Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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# Top Secret(Annex B)Comment: (Continued)USSR in 1961, but denied recruitment. FINK[^6] asserted that he had visited Europe every summer since 1957 (except in 1959, when he went to Mexico), and that he had only visited the USSR once, in 1961.FISK[^6], NormanNOSENKO's InformationFISK[^6] visited the USSR as a tourist in 1959, when he was assessed to be a homosexual. The KGB planned to attempt to recruit him if he returned to the Soviet Union. NOSENKO noted[^6] FISK's name while reviewing files of YEFREMOV and VOLKOV (see p.145) in 1963.Comment: FISK[^6] visited the USSR with his wife and parents in 1959. In an interview with the FBI in December 1964 he claimed that his only Soviet contacts in the USSR were with Inturist personnel and a spinster niece. NOSENKO has never explained why he learned of the case only from the files of VOLKOV and YEFREMOV in 1963, since he claims he was their case officer at the time FISK[^6] visited the Soviet Union, in 1959.GINSBERG[^6], MichaelNOSENKO's InformationA professor GINSBERG[^6] visited the USSR in 1957 or 1958, when operational contact was established between him and the KGB.409# Top SecretC001641TS No. 197124Copy 10[^6]
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# Top Secret(Annex B)Comment: One Professor Michael GINSBERG reported to U.S. officials in Helsinki in August 1956 that he had been the target of a Soviet recruitment attempt earlier in Moscow. His contact has been identified by CIA as a KGB officer whom GINSBERG, according to the FBI, has met during subsequent visits to the USSR. NOSENKO's information was limited to that contained in his written notes which he brought to Geneva in 1964.GROVER, PrestonNOSENKO's InformationGROVER, currently (in 1964) Associated Press correspondent in Moscow, is a recruited KGB agent handled by the Tenth (Intelligensia and Correspondents) Department of the Second Chief Directorate.Comment: Preston GROVER retired in 1965 and now lives in France with his wife. GROVER's wife was born in Russia and apparently emigrated at about the time of the 1917 Revolution. GROVER met her in Moscow, where she was a correspondent for a French newspaper. According to FBI reports, she associated with known Communists in the United States during an earlier assignment here. NOSENKO indicated no source of his information on GROVER.Top Secret
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Top Secret(Annex B)06HAMZAVI, Charles P.NOSENKO's Information06An American, one Charles KHAMZAI (sic) was the object of considerable interest to the KGB during his 26 October-1 November 1963 visit to the USSR. A KGB officer under cover was in contact with him in Moscow and the KGB planned to resume this contact in the United States. The Seventh Department action with respect to KHAMZAI was in response 06 to a request from the First Chief Directorate for assistance in developing a contact with him in Moscow.Comment: NOSENKO's lead has been identified as Charles 06 P. HAMZAVI, who has been noted in frequent contact with Soviet officials from 1955, when he immigrated to the United States, until 1963. According to the FBI, he was in Moscow in 1963, when he was in contact with a Foreign Ministry official which CIA identifies as KGB officer I.D. BORISOV.HARMSTONE, RichardNOSENKO's Information06,08In 1958 or 1959 the American Department's Embassy Section attempted to recruit HARMSTONE, a Second or Third Secretary at the Embassy. Both male and female agents were used against him, and photographs were obtained of HARMSTONE's 06 homosexual as well as heterosexual activities. When confronted, Ohowever, HARMSTONE refused to collaborate with the KGB. OHARMSTONE reported the approach to American officials, but asserted that he was involved just in heterosexual compromise.NOSENKO reviewed the CHEREPANOV documents (see p. 309) in 1964, including the KGB plan of operations against CHARMSTONE. 06 NOSENKO confirmed the substance and eventual success of the plan, which was to get HARMSTONE drunk and photograph him06411Top Secret0001643TS No. 197124Copy 10IL/SR
