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The Case of Yuriy Ivanovich NOSENKO
February 1967
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The Bona FIdeg o{ NOSENKXO
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I, INTRODUCTION 1
II_ SUMMARY OF OPERATIO AL DEVELOPMBITS 3
A_ Introduction
B. First Geneva Phase (June 1962)
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C. Secora Geneva Phase (January-February 1964) 4
D Post-Defection Hand1 (February 1964 to Present) 4
III. OPERATIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES 8
A, Earlier Information on NosEiKO Jn Gereva 8
B Reasons for NOSENKO 8 Presence In Geneva 11
1 TDY in 1962 11
2 . The 1964 TDY 15
C Motivations and Intentiong o€ NOSENKO 16
1 Introduction 16
2 _ Collaboration Jn 1962 16
Readiness to Report to CIA 16
b Attitude Toward Defect Ion 20
Motivation 20
3 , Decision to Defect (Jaruary 1964) 22
The Letter of July 1964 24
D. Pattern of Activity In Geneva 30
1 _ Introduction 30
2 . Official Duties in Geneva 30
3 . Visits to the KGB Legal ResIdency 30
Association with TSYMBAL 31
5 . Asgoclation with Other SovLets 32
6 . Avaflability for MeetIng8 with CIA 33
B. TlmIng Of Defection 34
B The Recall Telegram 38
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6 SovJet OEfIcfal ReactIons 40
H,= ReactIong of NOSENKO' 5 Famf ly 42
Is RepercussIons Within tke XGB 44
SEiSF IVE SOURCE 44
2 . SEiSITIZ SOIRCZ 46
SQURCE 46
4 _ KGB Hendlers of Agents 47
IV, NON _KGB ASPECTS OF NOSENKO ' 9 LIFE 48
A. Introduction 48
F. NOSENKO ' g Pre-KGB Autobiography 48
C Personal Affairs Since Entering the KCB 79
1 Famfly Life 79
2 Venereal Disease 80
3, Affillation with Communist Party Organs 81
4 , Statenents to Otkers by MOSENKO 82
D Sovfets ' Statenents About NOSENKO 83
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V, NOSENKO S KGB CAREER 85
A, Introduction 05
2B. Into the KGB 86
1 Date of Entry 86
2. CIrcumstances and Procedures o€ 89
C To June 1955 (American Department) 93
1 Introduction 93
2 . Operations Against Correspondents 93
a. KGB Files on SHAPIRO , GILMORE, SALISBURY , 93
and NHIINEY
Agents Reporting on Correspondents 94
C_ Information Erom Other Sources 95
3. Operations AgaInst Milltary Attache Personnel 96
Agents ReportIng on MIlItary Attaches 98
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ba NOSENKO = 9 Targetg
(1) MICKELSON 100
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(11) MEARNS
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(11f) RICHIARDS
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(1v) FELCHLIN
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(v) DENISON
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(v1) S' RROUD
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(vii) MULE
(vii1) FSG of BENSON STROUD anc KULE 104
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(Ix) CARDELLA
(x) VNN LAEIHEM 106
D June 1955 to Jaruary 1960 Tourist Depa-tment) 107
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1 Introduction
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2 . Soviet Homosexual hgents
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3 _ Other Soviet Agerts
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Operations with Foreign VIsitors 112
a Attempt ed Entrapent of MALIA (1955) 112
b Recrultment of BURGI (1956) 113
Approach co
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a Contact rith Mkand (1957) 121
e Recruitment of (1957) 121
E, Recruitment of HARRIS (1950) 122
g. Compronise of KRAFT (1958) 123
ha Recruitment of DREN (1959) 123
1. Recruitment Of 1959) 124
J. Recruitment of 1959) 124
%a Recrultment oE (1959) 124
1 Recrultment o} 1959) 125
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Compromi8e of BARRETT ` (1959) 126
Compromlee OE WILLERRORD (1959) 127
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5 , The FRIPPEL Case (1959-63) 129
a NOSENKO S Inforation 129
b. FRIPPEL 5 Information 133
6 Lee Harvey OSWALD (1959-60 ana 1963) 136
a Statements to the FBI 137
b. Statements to CIA 141
'1) KGB Interest in OSwALD 141
(ii) KGB Interest in Marina OS#ALD 142
(fii) OSWAID ' s Marriage and Departure 142
from the USSR
(iv) OS ALD ' s Visit to the Soviet 143
Embassy in Mexico
(v) NOSENKO S Ccmments on Possible 144
KGB Involvement in the Assassination
7 Supervisory Responsibilities and Knoaledge 145
of Tourist Operations
a Information from NOSENKO 145
bo KGB Knowledge from George BLAKE 146
C0 GOLITSYN 5 Tourist Document 147
8 _ TDY ' s to London (1957 ana 1958) 150
E, January 1960 to January 1962 American Department) 152
1. Introductfon 152
2 . NOSENKO ' s Trangfer to the U ,S, Bnbassy 153
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3 , Duties and Knowledgeabi 157
a Introduction 157
bo Functions as Deputy Chief ana Acting 158
Chief of Section
(i) Access 158
(1i) Duties 159
(1ii) Additional Dutfes In KOVSHUK 5 163
Absence
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Supervisor of AlI Code Clerk Operatlons 164
(i) Introduction 164
(1I1) Approach to STORSBERG 166
(a) NOSENKO 8 Infornation 168
(b) Information from STORSBERG 177
(c) Information frcm PREISFREUND 179
(a) Information Erom GOLITSYN 182
(e) Information Erom Other Sources 184
(ifi) TDY 5 by KOSOLAPOV on code Clerk 186
Cases
(a) Introduction 186
(b) False Identty for Travel 186
(c) The Early 1960 TDY (JENNER 187
Case)
(a) The November 196C TDY (GARLAND 196
Case)
(Iv) KCB_Polish UB Activities Agalnst 201
MORONE
(a) Introduction 201
(b) NOSENKO 9 InformetIon 201
(c) Informatlon Erom Other Sources 205
iv) Developental Operetion Agalnst 209
ZUJUS
(a) Introduction 209
(b) Informatlon Erom NOSENKO 209
(c) Information from Other Sources 211
(vi) Approach to KEYSERS 213
(a) Introduction 213
(b) Information Erom NOSENKO 213
(c) InformatLon Erom Other Sources 216
a3 NOSENKO ' g Respongibilitles for Coverage 220
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(1) IntroductIon 220
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(ii) Duties as Cage OEfIcer 220
(1i1) ABIDIAN ' $ Letter Mailings 227
(iv) ABIDIAN S Servicing of tre Pushkin 231
Street Cead Drop
e Supervisor of Activities Against AmerIcan 236
Service Attaches
f, Knowledge of the Target 240
(1) Introduction 240
(1i) Physical Premises 240
(1ii) CIA Personnel Under Embassy .Cover 242
9 Electronic Operations Against the U,S_ 248
Embassy
(i) Introduction 248
(1i) Microphones in the Chancery 248
(a) NOSENKO - 5 Sources 249
(b) Number and Locations 0E 252
Microphones
(c) Receptivity and Audibility of 257
Microphones
(a) Amount Type , ana Value oE 260
Production
(Ifi) Microphones In the North Ning 267
(Iv) Montoring/Jamming Beam 270
ha Handler Of KGB Agerts 272
Overseas Assignments 274
a to Obtaln Assignmert to Ethlopla 274 Atgsopt
b U.5. VIsa Application (1960) 274
C The Cuba TDY (1960) 276
a. The Bulgaria TDY and the LUNT Case 279
5 , Trangfer to the Tourist Department 284
F January 1962 to January 1964 (Tourist Department) 285
1 Date OE Transfer 285
2. Eunctjons ana Activitles 285
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3 _ XOSE;O f Agents 287
a ArSene FRPPEL 237
b. Johan PREISFRECD 268
C VOLKOv and YEFREOV 288
a 228
Marina RYIY:VA 283
Approach c{) X. E. Juinzon 289
a MOSENKO' 5 Infurzation 239
b Information iron Juirson 232
5 _ Atcenpt to Reeruit PRAU:S 233
2 irforration frcm :JSENiO 293
b_ Information frui] ERALNS 294
6 _ Tie SVENCi "iSKIY Case 295
a Information froz NOSEIKC 295
b Infornat)on Irozi Other Sources 296
7 KOTEI ' s Arrest ind the KSB {gen : 0nst 295
a Informacion frow: NOSzNKO 298
b_ Informatior from Other Sources ConcernIng 300
KOTEN
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C '2N Reporting 07 03 302
8 , Arrest of BARGHCORY 304
a Information fron NOSENKO 304
bs Irformat ion from EARGHOORN 308
9 _ GRU Agent : John Anarew SHIUBIN 310
2 Introducton 310
b NOSENKO S Information 310
C Information from Sensitive Source J11
d Informat ion from Other Sourceg 312
10 . BOLSHAKOV _ Robert Kennedy, ard the Cuban 313
MIssile Cr[sis
Introduct Ion J13
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ba Soviet Sources During the Crisfs 315
C NOSEWKO 5 Sta}ements on BOLSHAKOV 316
d Information fram Sensitive Sourco 318
G . NOSENKO S KGB Pronot ions and Avardg 319
1 _ Rank 319
2 _ Awards and Decorations 322
H_ NOSENKO' s Relationship wfth GRIBANOV 327
1 Information frOn NOSEKO 327
Summary 327
b Details 327
2 _ Informatien from 530 SZ:SIT IVE SURCE 336
I_ Confirmation Erom Cther Sources 338
1 _ Introduction 338
2 . S2SIZITz Sc;CE 338
3 . sensitive Sou:ce 340
4 . sersitive source 341
5 . Sowrcc 342
6 _ GAMRELIDZE 342
7 , COLITSYN 343
8 _ Source 345
9 Case Officer for Robert Lee JOHNSON 347
10. Case Officer fore 347
11. Soviet Jourralist KOROLEV 347
VI _ PRODUCTION 349
Ag Pogitive Intelligence Information 349
B. Sovlet Intelligence Personalities 350
C KGB Headquarters 352
1. Structure and Funct ions 352
2 0 Modus Operandi 359
3. Staff Procedures 360
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D. KGB Activities 361
1 {Operations Against Americans 361
2 , Tabulation of AerJcan Leads 363
a; Successful Recruitment Approaches 363
b Development Operationg 379
Unsuccessful Approaches 398
a Investigations 402
3 , Selected Cases of Recruited Americang 411
a "SASHA" 411
(1) NOSENKO ' 8 Information on the 411
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(ii) NOSENKO 5 Sourcing 412
(iii) GOLITSYN 8 Lead to "SASHA" 4126
b "ANDREY" (Day e w SMITH) 413
(1) Introduction 413
(i1) NCSENKO ' 9 Information 1962 413
(1ii) NOSENKO ' 8 Information 1964 416
(iv) NOSENKO 8 Sourcing 419
(v) Regults of InvestIgations 419
XGB Agent In Parts (Sgt . Robert Lee 427
JOFNSON)
(1) Introduction 427
(ii) The Lead from NOSENKO 428
(i11) NOSENKO ' 5 Sourcing 433
(iv) JOHNSON ana MiNTKENBAUGH 436
(v) Information Ercm Other Sources 437
(a) JOHNSON 5 Statements 440
(b) MINTKENBAUGH Statements 450
(c) Hedwig JOHNSON 8 Statementb 457
(a) Mental CondItion of Hedwig 459
JOHNSON
(e) Soviet Concern about Mrs. 460-
JOHVSON 8 Illnesg
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(v) Damage by JOHNVSON to U.5. 461
Interests
4 _ Unsuccessful Approaches to U.S. Citizens 463
a The HARMSTONE Case 463
(1) Introduction 463
(ii) Informatfon from NOSENKO 464
(1ii) Information from Other Sources 465
ba Edward Ellis SMITH 468
(24 Information Erom NOSENKO 468
(ii) Information from SOLITSYN 463
(iii) Information Erom SMITH 469
The BINDER Case 470
(1) Information from NOSENKO 470
(1i) Information Erom BINDER 470
5 Operations Involving Otker Westerners 474
a Tabulation 474
(1) Introduction 474
(1i) Agent Leads 475
(a) Afghanistan (1) 475
D) Argentina (2) 475
(c) Australia (1) 476
(a) Austria (3) 476
(e) Belgium (6) 477
(E) Brazil (2) 479
(g) Cenada (5) 479
(n) Egypt (1) 481
(1) FInlana?' (9) 481
j) France (9) 403
(k) Germany (9) 486
1) Greece (1) 487
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(m) India (2) 488
(n) Indonesia (1) 488
(o) Iran (1) 488
(p) Ierael (2) 489
(q) Itely (6) 490
(r) Japan (8) 491
(s) Mexico (2) 493
(+) The "ietherlazcs (2) 494
(u) Norway (1) 494
(v) Peru (1) 495
(w) Sweden (3) 495
(x) Switzerlana (2) 496
(y) Tunfsia (1) 496
(2) Unfted KIngdom (7) 496
(aa) Uruguay (1) 498
(bb) Venezuela (1) 498
(111) Invest Igations end Development 499
Cases
ba The VASSALL Case 503
1) Information Erom NOSENKO 503
(11) Informatlon from COLITSYN 505
(ifi) Information from VASSALL 507
The Illegal 509
(1) Introduction 509
(11) Information from NOSENKO 510
(1i1) Activities In Germany 510
(iv) Operation in Canada 512
6 The BELITSKIY Operation 517
Introduct Ion 517
Informat Jon Erom NOSENKO 517
Statementa In 1962 517
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(11) Statemente in 1964 520
(ifi) BELITSKIY Photograph 521
Information from Other Sources 522
7 , KGB Investlgat lons 530
a Compromise of POPOV 530
(1) Introduction 530
(ii) CIA Operation with POPOV 530
(iii) Cause and Date of Compromise 532
(a) Information Erom NOSENKO 532
S7:TIVE Sourg2
(b) Informaticn from
(c) Infromation Erom the 533
CHEREPATOV Papers
(a) Inform tion from GOLITSYN 533
b Compromise of PENKOVSKIY 535
(i) Introduction 535
(ii) Resume of the PENKOVSKIX Case 535
(ii1) Staterents by NOSENKO 536
(a) 536
(b) Reports on the Compromlse 538
(iv) Information Erom SEISITIVE 544 DURCz'
(v) Information Erom;; SENSITIVE 544 SOURCE
(vi) Information Erom 545 Source
(vIi) Information from SCURCE 545
(vffi) Informatlon from 546
(ix) Information Erom Official XGB 546
Report
(x) Information Erom WYNNE 546
Compromise of CHEREPANOV 548
(1) Introduction 548
(11) Earller Information on CIBREPANOV 548
(111) Reports by AnerIcang 553
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(iv) Informat ion from NOSENRO 554
(v) Information fron 03r224
COiRCE 557
(vi) infornation from MaZzbscrsitive 559 LorcC
347246 source
(vii) Information from Kwrs rotdkme0 56 1
(vi1i) Information fron MiZR sercitite 561 Scirc
(ix} Corterts of EHEREPANOV Packagc 561
(x) NOSEKO 5 Cosccts 0n tke 565
CEREPAOV p.ipefs
Report s on KAZAN_RC;JEK 569
(1) Intrcluction 569
(1i) Seatenent b{ ~OSEKO 569
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e Alfrec SLZ;"GER : Suspeccea Source of 571
the FBI
(1) Introduction 571
(i.) NOSEKO ' s Icformneion 571
S2GTVE SPc:
(iii) Information 572
(iv) SLES:*GER S Icforration 573
8 , Technical Penetrations 01 tre West German 574
Embassy
a Introduction 574
b Information from MOSEiKO 576
The 578
a Evidence of Technfcel Penetration 580
9 Cryptologic Successes hgainst the U,S, 583
Bubessy
a Introduct ion 583
b Informat ion Erom NOSEO 585
(1) Br zakIng U.S CIphers 585
(ii) Kandling DecIphered Cables 587
(ifi) Methods of Cryptologic Attack 580
U.S. Evaluations 591
(i) NSA Report 591
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(1i) USIB Security Comtlttec Report 593
E NOSEIKO and GOLITSYN 594
14 Introduction 594
2 . Backgrouna Information on GOLITSYI 594
3 COLITSYN Leads and Information from NOSENIKO 595
a Microphones in the U.S_ Enbassy 595
b Other Leads Corroborated by IOSENKO 596
Leads Conflicting with NOSENKO Reports 597
Leads to Operations Again:t U,5. Embassy 597
Not Covered by NOSENKO
4 . NOSENKO ' s Information 0:1 GOLITSYN 593
7 Surveillance of Soviets in the United States 609
1 Inforation Erom NOSENKO 600
2 , Information Erom Other Sources 601
a GOLITSYN 601
b sensitIve source 602
C CHEREPANOV Dcument 602
VII, SPECIALISTS ASSESSMENTS OF NOSENKO 603
A, Opinons on Intellgence and Personality 603
1. Graphological Analysis 603
2 Reports by Psychologist 605
a Psychological Testing Results 605
ba Alternative Psychological Explanations 609
Psychological Interrogation 611
3. Report by Psychiatrist 613
B. Views Of Intelligence Personnel 615
1. Statement by DERYABIN 615
8 IntroductIon 615
ba DERYABIN s, Comments 616
2, Remark8 by CIA Handlers 625
IntroductLon 625
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be NOSENKO 8 Conduct In Meetirgs 626
NOSENKC 8 Behavior Urder Interrogetion 627
(1) Irtroductlon 627
(11) Manner of 'Recountlng Events 627
(14f) Evaslcn _ Improvlsatlon , ena Otker 6 28
Defengeg
Add itlonal Observatforg 6 30
(1) Inguisitiveneg8 about CIA 630
(1i) Acceptance of Contrary Inforretion 63
from Other Sources
e Dfscu8s ion8 with NOSENKO about hfs Oin 6 31
Performance
C Polygraph Testing 632
1. Test In Aprfl 1964 632
2 _ Test in October 1966 on Lee Harvey OSHALD 638
a8 Introduction 638
b. Regults 638
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A, Introduction
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B Evaluation of Production
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1 Introduction
Peraoralities, Methads 644
2 _ XGS Organization,
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3 _ Operational Leads
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a Introduction
b Operations Involving Arericarz 646
(i) Colpletene3S Accurary, Detal! ar 647
Consistercy of Reporting
(ii) Daniace to the Soviets 650
(1ii} Importarce or Usefulncss 652
C
Operations Involving Other Kesterrers 654
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(i) Introduction
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(ii; Discussion
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Technical Operations Against the U.3. Entassy 657
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a Ircroduction
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b Discussion
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C Remarks
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5 . The BELIFSKIY Case
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a Irtroduction
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ba Discussion
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Remarks
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6 XGB Investigations
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a Compromnise of POPOV
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(i} Introduction
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(ii) Discussion
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(iii) Remarks
b Compromise of PENKOVSKIY 666
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(i) Introduction
666 (ii) Discussion
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(iii) Rerarks
Corpromise of CHEREPANOV 570
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(i) Introduction
(ii) The Operutional Plan In Draft 670
(ifi) The Summary on LANGELLE 672
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(iv) Remarks
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C Evaluatlon ofSourcirg 675
1 Irtroductior 675
2 , Discugsion 675
3 _ Remarks 677
D. Examinaticn of TOSENKO 5 Intelllgence Career 673
1. Irtroduction 678
2 . Naval GRU Service 679
2 Introauction 679
ba Discussion 679
C Kerarks 681
3 _ into tne KGB 683
a Eligibi 683
b. Date of 683
Circumstances of Entry 684
d _ Remarks 685
4 Initial Service in the U,S. Embassy Section 686
a Introduction 685
b, Work Against American Correspondents 686
Kork ngainst Arry Attaches 686
d Additional Report_ 690
Remnarks 690
5 . Tourist Department (June 1955 to January 1960) 692
a Introduction 692
b The Perio (1955 to 1958) 692
(i) General 692
(ii) The BURGI Case 693
Promotion to Deputy Chief of Section 695
a Knowledge of Section 5 Staff and Agent 695
Personnel
Knowledge OE Section' s Actvities 695
(i) BLAKE 695
(1i) GOLITSYN Dcunent 696
(iii) Tourist Agents 696
€ NOSEARO ' s Tourist Paper 697
go The OSWALD Case 697
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h. RISEMKO' € Cperational Kccivities (1953-1959} 698
i1) Cereral 638
(ii) The Homosezua!s YEFR E)V ara . OLKOV 698
{1ii) osogcxual Ertraptent Opr-ratiors 699
{iv) Tne Agert FRIPPEL 700
1 Reriarks 702
6 . U.5. Eniassy Sectior {1960-196:) 705
a I.trodccion 705
b Entry 1rto tho? Seztion 705
C nurct jons as Dputy chiez 706
a Krowieceeab:l:ty as Depu:y arj Aclirs Chief 707
Kowledgeability 0: U.S. :-kas:y khysical 703
Security
f Knowlecseablity #our Avez:can Ir.tefligerce 70S
Persiare]
G Krowledgcabnlity o: KGB Coje Clerk Cpe -tions 709
(i) Tme STORSBERG Caae 714
(1i) 'rhe JENNER Case 713
(111) 'The GARLARD Case 716
(iv) The MRONE Cese 715
(v) The KEYSERS Case 717
(vi) Other Code: Clerk Cases 718
h. Responsibility for and Knowleage of ABIDIAN 723
1 Reprzting on ABIDIAN S Visit to che Pushkin 722
Street Dead Drop
j < Responsibility of ~upervlsing Silitary httacre 725
Ope:ratiors
kS TDY to Bulgaria an3 tre LU;T Case 72c
Tpe V.s. Visa and tnc Cuba TDY 727
1 Per sonal !iand 1 of Agerts 7.29
(i) YEFREMOV ard VOiKOv 729
(iif FRIPPEL 729
(iii) DYITRIYEV 729
(iv) RYTOVA 729
(v) LEVJNA 729
(vi) Johan PREISFRZUND 730
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a Inczoduction 733
ba Alzenccs Erom Moscow 733
Personal Perticlpation in Operations 734
(i) The F.E. JCHASON Provocation 734
(1i) 'The BARGHOORN Provocation-Arrest 735
(ii1} The Approach to DRAUNS 736
(iv; The Arrest of KOTEN 737
d Age: ts Handled b; NOSEKO 738
(i) FRIPPEL 739
(ii) SVENC FIAN SKIY 739
The OSwALD Irvestication 740
{_ The CHEREPANC V Investigation 740
9. Remarks 741
Ea Exanination 0f Other Aspects of NOSENKO S Biography 742
1_ KGB Awards and Ranks 742
a Awzrds 742
b Ranks 742
Rerarks 743
2 Affiliation with Comnunist Party Organs 744
a Introduction 744
b Discussion 744
Remarks 744
3 Schooling 746
a Introduction 746
b Discussion 746
Remarks 748
F Appraisals of NOSENKO His Motivation, ana Other 749
Operational Circunstances
1. Introdiction 749
2. NOSENKO 749
32 Motivation 750
Operational Circunstances 751
3 Presence in Ceneva (1962) 751
ba Presence in Geneva (1964) 751
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d Timing Of 1962 Contact 752
e, Willingness to Mect CIA 753
f , The Recall Te legram 753
9 . Rearks 753
G Sources Support NOSENXO 756
1 Introdection 256
2 _ Corrczoration of NOSENKO S Intelligence Career 756
3 _ Remar:s 757
H. Alternative Explanatiors 759
1_ Intrcduction 759
2 _ First Alternative 759
a Faulty Nemory 759
b Selective Memory 755
Ebellishment. 761
Combination ('f Aive 762
Insanity 763
3 second Alternative 763
4 Third Alternative 763
5 , Remarks 764
I Summary of Conclusions 765
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Photograph of NOSENKO and hl8 Eather, Facing Page 11
the Minister of Shlpbuflding
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FlnnIsh Travel Manffests: March-AprIl 1960 Facing Page 194
FinnIsh Travel ManlEegt: November 1960 Facing Page 197
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Tats' revfer pregents the facts and Observetlong thich bear
On the bna fAdee of the Soulet defector Yuriy Ivanovich NOSENKO.
Te hlghlIghta of NOSE;XO ' $ biography , a3 he has glven It to
CIA, are a8 follows : He wa3 born 30 October 1927 tke firsc son
Of Ivar Igldorovich NOSENKC_ snipyara worker tho Jn 1939 was to
becore Sovfet Minister of Shipbuila_ After graduating in 1951
from the Institute cf Internat Jonal Relatlons in Moscow where
he epeclalized in internatiucal law and the English langage ,
NOSENKO entered the Chief Intelligence Directorate (CRU) of the
Soviet serving first J5 a translator assigned to the intel-
ligence staff of tke Seven:r (Far Eastern) Fleet and tken as a
senior cranslator and political officer at en intelligerce unit
of the Fourth (Baltic) Fleet_ In mid-March 1953_ 1mediately
following STALIN S death, OSENKO left the Naval GRu to become a
junior case officer in the KGBo He was as9igned *0 tke U,S.
Embassy Section of the Arerican- Depart_nent , KGB Seconz Chief
Directorate, fromn 1952 to :ic-1955. During this pericd he was
in:tially responsible for operational activity surrourding Am -
erican journalists in Moscow and leter for operatiors against
U_s. Aray Attaches at the Zxbassy _ #hen transferrea to the newly
organized Tourist Departmert of the Second Chlef Direccorate in
1955 _ NOSENKO had as his targets V1-tors to the Soviet Union
fron the United States ana the countries of tne British Common -
wealth. Having handled a nmber of successful tourisz Opera-
tiong NOSENKO in 1958 was pronoted co Deputy Chlef Of the
section responsible for operations against hner ican, Eritish,
and Canzdian nationals Exghteen months later N ,SENKO returned
to the U.S, Embassy Section as its Deputy Chicf Between January
1960 and January 1962 he Kas second-in-charge of all XGB activ-
ities against the U S Emtassy in Moscow and personally super-
visea operations against tre Embassy Security OffIcer the
Second Ckief Directorate S most imporcant counter intelligence
target at the time_ and against American code clerks_ collec-
tively the Directorate 5 most impertant recruitment targets.
