Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)cathedral in Kiev; with KOZLOV and PETRENKO they visited a kolkhoz and the writer SHEVCHENKO's grave in nearby Kaniv. The subject of homosexuality was not raised again. From 06 Kiev, [BURGI] left the Soviet Union without returning to Moscow. Before the approach, NOSENKO had visited the American Department of the First Chief Directorate and had arranged with its chief, FEKLISOV, for a recontact plan in New York City should [BURGI] be recruited. [BURGI] was 06 06 instructed how to use a recognition signal for a first meeting in the New York Public Library.About five days after returning to Moscow, NOSENKO turned over all his materials on the [BURGI] operation to 06 the First Chief Directorate. Somewhat later Sergey GUSKOV, Chief of the American-Canadian-British Tourist Section, KOZLOV, and NOSENKO visited American Department Chief FEKLISOV in the First Chief Directorate and expressed an interest in further developments in the case. FEKLISOV told them that 06 [BURGI] had been observed to arrive for the first meeting but the KGB refrained from establishing contact. The first actual meeting in New York City took place the second or third 06 time [BURGI] appeared, and a KGB officer of the New York Legal Residency continued to meet with him until the revolution in Hungary in late (October) 1956, when [BURGI] refused to colla-06 borate further. NOSENKO later heard from someone in the American Department, First Chief Directorate that the case was closed. For their roles in this first recruitment of the Seventh Department, NOSENKO said he and KOZLOV received letters of commendation and bonuses of one month's pay by order of SEROV, Chairman of the KGB; PETRENKO was given a letter of commendation and half a month's salary; and even RASTYKAITE, the housekeeper, got a commendation.In 1964 NOSENKO reported for the first time that his superior, A.S. KOZLOV, Deputy Chief of the Seventh Depart- ment, had also taken part in this operation, but that he, NOSENKO, was the responsible case officer. In August 1965, when asked who had recruited [BURGI], NOSENKO replied: 06 "KOZLOV and NOSENKO." Asked who recruited him first, NOSENKO said: "KOZLOV, naturally. Ile was the Deputy Chief of the Department. The collection of the materials [in preparation for the approach] was in the hands of Case Officer NOSENKO."119Top Secret0001389TS No. 197124Copy 1081BR
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)Comment: In a 22 November 1957 interview with the FBI, [BURGI] had recounted how he was compromised and recruited by the KGB while in the USSR in June 1956. His version substantially confirmed that provided eight years later by NOSENKO. [BURGI] asserted (contrary to NOSENKO's account) that the KGB officers knew a good deal more about him than what might have been acquired during [BURGI]'s visit to the USSR, including details of [BURGI]'s close relatives, his work with the Russicum in Rome, his earlier travel to Brazil, his military service in Korea, and his acquaintance with Alexander KERENSKY. On 25 May 1964 [BURGI] positively identified NOSENKO (from a photograph) as being the junior of the two KGB officers who recruited him. The other KGB officer (KOZLOV) was 'the controlling figure and was in command".The [BURGI] case is the earliest confirmed instance of NOSENKO's participation in a KGB operation. See p.39 for comment on the relevance of the [BURGI] case to the period of NOSENKO's claimed service in the Seventh Department.NOSENKO's claim that [BURGI]'s compromise and recruitment was based only on information routinely acquired from [BURGI]'s visa application and from apparently chance meetings with KGB agents on his arrival in Moscow, is contradicted by [BURGI]'s description of the KGB's familiarity with his personal life. NOSENKO cannot sustain his claim of having personally traced [BURGI] through First Chief [Foreign Intelligence] Directorate files (the probable repository of information on [BURGI] which the KGB recruiting officers used).NOSENKO, as described elsewhere, is unfamiliar with the mechanics of KGB tracing procedures.According to [BURGI]'s statement and NOSENKO's own eventual admission, NOSENKO lied when heTS No. 197124Copy 15/BR