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Top Secret(Annex B)06HARMSTONE, Richard (Continued)while in intimate relations with a Soviet girl. Because the KGB concluded that HARMSTONE had not reported the homo-06 sexual compromise, it was planned to attempt to recruit him again later, when he was transferred elsewhere abroad. If HARMSTONE had reported the homosexual compromise, it would have been monitored by the KGB over the microphone in the Minister Counselor's office.In later questioning NOSENKO stated that he learned of 06the HARMSTONE case from KOVSHUK. He could not recall who the KGB case officer was, but was certain that the latter had left the Embassy Section. If HARMSTONE had reported 06 his compromise, he surmised, he would have been withdrawn immediately from Moscow, and HARMSTONE did not leave the 06 Soviet Union prematurely.06Comment: Richard C. HARMSTONE, who served in Moscow from October 1957 to October 1959 as Second 0809 Secretary, reported to the Embassy Security Officer on 23 May 1959 that a KGB officer had tried to recruit him after threatening exposure through doctored photographs purporting to show HARMSTONE's homosexual activities. HARM- 06 STONE subsequently identified from a visa application photograph the KGB officer as "KOMAROV", an overt_contact of Embassy colleague WINTERS. HARMSTONE left the Soviet 06 Union six months later, admitted homosexual activities, and resigned from the Department of State. The relevant portions of the CHEREPANOV Papers confirm HARMSTONE's admissions 06 with respect to KGB agents with whom he was involved. "KOMAROV" has been identified as KOVSHUK, NOSENKO's superior in the Embassy Section and the source of what NOSENKO said he learned of the case.Top Secret
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# Top Secret(Annex B)## NOSENKO's InformationAn American Embassy official and a friend of the Ambassador's aide Robert ARMSTRONG (see above), HOFFMAN is known to have engaged in homosexual acts with an Armenian in Yerevan. The KGB currently (in 1964) is planning to attempt to compromise and recruit HOFFMAN.Comment: Interviewed on the basis of NOSENKO's allegation, HOFFMAN in a State Department security interview denied homosexual activities. Informed that the results of a polygraph examination indicated he had practiced deception on that question, HOFFMAN resigned from the Department of State on 31 July 1964. HOFFMAN asserted that he had no contact with the KGB while assigned in Moscow, an assertion supported by the polygraph examination. NOSENKO claims he was assigned to the Seventh Department at the time HOFFMAN was the target of the Embassy Section of the American Department.## NOSENKO's InformationHOWARD, a USIA employee, was assigned temporarily for four months to the Embassy in Moscow in spring 1962 as a publications procurement officer. He was recruited by the KGB. G.I. GRYAZNOV, of the American Department Embassy Section, requested NOSENKO's help in obtaining a hotel room adjacent to HOWARD's, for a woman from Leningrad.413# Top Secret0001645TS No. 197124Copy 10
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# Top Secret(Annex B)Comment: [HOWARD] denied recruitment in an interview with the FBI, although a polygraph examination indicated he was disturbed on related questions.[HOWARD] had earlier declared his intention to divorce his American wife and marry a Soviet national. His contract with [USIA] expired in December 1964 and was not renewed. NOSENKO claims to have been serving in the Seventh Department at the time [HOWARD] was a target of the Embassy Section.[HUSTON, Hayden Henry]NOSENKO's InformationOne [HUSTON] (fnu) travelled to the USSR on official U.S. Government business from his assignment in [Belgrade]. In Moscow [HUSTON] was photographed making a blackmarket deal in a taxi, but the KGB did not exploit the incident because [HUSTON] did not again visit the USSR.Comment: [USIA] employee Hayden Henry [HUSTON] was interviewed on 30 October 1963 regarding a report that he had been arrested in [Yugoslavia] in 1954 as a result of his sexual activities. [HUSTON] served in [Yugoslavia] for eight years from 1953 until January 1962. During that interview he stated that during his tour in [Belgrade] he made two trips to the USSR, and he asserted that there were no other incidents in [Yugoslavia] or elsewhere in the Soviet Bloc which could be used to compromise him. Currently on a [USIA] assignment in [Taiwan], [HUSTON] has not been interviewed with respect to NOSENKO's allegation.Top SecretTS No. 197124Copy
