It was a lot of fun speaking with Gus Russo about Cuba, Castro, and JFK. Gus has appeared in episodes 6 and 16, so check out the links below. He has also written an excellent article at SpyTalk on the KGB's disinformation campaign on the JFK assassination. And he was the co-author of another SpyTalk article on Jefferson Morley's nothingburger about George Joannides. Previous Episodes of On the Trail of Delusion : Episode 1 My first guest was Robert Reynolds who is an expert o

SpyTalk's Jeff Stein, Michael Isikoff and Gus Russo respond to Jefferson Morley's Fact Check on the Joannides File. Morley has a heavy lift in theorizing that sometime in the summer and fall of 1963,  the CIA somehow managed to create a new identity for Oswald as an anti-Castro activist. Indeed, there is no evidence for any of that—as The Post could’ve quickly determined had it fact-checked Morley’s sensational “new evidence.”  Nothing we raised last week is difficult to fin

It was a ton of fun holding my first panel discussion with Robert Reynolds, Gus Russo, Larry Haapanen, Mark Allen, and Steve Roe....

Gus Russo has written an excellent article on how the KGB tried to convince the American public that the CIA killed JFK . But outside of...

Gus Russo was one of the lead investigators on PBS Frontline's documentary on Lee Harvey Oswald, and he has a ton of amazing stories....