From: mst4298@zeus.tamu.edu (Mitchell S Todd)
Subject: Re: Teen Agent, Can you Hear Me? Teen Agent, Can You See Me? (was: Clay Shaw is Clay Bertrand, Oswald *was* a Teen Agent
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:24:00 GMT

In article <schuck.714114803@sfu.ca>, Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes...
>Mitchell S Todd) writes:

>>	The Soviets knew damn well that the US was flying spy
>>	planes over Soviet territory. Oswald wouldn't have told them
>>	anything they wouldn't have known. 

>From the testimony of John Donovan, former Marine Lieutenant:

>"...shortly before I got out of the Marine Corps, which was in
>mid-December 1959, we received word that he had showed up in Moscow.
>This necessitated a lot of change of aircraft call signs, codes, radio
>frequencies, radar frequencies.

>Sure Mitchell. Oswald had nothing of value for the USSR. [Heavy Sarcasm]

	Had you read the post carefully, you'd know that I as refering
	Stone's contention that Oswald was sent to Russia to torpedo the
	summit.

	However, since you insist...


>  He had access to the location of all bases in the West Coast area,
>all radio frequencies for all squadrons, all tactical call signs,
>and the relative strength of all squadrons, number and type of aircraft in
>a squadron, who was the commanding officer, the authentification code of
>entering an exiting the ADIZ, which stands for Aircraft Defense
>Identification Zone. He knew the range of our radar.
>He knew the range of our radio. And he knew the range of the surrounding
>units' radio and radar."   [8H 298]

	The Soviets would have garnered most of this information by then
	anyway. The location of bases would be easy enough to figure
	out, since your average Exxon highway map tends to include them.
	Other, more secret bases would be ferreted out by simple legwork.

	Information such as communications and radar frequencies, 
	ADIZ authentication codes, radar range, and probably also
	radio range would be easily picked up by the Soviet version
	of national technical means, such as listening posts, those
	famous russian trawlers, and elint aircraft. I've generally
	been suprised at the brief amount of time between the Soviet's
	fielding of a new air defense radar system and a _Jane's_ article
	that points out which frequencies it operates on. The US 
	would have known that information long before _Jane's_.
	Similarly, the Soviets would soon have the "digs" on our
	newly deployed systems. 

	The radio call signs would be a bit more difficult. Listening
	posts would record the call signs, but it would take a little
	detective work, and some repeated listening, to place names
	with faces, as it were. 

	Since ADIZ codes, call signs, and comm frequencies can be easily
	changed, Oswald would be of little use to the Soviets on that
	matter. By the time the information would have filtered out to
	operational units, they would have been changed already. 

	As for squadron strengths, commanding officer's names, etc,
	this information would be readily available to the Soviets.
	the names of commanding officers is not a secret. Strengths 
	and aircraft types would be no further away than looking
	up the federal budget and similar open documents (the
	GRU routinely had agents observing congressional hearings
	on the military budget), along with a little legwork.

	At the most, Oswald might have been able to fill in a few
	gaps in the Soviets' knowledge At best, Oswald might fill in gaps
	in the Soviets' knowledge of our systems, and that's really
	not much. Had Oswald been involved with cryptography, however...



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