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(Annex B)# Top SecretJAFFE, Sam06NOSENKO's InformationJAFFE, an ABC correspondent in Moscow, is an active KGB agent who was cultivated and recruited by V.A. KUSKOV. In 1963, while in the Seventh Department, NOSENKO asked American Department Embassy Section officer GRYAZNOV for an agent who could be used against a visiting American delegation, and GRYAZNOV Suggested JAFFE.Comment: Before NOSENKO's information was received, JAFFE reported his recruitment by one "Slava KISLOV" in October 1962. In a CIA interview in December 1966 JAFFE did not recognize A.K. KISLOV's photograph but identified a photograph of KUSKOV as being the KGB officer who recruited him in 1962. JAFFE was expelled from the USSR in October 1965. As far as CIA is aware, he has not been interviewed on the basis of NOSENKO's information.KANTOR, MarvinNOSENKO's InformationMelvin (sic) KANTOR, a Harvard student, was recruited on ideological grounds in 1961. His case was turned over to the First Chief Directorate.Comment: Marvin KANTOR, a Slavic-language instructor at the University of Michigan, visited the USSR in 1958 or 1959. When interviewed by CIA in 1961 he admitted having had contact with Soviet Intelligence officers in the Soviet Union in 1959, but asserted that he then had flatly refused to collaborate with Soviet Intelligence.415# Top SecretC001647TS No. 197124Copy 10
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Top Secret(Annex B)Comment: (Continued)When interviewed in 1963, KANTOR said he had not travelled to the USSR since 1959. NOSENKO's information was limited to written notes brought in 1964 to Geneva. NOSENKO claims he was in the Seventh Department in 1959, at the actual time of KANTOR's recruitment, and does not explain why the KANTOR case was included among cases he noted as having occurred while he was in the Embassy Section in 1960-1961.KAZAN-KOMAREK 06NOSENKO's InformationKOMAREK, an American of Czech descent and somehow connected with a tourist service in the United States, has been identified by the Czech Secret Police as being in contact with Western Intelligence and they have been trying to locate him. The Czechs have learned that KOMAREK might possibly visit the Soviet Union and have requested [the KGB] that he be arrested on arrival and deported to Czechoslovakia. The Soviets have agreed and Inturist is currently attempting to induce KOMAREK into visiting the Soviet Union.Comment: The subject of NOSENKO's lead was Vladimir Joseph KAZAN-KOMAREK, a naturalized American citizen and the operator of the Harvard Travel Tourist Agency in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has never had any covert relationship with CIA or other U.S. intelligence agencies. In August 1963 the FBI was advised by another source of the Soviet-Czech plan to lure KAZAN-KOMAREK to the Soviet Union and take him to Czechoslovakia where he would be tried for espionage.
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# Top Secret(Annex B)Comment: (Continued)NOSENKO's information, which he reported only to the FBI, was substantially accurate. In October 1966, after being warned of the risk by the FBI, [KAZAN-KOMAREK] visited Moscow 06 for an Inturist travel agents conference and, en route back to Paris, was arrested in Prague when his AEROFLOT flight was diverted. NOSENKO's sourcing for this lead, which presumably relates to his 1962-64 service in the Seventh Department, had not been established. CIA did not learn of NOSENKO's report on [KAZAN-06 KOMAREK] until the latter was arrested in Czechoslovakia in 1966, by which time NOSENKO'S interrogation had been suspended.06 [MATLAW, Ralph]NOSENKO's Information.One [MATLO] (sic) visited the USSR, in 1959, and the KGB concluded that he was a homosexual and planned to attempt to recruit him if he should return to the Soviet Union. NOSENKO noted the information while reviewing YEFREMOV and VOLKOV's file prior to their retirement.Comment: The identity of NOSENKO's lead has been confirmed to be one Ralph MATLAW. 06 The case is still under investigation. NOSENKO claims to have been YEFREMOV's and VOLKOV's case officer at the time one of them was in touch with [MATLAW] in 1959, but learned of the case only later when reviewing those agents' files.