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)Comment: (Continued)first claimed to have recruited [BURGI] unaided. NOSENKO has subsequently retracted all claims regarding the effect of this case on his career: Contrary to his earlier assertions, he now says it won him neither awards nor promotion.Attempted Recruitment of [GEHRCKENS] (1957)NOSENKO's InformationNOSENKO made an unsuccessful recruitment approach in 1957 to Hamburg shipping executive Hans GEHRCKENS, on the basis of [GEHRCKENS]' commercial ventures in the USSR. The responsible case officer originally was A.I. VERENIKIN of the Sixth Section of the Seventh Department; this section was then responsible for operations against foreign seamen. Since VERENIKIN spoke no German and [GEHRCKENS] was known to speak English, NOSENKO was selected to make the approach because he "knew English a little". When asked why a [German] speaking KGB case officer was not used, NOSENKO answered: "The higher-ups said 'go work on this case', and that was all." After being rebuffed by [GEHRCKENS], NOSENKO saw him several more times during the 1957 visit to Moscow, but when NOSENKO attempted to renew contact upon [GEHRCKENS]' return to the Soviet Union in 1958, the latter refused to see him.Comment: [GEHRCKENS] was interviewed by CIA on 19 July 1965, and, while generally uncooperative, described a "mild approach" in Moscow during 1956 or 1957 which may be the one described by NOSENKO. (He was not questioned on the identities of the Soviets involved.) [GEHRCKENS] continues to have extensive business contacts with Soviet commercial representatives in [West/ Germany] and was recently reported to have
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)Comment: (Continued) negotiated a sizable [shipping] contract with the Soviet Union shortly after a visit to the USSR. His principal contact at the Soviet Trade Mission in [Cologne] has been a GRU officer.Contact with [LANE] and [BIRSE] (1957)NOSENKO's InformationThe British subject [Sir Allen LANE] travelled in the summer of 1957 to the Soviet Union to visit various publishing houses and brought with him as an interpreter [Arthur BIRSE]. The latter was of Russian extraction, having left Petrograd (Leningrad) before the Revolution, and he served in [British Intelligence] during the Second World War. The case was handled by another section of the Seventh Department, but because of [BIRSE]'s past, "some of our leaders decided that it would be good if one of our workers could approach him, would get in on the case under the cover of the Ministry of Culture, who would take care of this person, who would help him meet with all sorts of people representing our publishing companies. The choice fell to me. I was chosen for this job." Taking along the KGB agent Larissa SOBOROVA as an interpreter and using the alias "NIKOLAYEV", NOSENKO accompanied [BIRSE] and [LANE] in Moscow and Leningrad during their stay there. The only object was to watch [BIRSE] because he was suspected of having an intelligence mission, and no approach was made or contemplated. NOSENKO explained that the use of the NIKOLAYEV alias with [BIRSE] and [LANE] made it necessary for him to use the same name when travelling to Great Britain in 1957 and in 1958.Comment: [LANE] was interviewed subsequent to NOSENKO'S defection, and he was able to identify NOSENKO'S photograph as that of a "Russian official he met in Moscow who was introduced to him as "NIKOLAYEV". [LANE] said that he could remember0001392122Top SecretTS No. 197124Copy
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)Comment: (Continued)nothing in particular about NIKOLAYEV except that he appeared a "friendly, helpful man who had opened up considerably towards the end of my visit to Moscow in July 1957".NOSENKO seems unaware of the probable basis for KGB interest in BIRSE.06 Born of Scottish-08 parents in pre-revolutionary Petrograd, BIRSE 10,06 served with the British Military Mission in 29 Moscow during World War II and was interpreter 06 for Churchill during the latter's meeting 06 with Stalin. He was the official interpreter 08 for the Royal Commission investigating the revelations of KGB officers Vladimir PETROV and his wife, who defected in 1954 in Australia. NOSENKO apparently does not know that BIRSE 06 returned on similar trips to Moscow in 1958 and 1959 (while NOSENKO was still in the Tourist Section) and that in the latter year two KGB officers attempted to recruit him.06Recruitment of Egil SUNDAR (1957)NOSENKO's Information08,06In 1957 or 1958-a Norwegian journalist, (fnu) SUNDAR, visited the Soviet Union and an attempt was made to recruit him. A Second Chief Directorate officer, N.A. ARKHIPOV, 06 made SUNDAR's acquaintance and handled the entire operation against him, but NOSENKO himself played a role. NOSENKO presented himself to SUNDAR using the name "SMIRNOV" or "SERGEYEV" and posing as a painter, and told SUNDAR that he 06 could find women for him. A party was arranged with a KGB 06 agent as SUNDAR's date and a Second Chief Directorate secre- tary as NOSENKO's. Late in the evening NOSENKO and his date excused themselves, and SUNDAR had sexual relations with the 06 female agent. Photographs of the scene were taken by the KGB. When NOSENKO and SUNDAR saw one another the next day, 06 SUNDAR announced that he had some articles, cameras and the like, that he wanted to sell on the blackmarket. NOSENKO123Top Secret0001393TS. No. 197124Copy 101171BR
