Final_Judgment

[224] Final Judgment 285
Assassination researcher Bernard Fensterwald reported in 1977 that,
"Angleton had handled several controversial CIA matters relating to the
assassination, such as the mysterious series of CIA photographs taken in
Mexico City in September and October, 1963, in which a man identified by
the CIA as Lee Harvey Oswald turned out not to be Oswald at all." 601
What's more, as pointed out by Peter Dale Scott, a report by the House
Assassinations Committee "established that, on the death of Win Scott, the
by-then retired Mexico City station chief who had sent out the Kostikov
cable, CIA counterintelligence chief Angleton flew immediately to Mexico
City, retrieved a photograph of 'Oswald' from the family safe, and destroyed
it . . . .” 602
What is particularly interesting, in light of all that we have seen in
relation to Angleton's ties to the Mossad, Scott adds further: "Angleton may
have undertaken this mission on behalf of the agency. Another possibility is
that he undertook it on behalf of a cabal within the government who had
conspired to create the `Oswald'-Kostikov story." 603
The Mexico City-Oswald scenario was clearly part of the groundwork for
the ultimate framing of Lee Harvey Oswald as a communist sympathizer—
perhaps even a KGB operative—who had killed the American president.
And in light of the mysterious appearance of the "Dear Mr. Hunt" letter
(ostensibly from Lee Harvey Oswald) mailed from Mexico City, we can
only speculate as to whether Angleton himself may have been the
mastermind behind the leak of that hitherto unknown document as well.
Was the "Dear Mr. Hunt" letter also part of Angleton's tangled web of
intrigue?
It was Angleton who was so determined to bury any evidence that
proved that Oswald was not, in fact, a KGB operative (as we have already
seen in Chapter 8.)
It was Angleton who most vociferously accused Soviet defector Yuri
Nosenko of being a KGB plant. Nosenko had come to the United States
following the JFK assassination and claimed insistently that Oswald had not
worked for the Soviet KGB, that the KGB had vetoed any idea of attempting
to recruit Oswald after the young American had "defected" to the USSR
(whether Oswald's "defection" was genuine or not).
The story told by Nosenko disproved Angleton's thesis entirely—which
perhaps explains why Angleton dealt so harshly with Nosenko. That
Trento's story—leaking the Angleton memo on Hunt—would incorporate a
major portion of Angleton's JFK cover story is interesting, to say the least.
WHAT MOTIVATED ANGLETON?
Pointing toward the intra-CIA turmoil which, in fact, had resulted in
Angleton's ouster from the CIA, is the interesting suggestion in Trento's
story that sources within the CIA had suggested that Angleton was
suspected by some of being a KGB mole.