The two PDF documents are of files that have been available from the CIA Vault for some years, the first is a fairly comprehensive list of names of Soviet employees of different ranks and titles who served in foreign countries.
SOVIET EMPLOYEES
The list includes nature of employment and location as you work through it:
LIST OF KNOWN AGENTS
This next PDF contains a list of Soviet Agents who had been exposed or declared PNG because of their espionage activities and connections.
You will note that each entry has a date or maybe two dates included, from what I have seen, these dtes do not seem to be reliable so it would be worth checking the dates against any articles or other references to the person concerned. The release of this document was around 1999 and more names have been released since so it is not a complete list of known agents:
Australia certainly had it's share of PNGs.
ReplyDeleteAs an aside, whilst looking to confirm this Harkness person who the RSL had written on behalf of to inquire about his/her uncle Horace Pile's war service medals, although I have yet to confirm the relationship between Harkness and Pile, I did discover something of interest in my search for whom the Somerton Man might be. The Pile ancestry reveals the possibility of DNA from North West United States and Scandinavia being acquired a few centuries back. As for Pile's 2nd wife, well I'd like to have some time with the EYL files once they're digitised to investigate who both Rivka and Thomas Keane were acquainted with in the performing artists. I wonder if anyone has any historical knowledge of the people that performed at the Williamstown theatre?
Good information Pete, for those who don't know, Horace Pile was under surveillance for some time. You might care to add to that thought PeteDavo
DeleteSo, Pavel I. Fedosimov and his wife were in Libya April 1957 per the list. Pity the CIA don't have any photos of these individuals. Clive
ReplyDeleteNo, still no pics, not for the want of trying as you know.If I am not mistaken, there was a mention of him at the UN in 1949 which would be hard to believe because of the circumstances under which he left in 1948. According to Vassiliev, people who are suspected of being a traitor would either be dispatched summarily or, if there is evidence to the contrary, they would be locked up in most cases but most certainly not allowed to leave the Soviet Union. Vassiliev's notes are quite clear on the Soviet view of Fedosimov. The full set of notes can be found here for those interested:
ReplyDeletehttps://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/86/vassiliev-notebooks
ReplyDeleteABC iVIEW FINAL RENDEZVOUS – TUESDAY 11th AUGUST 2020 (Australia only)
The collapse of a major spy case involving a female double agent haunted ASIO throughout the Cold War. A new investigation of surveillance film reveals what went wrong and uncovers a possible KGB murder on Australian soil.
Well, the ABC investigation looks very promising. Going back to Fedosimov and his "Libya April 1957", could this be another Novikov trick? The CIA etc knew him as Fedosimov , but his 'true' name is different? Clive
ReplyDeleteThe antecedents of Rivka Pile nee Podem, birth name Podemsky / Podemski are fascinating but bring with it more questions than answers.
ReplyDeleteThere is no ASIO file in NAA on Rivka. given her overt communist activities.
I don't know why her father returned to Russia for six years, 1916 to 1922.
Fedosimov in Libya....where have we heard that before? (Link removed) Can't find it now, but I think there was a reference to him in Britain post Somerton Man times too....
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment. There are a few issues here,and please excuse the 'buts' firstly, I have always said that if we can find photographs of Fedosimov after the 1947 Airfield pic or after December 1st 1948 then fine we have some proof.
ReplyDeleteBut, there are no photographs of him after that date and the only one to exist is the one we have here on the blog where he is at La Guardia airfield with his leader Nikolai Novikov. And another but, this photograph is very suspect, lighting and shadows issues strongly suggest that this was a compilation of studio images, so we don't even know that the man shown next to Novikov is Pavel Fedosimov, we only believe that because the TASS office and Sovfoto say so. Both of those organisations were fronts for KGB and NKVD operations.
Yet another but, Soviet intelligence operatives regularly used different names, they would even change their names moving to places within the US and other countries. Here's an example:
In a recent post: https://tamamshud.blogspot.com/2020/07/somerton-man-mystery-novikov-conundrum.html, you will see a photograph taken from an Australian newspaper of part of the Sovie delegation to the Lapstone conference with the description indicating that the man in the front of the image is Kirill Novikov, Soviet Ambassador to India when in fact it is of Nikolai Novikov, (no relation to Kirill). That's the same Nikolai that was shown in the photograph with the person we believe to be Fedosimov. Further he is with Miss Bogotyreva, Kirill's secretary, who had flown in from Moscow. But Kirill flew in from India and it was friend Nikolai that flew in from Moscow we believe. Nikolai was a known spy and had been declared 'Persona Non Grata' in the US over his involvement in an early 1948 spy case.
Kirill Noviov later shows up at the Lapstone conference and Nikolai is nowhere to be found.
The more you research, investigate and read of Soviet intelligence methods the more you see how the waters are continually muddied. By the way I am sure that it is not limited to just the Soviets.
