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Bruce Leonard Solie | |
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Born | Bruce Leonard Solie November 12, 1917 Wisconsin, USA |
Died | December 23, 1992 (aged 75) Rockville, Maryland |
Burial place | Nemaha Cemetary, Nemaha, Nemaha County, Nebraska, USA |
Education | Batchelors degrees in Economics and Law |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin |
Occupation | CIA officer |
Known for | Yuri Nosenko case, "Sasha" Case, Nicholas Shadrin case |
Spouse | Mary Elizabeth Matthews Solie |
Children | 3 |
Parent(s) |
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Awards | Distinguished Intelligence Medal |
Espionage activity | |
Allegiance | Ostensibly United States, possibly USSR |
Agency | Central Intelligence Agency |
Service years | 1951–1979 |
Rank | Second Lieutenant during WW II |
Bruce Leonard Solie was a commendation-garnering, career-long officer in the CIA's mole-hunting Office of Security who was best known for his exoneration of controversial KGB defector
Solie was described by former CIA counterintelligence officer
Bagley, who was Nosenko's primary case officer for five years[11], wrote scathingly about Solie in his book, "Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries and Deadly Games,"[12] and came to suspect near the end of his life that he was a KGB "mole." He suggested that Solie be "put on the short list" for suspected CIA traitors because he had inexplicably provided "rock-like protection" for Nosenko over the years and Solie's sister-in-law had married the ostensible KGB defector.[13]
Newman and his British colleague, Malcolm Blunt (who befriended Bagley in 2008), contend that Solie probably was a KGB "mole" at the heart of the CIA.[14][15]
Solie's Supporters
At the time of the writing of this article (January 2024), no espionage writer or former intelligence agent has attempted to rebut Blunt's (September 2021) or Newman's (October 2022) evidence (or Bagley's 2014 suspicion) that Solie was a KGB "mole." Lots of experts in the past have, however, sided with Solie in his assessment that Nosenko was a true defector and/or that Igor Kochnov was a really spying for the U.S. and/or that "Popov's Mole" was ensconced somewhere in the Soviet Russia Division and/or that Aleksei Kulak (FEDORA) was really spying for the FBI, etc. Among these experts are former CIA officers like Leonard V. McCoy, John L. Hart, George Kisevalter, Cleveland Cram,Richards Heuer, and espionage writers like Tom Mangold, David Wise (journalist), and Jefferson Morley.
Background
Solie was born to a dairy farmer and his wife in Wisconsin on November 12th, 1917, and he died on December 23rd, 1992. He became a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, served as an Air Force navigator in the European theater during World War II[16], and met his future wife (Mary Elizabeth Matthews) at Rosecrans Field (known today as Rosecrans Air National Guard Base) in St. Joseph, Missouri. They were married on February 22, 1944, and lived in Memphis, Tennessee, and Homestead, Florida, until Solie was stationed overseas as a bomber pilot. They eventually had a son and two daughters. At the conclusion of WW II, they moved to "Badger Village," a housing facility devised to handle the influx of WWII veterans attending the University of Wisconsin at Madison, from which school he earned degrees in economics and law. In 1951 they relocated to the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., where he began a career with the CIA which lasted until his retirement in 1979.[17]
Some Indications That Solie May Have Been a KGB "Mole"
Travel Records
Newman found some of Solie's travel records around 2017 which had been posted on a genealogical website in 2010. Since he was told that they were too faint to be published, they weren't included in his 2022 book, "Uncovering Popov's Mole," but were put his on his website, instead.
Popov's Mole / The Lee Harvey Oswald Defection Case
In April of 1958,
Solie Apparently Hid Information on Oswald's Defection From the FBI
Although the CIA had received a cable about Oswald's defection from the Department of the Navy on 4 November 1959, Solie, when asked on that date by the FBI's liaison to the CIA, Sam Papich, if the Agency knew anything about Oswald, wrote to Angleton's Counterintelligence liaison, "Mr. Papich was advised that we had no info on subject."[26]
The Sasha Case
KGB Major
The Yuri Nosenko Case
In late May or early June (accounts vary) of 1962, putative KGB officer
Nosenko recontacted Bagley and Kisevalter in Geneva in late January 1964, two months after the assassination of
That same month, April 1964, Solie tried to convince Warren Commission investigator W. David Slawson that Nosenko had given contradictory information to his debriefers because he had been drunk at his five 1962 meetings in Geneva, because there had been a severe language problem between Nosenko and Bagley, and because Nosenko was under intense stress in the U.S.[38] British researcher Malcolm Blunt, who befriended Bagley in 2008, says Bagley was astounded when Blunt showed him some documents which suggested Solie had tried to convince Slawson that Nosenko was a true defector. According to Blunt, Bagley insisted that April 1964 was much too early for Solie to have arrived at that conclusion.[39]
For security reasons, Nosenko was moved from the residential-area "safe house" to a more austere, bunker-like building that was built especially for him at Camp Peary, and he was subjected there to his second polygraph exam and two more years of hostile interrogations.[40]
In 1967, Solie was given the task of conducting a new, independent investigation to determine whether or not still-incarcerated Nosenko was a true defector. To do this, he moved Nosenko into a more comfortable "safe house," and proceeded to elicit possible explanations from him that could make more plausible his previous contradictory statements. A year later, after administering a final polygraph exam to Nosenko (which polygraph expert Robert O. Arther later read at CIA headquarters and said was unreliable[41]) Solie, contradicting the negative assessment of Nosenko by the Soviet Russia Division's condensation of Bagley's 840-page report, concluded in his own report that Nosenko was a true defector. This conclusion was quickly accepted by CIA leadership, and Nosenko was released, "cleared," financially compensated, resettled under a new name, and hired by the CIA to teach counterintelligence to its new recruits.[42]
The Shadrin Affair
In June of 1966, shortly before he assumed the position of
The Clay Shaw Trial
In a 2022 YouTube video in which researcher Malcolm Blunt is interviewed about Yuri Nosenko, Blunt says Solie was omnipresent in the JFK assassination investigation, and that he was "all over" Clay Shaw for New Orlean's District Attorney Jim Garrison. [45]
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