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Top Secret(Annex B)06[NIELSEN, Philip]06NOSENKO's Information[NIELSEN] visited the USSR the first time in 1957 or 1958. Because he made the acquaintance of some "teddy boys" in Moscow and tried to acquire from them a copy of the Moscow Telephone Directory, the KGB suspected that he was connected with CIA. [NIELSEN] was kept under surveillance during this and all subsequent trips, but was never observed in other intelligence tasks. On one of his visits to Moscow, [NIELSEN] fell in love with KGB agent [Tamara KUNGAROVA], and the KGB used her in the development of [NIELSEN]. For purposes of assessment, LEONOV, a Seventh Department officer, was introduced to [NIELSEN] in the role of [KUNGAROVA]'s father, but NOSENKO heard later that [NIELSEN] and [KUNGAROVA had married] and were living in London.NOSENKO was involved in the determination of [NIELSEN]'s possible intelligence status on his first trip. Besides himself and LEONOV, American Department case officer Viktor KOPEYKIN was also involved.Comment: NOSENKO has asserted variously that he recruited [KUNGAROVA] in 1955 and that she was his agent until 1960, and that she was already an agent in 1958 when she transferred into the Seventh Department from the British Commonwealth Department.[NIELSEN], a CIA agent at the time, visited the Soviet Union in April 1958. One of his tasks on this trip was to obtain a Soviet telephone book. [NIELSEN] met [KUNGAROVA] on a later trip, in January 1959. Despite CIA warnings that he was involved in what appeared to be a KGB operation, [NIELSEN] returned to see her in Moscow in January 1960, and there met a person representing himself as [KUNGAROVA]'s father. [NIELSEN] returned to Moscow in 1962, [married KUNGAROVA], and they moved to France. [KUNGAROVA] died in France in 1965. In January418Top SecretTS No. 197124Copy
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Top Secret(Annex B)Comment: (Continued)1960, when NOSENKO claims personal knowledge06of NIELSENs meeting with KUNGAROVA's "father", 06he was not in the Seventh Department, but inthe American Embassy Section.06NIXON DmitriyNOSENKO's InformationAn American tourist, NIXON was recruited by SeventhDepartment case officers in June 1963. NOSENKO was not inMoscow at the time, and knew no further details.Comment: Interviewed by the FBI on the basis of NOSENKO'S06 information, NIXON admitted having beenrecruited while visiting the Soviet Union. Hewas not contacted by the KGB in the UnitedStates, although such arrangements had beenmade at the time of his recruitment. On a visitto Moscow in 1964, after NOSENKO's defection,06 NIXON was again contacted by the KGB and heagreed to collaborate for fear of reprisalsagainst relatives in the USSR.06OMELICH, PaulNOSENKO's. InformationCOMELICH was contacted by KGB officers during the WinterOlympics at Squaw Valley, California. Although he was notrecruited, he was to be recontacted by KGB officers later,in Switzerland. When OMELICH visited Moscow in August 1963,Seventh Department American Section case officer K.G. KRUPNOVarranged for First Chief Directorate officer (fnu) ZAYTSEVto meet the American.419Top Secret0001651TS No. 197124Copy 109/8R
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Top Secret(Annex B)Comment: In 1963 [OMELICH] reported his earlier contacts with Soviet officials at Squaw Valley. He denied that he had ever met KGB officers later, or that any meeting arrangements were made for Switzerland, although he admitted "he may have given the impression of sympathy toward Soviets".[PECHTER, Bernard]NOSENKO's Information[PECHTER] was recruited by the KGB in Moscow in 1959.Comment: In December 1959, a month after [PECHTER]'s return from the USSR, the FBI learned that he had revealed his homosexual compromise and recruitment by the KGB to a member of his tour group. NOSENKO cited the [PECHTER] case not from memory, but from his written notes brought to Geneva in 1964. Although presumably a Seventh Department case, NOSENKO did not relate it to his service there in 1959, nor did he indicate the source of his information.[PRESSMAN, Aron]NOSENKO'S Information[Patrick (sic) PRESSMAN] visited: the USSR in October 1957 with a delegation of American metallurgists and was recruited at that time by the KGB. The case was afterwards turned over to the First Chief Directorate.420Top SecretTS No. 197124Copy