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)offered to arrange the sale and took SUNDAR to a dingysection of Moscow. As they arrived before a small house,NOSENKO asked SUNDAR to give him the things to be sold. Atthis moment a KGB officer posing as a militiaman approachedand arrested the two for blackmarketeering. At the Militiastation, SUNDAR was recruited by K.N. DUBAS, then Chief ofthe Seventh Department, under threat of imprisonment. Therewas no further contact with SUNDAR after he left the USSR,however, because on his return to oslo he published anarticle in which he described his experiences, "but not allof them".Comment: Egil SUNDAR, a journalist for Aftenposten inOslo, travelled to the USSR in December 1957as a member of a press delegation in connectionwith the opening of a new SAS air route to 29MOSCOW SUNDAR wrote an article on his returnin which he described his arrest for blackmarketactivities and his subsequent recruitment; healso reported this to Norwegian authorities.According to SUNDAR, he was introduced toMoscow blackmarketeers by an artist, whosename he did not know, and was apprehendedimmediately afterwards. SUNDAR has not beeninterviewed on the basis of NOSENKO'S infor-mation.## Travel to London (1957-1958)NOSENKO reported that his first official travel outsidethe Soviet Union was in 1957 when he was selected toaccompany a group of athletes who had been invited to visitLondon. As he explained, it was a KGB order that a securityofficer accompany any such delegation. NOSENKO elsewherecited this KGB practice, but later denied any such order wasissued. The Eleventh Department of the Second Chief Direct-orate (responsible for designating Second Chief Directorate
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)officers for this purpose) telephoned K.N. DUBAS, Chief of the Seventh Department, to request an officer who spoke English. DUBAS asked NOSENKO whether he wanted to make the trip. NOSENKO replied: "Why not? I have never been abroad yet." NOSENKO consequently travelled to London, using the alias Yuriy Ivanovich NIKOLAYEV and posing as "the deputy chief" of the delegation. He was specifically instructed to observe one member of the delegation, a woman named MYARIMYAYE, whose father had been killed in a Soviet prison and whose political reliability was uncertain. Additionally, he had the general task of watching all members of the delegation for possibly suspicious contacts with foreigners. The delegation consisted of approximately 60 persons and to help him in carrying out these duties, NOSENKO was assigned three or four agents and several operational contacts among the delegation members. He was the only KGB security officer which accompanied the group.The second trip to London took place a year later, in the fall of 1958, again as a security escort. This time he accompanied a delegation of eleven or twelve boxers, and again he used the alias NIKOLAYEV and the cover position of deputy chief of the delegation. NOSENKO said he was the only security officer with the delegation, and he had two agents and two operational contacts among the boxers. His assignment was general; no one in particular was kept under observation, and the KGB had no derogatory information concerning any member of the delegation.NOSENKO used the NIKOLAYEV alias for travel to London because it was the alias used earlier with the British subjects BIRSE and LANE. NOSENKO explained this situation as follows:"With BIRSE and LANE I used the name NIKOLAYEV, Yuriy Ivanovich, a representative of the Ministry of Culture. And then when the question was raised of sending me in 1957 with the delegation to England, I was forced to go there as NIKOLAYEV. Because (of this) I went as the assistant head of the delegation, again representing the Ministry of Culture. I didn't go under my own name because it was decided that when these people BIRSE and LANE125Top SecretTS No. 197124Copy 10