At th_era Of December 1961 NOSENKO again was cransferred to
the Tourist Department _ thls time as Chief of the American-
BritTsn-canadian Section Six months later he was made Deputy
Chlef of the Tourist Department , ard in mid-1963 he became its
First Deputy Chlef
Fron the time he first contacted CIA in Geneva in 1962_
NOSENKO ' s status has been under examinaton_ Only Dow , three
years following his defection 1r February 1964 , is Gefinitive
study of the bona Eides question possible 8 the volumirous ard
Giverse reports by NOSENKO _ coupled with collateral information,
requirea that much time for assimilation, correlation, investiga-
tion, ard evaluation_ NOSZNKO S Own testimory, interspersed with
representative' subsidiary cases stemming from or related to his
reports, constitutes a larse part cf the evidence_ This review
also Graws upon statements ana actions by other Soviets, colla-
tions vith materials Erom Other sources_ and opinions by special-
Jsts of various kinds _ Tkese factual elements are presentec
vithout comment or interpretation, except in the penultimate
section of the review wnere the evidence on the bna Zides of
NOSENKO is evaluatea and' analyzea.
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TlB rovIew J8 ?regented Jn cho following Eormat:
Part II: A summary of develozmente 1a tro MOSETO case Erom
1962 to the present_ Includlng hig clandegtIne
meet Irgg Hith CIA, hIs defect!on _ and the subgequent
debr lefings and Interrogat Iors .
Pert III: A discussion of the operat Ional circumstances Of
NOSENKO 5 1962 contact with CIA and hl3 defeccion
two years later_ Includea is discussion Of CIA' s
information concerning NOSEXO prior to hfs first
contact in Geneva , NOSENKO s explanation of che
reasons for his presence in Geneva 1n 1962 ara 1964 ,
NOSENKO 5 mot ivatlons f1rst for establishing clendes_
tine contact with Fer ican Intelligence and later for
defecting to the United States NOSEiKO ' s pattern of
act ivity 1n (ieneva in 1962 and 1964_ ana the reactions
of the Sovets bth official and urofficial_ to the
defection
Part Iv: The non-KGB aspec:s of NOSENKO ' S Jife, both before
and after ke joined Sovet State Security Service
as he descrabed them and as others have reported thcm
Part V: The posicions ane resporsibllities of NOSENKO in the
KGB , the operations with which he wa3 associated,
his travels abroad tke awaras and promotions whlch
he receivea and ocher Soviec sources statements
on these pints
Part VI; NOSENKO 5 production especially in counterintelll-
gence matters not dis ussed in the precedlng section.
Key cases are d1scussed in deca1l ara other leads
are summaz ized ,
Part VII: Specialists assess ents of NOSENKO : by the CIA
graphologast who scudwed his hardwriting; by the
CIA psychologist end psychlatrist who examined him;
by the former KGB officer Peter DERYABIN ; by the CIA
case officers who handled him; and by the CIA ply-
graph operator who tested hima
Part VIII: Interpretation of the evidence ana conclusicns about
the bena f2des of NOSENKO_
Part IX: The implicat ions of the conclusions in Part VIII for
certain other sources ,
There ere several sources currently or formerly associated
WIth the Soviet Intelligence_ services wno are repeatedly referrea
to in thfs review_ include che following:
Anatolly Mikhallovich GOLITSYN
a KGB officer Nho
defectea In Helsinki to U,S_ authorities on 15 December
1961 _
bensitive. source
gensIt_ve source
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Ecksandr #lkoleyevich CEREPANOV , a KGB offfcer
Nhoce" cabe Ju revlewed Sn Part VI.Da7.C
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forrer agent of cbe KGE secord Chie
Directorace,
All pertinent mat eI 1.J( rere[ved by CIA *0 15 Jaruary
1967 hag been :aken int0 d(counz in chis revi@w of MOSEIKO ' s
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As Introductlon
Frca tho CIA BIde the XOSEKKO case can be dl#lded Into
three perloda : the Efzst Geneva phzge of June 1962 _ the secona
Gereva phaee 0f January-February 1964 _ and the pobt-defection
hanallng of NOSENKO from Fecruary 1964 to date The rcst oE
Part II 18 separated icco trese three periodg accordingly.
B Erat Geneva Phase (Juce 1962)
The NOSEMRO case opered on 5 June 1962 in the corridors of
the Palafe des Nations in Gereva during the United Nations Dis -
armament Confererce _ A tler-uniaentified Soviee_ known to him
by Bight from conference ncetings approached , U.S Foreign Ser-
vice Officer David YA RK with the suggestion that get to-
gether for a talk tne fof loxing day _ In the late afternoon 0f
6 June the bame Soviet rotioned "ARK aside and said that he
woula like to taik to hin Privately as soon as possible . He
told MA!RK tiat he was "not going co pump hic for information
but simply wanted to tel: hia scne things _ 1 luncheon [eeting
was arranged for 9 June _ alchough the Soviet clearly preferred
an earlier date_ MARK adised CIA of the tment explaln-
that he thought the xPproaeh so unusual tkat it might be
an offer of cooperaiicn or cefeetior_ He said he believed the
Soviet to be Yuriy Ivarovie:: NOSENKO _ a merber of the Scviet
delegation co thc arns calks_
At the 9 June lurcheca with MARK NOSERKO told MARK that
he _ NUSENKO , was a KGB cour- zerintelligence officer Sent to
Gene" to ensure the securit? of the Soviet delegation _ He knew
that MARK had prcviously servea in Moscow and believed he war
connected with Anerican Ictelligence _ He needed approximately
900 Swiss francs {cmedi_ ately to cover KGB operational funds which
he squandered on liquor an] a prostitute i: Gereva and he offered
for this amount to se1l 6to pieces 0f infortation to American
Intelligence _ The first of these was the iden of a former
U.5_ Embagsy employee in Moscoh who was a KGB agert ana , as of
1962 wag near ciphers" in the Washington area ; the second wag
the identity of a Soviet in Xoscow who_ although ostensibly a
CIA agent = was actually planted On) American Intelligence _ Al-
tkough NOSENKO at first tolc SARK that he would stop at the sale
of thege two items he later stated: "I know You won t let me
alone now _ At another point NOSENKO said: "I will not work in
Moscow but I core out about once a NOSENKO also gave
MARK a brief chronological accoun € of his personal and profes-
sional past. MARK explained that although he was not 2n intel-
ligence officer he coula place MOSENKO in contact with the
Inteliigence Chief
in Geneva later that same
MARK Introduced NOSE:KO to a CIA officer at 2000 hours that
evening , and a three-nour peeting followed at a CIA safehouse In
Geneva . Describing himseif a5 a FGB Major experienced in opera-
tions against the Anerican Embassy in Moscow and against' tourists
and other travellers to the Soviet Union NOSENKO told the CIA
ANother Soviet source , has also reported that the
KGB suspected MARK to be an Aerican Intelligence officer;
although he has never served in CIA, MARK did engage in a nud-
ber of operational support activities on behalf of CIA whlle
stationed at the U.5_ Embassy in Koscow
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officer of hls fInancfal dlffsculcles and repea: ed hIg offer to
8ell two Items oE Informatlon. He 9aid chat che neea for money
was hls Jnrediate motive for contactir? CIA, altrcugh In the en -
suing d1scusslon he sald also thac re yas dissac_sEled wIeh the
Commun ist regine In the Soviec Union #OSENKO emhaslzed, never-
theless , that he tad no intent lon OE becczing an ArerIcan agent --
this we9 :0 be a one-cine transactior , and after that he woula
have no further contact with CIA_
Despite this original rericerc@, NOSENKQ supplied consider-
able biographic 13formarion on himself ana also' discusscd in
general terms certain addit !onal KGB operacions 25 wel1 85 KG5
organizat on and %perational methods 1? Koecow , He underscocl ,
as he had cold MARX earlier in the chat CIA ouid wart more
information than tke :mo tems whch he Or1ginally offered_ and
he agreed co meec aga1n cwo days later
NOSENKO met (IA [epr esencat lves foun 'Or e tines in Gereva
in June 1962 alwavs 4n the same saferoae Wi-h che second
meeting 07 11 June_ hls nitlal reser vacions d1sappeared almost
entirelye He answered niost quest 1ons PJc to hi on KGB orgeni-
zation ana oper atlon: Ijsc of his 1nformation ce!ng concerned
wirh the Secona Chef Dire-[Orace respo:sible for counterintel-
l1gerce and security within the USSR NOSENKO scemed to be what
he claimed to be : a KGB officer 1n 2 sers_cive ition with
knowledge of 1mportant KGB operacions
NOSE KO rerutned to Moscow on 15 June, hzving promised
do everyching WIchin the 1 1mits imposed by persoral security con-
siderations to co]le-c irformatiol; of 1nterest; che areas Of CIA
interest nad been outfined co ham Tne reserictions he
placea on his cooperat 1on were his abzolute refusal to permit
operat )onal contac c WIth hzm inside che UEJR ara ris request
that no menc ion of n1s eollaborat on be made 1n correspondence
to MOscow. He promised Co nocify CIA vla an aaeress he was
given_ when he came to che West agair,
C, Second_Geneva_Ehase (anua.Y-Eebuary_19644
NOSENKO accompan ied che Soviet delegat lon ro a later ses -
sion of the Disarmament Conference (one raving gore by in che
interim wichout hs partlcipat ion) ar rivirg in Geneva on
19 January 1964 _ The next day he sent a cable to his CIA accom-
modacion adress announc hs presence, At che first of the
new ser ies of meec irgs on
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te announced that he had
decided co defect to che United Staces citing as reasons his
continuing disaffeccion WIth che Sovlet regime ard the fact that
he probably woula noc have further opportunitles travel to the
West in the foreseeable fucure. Alchough he 4mpllea thac he
wanted to defect as soon as pOssble: he agreea to renain in
place in Geneva for at leasc two or-three reeks while arrange-
ments for his recept Ion were being made 1n Washingcon_ NOSENKO
had brought a large amount of new 1nformation _ much of it in
scribblea rotes, on KGB: operational activity collectea In the
18 months since hs lasc meeting with CIA,, Twelve more meetIngs
Yere hela in a Geneva safehouse over che next twelve days, yary-
In lengch Erom one ana a half co S1X hours,
Da Pest-Qefectfen_HandLing_(February_196#_Present)
On 4 February four days before the dace teacacfveble
belected for NOSENKO S defeccion _ he reporcea thac a had
been received from KGB Headquarters order his immedlace re-
twn to Participate in a KGB conEerenze on foreign tourism to
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Q58 FOSENKO wao drIven acrob8 the border to Germany that 8450
eLght. Debrle{Inge resumed In 8 Frankfurt 8afehouge . The de-
cJejon 6a& reached On 11 February to bring: KOSENKO to che
UnIted Statee, and Jn the early even_Jg oE 12 February he and
hLe CIA ebcortb arrived in WashIngton via comercial afrcraft,
chence to a gafehouge in the Washington area ,
At the request of the Swiss and Soviet Governments _ NOSERO
met on 14 February with representatives of their respective
Waeh_ngton Embassies in the offices of the U.S Immigraticn ana
Naturalization Service_ Ke tola both that he had defected ' of
hl8 own free will after careful consideration and that he had no deslre to retlrn to the Soviet Union. In anewer to the questiong
of the Soviet reprebentatives he orally rerounced his status and rights a8 a ctizen of the USSR.
CIA complcted itb initial debziefings of NOSENKO on 18 Febru-
ary, and on 24 February he wag introduced to representatives of
the FBI for guestioning_ At abcut the 8 ame cime there was a marked decline in NOSENKO ' s discipline : Fe becane evasive and
uncooperative _ re fusing to answer some of the questions of his
debriefers both CIA and FBI ; his nightlife in Washington and nearby cities
wag punctuated by drinking bouts crude behavior ,
and cisputes with his gecurity escort. He explained these
actions by saying that he was under great tensicn as a result of
his defection, abandonment of his wfe and chilaren , and the
disgrace that he had brought to his family nane It was against
this background that CIA acceded *0 NOSENKO 5 denand for a vaca- tion_ On 12 Marcn therefore NOSENKO left Washington with a CIA case officer and two CIA security guards for a two-week
vacation in Hawaii There his behavior deterioriated 8till fur-
ther: He drank heavily and almost, constantly; he engaged in
gexual acts with a number of prostitutes; he was loud and crude
In :c places ; and he spent money extravagently (s800 on
one prostitute) and conspicuously (a s100 bill for a restaurant
:ip)
During NOSETKO 8 absence cdnsultations were held with
the FBI concerning steps to be taken to restrict his movementg
and activitieg _ Both agencies feared that his behavior would
brIng about unwanted attention and publicity, perhaps police
arrest and that doubts about his bona fides which were be - coming known to a widenirg group of people in the C,5 Govern-
ment , might be inadvertently revealed to NOSENKO himself. The
FBI on ] April said it would "not interpose objection to the
CIA plan to limit NOSENKO S freedom of movement The Acting
Attorney General_ the Department of State and the White House
were also notified of the CIA plan at thic time_
In the morning of 4 April NOSENKO was driven to another_
Bafehouge in a Washington suburb, ostensibly for a poly-
graph examination _ At the safehouse NOSENKO was given a rous tine polygraph examination, lasting over three hours; he
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'reacted signlflcantly" to questions concerning his' Intentiong
in dfecting to the United States and other related matters
He wa8 then told that he would remain at this ga Fehouse , which
thencefcrward was hig regular of residerce Sirce thls
time NOSENKO ha8 had contacts with CIA personnel only , been
under full-time guara , and has not been cced access to
newg media_
Detafled interrogation of, NOSENKO was begun on 4 Aprfl 1964
In order to obtain information which he had been reluctant to
give in debriefings and to clarify contradicticng in what he
had already reported_ This of the interrogationg wag termi-
nated on 24 April 1964 _
Despite the searching nature of the questions and the im-
Plicit and explicit douhts of his veracity , NOSENKO proved hin-
Self willing to answer or to to answer questions to
him _ Because much more information pertinent to the guestion of
his: bona fides had to be obcained a new phase of interrogation
was Begun in mid-May 1964 Difterent interrogators were intro-
duced and questioning was resumcd in a neutral nor-hostile man-
ner_ The period of neutral questioning continued until nid-Novem-
ber 1964 _
After further consultations with the FBI , a new round of
hostile interrogations bega: on 26 January 1965 NOSENKO was
questioned for a total of about 140 hourg by individual interro-
gators and by interrogation teams consisting of two or three
men and he wag directly challenged on many of his prerious re-
ports = He admitted that certain of his earlier staterencs had
been incorrect , and that he could not explain contradictions in
his testimony Nevertheless_ NOSENKO maintained he had been
bagically truthful and that he had coze to tha United States
golely for the reasons he had originally given . This interro-
gation wag broken off on 5 March 1965 _
Questioning of NOSENKO during the summer and autun of 1964
ana the interrogations of January and February 1965 concentrated
on the period of his claimed service in the U.S: Erbassy Section
OE the American Department KGB Second Chief Directora:e from
January 2960 to January 1962 _ Aong the reasons for selecting
this particular period were the comparatively large amount of
collateral information available against which NOSENKO' s state-
ments could be checked; the importance of the 0.S_ EmbasSY and
it9 personnel as the outstanding KGB Second Chief Directorate
targets ; their importance from the standpoint of American
security; and the extent of NOSENKO " 5 knowledge about the acti-
vities of the U.S. Embassy Section , in his capacity 25 its
Deputy Chief.
In keeping with Soviet practice, CIA asked NOSENKO in
February 1965 to sign a series of, interrogation reports so-
called 'protocols; most: Of which concern the period f: hig
clained service in the American Department . These_were written
by: the CIA interrogatorg_ and they were designed to incorporate
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Jecte . The Protocols vere In no way Pregented 6o FOSENRO a8
documentary portlonj 02 0 "congesaion but gather a9 distilled
Elnal bta:enents o8 what he dld end aid not krow" concernIng
partlcular topics_ NOSENKO was abked to read each Page of each
Protocol carefully and to sign his name at the botton tc Indl-
cate that: he underatooa end agrecd vith it8 corteres; he wag
allowed the ube of a dictionary ond wag Pormitted to egk any
quebtLons ana nake any changee that he Vighed, (Arendaonts were
entered by the interrogators ard were initfaled by NCSENKO, )
NOSENKO wag asked_ aEter readirg. each page and after completing
the entire protocol_ whether he urderstood what was written there
and whether there were any more changes he wisied to make _ He
we8 then asked to and date the statement , "I have read and
understood this report and certify it a9 correct at the ena of
the final page _ With one exception which will be noted later ,
he did so calmly and without objectiong , although 07 one or two
of them he remzrked that his statements were presentea in such
a manner as to make them look foolish; although invited to do
80 , he was not able to suggest any changes of fact or presenta-
tion which would: make then ore accurate Conmenting cn the
ube 0f interrogation reports , NOSENKO saic on 4 March 1965 :
life story is absolutely corrcct _ Anytcing I tave 9igned
18 absolutely correct_ I absolutely understand hat I am doing
when I am signing any paper_ This is an official document and
I fuliy understand what I ni doing wken I sign it as being abbo-
lutely correct_
In May 1965 a CIA psychologist questioned NOSENKO in detail
on his life from birth until 1953 , when he said he entered the
XGB in an attempt to additional irsights irto his charac-
ter and personality. 3
Further guestioning wag conducted from 26 until 1* August
1965 with the participation of Peter DERYABIN a former KGB offi-
cer These interrogations the first to be held- in Russian
were for the purpose of us DERYABIN S first-hand experience
In the XGB to obtain a clearer understarding of NOSENKO 5 per-
bonal and profesgional background
There were no further debriefings or interrogations unti4
18 October 1966 _ On this date NOSENKO was polygraphed on the
case 0f Lee Harvey CSWALD .
During the period 19-25 October 1966 _ NOSENKO was questioned Ror
Beven days on specific aspects of selected topics ranging from his
Ldentity to his involvenent in and knowledge of specific KGB opera -
tions . Questioning was in both Russian and English.
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a EarlLer_Inforgatton on MOSEKO iIo Geacva
#OSENKO " 0 oade IIrst cano to teo attentlon 0f CIA In October
1960 sheo be @PPlled 9 t tho AnerIcan Ebasey In Koscor for 9 vJca
to enter the Unted Statee 08 0 Deabcr o} 0 0 automotIve delega -
tfod Tbe folloming wonth CIA obta Ined coplee 0 f *1s Pebsport
pbotograph 0 € two seperate Points o0 bfa TDY route to Cuba
Tbere wa6 no Indlcet:on of Intelllgence affflfetion, and when
NOSENKO arrivcd under true na;no #Ith the Sovlet delegat Ion Lo
Genova In Kerch 1962 . hc was accarded no more than the Interest
routIcely gIven by Western otcllgence services to Sovfcts
travelling abroad After arrivIng I2 Swltzcrlard, however but
before establfshing coatect wfth CIA NOSEKO was Involvcd In
a t leest TWo Incfdents snch brought him to thc spccial notice
0f the Brft ish, smlss, Amcrical, and possibly the nest Gernan
bervices.
The first of these occurred 44 APr"i1 1902 . At a cocktafl
Party 1n Geneva , NOSE:KO mc t 0 fena lc sccrctars cmploycd 1; thc
Br t Ish Foreign Of { Ice_ Ie S8w hcr severel days later In the
corridors of thc P:lais des Nations Judasked her to have dinner
wfth hfm, and a da t e was made for severa] even Ings later_ Ac -
cording to the sccrerary 5 later account aS repurted by her
superiors: "They talked about Xarxism, thc Chinese , Yagoslavia ,
end love; NOSEIKO was obv iousl; smitten wfth her bec &me verbaliy
aborous and told her that he wou ld 1ikc to take her 0ff to a
desert islerd. The felt that NOSENKO probably was not
1 nterested In her for Intelllgence purposes but seemed to bc
genuInely ettracted by her_ From her conversat ions with IOSENKO
she was able report that "he had been 1n subwurincs during
the war and , according to himself , had risen to thc rank 0f
Coznarder He was e acmber of the Conmunist Party His father
was Jn the XIni: of Shlpping_ Jle htcse) { had served In thc
Sinistry of Forelgn Affafrs In 1948 and 1949 and had apparently
visfted Ergland but tad not been statiuned there NOSENKO
9150 told her that he was acquainted with J0am? of the
2237a@publIshing house In Lordon * When SOSEKO became too
persistert In hlg atteutions the secretary reported tke contact
to her supertors, was WIthdrawn immed Iatcly from Switzcrland,
and later resignecl Iron the Fore Ign Officc
This same incident also brought NOSENKO to the attention
of thc Swiss service, which 1ater reported it to CIA, without
details, a5 an attempt O11- NOSESKO S par t to rccruf: the gtr]_
#AIthough NOSENKO was descrtbed in reports (hcld by CIA) con-
cern Ing recruitment approaches to Emcricans 1n Sloscow .prior to
s first arrive ] in Geneva , therc was basis in these re-
porte to Ldentify the Sovlet described as NOSENKO , Tile naqe
NOSENKO did not #ppear in these earller reports.
was one of NOSENKO: s targets during a 1957 trip
to the Soviet Unfon VOSENKO used the a]ias NIKOLAYEV in his
contacts wIth and , In CIA debriefirgs _ gave this. 49 the
reeson he Vds forced to use the name NIKOLAYEV In the two trips
he made to London in 1957 and 1959 _ The sccrctary knew NOSENKO
by true name . (Sec Parts V.D. 3.d. V.E.8 . for dIscuss Ion of
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0 interest in ner wag not only sexua l but 'also in
inforrution to which she had acces8 in the ccurse_ cf her duties _
A8ey official in Geneva tolc CIA that FCSENKQ had dcfinitely
tried to recrjit the becretary and that he att-mpted t0 citain
"disarzament secrets" from her.
At his seaond reeting with; CIA on 11 Jure 1962 _ SOSENKO
described the same incident in the context cf reporting a
sble KGB penetration of Britigh counterintel ligence : I decided
to try to take this Englis} sirl t? bed _ Ind this had nothing
to Jo with work _ No , it was 2imply (sex) nd Yurka (Yuriy
GCX First Chief Directoratc officer in Geneva} said to me :
Listen, Yura , Be careful because we have pccple even in
Biitishccounterintelliggence_ #OSENKO describea Enc incident
as follows :
"After I had been hcre a week or two there was a
reception for rembers of the delegat:or and at it I Sav
a certain English Tilen RUSK gave a reseption and she
was there I came to the receptior- she saw mc
and I went up to ker_ She s.id that it was vefx nice *0
rke ny acquiintarce and that' s' a]l_ M.S- POSOV (TSY: 'BAI)
was there. He saic to me Yura , it looks to ne lire
are going to bed with that girl I answered: What do
you meen, sikhail Steparovich? She just irterests me
I had already deciced to try to get ner in lcd_ But
listen ferther. After this she used to 92 to ci:o Disarma-
ment Confercrces _ Weii to Nake it 3hort I asked this
gir] for a date. Ste is Sruttish, S-ottish, rct English ,
and works in an office_ here We agrecd t0 [@e: at a
restauraut. I aske:] ny fricras wiich restaurazt herc is
the best, where tbere i9n t a crowd _ We went c? the restau-
rant and sat there aly cvening--all alone 'ere were just
zhe two of Us The restaurant is urder the ground and is
called and Night' in Russian Jour et %uit_ We
sat there and then she asked me where we coulz reet ayain _
A later We Met Again in the restaurant and then
we took 8 walk_ Sne Tie bothered and then gave me the
brush-off I called her once . She wasn t at home I
cal led again; Again she was out_ I called a chird time
She wasn t there. She thought that I was an intelligence
officer ard that I was interested in her for this reason _
Thib _ hones wasn t So . I hac orly one thicg in rind .
She was te a wonan But the English felt that
she was being developed _ I met three times Kith her.
Three times we were at the restaurant and she told them
Ther guperiors] this_ She knew that I an Russian_ She
cold them this and they (NOSENKO whistled _ apparently
nifying that they terminated the relationship) at 'once
She knew from the very beginning that I am Russian_ from
the very beginning. In short I told her a lo= 0f things-~
well you know--so to her into bed . Well, we were
walking or the quay and I 8aid to her: Now' about going
up to your place? she answered : I can t. Why? I
eaid, I'11 take off my shoes; and come on tiptoe She
angwered: I8: it' posgible for me to come to I
said: You can t come to my_place = There woula be a
knock on the door at once _ The Swiss wou)a tell the
Americans and that would be the end _ I can 't do this.
So a11 I could do was have her next to the parapet. But
the English felt--and nothing was heara about this, but
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GorT Tor her Becauge 7aybe have fired her Becauge
tkey--the Fercign Office--keep. Speaking honesbly ,
a5 a human being, I am concerned thjt wight eire
her Because there wag nothisg Iore to it tkan this one
Tke second event bringing MOSEC to speciel notice occurred
at about the sare cime that NCSEXKO e3tabliskad contact with
CIA and Fay , in fact, have been the incident hich he said drove
him to concact David MARK _ On: 15 jere 1962 (cen eays after
NOSENKO aFproached MARK) the
permanent reprcsertative 0 ir Gere;a, toia his
host 2t luncheon_ Lnerican Ambassazor TCeBY , that two girl3
from the Ba-Ta-Clan Clul) _ a strip-teas? bar i: Geneva , had cozie
to the consulate apparently seeking vis2s The girls
had told or cwo Soviets one about 30 and the other abcut 40 _
who hac visited the club recently (no date M2s provided by
According to the girls_ Erhid 19 said, the
two Sovie:3 had atterpted to pass trenselves off as inericans
and had spent hindreds" of frarcs drinking et che club_ The
name which gave Aibassadlor Ti'BBY for cne 0f these
Soviets sourden ~ike "ISENKOv_ Fro: their descriptions the
two Soviets were 2 lnost certainly NCSE:KO and his friend AaK_ KIS-
LOV At his first Rceting with CIA #OSE"O said that a Feek
ard a half earlier he spent 1500 Swiss francs in a sirgle right
of, drinking 2nd wOTen with KISLOV "e necessity repaying
this money, taken from KGB operational fendls was the igmediate
cause of nis contacl With CIA, according to NCSEiXO_
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D Reagono Tor ROSCNKO' 8 Pregence In ' Geneva (1962 and 1964
1. TDY Jn 1962
When NOSENKO ar"Ivcd In Geneva for the frst tiee on
10 Merch 1962 , he waa sted offIclally es a Soviet %inistry of
Forclgn Affalrs "cxport" vfth the Delcgation to the dIsermament
talks. Early dur his second mecting with CIA on 11 June 1962 ,
NOSENKO was asked to uxplain prccisely why he had been sent out
to Geneva. Hle replAed 05 follows: Right now, I caze to pro-
vIde counterintelllgence support tu the Disarmament Delegation _
Therc 19 a spcc Ial KGu} departnent for delegations 2 spec ial
onc _ recently creatoi And the chief 0f this departcent is
sfmultaneously a chief of the Second Chief| Dlrectorate.