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Top Secret(Annex B)Comment: NOSENKO's lead is believed to relate to Aron 06PRESSMAN, a long-time Communist and a friend 06 of Bernard KOTEN (see p.295), whose sister has resided in the Soviet Union since her 1945 marriage to a Soviet citizen who has been identified as a courier for Soviet Intelligence. 06 PRESSMAN accompanied a delegation of metallurgists from NYU on an exchange visit to the Moscow Mining Institute in 1957; he himself surveyed Soviet language training programs during this visit. He denied any recruitment approach was made to him there or on subsequent trips to the USSR. 06 NOSENKO cited the PRESSMAN case from his written notes brought to Geneva in 1964. He did not relate it to his Seventh Department service nor did he indicate the source of his information.06PROCTOR, fnuSee ACTOR. 06RASK, Walter 706NOSENKO's InformationRASK, the president of World Wide Tours, was recruited in the USSR in 1960. He has returned to the USSR several times since. He is used for spotting tourists suspected of having intelligence affiliations.06 The KGB has received only one open code message from RASK since recruitment. CRASK was 06 recruited by Seventh Department case officer Ye. N. NOSKOV while NOSENKO was assigned to the American Department. On subsequent visits to the USSR he was met by Seventh Department case officers of the American-British Commonwealth Section.421Top Secret
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Top Secret(Annex B)Comment: [RASK], a former CIA contact who visited the USSR several times, reported the KGB recruitment approach in 1961. NOSENKO's information was limited to that contained in written notes he brought to Geneva in 1964. He did not relate the case to his 1962-1964 Seventh Department service.[ROBERTS], SpencerNOSENKO's Information[ROBERTS] was recruited at the end of 1962 after being compromised with a homosexual in Sochi, USSR. The case was turned over to the KGB First Chief Directorate, and [ROBERTS] was recontacted by a KGB officer in the United States. [ROBERTS] confessed his recruitment to the FBI, news of which reached the KGB, and his KGB case officer in the United States was hastily recalled to Moscow.[ROBERTS] was handled by the American Department because he was a former employee of the Embassy in Moscow. The case officers were V.M. MIKHAYLOV, V.A. KUSKOV, and V.M. KOVSHUK. NOSENKO learned of the events in the U.S. from B.A. SOLOMATIN, a First Chief Directorate American Department case officer.Comment: [ROBERTS] had been coopted as a CIA representative in Moscow in 1950, while he was a State Department officer assigned to the Embassy in Moscow. He confessed his recruitment by the KGB to the FBI in the fall of 1962. He was contacted by a Soviet official from the UN in New York in mid-1963. That official apparently suddenly departed the United States in December 1963. NOSENKO did not indicate the original source of his information on [ROBERTS].
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# Top Secret(Annex B)ROSS, Johanna06NOSENKO's InformationThe former governess to the American Ambassador's family who now (in 1964) teaches at the American school in Moscow was recruited by the KGB on the basis of sexual involvements. The case was handled by the American Department at the time NOSENKO was in the Seventh Department.Comment: NOSENKO's information was limited to written notes brought to Geneva in 1964. He does not indicate the source of his information.06 ROSS reported to the American Embassy of her arrest in Kiev in 1958 on charges of immoral behavior with a Soviet citizen. In a May 1965 FBI interview she admitted contact in Moscow in September 1963 with the KGB, which stemmed from her continued relationship with the same Soviet citizen, but she denied that the KGB attempted to recruit her or contact here thereafter.RUFE, John06NOSENKO's InformationThe KGB discovered that RUFE was a homosexual during his visit to the USSR in 1959. When he returned to the USSR in 1962, he was entrapped and recruited. The case was only of marginal value to the KGB, and it was terminated in 1963.423# Top Secret0001655TS No. 197124Copy 105/BR
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# Top Secret(Annex B)Comment: RUFE, a New York City attorney, has admitted that he had been compromised while visiting the USSR in 1962 and that he was in contact with KGB officers in the United States until November 1963. NOSENKO did not relate the RUFE case specifically to his Seventh Department service when he cited it from writen notes brought to Geneva in 1964, nor did he indicate the source of his information. His notes state that RUFE was recruited on homosexual grounds by the American-British Commonwealth Section of the Seventh Department, jointly with the UKGB of Leningrad Oblast.SCHWARZENBACH, ColletteNOSENKO's InformationSCHWARZENBACH, who was working in Moscow at the time, fell in love with a male KGB agent and was the target of an unsuccessful KGB recruitment attempt in 1958 or 1959. The KGB had incriminating photography, but NOSENKO did not believe it was used, the KGB appeal being based solely on her affection for the Soviet people. V.M. MIKHAYLOV of the American Department Embassy Section directed the opera-tion. NOSENKO never read the SCHWARZENBACH file, but he later saw it and the incriminating photographs.Comment: SCHWARZENBACH was during 1955 and 1956 secretary to Mrs. BOHLEN, the wife of the American Ambassador, and director of the Anglo-American School in Moscow. In 1956 and 1957 she worked for Henry SHAPIRO, United Press correspondent in Moscow (see p. 76). While employed by SHAPIRO she became acquainted with one Viktor I. SERGEYEV, a Soviet publishing functionary.