Golitsyn

Do non-terrorist intelligence-related matters, while rare, such as Golitsyn fit here?

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

Do non-terrorist intelligence-related matters, while rare, such as Golitsyn fit here?

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

Do non-terrorist intelligence-related matters, while rare, such as Golitsyn fit here?

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

Do non-terrorist intelligence-related matters, while rare, such as Golitsyn fit here?

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

His conclusion: “Noshenko was real, Golitsyn was fake.”

American Connections James Burke 2007

So when in 1961 Anatoly Golitsyn defected from the KGB and said there were moles in the CIA, MI5, and French intelligence and that everything the CIA discovered about the KGB was Russian-orchestrated, smoke-and-mirrors disinformation, Angleton believed him and gutted the agency.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Golitsyn had convinced Angleton that the K.G.B. was going to be dispatching “false defectors” to follow him, discredit his leads and protect the Hidden Mole in the C.I.A. Mr. Nosenko — according to Golitsyn — was the first of the false.

The Spy Who Came in From Geneva: Nosenko, the K.G.B. Defector 2007

Three years later another defector, Yuri Noshenko, claimed that Golitsyn himself was smoke and mirrors.

American Connections James Burke 2007

So when in 1961 Anatoly Golitsyn defected from the KGB and said there were moles in the CIA, MI5, and French intelligence and that everything the CIA discovered about the KGB was Russian-orchestrated, smoke-and-mirrors disinformation, Angleton believed him and gutted the agency.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Three years later another defector, Yuri Noshenko, claimed that Golitsyn himself was smoke and mirrors.

American Connections James Burke 2007