Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)Tamara KUNGAROVAKUNGAROVA was an Inturist interpreter recruited by NOSENKO in 1955. In 1957 or 1959 she was involved in a KGB sexual entrapment operation of an American professor 06[John THOMPSON], but there was no attempt to recruit him. Between 1957 or 1958 and 1960 she was targetted against American tourist and suspect CIA agent (Philip NIELSEN 03.(see p.420). KUNGAROVA married NIELSEN and emigrated to 08,03 England, and the KGB was still interested in NIELSEN at 05 the time NOSENKO left the Seventh Department.Comment: Elsewhere NOSENKO has said KUNGAROVA was an agent who came to the Seventh Department from the British Commonwealth Department in 1957 or early 1958. If true, he could not have recruited her or have been her case officer in the 1955-1957 period. In describing the 03[NIELSEN] case, NOSENKO indicated he himself was not involved and, although he commented on KUNGAROVA's role, he never mentioned that she was or had been his agent. KUNGAROVA was interviewed by the FBI on the basis of NOSENKO'S 06 information and she confirmed that she had been intimate with [THOMPSON] while serving as an Inturist guide, as well as with other Americans. She denied, however, that she had ever collaborated with the KGB. KUNGAROVA died in 1965.Aleksandr A. DMITRIYEVDMITRIYEV, KGB cryptonym "TOMO", when NOSENKO recruited him in 1958, was a candidate member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and a specialist on Japan and Thailand. He spoke Japanese and English and worked at the Japanese Exhibition in Moscow. He "was used against British and American nationals". DMITRIYEV was also used against communications107Top Secret0001377TS No. 197124Copy 10
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)personnel at the Japanese Exhibit, but while he telephoned NOSENKO, he was meeting with another KGB case officer. DMITRIYEV accompanied a sports delegation to Norway and a Soviet circus to Japan.Comment: DMITRIYEV's travel to Norway and Japan in 1958 is confirmed. From NOSENKO's own statement he was aware of DMITRIYEV'S activities, but he was not his case officer.(Fnu) IVANOVOnce a recruited agent in the Baltic area, when IVANOV moved to Moscow the provincial KGB suggested he might be of some use in the capital. IVANOV was a lawyer employed by the Institute of Foreign Trade when NOSENKO became his case officer. IVANOV was later turned over to the British Commonwealth Department which "planted him in the British Trade Mission or something like that".Comment: CIA records contain no reference identifiable with IVANOV.Marina RYTOVARYTOVA, KGB cryptonym "KRYMOVA", was turned over to NOSENKO by another Seventh Department case officer, Ι.Α. KONSTANTINOV, in 1956 or 1957. She was educated at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, where she studied military subjects as well as foreign languages. When NOSENKO became her case officer she was working as an interpreter at the Russian Permanent Exhibit in Moscow. She continued this job until about 1960, when she became an instructor in the Greek language at the Institute of International Relations. She reported to NOSENKO information
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)which she obtained on foreign delegates or foreign tourists who visited the Exhibit in Moscow, and on foreign delegates attending meetings at the Ministry of Agriculture, where she served as an interpreter in English and Greek. RYTOVA served several times as an interpreter for Khrushchev and once participated in a conversation he had with the Iowa farmer [Roswell] GARST. In 1959 or 1960 she was sent as an interpreter with a small delegation visiting GARST'S farm in the United States, and was used by the KGB Legal Residency in Washington to report observations made enroute and while there. RYTOVA was married to a captain or major who works in a military office in Moscow. She had one daughter, approximately 14 years old.Comment: RYTOVA served as an interpreter for Roswell GARST in the USSR in 1955, 1959 and 1963 and she visited the U.S. in 1958 and 1962. Her biographic data is consistent with the information related by NOSENKO.Yevgeniya ("Jane) DANKODANKO, KGB cryptonym "OKSANA", worked in the American Express Company office in Moscow for Arsene FRIPPEL (NOSENKO's agent, see p.137) and later for FRIPPEL'S successor, Michael JELISAVCIC. NOSENKO took DANKO over from Seventh Department case officer I.A. KONSTANTINOV in 1955-1957. She was used to report on JELISAVCIC.Comment: DANKO was an Inturist guide in 1956, 1958 and 1959, and she was working for the American Express Company office in 1960 FRIPPEL left Moscow in 1961, by which time NOSENKO had transferred from the Seventh Department.109# Top Secret0001379TS No. 197124Copy 10
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)## Soviet Homosexual AgentsThe KGB operations which NOSENKO described commonly involved sexual entrapment. Many of the operations in which he claimed a personal role involved the use of homosexual agents, KGB agents whose homosexuality was exploited against susceptible male targets. While NOSENKO was never their official case officer, in specific recruitment-entrapment operations he worked with "LUCH", "NIKOLAYEV", "SIBEYAK", "KOSHIKIN" and "STROYEV" (Victor BELANOVSKIY, Richard BURGI, VASSALL, and the Canadian Ambassador WATKINS). He provided virtually no personality information on them and usually could not recall their true names. Two such homosexuals, however, VOLKOV and YEFREMOV, NOSENKO claimed were his own agents.NOSENKO claimed to have re-recruited VOLKOV, a former agent (cryptonym "SHMELEV") and recruited YEFREMOV (cryptonym "GRIGORIY") and to have been their sole case officer from the beginning of their KGB careers in 1957-1958 until they were discharged in 1963 because they had become too well known. He said he met them frequently, and directed them in at least a dozen entrapment operations or other homosexual encounters. NOSENKO claimed he took them with him when he transferred to the American Department in 1960 and back again in early 1962 to the Seventh Department.## YEFREMOV and VOLKOVBecause he had been seen meeting a foreigner in a public toilet in Moscow, NOSENKO said, the KGB concluded that A.I. VOLKOV might be a homosexual and hence of some operational value. To verify this possibility in 1957, a homosexual agent of the Moscow Criminal Investigations Department provoked VOLKOV into a compromising situation. Then VOLKOV, who had previously been a KGB agent but was at this time inactive, was summoned by the KGB and, after NOSENKO interrogated him, he admitted his homosexuality and agreed to NOSENKO's proposal to work for the KGB among
