(vol. 6, ch. 14, part 2)
21. Joesten,
22. Joesten,
23. Joesten,
24. Even the sympathetic Mark Lane later wrote somewhat critically of Joesten’s book: “I had met with Carl Marzani, read proofs of the book at his request, and made some few suggestions. It was a very early work, written before the Warren Commission’s evidence was released; therefore, while timely, it was of necessity somewhat flawed and incomplete” (Lane,
25. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 3.
26. Joersten,
27. Lane,
28. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 3. There is no evidence that Lane did realize the source of the funding.
29. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 3; t-7,102. Borovik doubtless did not identify himself to Lane as a KGB agent.
30. Lane,
31. Posner,
32. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 3.
33. Posner,
34. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 3. Mitrokhin gives the text of the forged letter in Russian translation. For the original version, see Hurt,
35. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 3.
36. Hurt,
37. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 3.
38. Lane,
39. Andrew,
40. Also influential was the report of the House Select Committee on the JFK and King assassinations. Its draft report in December 1978 concluded that Oswald acted alone. Flawed acoustic evidence then persuaded the committee that, in addition to the three shots fired by Oswald, a fourth had been fired from a grassy knoll, thus leading it to conclude in its final report of July 1979 that there had been a conspiracy. It pointed to mobsters as the most likely conspirators. Posner,
41. Andrew,
42. vol. 6, ch. 14, parts 1, 2, 3; vol. 6, app. 1, part 22.
43. On Agee’s resignation from the CIA, see Barron,
44. Kalugin,
45. Agee,
46. vol. 6, app. 1, part 22.
47. Agee,
48. The London residency eventually became dissatisfied with Cheporov, claiming that he “used his co-operation with the KGB for his own benefit” and “expressed improper criticism of the system in the USSR.” k-14,115.
49. vol. 6, app. 1, part 22.
50. Agee,
51. Agee,
52. vol. 7, ch. 16, para. 46.
53. The defense committee also took up the case of an American journalist, Mark Hosenball, who had also been served with a deportation order. Unlike Agee, however, Hosenball had no contact with the committee and took no part in its campaign. In the KGB files noted by Mitrokhin there is no mention of Hosenball, save for a passing reference to the work of the defense committee.
54. Agee,
55. On the residency’s tendency to exaggerate in its influence on protest demonstrations, see Andrew and Gordievsky,
56. At a private meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on February 17, 1977, however, the Home Secretary, Merlyn Rees, implied a KGB connection. Tony Benn’s diary vaguely records that the gist of Rees’s comments was that Agee and Hosenball “had been in contact or whatever with enemy agents or something.” According to Benn, Rees “got quite a reasonable hearing from the Party.” Benn,