He 16 both chicf ot thc department and deputy chlef of the
dircctorate so that lhere will be 2 person who can} be held re-
sponsible 10 anythluk happens _ Understand? The chief of the
directoratc [0.%. Chliianov| hated to sign a 11 sorts of rCCOn -
mendations end So on , when someone can run Off in Belgium or
wherever hc may be, This happened core than once , ard he was
summoned be fore thc CpSU| Central Committee. Therefore , he
decided to create a moew position Thle person hold it is
simultancously chic/ Vf thc departaent and deputy chief of the
directorate and perxumally signs 0ff on 911 matters ccncerning
exits from the USSH | This was in order to avoid being called
on the carpet_ So thnt hlane would fall not on the chief of
the directoratc, but on his deputy , wno is In charge of this
departnent and who #lened off _
"This departmcnt , NOSENKO continued, "is concerned with
departures abroad , that is, it checks a11 Sovict citizens who
Intend to travel abrvnd both alone and as members of delegations.
SInce GOLITSYN (dcferted] in Finland , we have an order that no
delegation is to bo Jot out without an opcrational rorker not
a Single dclegation. With me it happened aS follows I was
not planning to They told me: You are going. I said:
'I can 't_ I have a #cction . I have 15 people there, 2 11
operating peoplc. Am I supposed to dump them? Fhat can I do?'
No , you are going, was the reply And what did tbe chief
order?' I asked _ Tho chief NOSENKO was referring to GRIBANOV
when he spoke of thc "chef". | said: 'GROMYKO is going this
time the Minister 0[ Foreign Affeirs 13 going, and somebody
on an appropriate lovol must go with him. Not a case officer,
not a senior casc 0ff Iccr not a deputy but thc chief of a section , or the deputy chief of a department , or a depertment
chlef _ Well, I wa, the nost Junior section chief _ I was
called in to my chiof , my immediate chief , who Is concerned
with the Seventh Department_ had told him that it wou ld
be for a month and 0m) this basis he gave me permiss LOD And
I have been here Sinco 10 Xarch.
Later during thle second meeting NOSENKO volunteered that
in addition to his security officer functions in Geneva , he had
a special assignment to check on P.F SHAKHOV a senior advIsor
to the Soviet De legat ion. SHAKHOV had been noted in contect
#CIA records show that SHAKHOV has served In and visited the
United States on numorous occasions since 1942, when be was
assigned at the SovIot Consulate General in New York. He
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EItb DavId VARK _ be Teved by the RGB to he a CIA oR{Icer; ;
NOSENKO 'reported, and 0n thfe bag}g tbe KGB su8pected tbat
SHAXHOV mJgbt b0 a0 Acerican age t . NOSZNKO descrIbed the
verIous ways he had tested these suspiclons In Geneva _ He
fIrst gave SHAKHOV dIsinfornat Ion and Jooked Ror IndcatIons
tbat he passed Jt on to American contacts. Next , SHAKHOV va9
told to pertorn countersurvcillance tasks durIng 8 neet Ing by
NOSENKO wfth an imagInary agent, while other KGB OffIcers
checked for sign5 tiat STLAKIIOV had forewarncd thc Aner Icans
ebout the Deeting - Finally, NOSENKO revealed to SHAKHOV the
location of a KGB "dead drop" and checked back five days latcr
to see whether thc sFec ially prepared Gaterials mhich had: been
Placed In It had bcen disturbed in any way. NOSETKO " $ con~
clusfon fron a11 this_ he told CIA was that SHAKHOV was ab-
solutely free of suspicion, and it wes his Intention to report
this findfng when he returncd to KGB Headquarters.
On later occasions NOSENKO reported that SHAKHOV had
previously servcd with tic Ministry. of Forelgn Affairs In the
Un fted States and that during this perlod hc ected a5 an agent-
recruiter for the KGB . In 1966 #OSENKO naned one person whon
SFAKHOV had spotted acd devcloped In the United Statcd
SHAKHOV eccord to NOSENKO was not and nevcr
haa been a KGB
officer_
Asked why SHAKHOV was permtted to
travel abroad when he was suspected of beIng an Accrican agcnt,
NOSENKO explained that sincc SHAKIOV belonged to the Ministry
of Forelgn AIfairs; the KGB could do nothlng about his trips
abroad- "Therc was no proo f _ only susplcions and furthcrrore,
SEAKHOV was a membcr of the persona ] staff of the head of the
Sovict Delegat fon, S.k. TSARAPKIN_
NOSENKO was questioned agaln about hs 1962 ass1enment to
Geneva duriog the February 1965 Interrogations_ Hls answers
rere Incorporated Jn a protocol" whia h NOSENKO certifed a5
being correc t on 26 February 1965. The protocol states:
"GRIBANOV hed nothing at a1 ta do with my ass1gnnent to Geneva
Jn 1962_ 1 think that the fitness report written about me for
tbis trip was signed by (F. D:] DOBKOV , sInce he was the Dcputy
Chlc f of the Second Chief Directorate #ho supervIsed the
Seventh (Tourist| Department - I dfd not personally discuss
thls trip wfth GRIBANOV before Dy departure from Moscow. Sy
candIdacy for this essignment was supported by [S.6.] BANNIKOV ,
the Deputy Chfef of the Second Chief Directorate_ who super 4
vised the work 0f the Eleventh [Sovlet Delegations] Department
Rhich had the Iovestigative file on SHAKHOV BANNIKOV was
concerned with the question of who should €0 a5 case offIcer on
ettended the 1945 Conference on Intercational OrgenIzet Ion In Sen
Franc Lsco , the 1955 Paris SumcIt Conference, many dIsermament
conferences over the ycars , and he has attended a number of 3e9 -
sJons of the UN General Assembly . Bost recently SHAKHOV arrIved
Jn New York 08 8 mecber of the Sovfet MIssfon to tbe UN In 1963 .
The Sovlet defectors PETROV and DERYABIN have reported that
SHAKHOV ' 8 fece 18 fediller to them; RASTVOROV Identiffed him 48
e0 XVD officer whom he 1s certeln_he_ sa5 et HVD_Headquerters 1n
sens : Hogcow; CTaent fTed h1m a5 a0 employee 0r 7he
EGB: 9 Whowever saId tbat SHAKHOV Is "clean, 0 So:
pure d1plonet and that_ to hi8 knowledge , SHAKHOV 583 noj ep-
geged Jd apy Soviet AnteliLgencergGSta red that tlde _
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this trip because SHAKHOV wno was_
subpected of Possibly_being
a Western agent = was to be in Ehe delegation: when the Eleventh
tment was looking for a case officer to rake this trip
Deezrtanted
to have a chief of section because of the serious-
teey
of the SHAKHOV Case When they asked in the Seventh
tment (V.D a } CHELNOKOV agreea that I Bhould take the as-
Degarener
There wa8 no background or
neighEorhood , investigation
conducted on me in connection with Cy being approved for this
trip. My agbignment was approved by the Eleventh Department ,
by the Personnel Office of the Secona Chief Directorate by
the Central Personnel Office of the KGB 'and by the Certral
Committee of the CPSU -
NOSENKO was asked why he had been selected to make this
imrediately after ass uning the duties of the Chief of the
tregican
Tourist Section on the eve of tke tourist season ,
and at a tine when he had no deputy. He explained_ that it
was not thought that tke assignment would last so long , and
CHELIOKOV his superior end friend had decided to lez him go
as a treat=
During interrogations of Octcber 1966 NOSENKO was ques -
tioned further about his 1962 agsignment to Gereva as a security
officer_ He said that in this capecity he would necessarily
know the identity of all other KGB cfficers serving with the
Soviet Disarmarent Delegation in Geneva _ There were only,
besides himself - the KGB First Chief Directorate officers M.S.
TSYMBAL and I.S_ MAYOROV _ (CIA however has tentatively
identified three other delegation rembers as KGB staff officers:
A.Ka KISLOV observed in Washington ara in Moscow in what
to have been KCB operatic activity; V.G . FILATOV , who
aepeezs
as an alternate handler in the KGB operation with the
NATO officer Georges PAQUES ; and Oleg GRINEVSKIY a Eerber
of
the permanent Soviet Delegaticn who handled a
double agent during this sanie conference.) NOSENKO incfuced
GRINEVSKIY in the list of his own: agents in Geneva in 1962
ana said that _ in Moscow , GRINEVSKIY was handled by an offi-
cer of the Intelligentsia ana Correspondents Department of
the Second Chief Directorate_ KISLOV according to NCSENKO _
was an operational contact in Moscow of the Austria-Germany-
Scandanavia Department of the KGB Second Chief Directorate
ana was
in operations against_ the West German Embassy
there_ NOSENKO also saia that KISLOV had been a KGB operational
contact during his earlier- tour in the United States but was
neither then nor later a KGB officer. He characterized FILA-
TOV a Ministry of Foreign Affairs.official ana stated that
he is "definitely not an intelligence officer
NOSENKO was also reguestioned during these interrogations
on his investigation of SHAKHOV _ After saying on the morning
of 19 October 1966 that he had been personally told by the
NOSENRO has Sald Ehat in 1960 he was turned dom for a per-
manent ass1gnnent to Ethiopia because of his excessive drink-
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"Doputy Chle{-OPtbe Second Chtet DIrec torete that the SRARTOP
Jnvestigat Ion Qas the @a In reason {or his assignment to Geneva
Jp 1962 , NOSENKO latcr 10 the stated: "My ma Ln tesk w99 to
check the secur of the deleget ion Plus SRAKIOV . You cen ' t
11 beparate thcsc tasks.
In thfs questlonIng NOSENKO descrbed the basis for the
SuSpc Ions of SKAKHOV the lack 0f results from earlier Inves_
tigations and bis own preparatIon for this assignment. He
saId that a5 a reprcsentative of thc Sov Iet Delegat Lons De _
partment of the Seccnd Chfef. Directorate, M.G . SITNIKOV had
conducted Investigations of SHAKHOV In Geneva in 1961 _ but
SITNIKOV was unable to resolve the questions conccrning him.
Because 0f the feilure of these early efforts, the KGB dec Ided
to send "a scnior guy to the Disarmament talks in 1962 , and
NOSENKO was chosea: "to finfsh' things Up. 10 Before leaving Hos _
Cow In "arch 1962 = NOSENKO thcrefore dlscussed the SHAKHOv
case with SITNIKOV and with one (fnu) LYALIN the Soviet DeJe_
gations Department officer In charge of thc SHAKHIOV case; he
elso read various naterials on the case , inc luding an Jnvesti-
gat fve plan drawn up by LYALIN. NOSENKO S description 0f these
preparatlons provided the basis for the quest ioning which
followed;
Question: Why was SHAKHOV under suspicion in June 19622
NOSENKO: He was working with different delegetlons et
different conferences and, beinc in Geneva ,
it was noticed that there was somethIng which
can be descrIbed a#S a connect ion with David
MARK , who was considered 2 CIA offfcer. Also ,
Iittle, little, little things before.
Question: Rhen did SIIAKHOV and MARK first meet? How did
it begin?
NOSENKO: In '60 or '61 there was a contac t witb MARK _
I don t remember who reported It_ The report
was maybe from SITNIKOV in Gcneva. MARK was
known to the Second Chief Directorate a9 the
RezIdent [CIA Chief of Station] io Moscow _
Arter Moscow he went to Geneve and It was con-
sidered he must be the RezIdent In Geneva.
A1l thc KGB offIcers goIng Therc were told to
pay attention to him;
Question : What about the report?
NOSENKO: Maybe the officers saw the two g0Ing to the
toilet_ Maybe there was _ a contact_ The file
said "maybe . I was sent to Geneva to carry
#As stated earlier MARK was not a CIA officer 1o Moscow _
although be did perform certein clandestine tasks for CIA. He
bad no CIA missions In Geneva In 1962. Within the context of
dIscusslon of NOSENKO 's security officer duties during October
1966 , NOSENKO was asked to name any CIA officers he knew to be
present Lp Geneva duriog tbe 1962 dIsarnadent talks. MARK was
tbe Only. one be cIted.
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out Doagureb to check . Tbere pere many Mfttle,
Ittle thirgs. MARK @aybe turjed bfe beed 4
cartafn Pa; when SHAKHOV wag telkIng (S.y:
GOLUBEV formerly o the Tourtccnth
iCountcrin-
tell' gence) Department , Ras In tbe Sovlet Dalo-
gat Ion mItb SHAXHOV _ Ho noticed Iittle detafls.
Fhen the offIcerg Jn the Dpited Stateg dec ided
to ternfnate SHAKHOV 43 an they wrotu
4 rcport on hlp ebfch sa1d he was 11f0
In the U.S.--AmerIcan products, poney . He wa8
PIctured J5 not good end , Ln additlon, he was
not wanting to work a9 En agent .
2 The 1964 TDY
NOSENKO ' 6 1964 trfp to Gcncva , commenc Ing on 19 January , w2s
41so In the capac Ily of sccurity offIcer with the Sovfet DIs-
arnement Delega t Lon _ He safd he was the only security officer
for the group, which consisted of about 25 persons , and age1n
he weg Officfally listed as an "expert _ it NOSENKO reported that
he had three or four agents WIthin the delegation and en equal
number of operatlonal contacts_ The only person Ghom he ma3
Instructed to watch In particuler was A.A TKACHEV , an Inter-
preter who had travelled to Austrie Ir 1960 ard
1961
end who,
the KGD had notcd was In the habit of going about by hloself.
Otncr than thfs, according to NOSENKO , his responsibilities
were general In fature.
NOSENKO explalned during the Fcbruary 1965 Interrogatlons
how he was selected for this TDY _ The protocol he s1gned on
26 February 1965 statcs: "GRIBANOW had absolutely nothing to
do with my essignnent to Gencva In 1964 _ Thc fitness report
on me for this trip was signcd by [F.D. ] BOBKOV _ For the 1964
trip no decIsIon approval of the Central Commf ttee 0f tho
CPSU wab required for me or for any other nembcrs of the dele-
gatIon Rho had been approved for the 1962 trip. It was DY own
personal MIsh to make this trip in 1964 and I had discussed the
questIon QIth (V.D. ] CHELNOKOV even 10 1963 and had rece Ived
his agreenent. I had elso telked about this with M.V.|
KHLOBUSTOV_ and {G.| PANCHENKO both o f tbe Sovlet Delegetlons
Depertnent | _ After It had been decIded that I rou ld g0, Jn
about the beginn of January 1964, (N.t.| ZIiARIKOV , tta Chle?
0f tbe Departnent , suggested that a case offcer mIght Dot be
requIred wIth thfs delcgation. KHLOBUSTROV _ PANCHENKO and
(A.G.l KOVALENKO ( Chfef 0f the Tourist Depertuent and NOSENKO 's
immediate supervisor} supported me for the asS ignaent a5 a
personal favor to me . #ith regard to GRIBANOV S knowledge Qf
hs ass1gnment to Geneva this second time, NOSENKO said that he
feared that 1f GRIBANOV le arned about the TDY he would heve safd,
What, ega1n?" and would not have permitted hin to g0. It was
for thls reason that NOSENKO did not discuss thc trip Fth GRI-
BANOV , he sa Id, and he did not believe that GRIBANOV , Jp fact,
knew enytbIng about It.
sercs ve
#GOLUBEV wa8 as0 Identified by a5
souFerst Chfef Drecto-
rate counterintelligence officer. According' to he wa8
one of several KGB officers forced" to leave the United States
In 1964 because he wag we11 known to NOSENKO. There 15 re-
cord Jn CIA fIles that GOLUBEV has ever been to Seftzerland .
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C Hotlvatfene and IntentLon8 NOSENKO
1 < Iotroduction
NOSENKO ba8 not Indicated tbat htg professlonal btatus Ip
the KGB h1e 8tandard 0r IvIng J0 tbe Sov Let Un I0n , or hie
fagily iife pronpted hJw to voluoteer to AmerIcan Intelllgence
In 1962 and to defcct to the Uo f ted Stateb in 1964 _ He Lpftelly
told CIA that be had been unusually buccebaful dur bis ted-
year carcer 38 2 KGB counterIntelllgence offIcer; his closest
frfends and thc people Fhom he adaired nost rere members of the
KGB; he enjoyed bls work . The NOSENKO faafly held 4 high sOc Iel
tion, and thefr economIc situatlon 526 luxurious Sovlet
etandards _ 01 NOSENKO described h8 family lifc a5 close and
harmonlou8 _ He spoke #th fondsess and pride about his two
daughters, of his wife s: toleraoce and understandng, of the
companfonshfp she gave him: He .expressed love end a sense of
responsibility for his widowed Eother, who heavily depcnded
upon him after the death of his father In 1956 _ The elder
NOSENKO won his son 'S adufration for: having worked his way Up
fron an
apprentice pipefitter In a shi pyara to the position of
Sov fet Minister of Shipbuilding The NOSENKO nane is henored
In the homc town 0 { Mikolayevsk, where the shipyard has been
renamcd for the former minister and where a statue of him has
been erected in the town square_ By his own account , NOSENKO
thus had had a rewarding home life and a successful and enjoy-
able career in thc KGB.
2 . Collaboration in 1962
At the Gutset in 1962 = NOSENKO said he wanted to limit his
reports to two itens of infornation _ Be fore the first meet ing
with CIA was over he went beyond these two items to de-
tafls on the KGB Sec Jnd Chfc? Director:te and nther operations,
and he offered to meet again. (Four nore meet ings ensued 1n
1962 _ with NOSENKO providing edditional Infornation on the XGB. )
He would not defect , NOSENKO sald, unless his personal sefety
wa8 endangered by the KGB Motivations in com ing to Americen
Intelligence, according to NOSENKO , were his financ ial emergeucy
In Geneva and his digaffection for the Soviet reg ine
a ReadIness to Report to CIA
During his 9 June meet_ Rit DavId MARK , NOSENKO said he
realIzed even before talking to representatives of AmerIcan
Intelligence, that they would not be satisfied with the two
Items of Inforration alone--he expected them to insist on more
He was introduced by MIARK to a CIA case officer later the sade
1
and at the start of the neeting , the following dialogue
took place:
NOSENKO: You see, I am not plannicg to be agent:
and don t think tbat I an going to work MItb
you In Hoscow. No. No .
Case As have' said, I am :an intellgence offIcer
OffIcer: a5 are you_ And I thlnk thet we Will understand
one another .
NOSENKO: You want to place our relationshp on an agent
ba518 .
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OIfIcer:
NOSENKO: Never in my Ife I MIll go io contact [eith
CIA Jn Moscow or the USSR , never In Dy 2Ife_
I a)go know about Langelle and POPOV; I know
this matter. When it was abroad It 723 fine,
but when you dec Ided to meet him in Moscow .
You want more than I came with the intentfon
of saying. You want to change this to a long -
term relationship. Understand me . I am now
the chfef of a scction _ Be fore my departure
from Moscow) a dec ision was beIng reached--
and I have just spoken with my wife 1n Woscow_-
I am supposed to become the deputy chief 0f a
department _ Do understend what this Is?
Case are You telling me this?
OffIcer:
NOSENKO: Bccausc I wanted to come (to CIA| only for a
business deal, to wivc you these two cases,
to receive money for this, and that 5 all.
Goodbye _ Perhaps , sonctine when I cowc
abroad , we will meet one another and perhaps
I will give you someth:, 3 God knows _ But
I don t #ant ta; do this now. I don t want
to and I am not prepared within myself for thls.
I am giving two interesting cases The most
Interesting ones . I say to you honest ly , the
two most interesting ones [n the first of
them L"ANDREY"+* | I took nb part. Io the second
BELITSKIY*++| I took part, even here.
Case I want you to understand thet these two matters
Officer: that you spoke to Xr BARK about are of great
importance to us . Bu t I don t have to tell you
that. You know that_ But we are not go1ng to
play like children _ You know nerfectly wel1
that It Is worth every franc What I want
to tell you Is this: of course I w1) ask You
more, and of course 1 want to know as puch 8s
ou know_ If you refuse to answer, that 8 your
busIness _
NOSENKO; I WIll tell what I am able to tell. Ghat I
know, I will tell Of course ycuself
understand that there are tbings concernIng our
Internal systen that I cannot report to You.
You yourself understand this.
The compromIs? of the CIA source In the GRU, P.S_ POPOV Js
dlscussed Ip Part VI.D. 7.a.
##The case 0f "ANDREY the KGB cryptonym for the agent Dayle
SMITH , 18 discussed Jn Part VI.D.3.b.
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14-00000 Ehen__bhe_CIA REEAcer_eald tbe: he wderetozd NOSENKO had
been In the XGB 8Ince shorely aeter Ehe war , NoSErO ; WIthou€
further promptIng' gave a detailed statenent Of hie owm personal
past and his professional career, In tub Btatenent he descrIbed
hib education , his service In the GRU , his entry into the KGB
and generally the functlong and operating techniques of the
various componente oE the KGB Second Chief Directorate in whfch
he bad served , along with the Inclusive dates of his bervice
in each = Thi account wag very bimllar to that given MARK
earlier in the Sti1l without prompting he discusged
Beveral specific KGB operations against Americans inside the
Soviet Union , one involving the recruitment of a Yale University
professor on the basis of homogexual compromise and the other
an unsuccessful attenpt to recruit an American code ' cler}-
NOSENKO said he was personally involved in both cases _
The question of his further assigtance wag then raised
The CIA officer asked NOSENKO to tell mOre about the
Yale professor but NOSENKO demurred stressing that the agree-
ment involved only two pieceg of information and ignoring the
fact that he had already given considerably more:
NOSENKO : I have told you enough for this and I will
tell you these two cases which I wanted to
tell you_ and it is enough for this
Case How do you imagine that this is enough? You
Officer: know that we work much the same way ,
NOSENKO : Yeg _
Case You know what interests 45 , of course
Officer:
NOSENKO : I know it. Today I gave only two things .
Let' 8 meet one another (again] _
Cage Good _ But let me say this: What you tell Me
Officer: Ibryour business _ I am going to try to
bring any pressure at all, There is no argu-
ment about it. I am not going to say : Please
see us in boscow I don t want to see you
in MObCOw because it 5 too difficult It is
completely impossible . That' s it. No more On
that subject _
NOSENKO : I saia to David [MARK ] before meeting you that
I don 't want to meet anyone anymore not anyone _
CAse All right. Agreed _
Officer:
NOSENKO : In another place. I don t know whether I will
come back here in a month Or not. I personally
don t want to either _ because my wife will be
maning at home But -I am afraid they will make
me cOne because I know the . delegation . I know
~Richara BURGI and Jogeph MORONE ; see Partb V.D. #-b. and V.E.3.c.,
respectively . NOSENKO dia not supply the naneg at thts time _
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Cage You know that I would not bring any pressure _
Officer: That 8 some thing we understand because we are
both in thig bugin:88 . Iou ana I are in the
same business, 80 you can t--
NOSENKO : Iet me interrupt _ are we bargaining so
now? So that I will gay some - more to
you I said: Let 8 meet Maybe I
will tell [more) Now I will
these two items because we have Eade a deal_
I will tell you about these two cases _ Let' 8
meet again , if insist - I understand that
YOu want more , Nell, I will think a bit about
what I know.
Case That' 8 all right.
Officer:
NOSENKO : We can meet when I am abroad perhaps _ You must
understand me {his has cone to me simply _
I had tine tb think for a long time I thought
for a long time You see , it 5 very difficult
for me very difficult for me And after I go
it will also be very difficult for me
Case But you knew that when cane Why dia
Officer: come to us? Why to the American rezidentura
(CIA Station} and not to the British?
NOSENKO: I came here because you are strong , strong.
You don t have to explain to" me I know what
makes me I told you t is hard for me
I still need to think That 8 all_ But I
can no longer take a step back because the step
forward has already been taker. I won t
fuse if we meet before my departure. If you
like _ on Monday = on Tuesday any Monday
is better for me Not Sunday _ because I have
to be there with my own
[peopie]
This exchange was followed by a lengthy description of the two
leads which NOSENKO had cOme to sell, the BELITSXIY ana the
n ANDREY " case8
As NOSENKO was about to leave this first meeting _ his case
officer asked when they might meet again. NOSENKO suggested
that meet two days later, on Monday , around noontime a9
it woula be easier for him to away unnoticed at lunchtime_
He then said that the case officer was probably trying to get
everything down on tape and asked that this be stopped because
of the risk to his security resul from such a permanent re-
cora of their conversations _ NOSENKO said: I will not tell
you anything particularly ,interesting. But I can tell you some-
thing. But not today . I can tell how LANGELLE blew POPOV--not
LANGELLE but because of whom and why we found him--for your
future use so that you will know how to operate- But LANGELLE
was not guilty. It wag not LANGELLE who wa8 guilty. Another
Perbon was respongible for the compromise . Next time .
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14-QQQQQ Or OE the_degree OE ehJb cooperacion wab never Ia1ge 'aga n
Ue pe very" otare o2 eho"second weottngi 0 IXjunor bo-dasdt
I am tortured a1l the tfce by 3 eIngle thoujnt_ Everything
now depends upon You, only on You. The Bllgttest carelegg move
by people and it UIIl be che end o* me Althouch he
gome timeg voiced moral corpunctIong , Erom this point on NOSENKO
expregeed hle primary Peraonal concern a9 being hig Owin gecu-
rity' Vie-a-vIe the KGB
b. Attftude Toward Defection
while willicg to meet with CIA represenzativeg durIng
future tripe outside the Soviet Union which ne estimated woula
occur abut once a year NOSENKO in 1962 refused tc corsider
defection except in circumstances whcre his personal security
woula be endangered Hls devotion to his wife ard children and
the probability that the KGB would take reprisals against them
Jf he fled were he gaid_ the primary consicerationg behind. thi8
refusal_ (Nithout elaborating OI:- the reaso?s NOSENKO said on
another cccagion that he would not want to leave the CSSR even
on a permanent KGB assignnent and accompanied by his family.)
