Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)Comment: [DREW] reported the approach in 1959, describing a four-hour interrogation by "SERGEYEV' in Leningrad and generally confirming NOSENKO's account of the operation. Re-interviewed by the FBI on 12 May 1964, [DREW] identified NOSENKO'S photograph as that of his interrogator and said that, although NOSENKO was a young man, from the way everyone reacted to him it was clear that he was the man in charge. Another man was present, [DREW] said.Recruitment of [LUKIS] (1959)NOSENKO's InformationIn June or possibly July 1959 NOSENKO personally recruited a British subject, (fnu) [LUKIS] (or LUCAS), in a room of the Hotel Astoria in Leningrad after [LUKIS] had been compromised by NOSENKO's homosexual agents VOLKOV and YEFREMOV. The case was then turned over to Ye. A. TARABRIN, at that time Chief of the British Department of the First Chief Directorate. NOSENKO furnished no more information on this case and did not know its current status, but he believed the KGB has not been in contact with [LUKIS] subsequently.Comment: [LUKIS] has not yet been identified by the British services).Recruitment of [WILBY] (1959)NOSENKO's InformationBy himself NOSENKO recruited [William Stanley WILBY] in a hotel in Moscow in July 1959, after [WILBY] had been compromised by either VOLKOV or YEFREMOV, NOSENKO's homosexual agents. [WILBY] is a British citizen and his case was also (like [LUKIS], see above) turned over to TARABRIN.131Top SecretTS No. 197124Copy 10
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)Comment: WILBY reported the approach to British authorities in 1959, saying that he was "brought up before SERGEYEV" (an operational alias sometimes used by NOSENKO). He has not been re-interviewed since NOSENKO's information was received.## Recruitment of TAYLOR (1959)NOSENKO's InformationNOSENKO personally and alone recruited the Moscow representative of British European Airways, whose name[^1]NOSENKO did not recall, at the Hotel Metropol in Moscow during the summer of 1959, possibly in August. The approach was based on homosexual compromise involving NOSENKO's agents VOLKOV and YEFREMOV.NOSENKO explained that the Seventh Department in 1959 had a section dealing with commercial representatives, which was responsible for the BEA man. That section had asked NOSENKO's section for help.[^1]"They said they didn't have any agents or anything and didn't know what to do. So somebody said, 'Well look, why don't you ask the chief of the section? He's a specialist on homosexuals and can arrange everything for you.' So I wound up handling the case, and TARABRIN (of the First Chief Directorate) said I should report to him."[In this passage NOSENKO was referring to himself, although he has always claimed he was Deputy Chief of the section.][^1]: Missing footnote content.
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)Comment: David TAYLOR confessed homosexual, is described by British services as a neurotic type who had been discharged from the R.A.F. on grounds of mental instability. In 1962 (before the NOSENKO lead was received) TAYLOR admitted his recruitment to British authorities indicating that it took place in August 1959 on the basis of his homosexuality. He reported in 1962 that the recruitment had been effected by a "Colonel SERGEYEV", and when re-interviewed in 1964, he "unhesitantly identified NOSENKO as 'Colonel SERGEYEV'," adding that the mere sight of NOSENKO's photograph "sent shivers down his back". TAYLOR also identified a photograph of VOLKOV.## Recruitment of MERTENS (1959)NOSENKO's InformationGerard MERTENS visited the Soviet Union in July or August 1959. NOSENKO's homosexual agents VOLKOV and YEFREMOV, seeking out American homosexuals, accidentally met MERTENS in Moscow and reported their suspicions to NOSENKO. NOSENKO wrote a report of this contact and requested authority to take compromising photographs in preparation for a recruitment approach, and DUBAS, his chief, then assigned the case to him. (MERTENS had been the responsibility of A.A. VETLITSKIY, another case officer.) Photographs were taken of homosexual relations between VOLKOV and MERTENS on two separate occasions in Moscow. When MERTENS later travelled to Uzhgorod he was "arrested" by KGB officers (posing as militiamen) while he was engaged in relations with a KGB homosexual agent from Odessa, whom NOSENKO had arranged by phone to bring to Uzhgorod. [He did not recall his name, and could only supply CIA with a physical description.] MERTENS was then brought before NOSENKO, who recruited him during a session lasting approximately five hours. NOSENKO later travelled with133Top SecretTS No. 197124Copy 10