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)went back to England, they would tell who they were with [report their contacts in the USSR]. They would probably question [BIRSE] especially, as one 06 who used to work in intelligence... [BIRSE] would 06 say: 'There was this man from the Ministry of Culture, NIKOLAYEV. He was with us all the time, even went to Leningrad with us.' So they would say: 'How does he look [what does he look like]?' He would say: 'He looked so-and-so.' I'd go there, and they would look at me and say: 'How come this man--his name is NOSENKO, and yet he is very similar to the one described by [BIRSE].' That was 06 why it was decided I have to go again under the name NIKOLAYEV. Just a matter of conspiracy. Since I already became known as NIKOLAYEV to the Britishers, this would be noticeable."Comment: That NOSENKO (as NIKOLAYEV) took the trips is corroborated by [British records], according to which, a Yuriy Ivanovich NIKOLAYEV, born 30 October 1927, arrived at London from Brussels on 20 August 1957. His visa application described him as a member of a group invited by the Light Athletics Association to partici- pate in contests in London. He left on 27 August 1957. With the same name and date of birth, NIKOLAYEV arrived again at London on 12 October 1958 with seventeen others, all described as boxers. His visa application described him as an "office worker", but on his landing card, NIKOLAYEV was listed as a boxer. He left London on 19 October 1958. On neither visit did NIKOLAYEV attract the attention of any [British security service]? 29 While these trips are corroborated, they are not material to NOSENKO's claims to have served in the KGB positions he alleges he held at the time.126Top SecretTS No. 197124Copy 5/BR
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# Top Secret(SEVENTII DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)## Operational Activities (1958-1960)### Deputy Chief of the American-British Commonwealth SectionAccording to NOSENKO, the Seventh Department was reorganized in June 1958, and NOSENKO's section, which theretofore had been concerned with operations against foreign tourists from all countries, was split into two new sections, one concerned with tourists from the United States and the British Commonwealth and the other with tourists from Europe, Latin America, and all other countries. NOSENKO claimed that at that time he was promoted to the position of Deputy Chief of the American-British Commonwealth Section, "the most important section of the Seventh Department".In September 1958, he claimed to have personally recruited Gisella HARRIS. It was also in 1958, he said, that he supervised the sexual entrapment of Virgil KRAFT, although Seventh Department Chief DUBAS made the actual approach. Beginning in the spring of 1959 he said he directed his agents YEFREMOV and VOLKOV in a series of successful entrapments DREW, LUKIS, VILBY, TAYLOR, and MERTENS. NOSENKO stated that he also used these homosexual agents in 1959 in compromising two American guides at the Sokolniki Exhibit, BARRETT and WILLER-FORD. Finally, NOSENKO said, he recruited the Moscow representative of the American Express Company, FRIPPEL. NOSENKO claimed that his operational success during 1959 earned him a commendation from the KGB Chairman. (He has since retracted all claims to any awards earned during his KGB service.) It was because of his position as Deputy Chief of the American-British Commonwealth Section, NOSENKO said, that he first became involved with Lee Harvey OSWALD.NOSENKO asserted that the recruitment of agents among foreign tourists was secondary to his department's principal mission, the detection of Western intelligence officers and agents among the increasing flow of tourists visiting the Soviet Union. In line with that counterintelligence mission, on General GRIBANOV's order in the fall of 1959, NOSENKO127# Top Secret6/BR6001397TS No. 197124Copy 10