Other congiderations Included his widowed nozher 9 dependence
On him and his love of Russia and the Russian people as opposed
to the regime _ For these' reasons NOSENRO said he could not
defect a8 PETROV , GOLITSYN and KIOKLOV had done
c Motivation
NOSENKO told David MARK 0n 9 June 1962 that he wanted to
contact Anerican Intelligence becausc he was in trouble over
the ` .1o8s of KGB operatioal funds for which h2 had to account
prior to his iminent rture for the Soviet Union His KGB
career would be ruined if he was caught misusing this money ,
NOSENKO added and because he had nowhere else to turn, he was
willirg to sell two items of information to XARK , The amount
needed to cover the loss was 900 Swiss francs or about S210 _
and this was the price asked for the infornation _
NOSENKO' 8 statements of motivation to his CIA case officers
during subsequent meetings are below:
9 June 1962 : In his first meeting with 2 CIA officer NO-
SENKO. asked Whether MARK rad relayed the rezsons why he wanted
to meet with Anerican Intelligence_ He then very briefly
peated what he haz tola MARK conccrning the J0ss of his opera-
tional funds _ The case officer remarked that chere must be
some- thing more to ite upon which NOSENKO said that this was not,
in fact. his main motivation: "I have been working in this
business for a time end I know what I am doing. I have
heard more than is written (in the newspapers] A reorganization
has been startea in the USSR. In short have begun to do
away with the ministries and the govnarkhozy But this is pre-
mature . Right now our agriculture 15 Talliz; apart at the seams
ana our industry is at the point of collapse because this re-
organization , this innovution _ 18 too eariy- And this is not
just me a young man , talking_ I mingle with ministers with my
father 8 friends _ and I hear what are saying: And how much
does a worker earn? 600-800 rubles in old noney , now 60-80
And he doesn t sense any improvement [in his tion] within the
total population. These are empty words We have exceeded
the United States in per Capita production Of butter and milk
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Internal resentrent (nadlod) and You feel that Bome blg mistakes have' been pernitted, Tint Ganagenent
a8 a whole 1s somehow off
on the 'wrOng track. Alu0 , look at the serioug situation in
Czechos}ovakia row Jn Germany--in the GCR _ It i5 very sefjoug .
In Polard nave juct had a poor harvest. Everywhere: there
they have had floods These raing are also very settcus _ It
mean8 that the systei the whole socialist system caanot (cope?-=
one word on the tape eannot be distinguished here) Do understand what is wronc? Faith in the future is
Yost_
Why have I told you thg? Because under othcr circumstanceg
perhaps I woula not havo come to this_ So this is the reason for what has happened to me This is Perhaps che incident that drove Me into contact with you. It all somehow grew within me _ God knows _
11 June 1962 : During the second meeting NOSENKO himself
rajsed the issue of motfvation_ His case officer had just said
that CIA would respect his wishes in connection with a particu-
lar request when #OSENKO 8aid: "Speaking of respect_ how can there be respect? I dlon 't even respect myself for what I have
aone But but , take the press bulletin , the communiqua of
the Summit Conferencc in Moscow on various questions Rgain
lies lies_ lies to show that we have had great successes I
can see them [the successes) No , excuse me I krow somewhat
more than the rank and Eile Soviet man becalse I work under this
system. I can see what is- being dcne and what is not done _
Lies, more lies . Thic was my mood _ I say , Mow much is it pos-
sible to deceive the people the Soviet people? How far can
you Our people aro very poor. It is sonewhat difficult
to arouse a people such a8 this. If we gtir ourselves up we
will know how to stand up for ourselves But I feel for my people How often can you say that things wiil be good; how
often can you say that we have achieved successes? Where
are they? Show me them. I can see no trace of them. This i8
what I say that there 18 resentment in my soul - Do you under-
stand? A terrible resentnent I love my country. You may say
that this i8 nothing_ But I tell you that I cannot act like
GOLITSYN like KHOKLOV_ like PETROT'_ because I want to be there.
I want to be with my fanily. That S a1l_ But I feel that not
only the government is mak mistakes _ I feel that there are Eaults throughout the entire system of socialisn. !hat I mean
18 that things are bad in Czechoslovakia things are bad in Po-
land , thinge are bad with KADAR (in Hungary] are starving
in China_ This means that there are great mistakes _ Well,
that" S all What did You want to ask me please?"
At the close of thie meeting, NOSENKO stressea that money
was unimportant as a motive for a continuing relationship: My
name must not be used anywhere even in your offices. Understand?
It woula be the end of me _ I am not afraid of this. The devil
with then. Because I have had 8uch a life. I lost my father,
everything_ Why do I 8ay thi8? I did not come to you simply
because I needed money . I don t need it_ I came because I am
resentful ingide _ Do you understand this internal resentnent?
I do not believe in what is being done _ I do not believe in
thi8. Listen to me Let me: speak honestly. Have I not had the
chance to live as a person should? My father was a Man _ He
had dacha and a state-owned automobile_ I have my OwT Volga
[autonJbiTe] My mother was given a dacha for life_ It's_
luxurious_ Her apartment is enormous--150 gquare meters . For
America this 18 nothing, but for Moscow this is enorous . Re
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8 rIch woman _ She has Paintinge by AyvazovekiY , Makovekly. Even
If she had insufficient money , she could always 8ell her Posse8 -
slons. What do I want to Bay? That I've never wanted fcr money .
Never: .A8 I Bafd _ perhapg the thing which drove mc to Xol wag not
but thie;great , great regentzent _
14 June 1962 The subject of motivation was not discusged
during Ehe Ehirc . and fourth meetings with NOSENKO _ As he wab
about to leave the Geneva safehouse after thc fieth and final
segsion however NOSENKO again touched on the economic inequl-
ties existing inside the Soviet Union and raised a new reason for
cooperating with CIA,. his basic sympathy for the American people.
NOSENKO said that he rcalized tkat the reason he had given for
coming to 48 , his need for money = was "not Before he
and his case officers parted #OSEMKO said _ he wantea to em- phasize "without attenpting to justify himself" that he bad
'always felt a certain sympathy toward the American people He
explained that it was not tha technical progress of the United
States which attracted him, nor was it the high standara of
Kving of the American It was rather the openness and
directness with which the Anericans whom he had Iet and seen
hand led theiselves As examples he cited his American targets
in Koscow and Secretary of State Dean RUSK whom he had seen in
Geneva .
Although NOSENKO did mention the difficult econonic situa-
tion in the USSR on a few other occasions , he dia not relate
these remarks specifically to his motives for volunteering to
CIA_ The above excerpts are representative of his total stace-
ment on motivation during the 1962 reetings .
3 . Decision to_Defect (January 1964)
On arrival for his first Ieeting with CIA during the secona
Geneva phase on 24 January 1964 NOSENKO said that after
and careful consideration since the 1962 mee series he had
decided to aefect . He once again criticized the Communist regime
along the same lines as during earlier meetings_ but his imedi-
ate motivation seemed to have nothing to do with this NOSENKO
explained that he had recertly been promoted to the position of
First Deputy Chief of the Seventh (Tourist) Department of the KGB
Second Chief Directorate ana that because of the stature and
responsibilities of his new job, there would be 4~W opportunities ,
if any , for nim to visit the West in the future Therefore he
had decided to seize the opportunity at hand and to flee to the
Unitea States at once leaving his family behind . He' foresaw no
possibility of his wife and children permitted to leave the
USSR for the "next twenty years _ NOSENKO told CIA that the
herdest thing is to part with my family He: had however care-
fully considered their fate as the close relatives of a defector
aa he knew that, because of his mother 9 position in Soviet s0-
ciety, no harm would come to them .
Whereas NOSENKO: declared his intent to' defect imedfately ,
the CIA case officers at this first meeting in 1964 persuaded
him to remain in place for at least two Or three weeks On the
grounds that , firet, CIA would benefit much Erom this; ana
second , arrangements for his transfer to' ard reception in the
Onitea States would have to be coordinated in advance with CIA
Beadquarters .
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of CIA and abked for reasonable assurance of a secure future
in the United States In thi8 cornection_ ne said, he would
prefer to act a3 a CIA ccngultant particularly or counterintel-
iigence matters because he was a specialist in this field; he
woula be able to give CIA leads and assistance in spotting and
recruiting other Soviets.
The next five meetings with NOSENKO were devoted exclusively
to debriefings on the activitieg of the Xj3 Second Chie€ Direc-
torate_ Althorgh his impending defection was mentioned , his
reasons for taking this step Were not discussed _ In the mean -
time NOSENKO ' s first CIA handler lew Eo "ashington for dis -
cussions regarding the defection and on nis return told
NOSEKO that the CIA leadership had askec specifically ,
NOSENKO had decided to comne to the United States at that tine _
The answer was that NOSENKO , "after coming back and seeing that
there was no more chance to cone to the Nest _ or little more
chance felt that this was his one opportuni- to come and make
his life with the Americans Therefore he was going to seize
the opportunity wnile ne had it_ Asked about this, NOSENKO con-
firted that thi: was his reason anc adced ; "I riay rever have
another chance and in addition I ve had sefficient time since
our last meeting here in Geneva (1962] to weigh eves rything and to
consider everything_ Later in this same ree WOSENKO again
mentioned his lack of interes: in mOnley a.d his feelings about
deserting his family: "I understand [thac it will be difficult
to adjust to a new life in Anerica} and krow' that for some time
I will be sick within_ And I know that a certain pericd of
time must elapse before this can heal_ I even spoke to you
bluntly about y (financial} security_ I am absolutely uns
mercenary and have never had any appreciation for Foney or
wealth_ My moat difficult and sorest spot of all is my family.
This is the nst basic and most difficult spot of all And I
know peFoecthys well that I mubt go through 2n illness over
this_ For the only and the best doctor is tire I don 't
expect to have a new family there Of course I don t know-
but at least I m speaki:g from the way I feel now I have a
strong liking for children--nct for Ny Own , but for all
children and , losing my Ow? , I am fully conscious how I must
suffer through this. In time I will used to it. I know
one can get used to almost anything _
At this meeting, NOSENKO agreed to renain in place for
approximately another week . and the tentative date of 8 Febru-
ary was selected for the defection _
NOSENKO' s motives for the defection were not- mentioned
for five more meetings . Then , on 4 February 1964 , he telephoned
the Geneva safehouse to say he wanted to defect at once Ar-
riving shortly thereafter_ he announced that he had been Or -
dered to return to Moscow the follow and therefore had
to leave Switzerland before morning . He stated his reasons
formally in an asylum request , written at the time :
~This decision was made by me not now at the
moment I write this I xquest, but several years ag0 .
Having worked for many years in the KGB and knowing
more than the average joviet Citizen about the policy of
the Soviet government , about the direction which this
government has chosen to take _ and about the law and
order in the USSR , I have come to the decision that
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The Letter of July 1964
The most conplete ex?lanation given, by NOSENKO of his
motlves for {iret contacting CIA and Alater defecting to the
United State8 19 contained in a letter to his CIA case oEficer
In 1964 : Ke described this Letter a8 an exposition Of
all thoge reabonb and roct causes which led to the decision
to leave the Soviet Union and further explainea that "every-
thing put down here is lacking in a whole Serieg of lesser
details which to a greater or lesser degree Played their
role _ Nevertheless he said= he had tried in this letter
nto set down the main thing8 to show how when , and why the
decision was born , and hardened within me to coxpletely
alter the course Of my life. This letter i8 preserted below
in ite entirety_ Most of the biographical and operational
details mentioned in the letter are covered separately in other
parts of thi8 paper.
"1. My life_ Dy childhood and youth passed in
very comfortable circunstances gince the positicn of
my father gave us the opportunity to live without lacking
for anything. And the Only difficult periods of my
life (be fore the aeath of my father) were stud in
the naval schools in Kuybyshev , Baku and Leningrad;
and the beginning of my working life _ the periad in
the Far East (1950-1952) The opportunity to be
always well-dresged , to have a sufficient amount
of money , to have my Own car_ to be able to use the
car given me by my family and also my father 8 car,
the opportunity *o travel to the South and to vaca-
tion in the best sanitariums _ dachag . and 50 forth;
al thi8 unquebtionably left iE8 on me and be-
came gonething of a habite After the death of Ty
father, my successful Progress in my work gave pe a
higher salary , and although I did not have all that
which I had while my father was alive still I aid not
experience any serious difficulties _ But alreaay I
wanted to live still better.
"2 _ Up to 1953 over the course of my entire
Jife--at school in the Institute at work at hone
in the family--it was always pounded into my head
that STALIN was a great genius_ that he wa3 good , keen ,
etc. and the thought never occurred to me to question
his words or his deeds because everything that he
said, ana he did, were completely axiomatic.
The arrests
eveaythiais
and only involved traitorb ana it
was considerea and explained that the people _ wro
suffered innocently, especially in 1937 ana 1938 ,
sufferea only because at the head of the NKVD in 1937 ,
1938 , was the betrayor of the people YEZHOV , Not
even the shadow of doubt fell on the name of STALIN _
Soon after STALIN 5 death in 1953 I read_ a certain
document given me by My Eather_ Thib was a secret
Jetter of the Central Committee Of the CPSU on the
'case of the doctors ; it was not. addressed to all
communists but only to member8 and candidate menbere
Of the Central Committee. I wag deeply shaken by thie
letter whlch degcribed In detail how thege people ,
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Important speclalfsts In the field Of medicine were
brought to such a condition that they condenned then-
selves ; that 18 , corfessed t0 things #tich had
never happened to things which had never done _
Thex_were girply forced to give the evidenze which was
needed by the Investlgators . The secret-letters On
the cult of ETALIN and much that I heard in the KGB
about the relgn of STALIN , all this left its mark and
forced ne to think deeply about the real truth and to
look at everything more critically. Already I no
longer had faith in al4 those ideas which for years
had been prcgzed into my kead.
" 3 _ The new leaders (KiiRUSLiCHEV and Company}
used the same me thods but already diluted with the
water of democracy , with playing Up to the people
and attempts to convince them that a new era woula
arise a new and better lifc and that now the Party
was always going to corcern itself with the welfare
of the peopie = In fact , it was a struggle for power
and the use of all mears in this struggle even
microphones ( listened to the conversacions of
BERIY4 and hig friends; later listened to the
conversations of MOLOTOV , MALENKOV KAGA OVICH , and
others) KHIRUSHCIEV ' s endless bl abbing about suc-
cesses when in fact they didn c exist , tke figures
about how the USSR had. passed the USA ir the produc-
tion of butter and milk when ir the stores they were
available only infrequently. The endless promises
of a better life when in Eact nothing of the sort is
taking place _ All this similarly forced ne to re-
evaluate not the cvents which were taking place
in the country , but already the entire iaeology Of
the Party, its external and internal course.
"4 _ The events in Novocherkassk where about 20,000
to 25 , 000 people rose up and the way in which this
popular indignation was suppressed by trocps with many
casualties _ This also made a deep impression on me
When I was resting in the sumer of 1961 i3 Nikolayev ,
from my relatives--my father S brothers--I understood
well the real relation of the workers both to the
leadership and to the Party as a whole _ At the same
time I saw the workers really lived they eat,
what they have and what can with their wages_
I heard a great deal fron my father about
the domestic policies of KHRUSHCHEV in regara to the
development and the course of constructior in industry,
about his complete illiteracy in engineering techno-
and industrial economics about incorrect deci-
sions in regard to many industries_ and this was not
only the opinion of my father , but also of other impor-
tant leaders in various fields of industry (MALYSHEV ,
VANNIKOV , AKOPOV , and others) _ But no one dared to
open his mouth and when in December 1955 ny father
tried, ag an engineer , to prove that a certain deci-
sion would bz incorrect_ he received such a rebuff
from KHRUSHCKEV that he wag profoundly shaken and in
the opinion of my mother this brought him to his ill-
ne8s In 1956 and his death in August 1956 .
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14-QQQQQ mhe evento In-Cernany-endeepecially Jo
Bungary showed with absolute clarity the bankruptcy
of comwunigt, ideology. What wab especially important
for Me vas the fact that in thebe countries it was
a protest not of individuals or groups buc of the:
entire people who could no longer endure a
Imposea on them by force_ Here it is necesaary to
emphasize that the life oE the people in these coun -
trie8 was much better than that of the people in the
USSR (I saw for myself how people live in Czecho-
slovakia, in Germany _ and beyord any doubt live
better thar the entire people of the Soviet Union)
"7 , The split of the international comunist
movemen t became for me a clear fact and confirmed
opinion that the theory of communism is a theory
byi?p
on sand and that it is practiced according to
the needs of the lezdership of the Party at a
stage of life and that in reality full material wel-
fare would never be enjoyed by the people bu} :
by the leadership and the Party and the government _
"8 _ Working in the KGB I came to understana
much ara became conscious of the contradiction between
the internal and external course of the USSR_ Such
questions as dicarmament the ban on atomic weapons the
pogitic: of the USSR in the United Nations--all these
are used only in the interest of propaganda and as
a screer for carrying of the policies needed by
the corinunist party. (I was myself present at the
negotiations in Geneva and saw the politics of the
Soviet celegation.)
"9 _ My trips abroad opened my eyes wide to the
true reality. Nitn my Own eyes I saw how people_
live hcw they earn , how tpechet can dress and live
on their wages _ and I attention to the
1ife of ordinary people and not to that of scientistg ,
engineers_ etcs And al1 the Propaganda about the
enormous armies of unemployed in the countries of the
West, about the Keavy
expioitation and the un-
believably difficult life flew immediately out of
head . And that which I met with in my work = the
Genaeag
0f Soviet citizens abroad--who sent where
ana how etc.-- this finally debunked this prcpaganda
Many of my
acquaintances--GUK CH URANIOV and others--
think back
with great pleasure about life abroad_
910 , I entered the KOMSOMOL completely without
thinking about it_ The time cane the right: age _ an
I becane a Komscmolnik like the others It was
different in regards to the Party: I joined the Party
in 1956 after the death of STALIN and while I was
working in the KGB and already at that time there was
a lack oE faith and indecisiveness in me' My father
continually inststed on this saying that without the
Party I would never move ahead ana woula not have
buccess in life- But I
myself understood and gaw
that I would not be able to work in the KGB unlebs I
S a member of the Barty_ And 1f.I werked_ somewhere
else , I woula truly never move ahead in my ` career
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#*##Olt unle8g I entered the Party: Bue from" Ehe very-bez
ginning of my entry into the Party; I deeply hated
a] the Pazty talmudisr and dogmatism_ All the
Party meetings were literally a torture Especially
when I becane tile deputy chief of the section , the
chief of the section and the deputy chief of the
department , because then I had to speak at these
{ee ti.lgs _ Because this neant to lie to twist my
goul and to attenpt to show myself as deeply dedi-
cated to the Party and its course .
"11_ In 1960 my oldest girl' 5 asthmatic attacks
became worse. The question of a change of clinate
wa8 raised_ At that time the SCD neeGed to send an
officer to Ethiopia for two to three to conduct
cOun terintelligence work among the Soviet specialists
there It cost Ine a great deal of effort to personally
talk GRIBANOV into letting me go_ The Party and work
references had been confirmed _ all the questionnarieg
were already filled out the photos had been submitted;
that is a11 the formalities had been accozplished.
But at the very last moment the Central Personnel of
the XGB began to protest against my golrg with mY
family to Ethiopia_ The reason for this was that from
the house check made at IY place 0f residence they
received information that I sometimes cane home in
a drunken condition and on this ground had quarrels
with my wife_ A tour abroad with my family was reces-
because of the health of my daughter (since 1963
the illness has become better) and also it would
have been advantageous froin the financial point of
view _ Fron this time on I understood that"Personnel
muld not let me go abroad with my fami
"12. Knowing many officers in the FCD , I began
to understand that being sent abroad is entirely
determined by knowledge _ experience_ in work and
success but only by the absolute cleanliness of
the person S autobiography and coinplete assurance as
to his limitless deaication to the Party and the
government _ But not being sent abroad but the
as8ignment of personnel in the First and Second Chief
Directorates ana the entire KGB depends on the reasons
indicated Me and also on relations with the
Jadership and connections with workers in Central
Personnel_
"13_ I lived about 11 years with ny wife and our
life was not 2 hell - It is true that there were
quarrels and basically boiled down to the fact
that she took an extremely unfavorable attitude to-
wards my delays at work and also when I would be de-
layed with some of my friends and acquaintances after
work and would come home with a few drinks under my
belt_ Of course I loved and love_ my:children and only
the fact that they are taken care of financially until
they grow up and have received an education to some
extent consoled me in taking the decision to leave the
OSSR, What do I have in nind when I speak of financial
security? After the death 0f my father , the family
receivea a large monetary allowance , the mOney
years
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3e KY Eother many tImeg OEfered to"dIvide-aH- Jn 7
three parts: for me my brother and for her but I
suggested that we not do thi8 before her; death . And ,
of courbe , my mother wil not Ieave my children WIthouc
attention and my share of the property and the money
VIll be given to my children _
"14 , If the defectiong of APETROV , RASTVOROV and
DERYABIN passed without evok any particular
thoughts the defection to the United Stateg of GOLIE -
SYN_ whom I had heard of a8 an intelligent person and
a capable_ officer undoubtedly caused me to think
very deeply_ Because to act thus it i8 necessary
to have not only boldnesg and decisiveness but also
great strength of will_ And already I put to myself
the question, will I be able to act thus in view of
the dissatisfactions and disillusionments which had
accumulated inside of me ?
"15 _ Being in Geneva in 1962, not long before
my departure I myself of ny Own desire entered into
contact with you The reason for this was the Joss
of money received by me for operational expenses _ I
would have been unable to accumulate such a sum of
money before my departure and there was nobody to
borrow from (at this time GUF" was hiniself in finan-
cial difficulty and at the sane :ime ne was already
preparing for his return home) To tell the truth
a bout the loss of the money would have meant that it
woula be necessary to explain whcre and in what cir-
cumstances it had been lost. This woula have risked
expulsion from the KGB and a serious reprimana from
the Party. Not to tell the truth_ to think up some
sort of a story--they woulan t believe and worst of
all they might think that I had appropriated the
money , that is stolen it. And this would be for me
the worst of
ail
and I would ,' of course , in such
event have told the truth
8 16_ To tell the truth, it was only after my
return home Erom Geneva in
i962
that I gradually , not
immediately . began fully to realize all the seriousness
of my contact with you and its full meaning. And
although I did not give you ary promises or assurances
about our continued contact in the future I under-
stood that you sooner or later woula set yourself the
task of continuing our contact_ And here it was that
weighing up all the reasons and causes which I have
indicated above that in 1962 I took for myself the
decision to leave the USSR at the first opportunity
and that I started to work towards being sent on a trip
abroad .
"17 . OE course I wanted to cone abroad with some
sort of baggage that is _ with materials which coula
be useful and necessary for you. In this entire period
WP to January 1964 I tried to collect information which
woula be of the maximum value for you_ My agsignment
to the_position Of deputy chief of the Seventh Depart-
ment in.July 1962 gave me a greater OPportunity than
before. But at the game time this assignment almost
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@xcruded Ehe pOsEIBITty 0f a ETIp abroad and "IEeVat
Vith great difficulty that I vas able to got awa
for the tip in January. 1964 _ Ic 4ab necegsary to con-
vince CHEL VOKOV and then to aek CHELNOKOv to convince
BOBKOv and in 1963 to convince KOVALENKO _ In this 3
advanced many reasons : that I had all the
money (in foreign currency) {- that the meaicine whfch
I bought for my daughter had proven very success ful
and that I needed to some more medicine to carzy
out ore more series of treatments; that this trip
would not be a long one and that since I was already
the deputy chief of the Department I would zot be able
to travel abroad any more and S0 , therefore this trip
would probably be my last _ Of course _ all this wag
8aid at convenient moments and outaide of work =
Things were eabier with che Eleventh Departnent (which
deals with trips abroad) because I was 0n termg
with PENCHENKO who covered Switzerland besides which
when I came back from Geneva in 1962 I had brought him
a number of presents .
"18 The publication in 1963 by the foreign press
of the VASSALL; case me on my guard since in the
newspaper Times it said outright that the English
leared about Fim thanks to the Arericars who learned
about VASSALL in the spring of 1962 _ Fortuna the
leadership of the FCD, as I iearnea from GCK CHURANCV ,
ard TARABRIN _ cama to the conclusion that here the
Americans had been helped by GOLI?SYN Bec at the
same time the FCD was not completely sure of this_
But tze publication in the American press of Alsop S
articles on tke CIA alarmed me extremely . This ar-
ticle in one said plainly that as far as is known
the KGB does not have any eources in the CIA while at
the sae time the CIA hag penetrated the KGB _ From
this noment , I do not conceal Ehis race . 1 Jegan to
feel afraid that the KGB woula sorehow learn of my con-
tact with you . This article deeply interested the
KGB _
"19 During the clased trial of PENKOVSKIY I
got' a pass in the Second Department and went in order
to look at him myself For sometimes it is enough
to simply look at a man , to see he holdg hiniself
and to hear how he speaks in order to form some sort
of an initial opinion of him. Personally I liked how
PENKOVSKIY held himself at the trial; I liked his ap-
pearance and I understood that everything which had
been said in the KGB about him ard the sort of person
they were trying to make him out to be (that he was
morally degraded= that he had descended and sunk into
a swamp) that ali this was nonsense bluff_ and chatter.
Ana PENKOVSKIY the same as GOLITSYN gave me a feeling
of greater confidence in the correctness of the deci-
8ion taken by me to leave the Soviet Union ,
26 July 1964 Signed: Yu. NOSENKO"
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~Ro8EiO" '@ Aectsiuteg furEenee
3 Introduction
The extent to
which NOSENKO rade himself availeble for
meetings with CIA in Ceneva in 1962 ana 1964 is reviewed hero
in cornection with his stztements abouc tre KGB duties assigricd
to him for these trips, his visits to the KGB Legal Residenc',
and his personal assocwation with other Soviets_ Although
NOSEKO was not precise about hovl he spent his dys ana nights
in Geneva , he did indicate that he was his Own boss, disposed
oE his time as he saw fite ard for the most had little to
do _ At the first mee: ing with CIA in 1962 he accoun for hfs
freedom of movement bq saying: "I can come and co as Ipleage
time_ (Ambassaaor) ZORIN knows who I ar , almost the
at any
ion knods who 1 am, because I don t neea to pI C- ent ire delegat
attention to me They krow that I 85n
tend_ Nobody pays ary
Affai:s men (2t the conference
not a Ministry of Fcreign
sessions) I sit_ listen leaf through some papers_ For thfs
reasor I can leave tre confererce at any time, cr I do not come
at all and no one will s2y a wora to te _ CIA made no attept
to place NOSENKO under surveillance in 1962 ana 1964 _ ana tkere
is no evidence from other sources confirming Or aisproving
NOSENKO 5 statenents about his activities while away from the
CIA safehouse_
2 _ OEficial Duties in Geneva
In 1962 NOSENKO said he was the sole KGB officer in the
94-man Soviet delegation to the Disarmement Conference and
such he was responslble for the security and behavior of thc
entire delegation_ To assist him in carrying out these security
officer furctions_ NCSENKO had the services of a number of
ccorted informants of the KGB who were serving in the delega _
tion In addition_ NOSENKO had the specific mission of check -
on suspicions atteched to Ore of the delegation members
Png;
SHAKHOV; * but r} the time he established ccntact with CIA,
he said, this assignment had already been completed _
In 1964 _ NOSENKO said his operational task then wag to
hand le the general security respons ibilities for the Soviet
delegation _ as he hac done in 1962 _ There was no specific
mission such as the ore concernirg SHAKHOV in 1962.