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)06 [MERTENS] when he visited Lvov and Minsk before leaving the USSR. NOSENKO said that he had used the name "George" with 06 [MERTENS], but he could not recall what last name he had given him.When he related the case in 1962, NOSENKO could not recall the American's name. In 1964 he stated the name was [MARTIN], or [MARTINS], 06.Comment: In a signed statement given to the FBI on 5 August 1964, [MERTENS], an American professor, 06 generally confirmed NOSENKO's account. He names his recruiter as one "George PETERSON" and stated that NOSENKO's photograph might be that of a person whom he had met while visiting the Soviet Union in 1959. [MERTENS] 06 reported one KGB attempt to recontact him after he returned to the United States. In September 1959, according to arrangements made at the time of his recruitment, he received a letter signed "George PETERSON" telling him to be at a rendezvous point in New York. By the time he received the letter, however, the date of the meeting had already passed and so he ignored it. [MERTENS] claimed 06 that there were no further attempts by the Soviets to contact him.06Compromise of [BARRETT] (1959)NOSENKO's Information08 [Robert BARRETT], a guide at the [U.S. Exhibition in Moscow] in 1959, had become friendly with the homosexual agents VOLKOV and YEFREMOV whom he met at the [fairground]. Although 08 [BARRETT] was not an active homosexual, VOLKOV succeeded after a long period of development in involving him in homosexual acts, which were photographed by KGB personnel from an adjoining hotel room. As case officer for VOLKOV and YEFREMOV,
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)NOSENKO was responsible for arranging the compromise, was present when the photographs were taken, and he has described the occasion in detail. (There was much complaining among the photographic technicians because of the amount of time they spent waiting for VOLKOV to succeed in his mission, and NOSENKO recalled that he provided them with drinks and treated them well because they were a big help to him in this operation.) The photographs were good, but the KGB was unable to use them in 1959 because of a general ban placed by the Central Committee on the recruitment of U.S. Exhibition guides due to Eisenhower's planned visit to the Soviet Union.NOSENKO reported that BARRETT was recruited on the basis of the 1959 photography when he returned with another exhibition in 1961. The recruitment was carried out by the First (American) Department of the KGB Second Chief Directorate, and NOSENKO was not involved.Comment: Immediately on his return to the United States in January 1962, BARRETT confessed to the FBI that he had been recruited in 1961 on the basis of photographs depicting him in a homosexual act with VOLKOV, which had been taken during his 1959 trip to Moscow. He claimed that the photographs had been taken while he was unconscious, after being drugged. (BARRETT was contacted once by the KGB in New York City following his admissions to the FBI. He was contacted by KGB officers, including SKVORTSOV of the First Chief Directorate, during later trips to the Soviet Union in 1963, 1964, and 1965 and arrangements were made for meetings in the United States. No Soviets appeared at such scheduled meetings.135Top SecretTS No. 197124Copy 10
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)Compromise of [WILLERFORD](1959)NOSENKO's Information[Frederick WILLERFORD, an American Negro] was [BARRETT's roommate during the [1959 exhibition] in Moscow. Initially he was a target of the Moscow City KGB Directorate which believed [WILLERFORD] to be an FBI agent and had been collecting information on him. Unaware of the interest of the other KGB element, VOLKOV and YEFREMOV had made [WILLERFORD]'s acquaintance, and NOSENKO had arranged for compromising photographs to be taken of [WILLERFORD] and YEFREMOV in a Moscow hotel room. NOSENKO watched [WILLERFORD] and YEFREMOV through a two-way mirror and was able to describe the scene in detail. It was only after these compromising photographs had been obtained that NOSENKO learned of the Moscow City KGB Directorate's interest in [WILLERFORD]. NOSENKO's own department and the Moscow City Directorate then made a joint request for operational approval to recruit [WILLERFORD], but permission was refused because of the ban on recruitment attempts at the time. The case file was retained by the Moscow KGB organization, and NOSENKO did not know whether [WILLERFORD] was approached subsequently.Comment: [WILLERFORD] was interviewed by the FBI in July 1964 and "advised emphatically that he had never been compromised by anyone nor did he feel that he ever could be compromised by anyone except through the use of drugs, since he felt that he was 'too smart' and most Soviets that he has ever met are aware of his pro-American sentiments". [BARRETT] has reported that [WILLERFORD] had visited VOLKOV in his hotel room and was friendly with him. [BARRETT] said that he had often wondered if [WILLERFORD] was a homosexual because of his manner and bearing.