Another part of my response dealing with the removal of the link in the next comment
And so, first, to the link removal issue. If you look at that particular blog's url in your browser, you'll see that the url itself is prefixed by the words 'NOT SECURE', it means just that. If you access that url or any other that shows the same warning message it means that your web access is not secure and you stand to be open to hacking. In particular if you access from a 'hotspot' or mobile phone, you are made vulnerable. I will not be guilty of sending visitors to this site to unsecure sites or sites known for trolls. The link you gave is known for both.
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of Trolls, here are some examples of last nights offering from John Sanders, one of the trolls in residence at the link you provided. I have made some enlightening comments for your information alongside each:
john sanders
on August 10, 2020 at 11:11 am said:
In a rare moment of temporary distraction Gordon has apparently misidentified Constable Moss with jeweller Lyons of “that cigarette was not lit” more credible assertion (in the opinion of no body but me), It seems that our all knowing BS/TS head honcho may also have gotten his wires crossed with a bold claim that Det. R.L. Leane went across to A.S.I.O., perhaps confusing him with younger brother G.M. Leane, a Snr. Det. Inspector, who was sent off to Blighty in the early fifties on behalf of all states & the Commonwealth sans ASIO, to establish international cooperation in the newly created Interpol fiasco.
COMMENT: 1. I have made no reference to John Lyons in the posts referred to. 2. Detective Segeant Leane joined ASIO also referred to in the Littlemore interviews
john sanders
on August 10, 2020 at 11:32 am said:
Another well documented furphy is that Ray Whitrod joined ASIO which he most certainly did not in any shape or form; on the contrary he left Sapol to become director of Commonwealth Investigation Service, later to be installed as first Commissioner of the newly created Commonwealth Police Force which you can take as gospel…as for John Moss, he never got further than Henley Beach.
COMMENT: Raymond Wells Whitrod, AC, CVO, QPM Was one of the founder officers of ASIO which he joined in 1949. He was instrumental in setting up ASIO and led the counter espionage team in 1949. He later, 1953, became head of the Commonwealth Investigation Services.
john sanders
on August 10, 2020 at 12:40 pm said:
Chief Superintendent and former SA Detective Sgt. Errol Canney OBE, went over to the Commonwealth Police Force, not ASIO and in the early 1960s was appointed to the exulted post of Commanding Officer of the International Peace Keeping Force in Cyprus. So once again, for Gordon, Peteb and the die hard espionage theory collective, no joy I’m afraid.
COMMENT: I have made no mention of Errol Canney in my recent posts or comments.
As you can see the troll, John Sanders, has very little idea of the subject, he has no depth skill or experience in this field, sadly and consequently, he lacks credibility and that blog seems to be doomed to oblivion at least on the subject of the Somerton Man. Personally, I think he needs help as per comments I have made previously regarding his symptoms. Nick Pelling is not doing John any favours by encouraging him in the way he does.
John, let me put it to you in terms that you might understand, I think You're way out of your depth. The Ray Whitrod example makes it very clear that you just don't know what you are talking about and you're looking more and more foolish.
ReplyDeleteHere's an opportunity for you to learn something, it's a link to an interview with Ray Whitrod:
https://www.australianbiography.gov.au/subjects/whitrod/interview5.html
Read it through carefully and then I expect a full apology from you.
No apology? I think you've arrived John, fame and glory await you. Have a wonderful day :)
ReplyDeleteOh Dear me little Johnny Tenpence. You have quite a problem there, psychotic really. Your relationship with the truth is strange indeed. When I read through your comments you are rather like a little boy who pooped in his bed and then spread the excrement all over the sheets in the mistaken belief that he could tell his Mum that someone else had done it. Sadly little Johnny, the evidence is all over your face, your hands and right through your hair. Goodness me, you can almost smell it!. I suspect that your stench will take a long time to dissipate if ever, but just soldier on Johnny Tenpence, miracles do happen.
ReplyDeleteSeems that once you upset a troll even more appear :)
ReplyDeleteIn this case I advised people that the Cipher mysteries blog is not secure. Specifically it does not have a HTTPS prefix which is a secure connection. Unlike a plain http prefix which is the case for Cipher Mysteries, it is NOT SECURE and it says so quite plainly in your browser should you visit that site. An annonymous commenter said I was wrong and quoted a website address where I would find the correct information. That same website made this comment:
What is HTTP?
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the way servers and browsers talk to each other. It’s a great language for computers, but it’s not encrypted. Think of it this way. If everyone in the world spoke English, everyone would understand each other. Every browser and server in the world speaks HTTP, so if an attacker managed to hack in, he could read everything going on in the browser, including that Facebook username and password you just typed in.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is another language, except this one is encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Imagine if everyone in the world spoke English except two people who spoke Russian. If you happened to overhear them speaking in Russian, you wouldn’t understand them. It’s the same with HTTPS. If browsers use HTTPS to pass information, even if attackers manage to capture the data, they can’t read the information.
The bottom line is that even if you just browse to an insecure (HTTP only) website, it communicates with your computer or cell phone, that transaction is tracked by many sites including cipher mysteries. But as per the quoted information above, the details of that transaction including your IP address and pages that you visit is visible in plain text. You have become traceable and some operators can track down your physical location and with extra work could even uncover other personal details.
For your own security, the advice is never to visit an insecure site, it is too risky.