NOSENKO has described his investigations of SHAKHOV , but
he has never indicated either that he conducted security checks
of other delegat ion members in 1962 and 1964 _ or that he re-
ceived security-type information (except on SHAKHOV) from
the KGB cooptees who were supposed to be reporting to him,
Likewise_ NOSENKO hes not said that he prepared communicationg
for KGB Headquarters regarding his clandestine assignments in
Geneva _
3 0 Visits to the KG3_Legal Residency
Virtually every NOSENKO told CIA in 1962, he went €o
the KGB Legal Residency in Geneva , and if he stayed away for
more than a day or two the Legal Resident S _ Io GAVRICHEV ,
would invariably ask SOSENKO where he had been keeping himself_
I S MAYOROV ana 4.S TSYMBAL also arrived with the delega -
tion in Xarch 1952 buc had left Geneva the time NOSEIKO
coniacted CIA. 00 01 #0
00 SHAKOV is discussea furtier in Part III,Jo1.
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14-QQQQQ GAVRICHEV _ accord ing to NOSENKO _ treated him vith deference
and 3horely afeer Ffs arrIvar In-Geneva Irtarch-1962,-NOIENKO
gave a lecture cr counterintelligerce to the assecbled nembers
of the Legal Residency . This lecture Mas given at GAVRICKEV ' s
reques? _ altrougn It was after some hesitation on che part
of_ tke Legal Resident that all of ris subordinates vere brought
together to neaf MOSENKO _ (In return for helping the Legal
Residency to perform counter-surveillance 0n: several occasions,
NOSEKO said_ he as sonetimes a llowed by GAVRIC:ZV :o have the
use of an operational car and driver to_ go shopping and carry
out other pr Ivate errands. )
Similarly, in 1964 , NOSEIKO said he was making nearly dafly
visits to the Legal Residency . During the 1964 meetings NOSENKO
statea that it ~as his close relat ionghip With M.s. TSYMBAL*
which made It possible for him to have visited the Cereva Legal
Residency SO frequently, both in 1962 ard 1964 _ According to
the strict rules_ NOSENKO told CIA "an officer in 2 status
such as mine shoula not even g0 to the Residency: In this case
It is because I am deputy chief of a department and GAV__
RICHEV knows my position perfectly well (it :s rot lower than
his) ana because I have such a sympatnetic personal relation_
ship with TSYMBAL . He then went on to say that TSYBAL sort
of escorted me Eo the idency. They coulc have simply safd:
You are here o7 a mission _ we have our Ow mission_ and we
have rothing in common _ But , NOSENKO indicated, this was
not the case, thanks to TSYMBAL S intervertion .
4 , Association nith TSYMBAL
At the secord meeting with CIA in 1962 NOSENKO volurteered
information on TSYMRAL S KGB background ana his current missions
in Geneva , then alluded to his havirg spoken with TSYMBAL in
Geneva but without placing any particular emphasis on this
relationship.
In 1964 , horever , NOSENKO claimea that their relatlonshfp
was close, explained that it was TSYMBAL (again in Geneva at
the same time) wno gained NOSENKO S admission to tre Legal
Residency: ana s2ic that he had twice gone to see TSYMBAL off
on train trips_ once on 24 January when TSYMBAL wert to Bern
and again On 28 January when TS_MBAL left Lausanne for Rome_
NOSENKO tola CIA he had been dealing With TSYMBAL since 1960
or 1961_ At that time "We were look over some candidates
for recruitment ana came across some whose backgrouna would
have made them suitable for the Specizl Illegals) Director-
ate. Then when we came (here) in 1962 for the Disarmament
Conference, I to know him a little better more Erom the
human side_ He seemed to take a 1 ikirg to me for scte reason _
'Ne haa met in Moscow before_ of course, but just in the hall
or in the dining roOm. He usea to say? stop in ara see Me,
and I woula answer : Well it 8 "Xira of awkwara for ne to
hang around the Special Directorate what am I supposed to be
doing here?' He would say: cOmeon , stop in. But I
TSYMBAL appearea in Geneva under the last-name alias
"ROGOV" ana was identified by NOSENKO as Chief Of the
Illegals Directorate, KGB First Chief Directorate: Since
1956 , TSYMBAL was known by CIA to be the true name for
ROGOV , ana COLITSYN reportea in 1961. that TSYMBAL was
Chlef of the European Department, KGB First Chlef
Directorate
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a1dn t NOSENKO al3o 8a1 that TSYMBAL hed asked h:m ` geveral
t Les to trans€er to the Firet Chfef Drectorate anJ had
suggestea thac he migkt be ags Igned to the United States. In
fact_ NOSDTO added he had got into sone a1fficulty WIth 0. M.
GRIBANOV , Chief Of the Secona Chlef Directorate, cy virtue of
TSYMBAL 8 efforts In 4962 to have NOSENO transferred ana hf9
Jeaving the impression with GRIBRYOV chat NOSENKO) (who was stil1
In Geneva) had agreea to this action.
Questioned in April 1964 about his association with TSYMBAL,
NOSENKO stated that Ke met TSYMBAL Eor the first time several
days before their departure for Gereva. Besides saying agafn
that he saw TSYMBAL alnost aaily at tre Legal Residency and
that TSYMBAL 8 assistance enabled him to enter tre Legal Resi-
dency , NOSENKO reported that in 1962 he went out with TSYMBAL
several times a week to eat luncn or dinner ; somet Lmes were
joined by I. S MAYOROV_ sometimes by A. K. KISLOV (see next
section) ara sometices the two ate alone_ Durirg the 1966
interrogat ions_ NOSEIKO saia that_ while he had seen TSYMBAL
on a daily basis in 2562, he sa him twice Ir 1964 : Once
when TSYMEAL travelled to Geneva from Bern for OI.e or two days
and later when NOSEIKO saw TSYMBAL off for; Rome frcm Lausanne.
5 . Association with Other_Soviets
NOSENKO said in 1962 that the other Soviets he saw most
often were A. K. KISLOv 2nd Yu. I GUK _ ** KISLOv_ with NOSEKO
was one of the four Temberg Of the Soviet delegation staying
at the Hotel Ariane in Geneva , and was said to be head of the
Amer Ican Section Of TASS and a genuine correspordent _ *** During
the 1962 reetings with CIA, NOSENKO reported that KISLOV was
not a KGB officer ara made no reference of his hzving any
affiliation with the KGB . NOSEIKO dia say , however that he
had arranged for KISLOV S name to be given the KGB double
agent B. Ye. BEL ITSKIY*#++ to use as a notional eource of
information on Soviet disarmanent policy; BELITSKIY was to
pass this information to nis CIA contacts _ NOSEKO made
numerous references to drinking &nd carousing With KISLOV,
specifically with recara to 2 night in early Jure when
NOSENKO was robbed of squandered his operatlonal fund8 ,
whlch brought him to CIA and on the night of 10 June 1962
vhen NOSEIKC squandered 2000 Swiss francs (the money CIA had
given him) on wine ana women _ #0*00 In giving NOSENKO the
money to defray these personal expenses , the CIA handlers
expressea to him treir corcern over the dangers to his security
arising Erom KISLOV' s knowledge of this inexpllcable source Of
Income . NOSEIIKO replied that there was 'no neea to be concernea
SInce KISLOV was: "too drunk to know what 4s golng on, 01 and In:
any event he constituted no threat-
MAYOROV accoraing to NOSENKO, was visiting Geneva Jo
order to have operational neetings with agencs .
Both KISLOV ana GUK are mentioned In the discussion of
the NNDREY " case (see Part VI-D-3.b.) _ GUK vas also 8
frlend Of COLITSYN_ who reportea extensIvely on GUK' 9
career in the KC3 including hs service In the United
States.
In October 1966 ;OSENKO named all the Sovlets IfvIng at
the Ariane, without mentloning KISLOV:
The BELITSKIY case 1s d1scusgea In greater length In
Part VI.D.6 .
Parts II.B. ana II-C.2.C.
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Jn 1964"NOSENko confIrned that he: had ~gpene'" much "ttme WICH
XISLOV in Geneva tvo Years before and that had bezone
very frlendly. Por che fIrgt tlme NCSENKO reported ehat
KISLOV had beer a KGB operatlone ] contact whfle In thc Unfted
States , that he had been introducea to KISLOV by a KGB oEficer
In Mobcow Prlor to hls departure for Geneva In 1962 In order
to be able to explolt hi during the Geneva Conference, end
chat after retursing from Geneva KISLOV had been recruited as
KGB agent on the basis of 8 favorable report NOSENKO had
Preparea_
Often durIng the 1962 meetIngs NOSENKO spoke of his
friend GUX vnOm he descrLbed as the Deputy Legal ResIdent
In Geneva and the only 40 strong officer In the YGB Legal Resl-
dency. He Implied that hls frlendship with GUK _ a forner member
of the KGB Secona Chief Directorate, was of longstandizg: NOS-
ENKO related that he and GLK Kere together nearly every Jn
Geneva . They often went out together to chat and have a few
drinks , and a5 a corsequence, NOSENKO was able to elcit infor-
mation about some of GUK 8 operations there. In 1964 NOSENRO
told CIA he found it difficult to obtain informatfon on the
activities of the Geneva Legal Residency because he no
had a frlena there like GUK _ who haa been reassigred to
KGB Headquarters _ Nraen questioned later in 1964 about his
relationship with GUK , NOSEIIKO said he had come to know GUK
well only dur his 1962 TDY In Geneva.
6 _ Availability_ for_Meet incs with CIA
In speakIng to Davia MARK on 6 June 1962_ NOSENKO expressed
a1spleasure over MARK 5 insistence on deferring their Juncheon
(at which NOSENKO, sought contact with American Intelligence)
untfl three days_ later _ When the first meet with CIA did
take place on 9 June 1962_ NOSENKO stayed Eor three hours,
ana it was at his suggestion that another meet Ing was scheduled
Eor 12 June. This second meetirg in 1962 lasted seven hours .
NOSENKO remained in Geneva until 15 June, and in the interLm
he met CIA officers three more times for over seven hours
altogether_ Re offered to reet again on the of his de-
parture, but this propogal was rejectea as neeaiessly endan -
gerIng his security-
From the first 1964 meeting on 23 January to his defectIon
on 4 February, NOSENKO was met a total of 13 times, the sessions
last) for five or six hours_ He was able to cone to the CIA
safehouse every but one , ana this opportunity was skipped
at the request 0f the CIA handlers . By mutual consent, most Of the meetings started in the afternoon, but on two occaslons
NOSENKO arrived as early as 0930 hours ; severa} neetIngs went
on until past midnight_ NOSENKO appeared to be totally Zt
the dIsposal of CIA, to be the master of his time, and to have
no other demands for his attention except for the visies to
the KGB Legal Residency. lookIng in on an occasional session
Of the Disarmament Conference, and . attendance at a receptIon.
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E, Tining_of_Dcfection
After telling CIA OI) 24 January 1964 cf his dccision to
dcfect NOSENKO a€ the sam0 neeting concurred when CIA- gavc
operationa] a.d administrative rcasons for hiz to stay_ In
Place until the middle of February . Duricg thc tnat: fol-
lowed the date of the defection was noved UP :o 8 Fcbruary
in accordance with NOSESKO' $ Kishes and wilh his reports Jn.
dicating that less inforna €ion o f value would be forthconing
than CIA had first thought. On 4 February however
NOSEXcO reported that he was being recallez to Xoscow
Xor
a
conference cn tbreign tourism in tne USSR, and he therefore
Placed himse)f in CIA custody on chat dace Details on
the tining of FZSENKO' s defection are in the following
paragraphs .
At the 2 4 January mceting tne CIA case officers agreed
in principle xith NoSicKO' s Jecisicn to defect . NOSEKKO
fc lt that it Yculd bc best for him to disappear fron Geneva
withcut a trace leaving a11 his Personal Possessions be-
hind; he assu3.2& that CIA could exfiltrate hia fron Switzera
lan co the United States Ilc wanted to carry ouc chis
Plan as soon as possible but th? CIA officers ercouraged
hin-- NOSES:O" agreed--to remain in Placc for 8t least
three weeks EOTC , The reasons eiven NOSENKO for this re -
quest weto :
The desirc to information on the Jocal KGB
Lega] Residency and the Soviet de Iegation to tho Dis -
armanent Confcronce while hc stil] had access to this
infornation;
The value of having NOSENKO present when 0,M.
GRIBANOV made a visit to Geneva about 7 February a
VIsit known to CIA on Jy throuzh NOSENKO;
Tho potential va Jue t0 be derived from NOSENKO ' $
in spotting of CIA recruitment cargets anona the
Soviet representation in Geneva;
The gecessity of making arrengenents accept-
eb le to NOSENKO, for his defection and resettlement;
The events which followed NOSENKO ' $ agreement to remeIn
in placo for a short time longer are chronicled beJow:
Tbe report of NOSENKO ' s recall to Moscow for the con-
ference on tourism is discussed further in Part III,F,
GRIBANOV was in 1964 the Chie€ of the KGB Second Chief
Directorate and accoreing to VOSENKO and other sources ,
the sponsot cf NOSENXO' s rise in State Security:
Several: sources, have reported that GRIBANOV
vas fired from the KGB 25 a result of NOSENKO' $ de -
fection (Part III..)S NOSENKO' s relationship with
GRIBANOV is discussed in Part V.H.
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26 Jenuary 1964 : In a threc-and-a-half hour meeting,
NOSENKO emphasized that althoegh he #greed that it w25
necessary useful for hin to remain in Place uuntil the
GRIBANOV visit to Geneva , he wanted to defect 85 soon as
Possible thercaftcr.
28 January 1904: NOSENKO reported that GRIBANOV migkt
nof be 23ning to ocneva after #12 for KGB Chai roan
SEMI CIIASTNYY was apparently re luctant to permit hin co
travel beyond Vienna YOSEVKO said that he would probably
have definite information on GRIBAVOV ' $ trip by thc end
of the week.
30 Janzgn 1964 : At the seventh meeting of the series
NOSENFO said t Therc nol; appeared to be ittle likelihood
that GRIBANOV would visit Geneva 0r Paris _ 0 Therefore, he
wanfed to defect right away As reasons he cited the
enotional strain of any further de!ay and the fact_ that he
and Is case Tfficers were was ting their time working
against the local KGB Legal Residenzy which had no worth-
while or promi targcts Ile a1s0
ielt that nothing of
value couid be obtained from the Soviet delezation because
"TSARAPKIN himself doesn t kaow what he will say until he
is told Moscow the before 1) The CIA handlcrs _ however,
ielayed the de fection for one week by cbtaining NOSENKO ' s
agreement to assist in an audio operation : CIA propcsed to
install listening devices in chc offices of tke KGB Legal
Residency and NOSEMKO said he would check certain physical
aspccts &8
the delegation buildings . As the best time for
the de fection _ he sugges Saturday 8 -Febralary
because he probably would not be missed
Ec oifki
the
folloving
Monday - This date was tentatively scheduled, and NOSENKO
again repeated his desire simply to "Jisappear without a
trace He aJso asked about exfiltration plens .
31Jenuary 1964: NOSENKO reported the results of his
reconnai3sance of the KGB Lega] Residency in comnection with
the Proposed audio operation , which would invoive microphone
transmitters operating on a carrier current, He told CIA he
nad accidentally overheard in the Residency that the building
used its own batteries and generator thereforc the
scheme would not worke He repeated his willingness to remain
in place until the arrival of the CHEREPANOV Papers" which
ho was told were enroute from Washington He explained that
be had felt pressure at the meeting because of an
imminent wove by the
dalcha-EGca
from its hotel co the Soviet
villa outside Geneva; at the villa his disappearance would
be noticed more quickly_ This move , he had now learned , had
been Postponed pending the arrival of a housekeeping officer
fron Moscow _
Frod-? to 10 February 1964 GRIBANOV was in where
he was seen on the street with a Soviet
ideR:iiied
by
NOSENKO a5 a KGB counterintelligence officer. There 15
no evidence. that he visited Switzerland,
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Ecbruacy 2964: Ac NOSENKC ' $ requcst t was firnly
tnaz {ne Jeicction would take Place in the corning
of 8 Feb #CSEMKO s a id chat he as3ured the & exff}-
tretion
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be by atonobile_ :0 West Ge rmany and thence
{0 thc United States , Ilis case officers ;con-
firced that this was ccrrcct,
Februar 16A: ;OSENKO reviewcd the CIIEREPAVOV materials ,
The
dz
{cctioil wa5 Sili scheduled for Saturaay, $ February.
4 February 1964 : VOSLNKO tclephoned the Gencva safc-
{house from his hctcl Toom in the cerly aftcrnoch arJ said:
"I wcnt to coicc nok and not g0 back_ After arriving he
'explaine& thiat when he Jropped by thc KGB Lega [ Res idency fol-
~lowing tic morning scssion 0 f tie Lisarnament Confcrence
he read a cablo ordcring him to turn to Xoscow
inediatcly
to preparc for a KGB conferenc? on foreign tourisn in the
Soviet Union _ * # The rcs idency 12s arranging for a ticket for
NOSEKO :0 fly to 'oscow ia Paris the followin} and J
replacement XJs be rcadicd to 2 sunc #OSEVKO 5 duties a9
sccurity officer for thc Soviet 'clegation in Gencva ; ho was
not told who thc replacenent xould bc _ Before he had left
{cr Gerev? ir Jaruary , NOSEVKO thcn related chc Sovict Gcvern-
Ren: had bcen Jclibera the question of expinding foreign
tourise in the USSR and had agree:l EO open a JunQer of new
cities and tourist itineraries in this connection SEMICHIAASTNYY
had now dccided that it was :i3c to cill a confercnce to
discuss new "tactics and strategies" 1 for handling thc in-
creasce,number of tolrists e xpected = Since NUSEMKQ had bcen
placed in charge 0f the entire canference hie wJs directed
to lcsvc at onCC to prepre a Sasic rcport on th? KGu handling
of tourists; thc report wcuid bc rcad to chc confcrence either
by hicsclf or by so;eonc from he leadership the KGB or
the Second Ch ief Dircctorate OSENKO explained that he was
the only onc Iho coula Jo this job Js Lt, Col. 4.6, KOVALENKO ,
the KGB Ilcadyuarters Department senior officer was a rel-
atively new man in chis linc of operaticks _ having bcen
thcre only four or fivc Years perhaps less, #oSe:KO als0
told CIA that great coincidence" Re had lcarned just be -
fore the cable arrived hc was being mowea t0 the Soviet
"illa on the norning of 5 February , Ile had arranged for a
Sovict chauffcur t0 bring a car around at 0930 kours the
~ext sorning for the move Mis absence wouid be noted at
that tice and therefore "the Eain thing is to crcss thc Swiss
border be morning." NOSENAO felt, nowever that there
would be considerable confus io; among che Soviets in Geneva
for a time following his disappearance and that there would
be no concern until the evening _ {o fostcr Soviet un -
certainty he had left his clothing lxi:g aroend his hotel
room and had brought no Personal effects o the CIA safe-
house , NOSENIO estimated the first Soviet queries to Swiss
See Part III,F,
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authoritieg would probably be cade. late on 5 February or early
On the 6th.
NOSENKO was driven to Frankfurt the night of 4 February
and remained in a safehouse there until 11 February_ when press
publicity about the defection and Soviet denands foz an imredi-
ate interview with NOSENKO prorpted the Director of Central In-
telligence to order that he be brought to Washington a5 goon as
pOssible . He arrived in thc evening of 12 February.
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F The Rccal} Teleiran
(Jn vinlg 2 + :ne safehcus? at 1515 On 4 Zebruary 1964
#CFENKO rciated that on the Freceding 3 February, ha had
becn 10 the KCi Le;jal Pes1tenc; Zurinj] the end #gain i:1
the evenirg. ("e iad mt witt CiA frj 1200 tc; 1803 hou:s
Or 3 Fcbruary. ) Ic: rci-tii labt J5 0[ tlat tize everylneng
#XS quiet and pcaceful J; he rece !%ed four Personal lctcer}
fro:: Mosco;_ NOSE:T) sJii tket OI: tie 33 ring 0 { 4 Febrrary
he had amjain stoppe_ ic at ch. Resluezcy_ bit "3 tbinj W35
going 03 Jter i: che nerm::], horvvr Jfter attendicg
a sessior of 'he DiserrJ:!t 3nfer- NOSKIKO lecrnec Lhac
ihe coged telegran Ccgcril: 43Ve h.ni #rr!Vc: {ron Xoscow
crdc4 i.im to r@:*"0: iawveletely lc Koscow to partizipate
in Lhe R6: conferen:: 0; Rvirie@
Spceial intcll:;ence 33cates hokvier LkJc no cable
traffic 2t all wa: Seal frog Noscow to Geneva from the late
afternoon of 3 Febrlary 196& until tlie morning 0: 5 February
the after the Ccfecticr:_ {Two priority cables of:
length_ 247 ard 207 groups rere transritted to Genewa a5
1901 and 1915 hours Greenrie; tine 07 3 February ; there was
no traffic On 4 February ar; tke nex` message passed was a
roltire: cable originated by Aoscow at 0 755 hours on 5 Felruary.)
On 26 October 1966 _ while beirg Guesticned about the
circumstances of 6is defecticn , NOSE:KO was asked about this
telegran hich recuiled hc to Moscow NOSENKO said :hat
there was no such telegram _ ar that he had inveated it in
order to defect a5 soon 45 possible because he was nervcus
and afraid his contects with Arericar Intelligence 1n Geneva
might be roticed by Soviet autiorities After cetailed
questioning on this point MSENKO vo lurtarily signed a
statemert with the {cllowing wording
"On 4. February 1964, I told my CIA contact in
Geneva that J telegral Erom KGB leadquarters in Moscow
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rOcal]Ing Vo Lruodlatoly to-Koocod_ T s1d at &ho
tuza txae this telegrem 88.a Ehae I eb rocelloed
to partIclpate Jn 8 conferonco ; (o XGB aCtIVIGY
egalnst tourlote for tho" 1964, aeaa0n _ I meIntalnea
thfo btory a0 fact throuqhoue bubeequent intervlevo
ona AnterrogacLone by AnerIcan authorIElas In 1964
end 1965. No Buchtalegram Over exleted. No ` cele-
grem *ab roceIved Ln Goneva . I ddcl€ thet che gtory
Vab 0 1je. I myeelf Inventea thfa teIogram In Order
to hebcen my dofectlon . I Vab nervoue end efceja
thet #Y concectb' VIth ArerIcan Incelligence plght be
notIced_
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The Chlef of the Sovlet Delegatfon to the Db -
ermanent Conference notified che Sovlet Abassador 13 Bern
shortly before noon on 6 February 1964 that NOSEXO had dis -
appeared , correct ly placIng the date ag 4 February ; chey
speculated trat he: might have been 'POIsoned " Or injurea In
a car accldent. Nvo more dayg passed Kithout Soviet authorities
making any additional_public or private statements on the subject.
Later events showing Soviet OfEclal reactIons to NOSEIKO ' 8 de-
fection are presented below In chronologIcal order:
8 February: A Sovlet spokesman Ln Geneva reportea to
Swies police that NOSENKO _ an "expert" temporarily ass1gned to
Geneva , had been mIssIng for four day8 .
9_Februery Evening news bro-dcagts Jn Geneva carrled
reports attributea to bth Soviet and Swiss sources that NOSENKO
had dibappeared .
10_February: Unidentified_ Soviee sources were quotea in
the press a5 haVing said it was presumed tnat ne had defected_
A U _ S. Department of State press releese was issued Iden-
tifying NOSZNKO 25 a KGB officer and acknowledgIng_ his request
for political asylu in the United States.
11 Februarx: The Department of State was advised Informally
by Ambassador DOBRYNIN in WashIngton that a Sovlet note to be
delivered later would ask how NOSENKO had left Switzerland,
request his release, and demand an immediate interview with hlm.
12_February: S_ K, TSARAPKIN , the head of the Soviet Dele-
gation to the Disarmament Conference, read a statenent at a press
conference in which he strongly condemned the Swiss authoritieg
for permitting NOSENKO S "kidnappirg and for hindering efforts
to locate him. TSARAPKIN aemanc ed that Immediate steps be taken
to return NOSENKO to Soviet cugtody.
Ae 8Lmultaneous presg conferences In Bern ana Geneva , the
Swigs rejected these accusations of non-cooperation and notea
the Soviet delay In advising the police oE NOSENKO ' 8 disappear -
ance and Soviet faflure to Cooperete with SwIss authorities In
locatIng NOSEIKO _
The Soviet note predicted by DOBRYNIN was delivered to
the State Department , and a noncommittal reply was g1ven to
Apparently ro effort was made to notify Moscow Imedlately:
Speclal Intelligence shows that no cable traffic was passed
Erom Geneva to Moscow from 1630 hours on 3 February until
1900 hours on 7 February : at 1915 hours on the 7th, the
Geneva Residency transmittea a short top priority cable to
MOsCOw _ Likewise after one routine ' cable on 4 February ,
the Bern ResIdency sent traffic to Moscow on 5 February .
Seven cables _ at least four Of which were Of routine pre-
cedence , were sent to Moscov On 6 February; thereafter there
vas no traffic Erom Bern to Moscow until the early mornlng
OE 10 February.
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Sovlet querIe8 concern ng the requebtea Intervlev end the
Means of NOSEXO ' 8 deparcure Erom Sustzerland _
The S1ss Enbassy asked a meet Vith NOSEIKO In
order to obtain assurance that the defect Jon rad been volun -
tary: Arrangement9 were nade to have: NOSBIKO meet wlth Swlsg
ana Sovlet representatIves In WashIngton ag soon 89 possIble-
(NOSENKO arrived In Washlngton at 2130 hourg this Bane
evenIng.)