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)06## Recruitment of FRIPPEL (1959-1963)As a member of the American-British Commonwealth Section, NOSENKO in 1959 personally participated in the recruitment 29 of the American Express Company representative in Moscow, Arsene FRIPPED. He continued to be one of this agent's two KGB handlers, even after transferring to the American Department in 1960.06 FRIPPED left Moscow in 1961 but returned on trips to the USSR in 1962 and 1963, when NOSENKO met him. The only recruited American whom NOSENKO ever claimed to handle, FRIPPEL) confessed to his recruitment 06 when questioned by the FBI on the basis of the NOSENKO lead. 06Although the FRIPPEL case only started during NOSENKO'S first assignment to the Seventh Department (1955-1960), it is described in its entirety through 1963, for the convenience of the reader.## NOSENKO's InformationAt his second meeting with CIA in Geneva on 11 June 1962, NOSENKO described the circumstances in which an unnamed foreigner was compromised by a KGB female agent, Klara Konstantinovna GORBACHEVA. He described the scene in detail including the attempt by a KGB technician to take motion pictures through a two-way mirror, and the confrontation of the foreigner by the militiamen, who broke into the room. NOSENKO identified that foreigner as FRIPPEL by name the 06 following day while discussing KGB successes in Moscow:"There was another agent, (KGB cryptonym] 'Artur'. He was not a correspondent. He knew me as George, Yuriy Ivanovich, and my last name as NIKOLAYEV. He was a permanent representative, not in the Embassy, but of the American Express Company in Moscow.29 06 FRIPPEL. Arthur FRIPPEL. He liked drinking, always drank. He was also strongly attracted to women. I provided him with beautiful women... Well, we decided to have a talk with him. Why? What could he give? He now works in the American Express 29 Company (main office in New York City). A new137Top SecretC001407TS No. 197124Copy 1010/BR
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)department has now been organized for the Soviet Union and the Peoples' Democracies. And he is chief of the department... He is no longer in Moscow, but he was here two and a half or three years. We hope that he will return. We are waiting for him to come back. We know that the company wants to send him again, because he knows the Russian language very well. He is, in fact, an emigre, this [FRIPPEL]. And he also did a good and intelligent job of establishing relations with Inturist. He had very good relationships with ANKUDINOV, the Chairman of Inturist, and with other people, both the chiefs and the low-level workers... But, why was [FRIPPEL]^[06] recruited? I was interested in knowing precisely by whom, by name, and how approaches were being made to our delegations [in the United States]. I was interested in him from the point of view of counter- intelligence, not intelligence. What kinds of approaches are taking place to our people in America and by whom? This is what interested me. But he didn't know anything. He provided only superficial information, nothing more."NOSENKO was then asked whether [FRIPPEL]^[06] would not have been useful for coverage of Americans visiting the Soviet Union. He replied no, that the KGB had already had great success in this by other means.In Geneva in 1964 and during subsequent debriefings. and interrogations, NOSENKO made additional statements concerning the [FRIPPEL] case.NOSENKO attributed his involvement in the [FRIPPEL]^[06] recruitment as follows:"In 1958, after 1958, when I became the Deputy Chief of the section, my area of activity was narrowed down. I didn't handle all the tourists at that time. I worked as the Deputy Chief of the section and I had my own little area--for example, the permanent representative of the [American Express Company] and besides that I began to collect all the material on all American tourist firms which have anything to do with Inturist and which send tourists to the USSR."1380001408Top SecretTS No. 197124Copy61312
