Hoax Hunters12 Marras 2025

He Knew About JFK's Assassin, So Why Did the CIA Try to Destroy Him?

What if the man holding the truth about Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK assassination was a lie? In 1964, high-level KGB officer Yuri Nosenko walks into a CIA station, offering secrets that could change the world. It’s the ultimate prize of the Cold War... or is it the most elaborate hoax ever conceived?

Welcome to The Mole Hunter's Gambit, the podcast that unlocks one of the most paranoid and destructive chapters in CIA history. At the heart of the storm is James Jesus Angleton, the brilliant, obsessive CIA Counterintelligence Chief who was convinced Nosenko was a KGB plant sent to poison the agency from within. What followed was not a debriefing, but a descent into hell. Nosenko was thrown into years of brutal solitary confinement and psychological torture, designed to break him and expose the "real" mission.

Join us as we dissect this legendary spy-vs-spy conflict. Was Nosenko a genuine hero who endured unimaginable torment to bring vital intelligence—including the KGB's file on Lee Harvey Oswald—to the West? Or was he a master manipulator, a fake defector playing a long game that nearly tore the CIA apart?

This is a story of paranoia, power, and a truth so contested it led to the downfall of a spy legend. If you love a thriller where the lines between hero and villain are hopelessly blurred, you've found your next obsession. Follow us now, and enter the wilderness of mirrors.

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