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**Key Points:**

*   The KGB attempted to recruit STORBERG, a military code clerk, using PREISFREUND as an intermediary.
*   PREISFREUND was used by the KGB to compromise STORBERG and other American code clerks.
*   NOSENKO reported that he had personally recruited and handled Syrian army officer Samih WEISS in a development operation against US Army Sergeant Matthew ZUUS.
*   The KGB's recruitment of STORBERG was confirmed by GOLTSYN, who served as a KGB First Chief Directorate counterintelligence officer in Helsinki.

**Individuals:**

*   John F. Kennedy (JFK)
*   NOSENKO
*   PREISFREUND
*   STORBERG
*   WEISS
*   ZUUS

**Locations:**

*   Moscow
*   Helsinki
*   Beirut
*   Damascus

* NOSENKO claimed to have been Deputy Chief of the Seventh Department in 1962-1963, but his claims do not sustain this claim as none of his agents were utilized in Seventh Department operations.
* In February 1962, NOSENEKO claimed he recruited Horst BRAUNS, but there is no evidence to support this claim.
* The KGB compromised JOHNSON by using VOLKOV and YEFREMOV as a "doctor from Riga" and a "student," who made homosexual advances to JOHNSON.
* NOSENKO described the provocation and arrest of Yale University Professor Frederick BARGHORN in late 1963, stating that the KGB had no strong materials used against him but decided to give him compromising material.
* Lee Harvey Oswald was a former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union in 1959, where he lived for three years before returning to the United States. He was known to have been in contact with the KGB, but the extent of their involvement is unclear.
* In 1962, Oswald applied for a visa to visit Mexico City, and the KGB's Seventh Department was informed of his application. The department's Deputy Chief, NOSENKO, was tasked with monitoring Oswald's activities.
* CHEREPANOV had previously worked for the American Department of the KGB and had stolen documents from the embassy. He was arrested and confessed to giving the documents to the Americans, stating that he was angry at the KGB and wanted to ask the Americans for help.
* NOSENKO claimed that he had never seen the documents CHEREPANOV passed to the Embassy, although he was familiar with their substance.
* The information in the CHEREPENOV Papers was substantially consistent with what NOSENKO had said earlier regarding certain individuals and operational techniques used by the KGB.
* NOSENKO produced a travel document signed by General GRIBANOV, which authorized him to go to Gorky Oblast during December 1963.
* The Seventh Department case officer Ye. N. NOSKOV was involved in recruiting BUNDARIN, Eugene Peter, who was born in 1917 and the son of a Russian emigre, and an employee of the Four Winds Travel Agency in New York City.
* CHRISTNER, Robert Charles, was noted by NOSENKO as having been arrested while touring the Soviet Union by automobile.
* FAIN, Thomas, an "American consult" stationed in Yugoslavia, visited Moscow in 1959 and encountered NOSEMKO's agent, VOLKOV, who reported his suspicion that FAIN was a homosexual.
* FISK, Norman, had security documents stolen from him while he was a tourist in the USSR in 1959.
* HOFFMAN, E. Stephen, an American Embassy official, engaged in homosexual acts with an Armenian in Yerevan.
* HOWARD, Herbert, a publications procurer, was recruited by the KGB in Moscow in spring 1962.
* JAPFE, Sam, an ABC correspondent in Moscow, was recruited and cultivated by V.A. KUSKOV.
* KANTOR, Marvin, a Harvard student, was recruited on ideological grounds in 1961.
* MATLAW, Ralph, an American tourist, was compromised by the KGB in Moscow in 1959.
* NIELSEN, Phillip, visited the USSR and made acquaintance with "teddy boys" in Moscow.
* OMELICH, Paul, was contacted by KGB officers during the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California.
* PECCHTER, Bernard, was recruited by the KGB in Moscow in 1959.
* PRESSMAN, Aron, a metallologist, visited the USSR and was recruited by the KGB.
* RASK, Walter, president of World Wide Toural, was recruited by the Seventh Department case officer Ye. N. NOSKOV.
* ROBERTS, Spencer, was compromised with a housewife in Sochi, USSR, and was handled by the American Department.
* ROSS, Johanna, a governess, was recruited by the KGB on the basis of sexual involvement.
* RUFF, John, a homosexual, was trapped and recruited by the KGB in 1962.

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