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)Although he had personally recruited [FRIPPEL], he did not do so alone. Col. V.D. CHELNOKOV, Deputy Chief (and later Chief) of the Seventh Department, was present, and he and NOSENKO "carried out the recruitment together" in early September 1959. NOSENKO was, however, [FRIPPEL]'s case officer.NOSENKO met "pretty steadily" with [FRIPPEL] until January 1961, and once NOSENKO and his wife, in company with CHELNOKOV and his wife, had dinner at [FRIPPEL]'s home, where they met Mrs. [FRIPPEL]. Odette [FRIPPEL] was unaware of her husband's status as a KGB agent, and therefore NOSENKO and CHELNOKOV used Inturist cover for their acquaintance with [FRIPPEL]. Although unusual for KGB Second Chief Directorate case officers to visit agents in their homes with wives present, NOSENKO explained that he went because he "was invited", and CHELNOKOV went "because he was also involved in the recruitment".As Deputy Chief of a Tourist section of the Seventh Department and later as Deputy Chief and Acting Chief of the American Embassy Section of the American Department, NOSENKO continued to meet with [FRIPPEL] in Moscow hotels and restaurants. Throughout this period, he was almost invariably accompanied by CHELNOKOV: "Perhaps one time I met with [FRIPPEL] alone, otherwise it was always with CHELNOKOV." Usually NOSENKO would arrange meetings with [FRIPPEL] at CHELNOKOV's request and the two continued to meet with [FRIPPEL] despite his lack of production, because they "kept hoping he would give something". (In a different context, but speaking of CHELNOKOV, NOSENKO explained that GRIBANOV insisted that even Department Chiefs of the Second Chief Directorate must each have two or three agents.)When NOSENKO began to work in the American Embassy Section of the American Department in 1960, he took [FRIPPEL] with him because [FRIPPEL] was acquainted with some Americans at the Embassy. NOSENKO questioned FRIPPEL about the Embassy and about Embassy officers George WINTERS and Lewis W. BOWDEN, but [FRIPPEL] never told NOSENKO anything useful.139Top SecretCC01409TS. No. 197124Copy 10
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)NOSENKO continued to act as [FRIPPEL]'s case officer after [FRIPPEL] left the Soviet Union and after NOSENKO had been transferred and promoted to the position of Deputy Chief of the Seventh Department. He met twice with [FRIPPEL] during this latter period when [FRIPPEL] visited the Soviet Union as a guide with groups of foreign visitors. Both of these meetings were handled by NOSENKO alone, without CHELNOKOV.The first meeting took place in the summer of 1962, after NOSENKO returned to Moscow from Geneva. [FRIPPEL] arrived in the Soviet Union as a guide for some American journalists. (NOSENKO was unable to give the composition of the journalist group or to recall where they stayed in Moscow and where else they travelled in the Soviet Union.) NOSENKO contacted him in Moscow to learn what questions the newsmen intended to ask Khrushchev during a scheduled interview; [subsequently NOSENKO acknowledged that standard practice required visiting journalists to submit their intended questions for Khrushchev in writing to Soviet authorities prior to interviews]. After the interview, he recontacted [FRIPPEL] to learn the reaction of the journalists to their talk with the Soviet leader. NOSENKO could not recall their specific reaction to the Khrushchev interview but did remember that they were "satisfied". Another reason for contacting [FRIPPEL], NOSENKO added in a later discussion, was to learn whether any of the journalists might have joined the group at the last moment in the United States, which might suggest intelligence connections on their party.NOSENKO met [FRIPPEL] alone for the second and last time during March 1963. Since [FRIPPEL] was a guide for tourists aboard the ship "Olympia", which stopped for a day in Yalta and Odessa, NOSENKO flew to Odessa from Moscow and accosted [FRIPPEL] in the lobby of the hotel where the tourists were having dinner. Finally able to get away from his group, [FRIPPEL] called on NOSENKO in the latter's hotel room, and the two drank and talked. NOSENKO had given [FRIPPEL] a bottle of vodka as a gift, and [FRIPPEL] said he wanted to give NOSENKO some whisky in return. They drove in NOSENKO's car to the port, where NOSENKO waited in the car while [FRIPPEL] went aboard for the whisky. (He had invited NOSENKO to visit the ship but could not obtain a pass for him.)
