of Oswald's military colleagues a single question about the U-2, even though the shootdown incident happened on the second overflight after Oswald's arrival to the USSR: Powers, Operation Overflight, p. 305
Donovan said that "he did not know whether Oswald had actually turned over secrets to the Russians. But for security's sake it had to be assumed that he did": New York Journal American, "Oswald in Russia: Did He Tell Our Military Secrets?", quoting John Donovan, 12/2/63.
The gap between Helms' version and Donovan's version is vast. Donovan talks about how his unit provided U-2 support at Cubi Point in the Philippines, where Oswald once tracked a U-2 flying over China and showed it to him: Interview by John Newman with James Donovan, 7/19/94, in Newman's Oswald and the CIA, p. 32.
"To summarize: There is no evidence or indication that OSWALD had any association with, or access to, the JTAG (Joint Technical Advisors Group) operation or its program in Japan. This applies also to information regarding the U-2 or its mission." Warren Commission Document 931, Richard Helms memo re Oswald's access to the U-2, final page.
In Oswald's diary, he indicates on May 1, 1960 Don Alejandro advised him to go back to the USA...: "Historic Diary from Oct. 16, 1959 Arrival", p. 9, Russ Holmes Work File/NARA Record Number: 104-10418-10355.
The CIA's memo says that Ziger "cautioned Oswald not to tell any Russians": Oswald 201 File, Vol 24 Bulky, Oswald Chronology Part 2, Name List with Traces, p. 29.
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