13_February: NOSENKO sa13 he had no objection to talkIng
to the Sw1s8, but he would gee the Sovlets only If necessary-
44February: In Mobcow Aba8sador KOHL ER wag Bummonea
to the office Of Sovfet Foreign Minfster GROSYKO _ who read
hfm 8 #tatement deplor the "evagive reply of the State
Department to Sovlet Ingufrie8 In Washington and terming the
whole event of NOSENKO 6 d18appearance a gross provocation
by AmerIcan Intelligance organa . GROMYKO repeatea the demana
for NOSENKO 8 immedlate release fron AmerIcan custody-
The Counselor of the Swiss Enbassy' Jean-Louis NATURAL ,
Intervlewed NOSENKO at the Washington offices of the U,S_
Imigration and Naturalfzatlon Service lace In the afternoon.
The Soviet confrortation imedately afterwards was handled
by Mirister Counselor G M. KORNI ENKO _ secona to Ambasgador
DOBRYNIN at the Soviet EmbassY , and Third Secretary V F
ISAKOV , 0 recent arrival in Washington. (ISAKOV had been a
member of the Soviet Delegation :o the 1962 Disarmament
Conference Ic Geneva _ where NOSENKO said te had first met hIm. )
NOSENKO tola soth the Swiss and the Soviets that he had defected
OE nis Own free Will after careful consideracion and that he
had no desire to return to the Soviet Union. In response to
KORNIENKO ' 9 questions, he speclfically rezounced hls status and
rIghts a8 a Soviet CItizen.
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H. Reactions of NOSENKO 5 Fanily
Two wcnen wlio said were the mother and wife of BOSENKO
called' at the Anerican Embassy in Moscow on five occasions
between 24 February and 23 March 1964 , * and NOSENKO who on
the basis of physical descriptions con€i rmed their identitiea ,
said he hed no doubt that the KGB had Jirected them to do tnis
in order to pressurc him to return Th2 women expressed dis-
belief that NOSENKO had voluntarily betrayed his family and his
country. Theysought a personal mce ting with hin in the Cnited
States or erywhere else subzitted letters for hiz_ and returned
to the Embassy to ask wnether he had replied: the younger Mrs
WOSENKO explaired that she reguired soxe definite statement in
writing from her husband So that she could plan her own fetlre
and thac of thc NOSEWIKO children .
NOSENKO proposed to respond to his family S letters b{
writing two of his Own one wnich would be intended for KG}
cons wption 2nd the other for his wife alone The first of
these would stite NOSENKO 5 irrevocable decision to remain in
the United States and t.o s@ver all ties with his family and
homeland_ The secona letter would be read by Mrs _ NOSENKO in
tke Embassy , left there_ and not reported to the KGB ; in it he
would express hope for & reunion ask ner to wait for hin, and
tell her to indicate her willingness to join hin in the West
bY writing either "yes or no" on the letter itself Although
NOSNEKO prepared_ both letters the first was cent to his
wife; it was mailed from Washington to the NOSE;KO home in
Moscow on 7 April 1964 _
From Harch 1964 nothing was heard fron NOSENKO' s relatives
until nid-1966 when Yuriy Dmitriyevich KOROLEV _ 3 * a Soviet
journalist, visited Paris and spoke with representatives of the
French magazine Paris Match. KOROLEV indicated that he ~culd
@OnTy once before had members of a defector 5 family called
at a foreign embassy in Hoscow Following the defection of
Yuriy Vasilyevich KROTKOV in England 1n September 1963 _ his
wife appeared at the British Enbassy to make inguiries about
him. KROTKOV an admitted agent 0f the RGB Second Chief
Directorate is believed by MI-5 ana CIA to remain uaer
KGB control.
CIA records show that KOROLEV was employea at the Soviet
Pavilion of the Brussels Worid 5 Fair in 1958 as a photo-
cor= respondent for the Soviet publication Sputnik He visited
Japan in 1963 and the United States in February-March 1965 ,
at the invitation of Life nagazine, as a photographer for
Novosti a Soviet rews agency _ On the latter trip he was to
be accompanied :by Feliks Avramovich ROSENTAL an interpreter
but no record of ROSENTAL 5 arrival is available. KOROLEV
is believed to be identical:;ith Yuriy KOROLEV who as of
1964 was employed part-tine for tha United Press Inter-
national correspondent in Moscow Henry SHAPIRO . Both
NOSEMKO and GOLITSYN have identified SHAPIRO as an agent
of the KGB Second Chief Directorate (see Part V.C.)
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1lke to gerve 89 a strInger for the French Journal erd proposea
that he begIn vith a story on the Ilfe of the family of 8
"Soxfet becre: agent_ As KOROLEV onJy broken French
and JIsh, tne magazIne btaff aia not serlously pursue the
matter at that tlme _
On 10 October 1966 _ however_ KOROLEV agafn appearea at the
Partg Match offices, thfs tlme wIth one Fel-kS ROSEiTAL. who acted
88 h18 Interpreter He displayed a photo spread Bhowing NOSENKO ' 8
wIfe ana family golng about thelr dafly affairs In MoscOw , en
he bubltted a one-page document 1n English:Which gave a- bhort _
account of NOSEKO 8 background. The docunent saf In part :
"NOSENKO 9 family consists of a WIfe, 35 , two daughters_ 10 ana
12 a mother and a younger brother _ The famfly 19 not: prose-
cuted (sic) but Eeel vecy about the Incident (the defec-
tlon) Very soon 'the wIfe
badl{
apply to the Internatlonal
Lalyers Organizat Ion for a aivorce and compensation. It 19
poggible thet chis case will be given much publicity. His wife
ha8 not heara Erom him since he defected. but it 19 obious
that he is still in the USA. The document , which was In no way
represented as coming from a Soviet Governnent source, also said
ehat aaditional photographs of NOSENKO ' s family in Moscow coula
be obtained ard that an interview with the family and with others
knowing NOSENKO coula be arranged for a Parie Match correspon-
dert_
According to Information avallable to CIA, a divorce Erom
a defector Erom the Soviet Un ion, who' is legally considerea
to be an enemy: Of the state is grantea automatically Upon
the wIfe 5 request_ There 18 no know precedent for either
Sovlet-inspirea publicity or divorce difficulties In any
previous soviet defection.
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passport usecl for temporary port usecl on assigument to Geneva
assignments to Englana in in 196+ (see Part III.B.2)
1957 and 1958 (see Part V.D, 8)
Subject (February 1964) Subject 5 father_ the Minister
of Shipbuilding (1953)
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EITT ccnsiiive Mouircc
:e.#curca
According to @r0 Jt Was' tho "unjrircs octnion" of
tho KGB Icadershfp of EGB pfficcrs 8352 64
that "NOSE;'KO could Jo 8 trerendous ejount of h?ro cO the
KGb and that this dcnage . would be . sevee for "sevural
Yea?s Eo CorO As 0 direct result, 37ar747 new
rozule:ions were Proaul to incrcase KoB
#perational
security in Moscow and abroed,
In additton, the defectIon brouchg ebau: ihe discissal
from the KG3 of persons closc t) NOSESAC 22d tle Tecall of
Jwy officers ebroad
known *0 and prcsuzably eccpromised by NOSEAKO
Five non ths R Eter NOSEYKO disappearcd f-cn Geneva Jn
July 1964 EaZ #said that 15 KcS officers had already been_
fired, Aeong ckex were GRIBAVOV#^ and a busbcr 0f his dcpytics
See Part VaH. regarding NOSENAO ' $ reletionship with
GRIBANOV .
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Including cne General BANMIK _ Since NOSE:KO was GRIBANOV' s
Perbora] friend and Protege sea:cd it had been decided-
that GRIBANOV should have been aware o€ #OSENRO' $ plang and
was therefore ultinately responsible. Meenreperted €urther
Tc3mt that GRIBANQV had becn cisifised from the XGB
and the Commuriet Party imediately after thc defection ad-
that GRIBANOV had personally authorized NOSERO ' s 1964
trip to Geneva , despite the Eact that he had received a sWm-
mary 8tatenent of NOSENKO 9 capabilities and activities which
contained enough compromising Iaterial to preven € such_a
trip undez norma ] conditions reported "Scnsiiiu:
having learned that GRIBANOV was the Ciic e security at SC6-cl
a_ military plant outside Moscow and i9 considerca 1 nothinga
Others dismissed frog the XGB included GLK and Ye.A . TARABRIN ,
Chief of the Zritish Department First Chief Directorate- 0*
According to NOSENKO in 1965 _ it waa BAXNIKOV who sup-
ported his Candidacy for the 1964 to Geneva ; as
far as he knew NOSEMKO said_ GRIBANOV was not involved_
Earlier, however NOSENKO statecl that hig 1964 trip had
been approved by GRIBANOV
Reportedly GRIBANOV cont inued an operational contact with
a Western Ambassador in Moscow until as recently as_ the
autunn of 1964 _ This is a type of activit; ir wrich
GRIBANOV was
ofter engaged while serving as Chief of the
Second Chief Directorate_
048 In 1962 NCSENKO told CIA: "GRIBANOV and I are very friendly
socially and we have often caroused together urofficially.
KHe is very friendly and we often go
out drinking together
Under interrogation in April 1964 MOSENKO was asked
fically whether he had ever gone out gocially with GRIBANOV
after working hours _ He replied that he had done s0 on one
occasion and that TARABRIN was preseat at the time- In
February 1965 NOSENKO was asked the same question and this
time answered that he had seen GRIBANOV chree times socially,
nost recently in October or Noveraber 1963 ; TARABRIN he said,
wa8 the only cther person present on these three occasions ,
all three outings began as drinking.parties in Moscow res-
taurants and the latter two ended at the homes of girlg
NOSENKO had been agked to procure_ Alchough Indicated
that TARABRIN was Chief of the British Departaent at the
time he was fired , NOSENKO said he had hela this position
only until 1963 , when he became Deputy Chief J€ the newly
esteblished Service No_ 2 (Counterintelligence) of the
PIrgt Chief Directorate.
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At the ticc of NOSENKO' 5
Jefect'on, G3 told CIA in
1964 , he was in training for an illegels as signuent in the
West but these werc cancelled partly heciuse of the
NOSE?KO case and for cther reasons not fied to
One 0 f
Bistka,
handlers inforzed 7634 that the
NOSE;KO matter was vcjY scrious that the XGB was on a
"major alert" a3 3 result, 4nd :at a 11 gissions had been
halred to make readjustments .
3 . sorrcc
In Geneve at thc time of NOSENKO ' s defection, Eaki~ 4
Ieported to CIA that just afterwards V,S,EDVEDEV from Ene
Exits Commiss ion of thc CESU Central Committee# travelled to
Genova to speak to the Soviets stationed there and to Soviet
d: lesates to the Disarmanent Corference - NEDVEDEV under-
scored the seriousness of the defection and greater
Vigiiance #gainst such acts, Z*Q also reported that
tho defection caused the recall cf Nina Ivanovna YEFREMEYEVA ,
a KGB secretary in Geneva , and arcng thc Sovicts there it wzs
ruaored that some 60 Soviet officials then stationed abroad
would be trans ferred from their a5signments in conlsequoce of
the NOSENKO affair. V,A POCIIANKIN, a KGB cfficer with the
Percenent Soviet reptesentation in Geneva_ speculated to
01@2 thaz he had been conpletely exposed by NOSENKO and
thereforc would have to rcturn to Moscow Y.I GUK said
64p43 who had known and reported on GUK for Years was
discherged fron the XGB bccause he had reconended NOSENKO ' $
travel to Geneva and according t0 onle rumor, tho chief of
the where NOSENKO had been employed would lose his
job.
depafsseot
would be A.G. XOVALENKO who according to NOSEVKO ,
was Chief Df the Tourist Departaent at tho tine of the de -
fection.)
IIEDVVBNE a KGB ofricer ToTner}yY Stationed in New YorF City,
wes sad to be one 0f those frcm the CPSU Centrel
Conmittee who conduct intervicws with KGB personnel 3ot38
abroad_ '8 identified MEDVEDEV chen a Coun -
selor at the Sovict Mission to the Uniced Nations a5 the
Communist Party organizer and possiuly. a nenber 0f the KGB ,
"but his role is noc important and he works mainly
the Ministry: 0f Forcign Affairs,
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KGB Wandlers of Asents
K reflecticr of NOSENKO' s defectior was scen in XGB 9'
harJling of thc aubjest mf wo3i received fron
NOSENXO and Biatm czule On 31 Mirch 1964 ,
was Guestiorc] by tmo 0 thc KGB cific 1A 30: possible sur-
veillince and was asked to provicc passport phoecgraphs so
that ezcspe docunentz coild be sueplied to him ara his {23il
At tkis sane neeting _ tle KGB officers annu:eed tha:
was being on reserve status for ar unspecificd perioc aic
tola hin that lhis decisicn had Leen mad? abolit two nonth:
earlier (i.6. about th? tife 0f XOSENKO 5 Yefezticn} At the
next meetiny in Noveniber 1964 the Soviet harulers adnitted Lo
hat they had SOmle conection witn OSESEO_ Al -
thor;: ZUSENKO probably could not identif; es a XGB
agent _ they said there was 2 poseibility ttii:l k few (1 what
we {tke KGE} are doing in Caaza_
ilso , in Paris , Sergcant Robert JGhso was tole of
NOSEKO 5 defectijn by his KGB case officer and was instructed
to destroy anything Kich could identify him with Soviet Intel-
ligence _ Although the Soviet told JOHNSON that there was
nothing to worry about he: was evidently disturbed by the dc-
fection JOHNSON said-
See Part VI.D:5.c. for full details 0{ the
See Part VI-D. 3,C . for a discussion of the JOHNSON case
TOP SECRET
agent _
put
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A: Introduction
The biography oE NOSENKO i8 built largely upon ' hls 04a_atate-
ment8 to CIA, but certain portions of it have been substantlated
(as well a8 contradicted) by other Soviet sources Given firet
below i8 the NOSENKO autobiography for the pericd preceeding his
entry into the #08 ) then follows a gumary of his staterents
about hie non-profeesional life since becoming a KGB officer and
(finally there 18 preaented a review of what other sources have
8ald on these subjects _ A separate gection of this paper, Part V
discusses NOSENKO 8 career in the KGB_
Be NOSENKO = 8 Pre-KGB Autobtogcepbx
Although several other gources have 8ince NOSENKO S defec-
tion furnighed fragmentary information concerniag NOSENKO ' 9 early
personal history_ NOSENKO himself has 'of course been the prin-
cipal source on this topic_ Wa volunteered information dur
the 1962 meetings during debriefings in 1964 and under
interrogation in April 1964 _ in 1965 and in These vari-
0us accounts are arranged in separate coiumng in the following
table_ and: they are organized chronologically Erca NOSEVKO 5
birth to his alleged entry into the K3_ The first column in
the table cpntains statenents which NOSENKO made during the June
1962 meetings in Geneva; these were taken from th2 transcripts
of the meetings and for thc most part, are in NCSENKO' s Own
words _ The column neaded 1964 derived from the April 1964
Interrogation reflects a nunber of changes in his story before
and during that interrogation _ Most of the information given
in the 10 1965" column was taken from discussions with NOSENKO _
mainly on his early years by a CIA psychol 1s33st_ in May of that
year; however material from the February interrogation
and Erom DERYABIN 9 interrogation ir and August has also
been included when it was not covered in the psychologist 9 ques -
tioning and when NOSENKO signed protocols certifying his state-
ments to be correct_ The April 1966 column 19 comprised of
remarks by NOSENKO in a signed autobicgraphy submitted to CIA
at that time . The final column presents the results of the
October 1966 interrogation as pertain to NOSENKO' 8 early
life From column to colunn appear inconsistencles and contra-
dictions with regard to dates and locabions furnished by NOSENKO ,
although in 1964 again in 1965 and fost recently in October
1966 NOSENKO has said that he wab "now" telling the truth. The
table shows wnere he has admitted having previously 1ied about
certain events and where he seems to have forgotten his earlier
btatements to CIA about the occurrence of other events affecting
his life _
This tabulation of NOSENKO " 8 autobiography concludes in
Part V.A. in which are quoted the various aates and circum-
stances concerning his entry into the KGB which NOSENKO has
given in 1962 , 1964 , 1965 , ana 1966 .
TuP SEERET
ing
earLY 966 -
july
they
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I wa8 born in Born 30 October Born 1927 in Niko- NOSENKO_ Born 1927 in NIKO-
Nlkolayev , my father 1927 in Nikolayev _ layev where father Yuriy.Ivanovich layev _ the Bon oE
workod a9 a senior Uxraine USSR , where wag a student at the wag born 30 Octos Ivan Igidorovicn
mechanic at.a plant he lived with family Shipbuilding Insti- ber 1927 In Niko- NOSENKO and Tamara
and took. evening util 1934 _ tute Father from layev , an Oblast Georgievna NOSENKO .
courses. Then he simple peasant back- center in the
graduatcd from the ground while Uxrainian Repub-
NlkOleycv Ship- mother 5 parente lic of Soviet
puflding Institute . were nobi Russia. "
(May)
In 1934 , at age Entered the m In September
six, cntered the "zero" clasg in 1934 , in Niko-
zero" (nulavoy) Nikolaycv in Septem- layev _ I entercd
class _ equivalent ber 1934 two monthg thc zero cla8s .
to kindergarten , before his seventh My father was
in" Nikolayev . birthday. (May) already in. Ienin-
grad where he
the Sodomeghat
]
Shipyara_
father was Moved to Lenin- Movea to Lenin- 0u Shortly there- Lived In Leningrad
8 gent to Leningrad , grad in 1935 _ probably in after he [Father] Erom 1935 to 1938 .
to the Sudomekh where father was sprirg of 1935 _ At- found an apartment
plant = d EnaJ1 first appointed tended thrce years and interrupting
Plant in Lenin- Chief ergineer and of school there my studies I
He was at later director of completing First travelled to Lenin-
the plant for half Sudomekh _ Lived Class in 1935-36 , ith my mother.
a year and then be - at several ad- Second Class in I did not bcgin
cane director. aresses ana at- 1936-37 _ and Thira Btudies in the First
Thlg was 1936-1937 , tended several Class in 1937-38 'Class until Septen-
Then he was sent schools [Note: (May) ber 1935 as there
to the Baltic Soviet press were no zero
Shipyard In Lenin- stated elder NOp" clabges in the Lenin-
grad a5 Chle€ En- SENXO wag chlef Bchoolg. I
genoer _ Hle was engIncer of H se - EInfghed the Thira
Ehere : less than a veral enterprises" Cla88 In Leningrad
year. in Leningrad during in 1938 .
"I,
lity.
"My
grad,
grad _
grad
grad
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1935-1937 ; became di-
rector of Baltic
Shipyard in 1938 . ]
In 1938 my NOSENKO' s father In 1938 the elder 0 In 1938 my
father wag assigned was appointed First NOSENKO was named father was 6 ummoned
to Moscow 25 Deputy Deputy to the First Deputy to the to Moscow and he be-
Peoples Commissar _ Peoples Commissar Peoples Comnissar to work in the
I was a little of the Shipbuilding of- Shipbuilding and Peoples Commissariat Enl{939
In he Industry and then the family returnea of the Shipbuilding
wag appointed becane Commissar _ to Moscow _ NOSENKO Industry. Having
Peoplcs " Commis8ar, Family returned to entered j 8chool on finighed the Third
Jater Minister of Moscow. and NOSENKO Bo l ' ghaya Polyanka _ Clabg _ I moved to
tho Shipbuilding entered 1O-year Jle completed the Mobcow with my
Ihdustry and re- school located on Pourth Class in 1938- mother at the ena
mained such until Ulitsa Bol ' shaya 1939 and the Eifth of the swuer.
his death in 1956 _ Polyanka [Note : class in 1939-1940.
Soviet press re- (May)
3
ported that I.I.
NOSENKO became
Deputy Commigsar in
0
1939 and Coinmig8ar
in 1940,]
Completed the NOSENKO finished 0 In 1941 I completed
Sixth Class at the Sixth Class at the Sixth Cla8g at
School No . 585 the 10-year school the 585th middle
Went to Sochi with on Bol ' shaya Pol- school ana went to
parents for vaca- 83n6-1941iag the Sochi for a vacation
tion and was there academic with my Eather and
when war broke out, Then he mother _ On 21 June
Returned to Moscow travelled on vaca- during our vacation
the next tion to Sochi In the bouth , the war
where the family began and for thib
stayed at a rebt reabon my parentb and
home of the Coun- I returned to Mobcow
cil Ministers . the gext
Learned of war' 9
outbreak on the
radio while there
gan
boy.
year_
day .
day .
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and returned to
Moscow the next
by Erain. (May)
Enrolled in Enrolled in the In October 1941 Went to Chelya-
Moscow Spccial Moscow Special Naval my mothor and I binsk from Mobcow In
Naval School but School which was were evacuatea to 1941, after the Btare
studies did not be- evacuated to Kuyby- Chelyabinsk _ where of the war,
gin in Moscow be- shev, attended the I completed the
cause cf the war 1941-42 school year Seventh Class in
and imrediate plans in Kuybyshev . June 1942 _ (Note :
to evacuate the (May) NOSENKO here added
school In a year to his life
tember 1941 NOSEN- which he had not
Ro spent one weck mentloned earlier_
digging crencheg To accommodate thie
with 2 group from change he subtracted
3
the school and Gn a from the
10 October he time he spent at the
travellea with the Naval Preparatory
0
rest of the school School in Baku. See
to Kuybyghev: below. ]
There ha began hib
studies in the
Seventh Class .
I gtudfed In June 1942 In summer 1942 completed tho Wag in Gor'kly for
SIret in a school completed the returned from Kuy- Seventh Clas8 in a time in the bummer
OE the Seventh Class at byshev to Mogcow on Chelyabinsk_ In Of 1942 .
there I
Nawied
the Moscow Special leave _ While there the beginning of
aboard boats and Naval School in somehow learned the bumer of 1942
quctere. (No Kuybyshev _ Re- that Speclal Naval I moved from Chel-
4ate glven. ) turned to Mobcow In School to bo moved yabinuk co Gor kly
July with about from Kuybyghev to and goon after thie
three other boys Achinsk , Siberia. returned to Moscow_
from the Bchool Dia not want to go In Mogcow I wag ac-
Provailed On father cepted In the Spe-
to allow tranafer 80 far away from cfal Naval School
to real mili home 80 enrolled in which In August
gchool" and
etso)
led Leningrad Naval Prep 1942 wa8 evacuated
in the Leningrad School Baku. Spent to Kuybyshev . There
day
Sep-
year
"I
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Juine 1962 1964 1965 April 1966 October 1966
Naval Preparatory summer with parente I entered the Elghth
School which had in MoscOw . (May) Clas8 .
been evacuated
from Leningrad to
Baku- Spent sumer
vacation at home in
Moscow with parents _
Afte; 3 1/2 Went to Baku by (In Kuybyshev; gee
months in Moscow train in October above entry- }
left by train for Trip took two weeks .
Baku with a group Spent first four to
of about 30 other six months in Baku
students in Octo- in guarantine
ber The trip which was 9imilar to
lasted 14 days _ American bobtcamp- 2
Route not recalled. Enrolled in the First
Arriving in Baku Courge _ equivalent
joined Prep School to the Eighth Class .
and spent about (May)
8
a month in "quaran-
tine _ Then as-
signed to the Ninth
Training Compary=
in che Third Course ,
equivalent to the
Eighth Class
(Note: The !Joscow-
Rostov railroad
line was cut by the
Germans by thig
time The only pos -
sible route at this
tine would have been
a long circuitous
one via Taghkent]
ana
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Took milftary Took military IStudyIng In
oath (Note : NO- oath at end of Kuybyehev _ See
SENKO was 15 years "quarantine period. above entries. ]
at tbis time Oath' administered to
by law too yourg to make" boys feel a
take oath. This part of service al-
point stressed in though too young_
April: 1964 inter- Oath taken between
rogations . ] 1Sth and l6th birth-
days 1.e after October' 19h2
ana be-
fore November 1943_
NOSENKO certain he
celebrated 15th
birthday in Baku in
1962 _ (May)
3
Completcd Third Completea First [Completed "I took the m1lf-
Course (Eighth Course in June and Eighth Clags in tary oath in Baku. I 5
Class) in June spent su.er of 1943 Kuybyshev: ] was 15 yeare ola at the
8
1943- Took no at school. Enterea ~During the summer time _ Thie wab In
vacation but spent Second Course at the of 1943 I returned 1943. " (No month gIven;)
suer working 2t Naval Prep School in to Mogcow 0n vaca-
the school in Baku. Baku in September tion _ The Special
In September 1943 1943. (May) Naval School was to
began new school be evacuated from
year in the Secona Kuybyshev to
Course equivalent Achinek there-
to Ninth Class . fore not wanting
to go to Achinsk, I
enrolled in the
Naval Preparatory
School in Baku.
Along with 15 or SInce 1942 NO_ "While a the
20 classmates SENKO had had an Naval Prep School
NOSENKO . submitted a "obsession' about in Baku, in Octos
collective letter getting into the ber 1943, I joined
abking to be s6nt war. Studente Erom the KOMSOMOL .
old
ana
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to the Eront be- the Frunze Higher
cause had Scheol had, gone to
heard: that stu- the front in 1942
dent8 at the Frunze and gOme of the
KIgher Naval School older boyg at the
had gone Request Prep School went in
caused an uproar eariy 1943_ Fired
and investigations _ UP, NOSENKO and
Permisgion denied _ about eight others
filed a petition to
be allowed to fight.
(May)
Joined KOMSOMOL . [See above entry-]
[naIng 0 1944)
In January _ to- After recefvng a "I studied in Baku The story about
gether with ciass- scolding from school for half the going to or towara
1
mate Yura RAD- authoritie8 for school becauge the front wab 8 Ie,
CHENKO , NOSENKO having bubmitted the I ran away from NOSENKO Ba1d,
went to the petition _ NOSENKO and gchool_ home to Mog -
military commi8 - several other boye Cow in the begln-
sariat in Baku to began to plot to run ning Of 19441
inquire about away to the front.