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)When [FRIPPEL] returned, he brought another American, so NOSENKO had to invent for himself a suitable cover (Inturist) on the spot. The three returned to the hotel and drank some more, everyone getting drunk. During this contact, [FRIPPEL] reported "nothing of importance", and his most interesting news was that he might again be reassigned to Moscow in December 1963 as the [American Express Company] representative. (NOSENKO said he later read a report that [FRIPPEL] had been assigned elsewhere, and it was therefore unlikely that his agent would return to Moscow. This report was submitted by V.V. KOSTYRYA (alias VLADIMIROV), a member of the KGB Legal Residency and overtly an Inturist employee in New York City, who was a former Second Chief Directorate colleague of NOSENKO.)[FRIPPEL] provided no interesting information during NOSENKO's two meetings with him in 1962 and 1963, when [FRIPPEL] returned to the Soviet Union as a tour guide.On 3 February 1964, while reviewing the CHEREPANOV papers (see p.309) in Geneva, NOSENKO was asked about the following passage dealing with [FRIPPEL] which appeared in the KGB operational plan against BOWDEN:"He [BOWDEN] showed himself to be an indiscreet person... One day, as though by chance, he [BOWDEN] blurted out to our agent SHVEDOVA [the fact of] 'ARTUR's' affiliation with American intelligence."Asked who SHVEDOVA was, NOSENKO said she was "probably a cleaning woman". (Elsewhere NOSENKO described SHVEDOVA as his own agent working against American Army Attaches, see p. 85..] Asked what connection [FRIPPEL] had with American intelligence, NOSENKO replied that he could not say. To the inquiry why not, since he was [FRIPPEL]'s case officer, NOSENKO was silent.[Spencer ROBERTS] (whose KGB recruitment is described on p.424] in August 1962 became friends with a young Soviet male who acknowledged having been a KGB agent used against French-speaking foreigners. Included among the141Top Secret
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)latter, the Soviet told ROBERTS, was FRIPPEL, whom the KGB suspected of being an American intelligence agent. NOSENKO reported ROBERTS recruitment but has never indicated awareness of other KGB agents being targetted against FRIPPEL.FRIPPEL's InformationFRIPPEL, who uses the nickname "Arthur" was the American Express Company representative in Moscow from 7 April 1958 to 3 January 1961. He was first interviewed on the basis of NOSENKO's information on 30 April 1964, and when shown a picture of NOSENKO, FRIPPEL admitted his recruitment by the KGB in 1959. During this and subsequent interviews with the FBI, FRIPPEL has reported in detail on his association with the KGB. FRIPPEL's version coincides with that provided by NOSENKO to a considerable degree, with the following exceptions:FRIPPEL asserts that at the time of his recruitment the KGB wanted only general information on American Embassy officials and American tourists travelling to the Soviet Union under American Express auspices.According to NOSENKO, FRIPPEL was originally recruited to provide information on American intelligence approaches to Soviets in the United States, and he claimed that FRIPPEL was not needed for coverage of Americans visiting the Soviet Union, since the KGB had already "great success" by other means. NOSENKO stated that later, when he transferred to the American Embassy Section, he took his agent FRIPPEL with him to report on acquaintances among the Embassy employees. NOSENKO and FRIPPEL agree that, with one exception (when FRIPPEL was queried regarding BOWDEN and WINTERS), FRIPPEL was not so used.FRIPPEL, while acknowledging that NOSENKO participated in all meetings and on occasion met FRIPPEL alone, stated that CHELNOKOV "was in charge of the entire operation".Top Secret
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)FRIPPEL claims that he saw NOSENKO on three occasions, twice in Odessa, while visiting the USSR in 1962 and 1963. NOSENKO insisted that he met FRIPPEL but once in Odessa and once in Moscow in that period.Comment: NOSENKO volunteered his account of the FRIPPEL case in Geneva in 1962 and 1964. Ile freely related the details of the summer 1962 and February 1963 meetings with FRIPPEL in the USSR. His account of FRIPPEL's activities is consistent with FRIPPEL's version, except as noted above.## Lee Harvey OSWALD (1959-1960)For continuity of presentation, both periods of NOSENKO'S alleged involvement with OSWALD in 1959-1960 and in 1963 are described elsewhere. (See p.303.) According to NOSENKO, he was involved with OSWALD in 1959 because he was then Deputy Chief of the American-British Commonwealth Section of the Seventh Department. In that capacity he participateu in the decision that OSWALD was of no interest to the KGB and he should not be allowed to remain in the Soviet Union.Comment: NOSENKO'S information on his involvement with OSWALD in 1959 is insufficient to serve as evidence confirming or refuting his claimed service as Deputy Chief of the American Section of the Seventh Department in 1959.143Top Secret