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)reviewed what the KGB knew through 1958 about the use of tourists and tourist cover by Western intelligence services. It was from this task that NOSENKO claimed he learned of all the important arrests and recruitments among American tourists as recorded by the KGB at the time.Recruitment of HARRIS (1958)## NOSENKO's InformationNOSENKO in 1958 recruited Gisella HARRIS, an employee of the American Express Company in Salt Lake City. The recruitment was based on her romantic and sexual involvement with a Soviet citizen, who told HARRIS that he was in trouble with Soviet authorities and persuaded her to accompany him to the police. HARRIS agreed to meet and cooperate with the KGB in Salt Lake City. The case was turned over to the First Chief Directorate, and NOSENKO was unaware of any further contact with her.Comment: HARRIS, a former German citizen, visited the USSR on a tourist visa in 1958. According to statements made to the FBI in 1958, the purpose of her visit was to contact her former lover, a Soviet soldier who had fathered her child in Germany in 1953. She hoped to persuade him to divorce his Soviet wife and marry her. She described her recruitment by two men, one of whom resembled NOSENKO. When shown a photograph in 1964, she tentatively identified NOSENKO as one of the men who recruited her and said that, of the two involved, he "was definitely the man in charge" while the other "was merely present and listened". According to HARRIS, she has had no further contact with Soviet intelligence.128Top SecretTS No. 197124Copy
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)Compromise of KRAFT 0606,08 NOSENKO's InformationVirgil KRAFT, a clergyman from the Chicago area, with his wife visited the Soviet Union as a tourist in 1957 or 1958, and NOSENKO was assigned as the responsible case officer. 06 The KGB learned KRAFT had been intimate with a Soviet woman during an earlier trip to the USSR, and NOSENKO arranged for her to come to Moscow from Leningrad, where she was then living, in order to compromise KRAFT 106 KRAFT and the Soviet 06 woman were intimate in the latter's room in the Grand Hotel. Photographs were taken, and then militiamen broke into the 06 room, finding KRAFT and the woman unclothed. NOSENKO was in a nearby room, supervising the operation. The recruitment approach was then made by DUBAS, the Chief of the Seventh Department. (NOSENKO had been the case officer and had handled the operation, but he took no part in the confronta- tion or recruitment approach "because DUBAS wanted it for himself".) Although the recruitment was not firm, KRAFT 06 and DUBAS "had an agreement" that nothing would be done about the compromise if KRAFT did not criticize the Soviet 06 Union in lectures about his trip which he was to give in the United States. DUBAS again contacted KRAFT when he came 06 to Moscow in 1963, and afterwards his file was turned over to the First Chief Directorate. NOSENKO recalled that the First Chief Directorate "said that KRAFT was not in a good 06 region of the United States. And also it smelled like he had spoken of the approach made to him." Therefore, NOSENKO concluded, he probably had not been contacted in the United States.Comment: According to the FBI, some time before 1960 06 KRAFT wrote a pamphlet in which he described the KGB approach, omitting reference to his sexual compromise. In a statement given to the FBI on 4 November 1964, KRAFT, who is an 06129Top Secret121BR0001399TS No. 197124Copy 10
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)Comment: (Continued)Associate Pastor of the Peoples Church in Chicago stated that he had visited the Soviet Union in 1956, 1958, and 1963. He confirmed NOSENKO's information in detail except that he denied having been intimate with the Soviet woman involved. He related that the "Chief" who interviewed him had "several photographs which portrayed him and the female in intimate compromising positions and which appeared to have been taken in her hotel room". KRAFT said that he had told the "Chief" that they could do him no possible harm as "no one would believe that they were valid photographs". KRAFT denied agreeing to collaborate with the KGB at any time.Recruitment of DREW (1959)NOSENKO's InformationGEORGE DREW, an American who visited the Soviet Union in the spring of 1959, was the responsibility of case officer V.V. IVANOV. By chance, however, DREW became involved with NOSENKO's homosexual agents VOLKOV and YEFREMOV and they reported this to NOSENKO, then the Deputy Chief of the section. NOSENKO and IVANOV discussed the case with DUBAS and possibly GUSKOV, the Section Chief, and NOSENKO flew alone to Leningrad to make the approach. (IVANOV was not judged qualified.) NOSENKO arranged for DREW to be compromised in a Leningrad hotel room with a homosexual agent of the local KGB handled by a Leningrad officer PERELETOV. Using the alias "Mr. SERGEYEV", NOSENKO alone recruited DREW in an office of the hotel. The KGB First Chief Directorate was interested in DREW's recruitment because he might be able to spot other homosexuals, possibly some in the U.S. Government.130Top SecretTS No. 197124Copy