Joining a Marine When the time came in
detachment. early 1944 only one
were turned other RADCHENKO ,
and thereupon ran wou la accompany him.
away from the Naval The two slipped out
Prep School Tra- of school _ made thefr
velling by boxcar , way to the railway
the two went to Btation, and found 8
StanteLya Lazarev- freight train heading
skaya via Tbllibi toward Tuapse _ On
and Erom there arriving in Tuapse
walked to Tuapee in they were arrested
Bearch of the mili- alnost immediately
they
only
year
city
They
'aown boy ,
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DATE June 1962 1964 1965 AprIl 1966 October 1966_
tary Eront_ Ar- at the station_ sever-
riving in Tuapse al days later they
were arrested were returned to Baku
and were then re- where managed to
turned to Baku under escape They then
guard _ In Baku , travelled to Moscow
they managed to es- using" false documents
cape bcforc and were arrested at
being returned to the:the train btation on
Prep School- After arrival (May)
hiding a few days_ at
the home of a girl-
friend _ NOSENKO ana
RADCHENKO travelled
to Moscow by train
using forged docu -
8
mentation obtained
by a friend in the
Naval Prep Schcol_
were arrested at
0
the Moscow Railroad
Station by military
police who had been
alerted by authori-
tiee in Baku . NO-
SENKO 9 father bailed
him out (Note :
Previous accounts
varied , Widely_ NO-
SENKO originally saia
he had participated
in the battle for
Novorossiysk with his
entire class from the
"Frunze Higher Naval
School. This battle
actually took place In
September 1942 - On a
later occasion NOSENKO
they
they_
again
They
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8aia that ha and
RADCHENKO baw com-
bat near Tuapse . }
Took Ninth Class Dia not want to In Moscow I
exams after stucying return to Baku a8 fInished che Ninth
a3 an external stu- agkancd: facc clabo - Clabe 89 an exters
dent ac the Gorniy mates after failure atudent at
Institute in Moscow _ to get to front_ Re- Gorniy Institote
Passed these and mained' at hore ana and at the end of
through Eather S in- attended adult educa- the gumer Of 1944 _
fluence was trans- tion courses at Gorniy wab enrolled in the
ferred back to the Institute and had Naval School in Len-
Naval Prep School_ special tutors in math ingrad and trave]lea
which had just moved ana Russian grammar_ there in the month
back to Leningrad Finished Ninth Clags of August.
from Baku _ Tra- in spring or summer
velled to Leningrad and travelled in fall
1
to his class in to Leningrad to rejoin
September . class in School .
(May)
Studiee did not Arriving in Lenin-
Btart at once . NO- NOSENKO was a8-
SENKO and others signed to a group
lived in Nurva and made up of stragglers
worked in the woods . and was sent to the
forcst ncar Lenin-
to cut wood for
the winter supply at
the school _ Condi-
tiong were terrible--
the work was hard and
the weather wab cold ,
6amp and mlserable.
(May)
{ir
to
nal
join
Prep
grad
grad
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Judo 1962 1960 1965 Aprt} 1966 Otobor 1966
scudJej In Tenth Aboue Ehree Or
Clase o: Naval Prc - four daya bafore t0
paratory School con- boy8 bero to retur
eanccd In Novambar to [enIngrad 8 car
1944 . wab cant for NOSEN-
Ro_ Ba rotpr ed to
Leringrad to Btay
In cha Hotel Aatorta
Gitb Jdb fatbar sho
W16 vs1elng MIth 0
deJegztlon. Arter
Uls he evene back €o
echool, eoaeIna In
novomber. (Hly)
Ae the enc Of sontino In Eebru- "In the bo- NOSSNKO shot hfe-
a
DerLL 1945 #OSZZKO aY or #arch a %6- ginnIng ot 1945 I Be lE throujb tho hand,
Wab @nt Ta ene ana rele Jquaztanco o1 accLdentally Bhot Ghe Vag abbolutely
J€ a Party by a an uknow Navy Offl- 323 ndhroug?" Ee cidental and Vao not
B
Jealoue ycurg O2ff- cer- bogan to flirt and bpent an atterpt to avoId
cor and vad hobpita- with NOSENKO . The of-about monch IBF nilitary duty. (Note,
JIzed. In tho enp Yicer bocana angry , cuperatIng In the NOSENKO nade thlo stato?
sulng Lnvoetigation drev hij gun onj Shot Navy hooplcal _ ment in rodponbe to
ho Protocted ge NOSENKO through the 8 dlrect queatIon Tbo
roal culprIt by pre- Fand - Tho officer queetion Wab babod on tendlng that ha had uas epologetic, and 8 report {rom
ahot hineelt acel- NOSENFO promlsed .pot bouICe 2 v chat
Gantally bhilo to report the Incf- NOSENKO Bbot blesalt
Cleaniog 2 JuD , Be dent _ Tno bound to avold beLng dod€ t0
daver Oow *c o284- grew Vorge , hovever, tho Eront bbflo ats
car ag810 . and NOSENKO Ves Eorced tendIng 0 "naval
Co anter tha hospitel. In LnIngrad Lo
178%95
Ho tola tbo doctor
thet be ned accldent-
abot -Blmgele WItb
8 souvenIr- guE He
Mad roapitallzed {or
about three veoke .
(Mey)
acs
elly
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DATE June 1962 1964 1965 Apr4l 1966 otobor 1966
I finished the While in the hos- In the hospital ~After thi8 (hand
June Naval School, then pital= NOSENKO ap- NOSENKO decided he shooting] Incident I.
1944 was in the I Plied for release could not return to dia not want to go
fought, (boyeval-- Erom military ser- gchool a8 he vab back to the bchool
presumably In World vice _ Thi8 was a8- ashared of the type and began to Btudy
War II) In 1945 sisted by father 9 of Girle he had been at the Shipbuflding
I wa8 demobilized. friende_ After with the night of Tekhnikun In Lenfn-
lease Erom the the accident and in the Second
hospital he did not could not stand the Course Ln order to
want to return to thought of being complete the Tenth
school - Be called made an example of Class . In or
his father and then by the school KOMSO- June
i945
with the
a week with MOL organization_ help of the Director
friends of the He left the hospital of the Tekhnikum , I
family in Leningrad in civilian clothe8 received documenta-
before gett a and stayed with a tion certi eotpfeted that
rcom in a dormitory friend of hio father. I had the
3
at the Leningrad He' obtained a state- Second Course which
Shipbuilding Tekh- ment' that he had made it po8sIble fpr
nikum Despite attended the Naval Te to enter the In-
8
fallure to return to Prep School_ which Btitute (oE Inter-
the Naval Prep was just a report of national Relationg )
School . NOSENKO Was hia courseb and an and I returned Co mY
creaited with satis- average of his markg parent8 in MoBCOw ,
factery completion up to that time _ Ag
of the 8chool the bon of a mlnister
(Tenth Class) In it was then eagy for
June he passed the him to enter the
examg for the Second Shipbui lding Tekh-
Course at the Ship- nikum where , wIth
bui Tekhnlkum _ Bpecial tutoring_ ha
He then went to the was able to
'congiete
District Milftary the Tenth Clabe In
Commisgariat and was the Bunmer, (May)
denobilized _ He
received his mili-
tary rescrve regis;
tration and a certi-
ficate of satisfac-
tory completion of
36R
xE,
May-
Navy =
grad_ re
May
spent
ting
year
lding
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ten year'& 8chooling.
(Note : A blographf-
cal gtatoment was
drawn up on the basio
of NOSENKO ' s gtate-
ments in January-
February 1964 and ap-
proved by NOSENKO a8
correct in February
1964 _ This statem
ment said that he com-
pJeted his 1O-Year ed-
uzatton at che Baku
School in the spring
of 1943 ana thereby
became eligible to
8
enter a higher edu-
cational ingtitution.
From 1943 to 1945 ,_ the
0
statement continucd,
NOSENBO attended the
Frunze Higher Naval:
School (a counterpart
of Andapolis) After
three yearg there
he decided to leave
the Navy was demobi-
lized and entered the
Institute of Interna-
tional Re latione In
October 1966 _ NOSENKO
said he had lied about
attending Frunze Academy . ]
0 After the war I NOSENKO decided NOSENKO decided he In July 1945 I
Went co Btudy at he did not want to would Jike a career entered the Ingtl-
the Inatitute of study further at the in the forelgn g0r- tute of Internatlonal
International Rela- Shipbuilding Tekhri- vice ard returned to Relations _
tions.
0 'In 1945 I kum and returnea to Moscow where he
vag demobilized. Moscow where he pasged tha entrance
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passed the entrance exams for the IIR.
examinations for (May)
the Institute of
International Re ~
lationg (IIR) The
exam congisted
of a composition ,
dictation_ and an
interview
Travelled Travelled to East
Germany with his Germany in August 1945
father who was with father 3 delega-
leading a delega - tion _ Given cempo-
tion For the Pur- rary commission as
poge of the trip senior lieutenant for
only NOSENKO was the Continucd to
3
issued a uniform wear uniform on return ,
and documents even to classes at the
showing him to pe a institute _ Enterea in-
0
senior lieutenant_ stitute on return Erom
When he returned to" Ge_ and chose to
Moscow hc continued gpeci_
ecinyize
in English
to pasg hlmself off language and U.S , area
as an officer who studies for reasons he
had seen combat in coula not recall. (May)
the war ana eventu-
ally into
trouble at the in-
btitute becauge of
this _ Began studies
in Faculty of In-
ternational Law and
English language in
September .
only
to
trip_
got
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DATE June 1962 1964, 1965 Aprfl 1966 October 1966
June Completed first
year at Institute
of International
Relations
eBtember Began second
1946 year at IIR.
June Completed secona With help of tem- In 1947 commio-
1947 at IIRS Com- porary documents used bioned a juntor 1J0u-
missioned junior for the trip to Ger - tenant In the re-
lieutenant in Re- mary NOSENKO managed serves _ Diu not under-
serves. to exempt himself from go any mili train-
compulsory military ing . After complet-
training Guring his second year at
first two years at IIR. the Ingtitute_ began
Wken it was found that to do military trane-
2
his claims of active lationg to avoia
duty were false_ he military BervIce.
was commissioned a jun-
ior lieutenant in the
Reserveb along with
his classmates (May)
tember
1947 Began thira In thira year at
at IIRS IIR NOSENKO began to
specialize in Inter-
national law. (May)
Late
1947 (NOSFNKO was talk- while studying 0 I was a friend "While I was
about his present at the IIR NOSENKO and companion of studyIng at the In-
wife. ] m This is my _ was dating Augus- TELEGINA for some stitute at the end
second wife. I was tina Konstantinova months before her of 1947 _ I married
married before . I TELEGINA the father wag arrested Augustina Kongtanti-
cannot say that I daugbter of 2 lieu- in connection with novna TELEGINA _ who
tenant general _ STALIN 8 campaign was born in 1929"
1946
year
tary
ing
@
year
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1
AprIl 1966 Oetobor 1966
loved her a great TELEGIN waa ar- agaLnet as8octatee
deal , The var had rebted by STALIN , Of Marehall ZiUKOV .
Juet ended I and NOSENKO married However we never vanted Peace . I AugustIna goon planned to marry .
vanted a quiet afterwards In about After the arrebt
corner, I wanted November 1947. however _ I declded
jomaone to' 1ok to marry her in
after; Ma . and order to bhov my
Yo bocama 8C" atrength of char-
QuaInted, Me acter_ I carnot r0"
Baw each Othar for menber the date o2
about two #eoko . the narriage , which
Let' 0' marred, Vab my firet I
I Darried her . thfnk that It
That ' & 411_ [Roto : pened In 1947 _ but
NOSENKO dJd not do rot knov what
date thie marriage
Bea8oj or how long
other than to Jm- after the arrest
3
Ply It Vjd rshc of TELEGIN _ (In-
arcer tde Var) terrogatlon Pro-
Jc I0 Included tocol Sgned In
4
here to Place it February 1965.)
sn thg contoext o1
later etatere to.)
"One Knday-sat Broke off mar- One mrnIng-- "I IIved WIch P 10 0' clock (I came rfage after Beveral I cannot remember the [Jret Wfe untfl 1949 . "
home early Erom montho when he found date or Beabon , but
vork) Suddenly I hie wife in {lam ft W28 in the ffrgt
heard--I. approached g3t22 deTicto with half of 1948--I camo
On tletoa--Ihat 1o Brother The early and unexpected
thle? In @y bed , two were Beparated, Erom my gtudies at
who Ie Lying WIth but not divorced , at the Ingtitute of In-
Ry VIfe? Ker older thle tlne (Noge : ternation Relatong 2
brother. Well, I, AB wIth other dates to che apartwent 08 @X
#lamnad the door_ connected Uith the wifc 8 mother
6
Ohero
lett, and dJd not go TELEGINA marrlage 8omoEime6 Mat my
back . Never; Hent; NOSENKO hae been im-
Wife and surprised
back_ Tha& Vab a2l, precIse here : In her in Bexual Inter-
s0
get
hap-
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Bye bye . Well, April 1964 he said course with her
You can imagine my on another occa- brother. I walked
horror. [Note: sion that he found out without comment ,
Portions of the his wife with her The next I re-
tape of this con- brother sometime turned to our apart-
vereation are un- prior to June 1947.] Ment where my wife
readablo It i9 and I continued to
clearly implied that live together al-
thig scene took though our
reiation-
place at NOSENKO' 8 ship was strained .
Owm home . } I stayed with her
because she was
pregnant at the time _
(Protocol gigned
February 1965 , )
Completea third
3
year at IIR.
"A Chila was Girl with hare
0
born who might lip and cleft
have been mine ana palate born to TELE-
who might not have GINA_ NOSENKO de-
been minc God cided deformity wag
knows There wag Jue to her incegt-
Btill no child when uous relationship
I left= Well_ I with her brother_
helped out I Subsequently gave
pent money . That' & his wife a little
41, But I didn't money to help Jup-
gee either or port the child but
the chfla. (Note: never considered it
NOSENKO provided no his Marriage
date for the above . ] cooled still furtner
but NOSNEKO continued
to live in the apart-
ment . (May)
day
her
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Began fourth
at IIR,
Completed fourth
year at IIR,
Successfuliy de-
fendea hf8 thesis on
che subject of
lomatic Immuni-
Completed English NOSENKO was through
language studies . with courbes at the
Ingtitute in January
1950 ana had already
de fended his thesis
on Diplomatic Immus
nity The lagt
half-year at the In-
stitute Vas relatively
free because the
students were given
tine to prepare for
the state examg which
were reyuired for
graduation . (May)
In March or Before taking hfg "In the pring The Placement Com-
April 1950 NOSENKO final state exams of 1950 before misaion sent NOSENKO
Wab Intervlewed by NOSENKO went before the begInning of to the MGB where he wa0
the ag8ignmente tho placement board_ the etate oxamina- told he wab not a
commigston of the Here talked tiong a perbonnel Buitable Sarozaefietla The
IIR ana wag tenta- abouc his possible Placenent comis- reagon was for
tively assigned to assignnents and al- gion wab created at things_ I wag drunk
the GRU . Ip though no definite the Ingtitute and several timeb only an
1950 he went to the decision was reached I declared to it my average atudent, etc.
54m
year
~Dip-
ty.
0
they
May
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CRU Pe rsonne] De - it was sucgested he wish t6 work in NOSENKO said he did
Partment for an go irto the some sort of mi li- not mention this
intcrview with After this but tary organization _ carlier because his
Colone ] KALOSHIN before the state Soon thereafter interrogetots would
on the instructions exams NOSENKO the chief. of the not have be lieved that
of the chief of visited a special Institute 5 special the MGB first turned
the "sectet unit" sectiun 0 f the Navy section gave me a him down and later
at the IIR. Ministry to telephone nuber accedted him in 1953 .
them special docu - and told me to cal]
ments for a secu- it The number was
rity check Al - K-6 , and I rea-
though it was not lized that the MGB
stated NOS ENKO be - was interested
lieved he was s lated in me since these
for Navy Intelli- numbers bclonged
gence_ (May) to the MGB _ T
4
called the number
and was told to
come to the MGB
the conversation
4
(at the MG B } con-
cered my bio-
graphy and my
knowledge of the
Eng lish language
Nothing was said
about where it was
intended . for me to
work _ Latef the
chief of the In -
stitute 5 special
scction told. me mY
qualifications were
not suitable-for
the MGB ." 1b
Nawy _
they
give
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Juno 1962 1964 1965 RPr4] 1966 otatar 1966
Took Btato Nter {afling "DurIng the
Oxam9{or comple- tho Btata Oxam bumer of 1950 _
tJon o1 the Inetl- NOSENKO had bo@3one whfle the etate
tuto. Pabced In nie Eather' 0 0x443 vere under-
three or than but offico call the vay I began to
Ylunked Mrxisn- GRN to eee that he proceoe for entry
LaninJBm. Advised Bhould do. It Into the Navy GRU
GRU and 6a8 told to turced out thot the My_procebeIng
call back when He BecurIty check took Place through
nad hfe IIR dIplo- would taka a Iong Colenel KALOSHIN ,
0J , Be Va8 alloued time and NOSENKO the Chiez o8 the
to take the Navy Vab told to check GRU Perbonnel De-
phyelcal axam, back after he had Partment- Up
Vhich Jaeted tbree paesed the Oxam: untll sarch 1951
daye. (May) I repeatedly
Vleited the snie-
try of the Navy- . J 2
I 2IIled Ouc
queoELonaIram In
auplIcate _ Vroee
swa
SSizzepizea
0
copioa %2 My diplo-
La (Noto : NO
SENKO In nfe 1966
autoblograpby dLd
oe_@dtIon
bavIng fe4Jed tha
Or5 In barxled-
LanLnJeb. ]
"I {IoJehod Pabbed exans _ On NOSENKO checked 'I eubattted
tho Inetieute 02 Bacond €rY and I0- back ieh GRU Per- coploe o8 Fy diplo
InternatLonal Rov cefved dIplona o2 eonjxel after pageIng 09 to GRU Pereonnol."
Jatjon? An 1950, conpletlon ot IIR. hfo Bxa8 , (Mlay) (See abowe
a2eor eJo 3 Contaceed Colona} YOSBiO
veocotza}
Corkod Ja bb0 GRU KALOSHIN O2 GRw Per- Yor CRU entry .
0 tho Ravx . eannol , 8ubaltted
A
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#Jane 1962 1964 1965 April 1966 October
diploma trang-
cript of' grades ,
and other neces-
sary papers_
(Note Previously
in 1964 NOSENKO
stated cla € Iio
graduated from the
IIR, which that
tire was a four-
year course in
mid-1949 and "just
loafed around" for
a He later
changed the com-
pletion date to
3
late 1949 or early
1950 _ Then he
changed this to
say that he failed
0
exams in 1949 and
haa been forced to
wait an entire
year before he
coula retake them
in 1950 _ Finally
he the version
above ]
"When they of- Entered on ac- In the autumn of (See above entriee. ]
fered me [assign- tive duty with the 1950 received orders Still processing for
0 ments in} Moscow , Navy on 17-19 trangferring him GRU entry.
Leningrad and the' tember 1950 _ when from the Reserve to
Far Eaa € I took he recelved orders active Offered
the Far East 30 trangferring him a choice of duty
that nobody could Erom a Junior lieu- posts = NOSEIIKO chobe
that Yurly NO- cenan€ in the Re- to go to the Far East
8BXKOL
took advan- berves to a junior "in order to prove he
1986
a &
year _
gave
Sep-
duty.
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tage %f hib father' 8 lieutenant on ac- wag now ready to
PobItion. tive Re- make a man of him-
ceived orders to self in the country
the Intelligence God forgot . (May)
Staff of the Seventh
Far East Fleet_
(Note: In an ear-
lier version _ NO-
SENKO said he en-
tered the GRU i:
1949 having fin-
ished the Insti-
tute of Interna-
tional Relations
the same year.]
"I worked in On approxi- Arriving at his (See above entries]
the field of in- mately 1 October duty station NO- Still processing
formation in the 1950 NOSENKO left SENKO was assigned for GRU entry .
Far Fast _ in the Moacow by train for to the Information
clty of" Sovetskaya the Far East. The Section_ He liked
Gavan In the Ttrip to Bukhta the work and did a
field of Informa- Postovaya (near job despite
tlon--radio inter- Sovetskaya Gavan) the rigorous con-
cept= etc. All where his unit was ditions During hio
your movcmcnta, atationod took nina Acrvice hcre he ra-
when You moved] or ten days . Ag - celvcd gpecial
vesse [s to Che- signed to work in mention as an outs
mul PO , Korea _ the Information standing officer_
the Korean opera- Section under There were 300 to
tion_ wo kncw all tain Second Rank 350 intercept opera-
the bh.pe thcro b0- KHAYTOV . Dutie8 tors there _ NO-
cjuro you talked on Included trangla- SENKO and other
the alr. You tiong Erom Ameri- officers analyzed
erangmitted . We can Naval litera- the take 43 we 11 a8
knew each division , ture and making information recefved
Ito namo 1t8 num- summarieg of Erom Sakhalin and
bor . averything . American Navy OB in Vladivostok_ (May)
duty:
good
Cap-
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aha
Wa reported Far East_ There was
Chte to Moscow I a unit involved in
don t know what radio intercept of
Vab done with chi.s American Naval car-
Ipformation Jeter in Korean area ,
thfe. So , we were but NOSENKO was not
concerned with: personally concerned
Aformation . with this work .
Promoted to the After about seven "On 12 March 1951 "I lied when I
rank of lieutenant. months in the Far two orders were is- said I started in the
East NOSENKO was pro-sued by the Naval GRU in 1950 . It wad
moted to lieutenant - ninistry; one con - really March 1951-
This was April 1951. cerning my enlistment (Note : No effort
Normally one is pro- in the Navy and the was made to Obtain
2
moted from junior other assigning Me a reason for thig
licutenant to lieu- as a translator to lie Or to gueation
teilnt only after a the Intelligence NOSENKO on it8 ims
0
8 service in Unit of the Seventh plicationg for hfe
grade _ 'This can be Fleet (Military Unit earlier gtatemente
reduced to six months 70176 ) The following about promotion8 etcc )
:: te Far East. at RALOSHIN S "I was Or active
(May) inseructicns I re duty in Sovetskaya
ported to the Moscow Gavan--Bukhta Postov
City Military Con- vaya Erom 1951 to
mission where I wus 1953,
igsued my passport
and my voyenyy bilet:
The Coimission also
Jssued me temporary
duty orders and tras
vel documents . On
16 or 17 March I left
Mogcow for my duty
post_ I arrived at
Bukhta: Postavaya at
the end of March
gets
year
cay
ana
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DATE June 1962 1964 1965 AprLl 1966 octobor 1966
bcgan work In the
Information De-
partment of the
Intelligence Unit
of the Seventh
Fleet.
End of NOSENKO involved
1951 in apprentice work
in the Agert-Intel-
ligence Section at
Bukhta postovaya ,
This involved going
out to sea on sub-
chasers to pick up
and drop off and 3
corducting meetings
with agents fron
Hokkaido ard Sak-
halin_ NOSENKO did
0
not actually meet
agents , but was
merely along to learn
Were picked
up at sea
January- Filed action by NOSENKO was
Babruary mail Eo divorce TELE- planning to divorce
1952 GINA in Moscow court hig wifo beforo he
and published inten- left Mogcow but aid
tion notice in 2 local not start proceedinge
Sovetskaya Gavan news- because he was afraid
Paper in January or she would bring
February . charges agalnst him
in the KOMSOMOL .
Sometime in late 1951
or early 1952 he
published his notlce
how Ehey
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DATE June 1962 1964 1965 Aprll 1966 October 1966
of intent In a local
newspaper and for-
warded the neceg-
sary papers to Mos -
cow (May)
April Left Bukhta On 1 1952 "At the ena Of
1952 Postovaya and re- NOSENKO' s father wab April 1952 I left
turned to Moscow to observe his 5oth Sovetskaya Gavan On
on leave Arrived birthday . NOSENKO' 8 leave arriving in
w at the end of two-ycjr tour in the Mobcow on 28 April,
April and reported Far Last would not
to KAZOSHIN_ Re- be up until October
guested transfer or November 1952 and
from the Far East . he was not
entitied
to any leave until 3
it was ended _ How-
ever his section
chief was very under-
standing and ar-
ranged for him to
leave in April 90
that he coula be In
Moscow for the births
celebration.
NOSENKO flew to
Khabarovsk where he
6 had a two-day
drunken orgy with
another Naval offi-
cer _ He then con-
tinued on to Mobcow
in time for the May
and birchday
celebratfons Tne
next he reported
to the Navy Minietry
and wab told to
May
0
day
Day
day
re-
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April 1966
October 1966
1964 1965
June 1962
turn at the ena of
his leave for reas-
signment _ (May)
We Whfle on leave
NOSENKO confirmed
NOSENKO was On
NOSENKO was on i11 with that he wab at the
I worked in the leave during May I became
and Herzen Sanitorium
ar East 1952 , leave during
and June No de-
tuberculosis
during this period
hon guddenly I and June 1952thnd
cision had been spent alnost sane-
and 8aid that a8 a
Fel1 111S In ehe lived during
reachcd with re- ths in a result of hig illnebb"
Far East _ It was timc at the homc
to whether torium near Mos -
m6 coughing
Then I of his Farents at
to Cow (Note: In he was of LhIs way
No = 4 Ulitsa
he would return
another statement , up a half a glas8
arrived in Moscow=
in Mos- Sovetskaya Gavan
a week blood at a time _
I Nent to thc Gor'kogo
received or not he was written
His treatment con-
doctor. They began cow He
"at thc disposal earlier NOSENKO
sisted of Bhota of
to X-ry M}c one nionth leave
cf thc: Mava l Minis- said that in btreptomycin.
Clear lungs , abso- for his 1951 ser- during this Sovetskaya Gavan
lutely. They vice in the Far try
After the "drunkeness and
3
examined Fe one East and the
Peavog: NOSENGs
the severe condi-
three other for his leave
tions had their adaygictkre
abso- 1952 service waited another
effect on my ddxs .
Tcn chere. (Noto: ccnth until his as-
healch and lea to ltely clear. NOSENKO did not signment was do-
outbreak of
by accident right
mention having had cided upon_ (May) aubertuiosks
in under my collar- [Note: NOSENKO did
bone J small, small, tuberculosis
not:
mention having May 1952, " ]
spot was ducing any inter-
been kospitalized
EQund and it turned rogations or state-
in this period.]
out to be on a ments in 1964_
blood vessel_ It cording to his 1966
tbrned out to be at staterents , he
a} very early stage .
only one
Ae that time chey year March 1951 to
discovercd 1952 J in the
had Just
and I Far Eagt. } etreptonycin
was confined at
the Hertzen Sani-
dorfum near Mos -
eow , I was lhcro
for two monehg . I
Yelt fine but they
Wn"-
72 _
May until and
mon -
gard
and
day, 0
yttie
spent
Aprii
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DATE June 1962 1964 1965 AprIl 1966 Otober 1966.
gave Mc ghots of
etreptomycin eve -y
hour for two montha
and 8topped this
dfsease at once .
After this I haa
check-ups for five
years _ was car-
ried on their books
until 1957 . It was
nothing.
Mid- offered During the summer NOSENKO wab offered
1952 mie the opportunity of 1952 NOSENKO was an opportunity to
to study in the ffered assignments attend the Mili
Military-Diploma- to the Military- Diplomatic Academy _
2
tic Academy- I Dtplomatic Academy , but did not want to go,
went and took a look to a special Navy Besides he failea the
at the courses they espionage school
PhyscCai
examinationg
B
had to offer--Marx- and to Germany _ but for entrance when bugar
ism, Philosophy, turned all of them was discovered in his
KIstory , and so on , down for various faeceb. NOSENKO ' drank
We11 what did I reasons He re- too @uch .
need this for? I jected the opportun-
already knew this. ity to attend the
I said: No , I Military-Diplomatic
won t go. 10 Academy because: he
had already had
96 per cent of the
course8 in the In-
gtitute. (Hlay)
'After my i1l- Following hig NOSENKO received During the NOSENKO _ wa8 ehow
Auguet nebg and after the regular leave orders to Sovetak and month of July the 0 map Of. KalinIn-
1952 Far East I received NOSENKO wab Or- arrived there In late Personnel Departr :; (gradskeye Oblast
ordors to the Bal - dered by the Navy Auguat or early mont of the GRU Bhowing PrLoorek to 5o
tic On the Bal- to proceed to tember 1952 _ In reached a deci- where he Bafd `Sovetok:
tic thore 1s a Berlin and Rostok Sovetsk . NOSENKO wab Bion concerning should be located,
which was fornerly but refubed to go a8gignea 8 political the place of DY NOSENKO continued to
"They
tary-
July-
Sep-
city
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no German city of when hc lcarned that officor 3 job &und further.4#8lgnment Bay that ho wab 40-
PJ Ilau and is now the Nava l Intelli- helped train and I was ordered signed to Sovetak
ca1led Primorsk gence Points (MRP s) sailors for wartime to the Naval Intel- in the summer of
There NOSENKO was in Germany were agent missions _ ligence Point of 1952 - He was asked
{nvolved in the closing down His main task was the Fourth Baltic why , as a son of a
formation oe and that his final to prepare the Flect Intelligence minister and as a
agent-observation assignment was not traini- plan for Unit in Sovetsk _ patient under creats
Bosts. Suitable definite Hle then the sailors to Ke liningradskaya ment for tuberculos
candidates were tock more leave instruct them in Oblast . Sovetsk sis_ he was not as-
9e lectcd from (unauthorized) subjects such as is located before signed to the Black
among the crews of until about 29 July "The Foreign Policy You go out on the Sea or somewhere
ghf were when he lcfc for of thc CSSR, and spil of land where else with a healthy
mhepstormee
into Ba2E BT ana Te- generally to see Eo Baltiysk (Pillau) climate _ NOSENKO
groups of three ported for duty to their needs _ (May) stards_ I arrived explained that there
Men each and were the Ictelligerce 1n Sovetsk in were no pobitions
trained in radio- Staff of the Fourth August 1952 and available "elsewhere_
3
operation_ dcmo; Baltic Fleet _ began to work in
Mtion etc He was assigned to the Naval Intelli-
After this the a Naval Intelli gence Unit as a
0
up 2 gence Point beLnul senior translator. {rouphc
thcir mem- set up in Sovetsk Shortly before
Ber8 wenl their J St.j Eown near my arrival the In-
deparate ways . In Baltlysk Thcre he te 1ligence Point
Gase of war the prepared area had been moved
groups were to' be training materials Erom Rostok . in
and sent for and carried Germany _ to Sovetsk_ reforaeanend
lines supplies to agents (Note: It was
On 8abotagc and but did not actualiy clear from NOSENKO' 8
Intelligence mis - deal with or train earlier descrip-
ions _ [Note: them directly- tions that thc
The former Geran [Note : Previously m Sovetsk" which NO:
aty or ZTTav is during the April SENKO described 18,
Dov @TTed BaltixekL 1964 interrogationg in fact, Primorsk
not Primorsk ; che NOSENKO said that he a smal1 village on
Tatter 18 a sma ] ) had received training the coast = The
Vtlageneatby + near Moscow and was only place called
then sent to Rostok Sovetak in Kalinin-
and Sassnitz before gradekaya Oblast
rg
They
split
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going to Ba l - is about 40 kilo-
tiysk/Sovetsk. He meters inland , and
then said this was NOSENKO
himseif
a Tic and gave had saidin 1962 _
the vcrsion above . that he served- in
The reason for the Primorsk.
lie, NOSENKO said,
was hat he Knew
Wc "wouldn t
Jieve thc t ruth"-
that he had suc-
cessfully refused
the assignment to
Germany . ]
No date givcn In mid-August or "Sometime 4fter my
For di vorce . ember 1952 NC - return to Moscow from
3
2 SENKO retumed to Sovetskaya Gavan , I
Moscow from the Bal - carried through with
tic for 7 to 10 my intention to
0
days t0 complete divorce My di-
divorce proceedings vorce was noted in
he had initiated my Officer' 5 Book-
in tile Far East _ let and nowhere
This was not else I turned this
counted J5 Icave , document in to thc
but a5 official KcR Pe rsonnc ] office
bus incss_ He then when I began my KGB
returned to Sov- service and since
etsk. then have had_no re -
cord of the divorce .
T continued to pay
alimony to ustina
TELEGINA (one quarter
0 f my salary) until
T left the USSR in
be -
Sept
Auge
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1964 _ She kept the
name NOSENO even after
s he remarried. (Note:
Thi s is Placed here for
comparisoh with his
1964 statemcnt. ] #
(See next entry . ] VOS ENKO did NOSENKO dislixed I remained in
not like his work his job as a politi- Sovez sk Zhorttime
in Sovetsk Lsic) officer and was a returned to Mos -
and Fanted to re- disdainful of the Cow at thc end 0 f
curn t0 Mosc?w co low cducational levc ] the ycar [1952 | Witb
arrange for a 0 f those he was thc Jim of changing
transfer_ Hlc ca ]led upon to train, my of work_
asked for annual a5 wcll as of the ih
iReace
in Sovetsk
leave which the "whole stupid" pro- received the rank of
3
uni t commander re- gram. He remained 'ieutenant 0f the
fused to give him in Sovetsk ouly Administrative Ser:
as he had none due . untiT Deccmber 1952 , vice (Noce: Sec
NOSENKO thcreupon when he obtained 1965 entry for the
4
went t0 Admiral leave to spend the spring of 1951. ]
GoLovKO in Ba ) - holidays th his
tiysk and with his patents in Moscow
obtained (May)
leave because of
the elder NOSENKO ' s
influential
sition. NOS
Bwko
then returncd tq
Moscow shortly
be fore New Year' S .
the be - "I arrived back In January NOSEN - "On 1 January 1953
958 ginning of 1953 in Moscow in Decem- Ko and his Parents my parents and I were
came to_Moscow ber 1952 _ just be- went *0 visit the guests at'the dacha
PrmorskL fore Ncw Year' $ _ I family 0 f Gene ral of KOBULOV who a t
TTTS was 53 in had vacation for KOBUOV at KOBULOv' s that time was working
the beginning. the month of Janu- dacha in Usov . NO - in GUS INZ in East Be r-
NOSENKO Was divorced from TFLEGINA during his leave hcfore eoine to Sovetsk (Mav and Jwne 1952 )
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1n January We 12 ary At thc end SENKO KOBULOV Iin with_tbe WISMUTH
I ceme o0
icave
to of January , at the discussed NOSENKO' s : This_ wes _ the
Moscow_ I was erd of my vacation dissatisfaction
FPFPa"Yine hiner
there at my father' $ I went back to GRU with his Sovctsk KOBULOV; I don '€ re-
dacha , near Moscow_ Personne 1 and saw assignment and KOBU- member how the con -
KORULOV came to KALOSHIN: : . I told LOV 5 ugGested the versation came around
vIsit us at tha him I did not like BGsexkd ger of to me but I told
dacha . 3 conver- my job, a]1 that getting KOLULOv about my
sation started_ tyr and he into Stace.Security work in the Naval
He asked: What said: Well_ work. (May) GRU and mY desire to
ete You doing; wait a while. chenge my place of
I answcred: I Look around_ work He pronised_ to
am working in the was at the dispo- find me _ a Place in the
GRU I came home sa 1 0f the Person- MGB , hut this promiss
on Jceve KOBU- ne } Department a1l was empty conversation."
Lov asked: How of February . I
2
do Jikc had no work a € 811. sa/e4r
And since I was
I
Speaking
don ' € KcH)
383 MoEkEct; Jy
8
ho said You pay for this month _
bettet come work During this vacation
NIth us Look I was Jiving with
drop in to sce me mY father and mother
M for 0 ninute some on Gor' Street .
tIme KOBULOV
wes First Deputy
to BERIA and a
friend of mY EFSner'
5 .
"After the New "I met my [second] "From the end . of
53 Year J went co this wife (Lyudmila J2nu3Eeh F9- the #iddfe
torium Kubinka , KOZHEVNIKOVA]. for. the Of. wes
25 0f 78 Kiloneters finst time- et the treatmont at the
from Moscow and I Herzen "House of sanitorium near
was there January Rest," one 0f the Cow where I had been
6i
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and part of Febru- "Houscs of Rest" o0f during the summer of
aTy _ After that I tke Council of Minis - 1952 _ Fere I became
was home [Note ters I was resting acquainted with my
This starement Ias thcre for sevcra] second wife Lyudmila
made on 8 .April_ days _ She was there Yulianovna KOZHEV -
As no attempt .wJs too It ; about NIKOVA.
made to reconcile 65 - 70 kilometers
it with the pre - from Moscow not far
vious entry , made from Kubinka I
on 6 April ind be- was waiting for my
cause NOSE:KO 0f - status to be re
fered no explana - ~solved_ I didn't
tion _ both are Wart t0 stay a lone
included here. ] at the dacha (his
father' s]_ She was
{tudxeng]
the
Ehphalasors
cours @
3
at Moscow State Un i -
vcrs ity . She had
been se riously i1]
1
with ruberculosis
when she was 17 and
still required treat-
ments . (Interro -
cation,- 12 February
1965 ) (Note : NOSEN -
Ko' s explanation
0f his presence at
the "House of Rest"
was tKivep_ in response
to specific
question : "What
were you doing there?"} "
1965 NOS ENKO said: "I met my wife in a Ilouse of Rest. I had been at Sosno in January but didn t 11ke It.
trled Dyatkino and met her_
See June 1942 entry: Red Star' on 14 January 1967 reported that seven "special. naval schoole" wera' e8tablLahea
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Personal Affairs Since Entering the XG?
1 Family_Life
The Soviet internal passport which NOSENKO carried to
Geneva in 1964 confirs his claim that he narried Lyudmila
KOZHEVNIKOVA on 27 June 1953 : (They married approximately
six months after he says he first met her at a sanatorium or.
rest home outside Moscow and about three months after he
he joined the KG? . ) Immediately after their marriage
says
into the home of NOSENKO' $ new in-laws thitsougeeaTewovich
2 Moscow where they lived until obtain-
ingtshese
Own apartment on Narodnaya Ulitsa in January 1955. *
KOZHEVNIKOVA 5 father is Yulian llikolayevich KOZHEVNIROV,_ a
metall-
urgical engineer by training_ who held the position of
First Deputy Chairman o f the State Scientific Research Con-
mittee (GKKNIR) of the RSFSR at the time of NOSENKO " 5 defec-
tion .
NOSETIKO said tiat ha has two daughters by this second
marriage . According to his: passport the eldest of these,
Oksana was born on 21 August 1954' and the other Tamara on
13 July 1958 _ $* NOSEi K? in 1962 displaged to his CIA handlers
a photograph of the two gicls and their mother and made a par-
ticular of noting the close physical resemblance between
On 23 April 1964 TOSEFKO was questionec on the various
apartments he occupied in Moscow Fle Scid that from the
time of his marr:age to TELEGINA until his departure for
nis first GRU post in the Far Fast, he lived in an apart-
ment on Meshchanskaya Ulitsa - He gave "p this apartment ,
he said _ in 1950 , when, his Navy orders came through .
Having rade this statement NCSENKO was then asked
the 1951 Moscow telcphone directory sfill listed him at
the Meshchanskaya Ulitsa adaress He replied that he could
not explain but that he was considered to have vacated the
house in 1950 _ (He later said he moved to the Far East in
1951 see Section IV.B. ) NOSENKO ther said that the
previous tenant at Narodnaya Ulitsa 13 rad been one Nikita
ISHCHENKO . Although the pnone then in the apartment was
switched to NOSENKO S name for bill- purposes NOSENKO
never bothered to have the change entered in the Moscow
phone book ; he said that this would have required a visit
to a downtown office the filling out of nucrous forms
etc:; besides he added , he dia not use the telephone
way- Therefore NOSENKO said _ from 1955 until his de fec-
tion in 1964 _ the telephone in his apartment was listed
under the name of ISHCHENKO _ He has repeated this story
during subsequent questionings_ The 1961 Moscow phone
directory carries no listing for NOSENKO; it does list
ISHCHENKO but gives his aadress as Krasnokholmskaya
Naberezhnaya , not Narodnaya Ulitsa-
The GKKNIR of the RSFSR is now the GNTK . PENROVSKIY worked
under cover in the GKKNIR of the USSR.
NOSENKO hag also given his second daughter 3 year of birth
as 1957_ In 1962 he tola CIA that the older daughter was
then studying in tne first class at school; in 1965 how-_
ever_ he said she began school in the fall of 1962.
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Oksana and hlmself_ He sald that he and his vife refer to her
as hi8 "aouble (kopixa) His wife, in a letter after the
defection, referrea to Oksana as MOSENKO ' 8 Koplyz.
YOSENKO - 9 Eather, the Shipbuilding Minister; dfed of
stomach cancer in Augusc 1956 _ three years after WOSENKO says
he entered the KGB. Secord Chief Directorate. The period of
time surroundirg his father 3 deach was according cc NOSENKO _
a turnirg point in his personal and professional lif9. It was
then that he founa hinself after an irresponsible past ,
drinking and wenching, and indifference to his work.
2.
Yenereal_Diskesc
Te incldent which NOSENKO Kas most often citec as an
example of his irresporsibility 17 the period prior to 1956
involvea his fllegal use of KGB alias documents to cover treat-
ment for a case of goncrrhea he contracted in 1954, at the time
nis wife was pregnant with their first child_ Te CIA psycho-
logist who questionee #OSENKO in Nay 1966 subitted the follow-
summary of IOSENKO S statements about this ircicent_ which
are about as given eerlier (during the April 1964 irterroga-
tion) 8
"A friend he had krown in Leningrad since 1945 cane
to visit relatives ir Koscow in 1354: She called Kim, and he
spent some tine with her _ She `as not a prostitute, and he
had slept with ner bezore, so he thought nothing of it_ Later
he developed what he feared was a venereal disease_ Since his
wife was pregnant _ he was safe th Erom discovery and the
danger of infecting her _ He searched franticelly around Moscow
fOr a private doctor wro treated such diseases, tut coula not
find one Some of his friends at the office suggested a central
clinic that would require no documents. He went here but when
confronted with a request for dociiments , had the choice of
showing his KGB certificate or Lsing a false passport he had
for business . He trfed to talk the doctor inco letcing hfm
go home to his docuents, but the doctor saia re woula have
to be accompanied by a member of the militia; otnerwise he
might not conie back. He was required to take treatnent of a
conucunIcable disease _ He was Eorced to give the false aocument .
He. cane back for treatzent about three tines and was orderea
to report back in two weeks for a final cneck _ They also
demandea the name of the girl, but he claimed he haa only
met her and did not krOw who she was . He forgot to go back
and a nurse visited tne safehouse about two times ard left
a note for him to report_ However , he did not go to the safe-
house so knew nothing Of the note. In the false passport was
a listing of where the named person workea . 2 fictitious
factory. As the result of the clinic inquiries, the' request
for information got into the hands of the section which made
the docurents. [IOSEKO was called before the deputy chlef OE
the Directorate ara severely criticizea. He explained what
had happened ana was given five Cays of house arrest. However
the chief of his section had also gotten wora of the infraction
ana sentencea him to fifteen daya of house arrest vithout even
talking to nim. He told his wife he was going on a trip and
moved Into the aaministrative room near the office to serve
hls term, In the meantime, the Secretary of the KGB Party
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Committee called NOSENKO ' 5 father on the phone and told him
the whole story. NOSEIKO " 5 father never tola efther NOSENKO ' 9
wife or mother of the incident but did chide NOSENKO about
it= The incident ~as brought before the Koxsomol ara Ziscusgea .
A written reprimand [or immoral conduct-unauthorized usc of
official documents was placed Jn his record_ This was 2lso
a flnal warning meanirg that any other infrection would result
in expulsion; He made the statenent that re had been punished
for this incidert many times_ He could not imnediately apply
for party membership; the incident was brocht up repeatealy
in Konsomol meetings an even in party meetings (after he was
accepted) as a
horrible example; and it kept him fcom being
promotea from Senior Lieutenant to Captain. (The Deputy-
Director who gave him five days was a member of the pronotion
Ii commission . )
Although there have been slight changes 2nd contradictions
in NOSENKO ' s numerous accounts of this story (the house arrest
was variously reported as 5 _ 10_ and 15 dayz) it remained
basically consistent until the October 1966 irterrogations
when he said for the firsi time tkac he cortracted gonorrhea
from the ir Leningrad in 1945 rather thar 1954 _ In 1954 ,
he said, ke was infected_ this time b; a prostitute whom
he picked up in the vicinity oE the Leningrad Railroad Station
in Moscow_ when the KGB required that he reveal the source
NOSENKO said, he ascribed the latter case to the origiral
from Leningrad_ Dur the October 1966 irterrogations NOSENKO
also tola CIA for the first time that re had had venereal
disease On two other occasions while studying at the Institute
of International Atrairs .
He later began to "feel more a part of ke KGB, ana as
a Junior KGB case officer, he personally recruited Richard
BURGI in the first successful recruitment operation ' carried
out by the newly-created Tourist Departmert of the Second Chief
DIrectorate. And in 1956 , NOSEKO said ir 1964 _ "pefore
my father S death, I was made a candidate for membership in
the Communist Party ana exactly 15 days later, was assigned
tke renk cf Senior Czse Officer I develoged 3 pride in my -
self (a feeling) that_I can do thinqs know now 18 Is,
When a person feels that he can that he has some support,
then he works much better. Me more initiative ana so
forth.
3 , Affillation with Comunist Party Organs
NOSENKO saia that his formal participation in ComnunIst
Party activities began in late 1943 or early 1944 when he
Joinea the Komgomlol at the Naval Preparatory School in Baku_
This step was a casual one, ana he has saia that he took It
without much tkought, mainly because all his Eriends were
Part V.Da4.b. for a description of the BURGI recrult-
ment Operation_ Until 1966 NOSENKO claimed to CIA that
he nad received an award for his participation In thls
operation. In the October 1966 interrogations he retracted
thls ana said that he never receivea zny KGB awara for the
BURGI or any other operation_
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Jolning. when NOSENKO entered the KGB in the spring of 1953,
he transferred routinely to che Konsomol organization there
ana became Secretary oE the Konsomol Organizat ion of the
Second Chief Directorate. This was a Small orgaalzation
congiscing_ NOSENKO thought_ of about 17 KGD employees; he
remainea its secretary June or 1954 _ when Ke got
into the trouble over illegal use of operational documents.
According to NOSEYKO_ Inmedlately after this incident the
Bureau OE the Komsomol was gathered_ ard I was immediately
removed from the tion of Secretary. A week later, a
"strict reprimara was entered in NOSENKO ' s Korsomol records.
In October 1954 ,, on the eve of his 27th birthday: NOSENKO
was forced out of the Komsomol for over-age. * At that time,
the "strict reprimana he had received several months eazller
was remitted on NOSENKO ' s petition_ and he was permitted to
leave the organization th a clean record_ Ke was not per -
mitted to join the Communist Party immediately, however_
NOSENKO described the situation On 15 April 1964 as follows :
"Now I had to prove myself. Not being a candidate for Party
membership, I asked them for assignments to show my eagerness ,
to prove myself. I also asked the Party Organization of the
Secona Chief Directorate for some public service (obshchest -
venniy) assignments _ I collected newspapers . For a year
NOSENKO "made qood by runn errands and performing other
such tasks, until it was decided that he wzs suitable for
Party membershipa He applied in Jenuary 1956 ana was accepted
as a candidate member of the Party in June the same year;
full membership was granted in 1957 For over a year, Erom
October 1954 until January 1956 _ NOSENKO said, he had the
distinction Of being the employee of the KGB who wag
neither a Komsomol nor a Party member Or applicant _
4 Statements to Others bx_NOSENKQ
Before giving CIA the foregoing details, NOSENKO haa
talked about himself to several non-Soviets, including persons
involvea in cases whIch are reviewed in other portions of thls
paper . NOSENKO informed the recruitment target Horst BRAUNS
that he had two daughters ** He advised Ivan Ivanovich PREIS-
FREUND , a Finnish citizen used In the recruitment approach to
a U,S Army sergeant in Moscow that he was married= his
father was deaa but his mother was living: he had served in
the Navy, ana he had two children . PREISFREUND met the
"Iittle girls" ara later reportea to CIA that, although
NOSENKO was a "woman-chaser , he loved: his daughters very
much. *++ Nith one KGB agent in particular_ Arsene FRIPPEL ,
NOSENKO was especially forthcoming= he tola FRIPPEL of his
According to the Statutes (Ustav)of the Komsomol in effect
In 1954, the maximum age for a Komsomol member at that-time
was 25 _ On this basis_ NOSENKO should have been excluded
In October 1953_ upon reaching his 26th' birthday. Wen
thib was explained to NOSENKO by DERYABIN in 1965,
NOSENKO replied that he was certain he left: the Komsomol'
in 1954 upon reachlng the age Of 27 _ that he was sure the
maxtmum age was 26 at that tIme, ana that no speclal
except Lons were made in his cage.
See Part V.F.9.
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servIce In the Sovlet Wavy; he dwelt at length 07 nis father' 9
work Jn che Sovfee shfpbuilding industry; and Kh: le usIng the
allas "NIKOLAYEV" witn FRIPPEL, he ment lonca that hlg father
haa been employed Jn the towm of NIkoleyev _ On ore Occasion
NOSENKO ana his wife dined at FRIPPE 3 home . NOSENKO tola
hlg recruItment target George DREQ in April 1959 that he had
two daughters.
D Sovlets Statements Abut NOSENKQ
Portions of the NOSENKO autobiogrepky have been supported
and other portions cortradicted by the statements of several
Sovicts followirg the defectior_ The Soviets renarks dealing
with NOSENKO 5 XGB career are reviewed in Part V.I. but with
reference to other aspects of _ the backgrourd of XOSENKO :
Letters to NOSENRO in Geneva from his #ife (wno
later went to the U.5. Enbassy after his defection) In-
clude a reference to one of the daughters as his "double"
cnd two other personal letters in his; possession at the
time of hfs defection , Yu. I GUK and G I_ DUCHKOv ,
referrea to visits to NOSENKO S wife and children.
A KGB officer in Vierna_ Vladinir TULAYEV _ told
a CIA double agent that NOSEKO_ whom he knew well_ came
frcm a wonderful family, Jovcd his wife and children .
and earned a good salary. TULAYEV later tola the agent
that he had "friends who knew NOSENKO well- "0*
A Soviet diplomat in Buenos Aires, Feliks KOVALEV_
gaid
to a CIA agent that NOSENKO had twice Tarried, haa
a family backgrourd_ waa the son of a Mirister In
mi the government , was notorious for his "adven:urous
nature, and was "famous for his character _
The Soviet Navy defector Nikolay ARTA*ONOV sald
he ettendea a naval preparatory school with NC SENKO In
1944 to 1946 _ (ARTAMONOV 5 description of che school
ena OE the dates involved, however differs from
NOSENKO S. Lensitive source
reported NOSENKO is the son of a former
Soviet Government Minister attended naval college: stot
hlmself to avoid going to the front with the rest of hfs
clasg , was graduated Erom the Institute in 1950, ana
contracted verereal disease in 1950 but through hIs
father 5 influence avoided Zamage to his career: sensitive
bource
from conversations with fellow oEficers He
has indicated that he does not know NOSENKO _
FRIPPEL is discussea more fully In Part ,V.D.5.
In October 1966 NOSENKO failea to identify TULAYEV etther
by name or photograph ana said he didn t know him.
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secs[:ive soirce when NOSENKQ was a young man; he
said tkae
atterded the GRU
Kilitary-Diplomatic Academy_and teeartpert_
tlme perhaps a In 'the Information; Departrert
0 Bhort
NOSENKO hed been a
"very undigciplined
s€ GRU Headquartere_ cOn -
Person " 4 whfle In the GRU and "not very
hfs
and he was discharged Erom the GRU : However_
tInued;
' influential person in the MinIstry of Shlp-
father, an WOSENKO transferrea to the XGB .
bufld.ng, wag able to
78 8a1d he dia not krow NOSENKO personally, but
learned this Information Erom "varloug persons (unnamed)
In Mobcoh _
The thumbnafl blography % NOSENKO which KOROLEV
ROSENTAL bubmitted to the editors of Pere Match in
and III H,) stated that NOSENKO wag actober 1966 (see Part
8 leaders , fanllles ,
"ciogely acquainted with the country
and home8 ana that his "Eether who died several
offfcial in the Party and state
ag0 was an important
went on to say that "NOSENKO 9
or The document
daughter8, 10 and 12,
family consists cf a wife, 35_ two
ROSENTAL
mother and a
brother (younger) " KOROLEV and
photographs purporting to be of NOSENKO ' 8
algo provided
wife and daughters;,
scrrce
sa4d she heard from her KGB frfend
that NOSENKO 5 fatner was a Minister or a
V_ G_ SVIRIN
ra that his mother wab Jewfsh
General of Ukrainizn origin
She
ana "was always involvea in some blackmarketeering.
said that she heard NOSENKO was a "civilian; not a
KG8ooEficeE)
but was connected somehox with the KGB_ (Ske
coula not explain this cornection other than to say that
a}} Sovlet? permitted to meet foretsners are elther
officerb or 16 rolat(vdg" of tha Kdb. )
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