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)homosexuals. VOLKOV helped NOSENKO the following year to recruit a homosexual acquaintance, Aleksey (patronymic not recalled) YEFREMOV. The two agents subsequently worked as a team against foreigners under NOSENKO's direction; in addition to specific targets, they had the general assignment of associating with foreign visitors in Moscow for the purpose of spotting possible homosexuals. NOSENKO described on 12 June 1962 his use of these agents:"Although I am a chief of section there I have all sorts of agents. I have a good agent apparatus. I have beautiful girls, whom I can use as I like. I have homosexuals, in particular, one special pair. I am afraid they are known to both you and the British... I permitted this pair to work [without specific assignments] on their own. I give them money and tell them to go look around, but only Americans. Look for American pederasts. They call me at night: 'Yuriy Ivanovich. There is a mister so-and-so here.' I say: 'Well, let him [do what he wants]. We'll talk about it tomorrow.' So the next day they go to a special hotel room. We make photographs. Then we think about what he represents. Is he worth it? Then, as Chief, I recommend that he be recruited or not--depending on his position, what he can give, what he can tell. If he can give something, I say: 'Well, let's have a go [igrat].' After this, I speak to these boys: 'Well, go with him again. Do whatever is wanted.' All this is observed by the KGB. The [hotel] administrator enters. 'What are you doing?' The administrator calls the Militia. An akt is drawn up. 'Well, you are a foreigner. This is not our business. We don't know what to do with you.' Then the Chief arrives and a conversation ensues: 'Listen, what shall we do? Pederasty is punishable by three to five years and now, on the basis of recent legislation, by up to eight. Understand, if your friends find out that you are a pederast--and how can they help but find out'…"111Top Secret0001381TS No. 197124Copy 10
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)When NOSENKO moved from the Seventh Department to the Second Chief Directorate's American Department in January 1960, he took VOLKOV and YEFREMOV with him. They were never used against targets in the American Embassy but, NOSENKO said, the Seventh Department "used to call me on homosexual prospects". VOLKOV and YEFREMOV continued as active KGB agents until some time in 1960 or 1961. After they were employed once more [against W.E. JOHNSON] in January 1962] it was decided that they were "too well known". NOSENKO claimed that the agents were retired and that he himself sent their files to KGB Archives in 1962 or 1963.## NOSENKO's Soviet Agents: SummaryNOSENKO claims to have been these agents' case officer for two to five years, during which he met each regularly, assigned them operational tasks, and received their reports. With the exception of YEFREMOV and VOLKOV, however, NOSENKO can cite few instances of their operational use, and he has but superficial knowledge of their personal backgrounds. It is unlikely that this is merely the result of failing recollection. He knows no more about the three whom he claimed he took with him to the Embassy Section, where he continued to be their case officer for two more years, than he does about the others. In the two instances where his agents were involved in KGB operational activity, NOSENKO is unaware of SHULGINA's work with LEVINE and DRIBERG, and was not involved when KUNGAROVA was targetted against and [married CIA agent Philip NIELSEN. NOSENKO's familiarity with the nine agents he named appears to be that which would be acquired second-hand, not through personal contact as he claimed.With respect to YEFREMOV and VOLKOV, the evidence does not sustain NOSENKO's claim that he was their case officer in every operation from their recruitment in 1957 until their retirement in 1962-1963. He is unfamiliar with either agent's background. He cannot say where either of them lived or, indeed, how he got in touch with them when he required their services. With the exception of the W.E.JOHNSON compromise in 1962 (see p.268), all of VOLKOV'S and
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960).YEFREMOV's known activities with respect to Americans took place in the course of less than twelve months in 1959-1960. It is probable that NOSENKO's claim that he was their sole case officer during even this relatively brief period is also false. In the period April-November, 1959, apparently unknown to NOSENKO, VOLKOV and YEFREMOV were involved with one Dutch and five American visitors (including three CIA agents) in the Soviet Union. Further, in other contexts NOSENKO has described their involvement with 06 Americans *MATLAN* (see p.419) and *KARLOV* in 1959, 06 of which NOSENKO only learned when_he retired VOLKOV's and YEFREMOV's file in 1962-1963. *KARLOV* was a Swedish, not an American, citizen.] 06## Operational Activities (1955-1958)### Tourist Section Case OfficerAccording to NOSENKO, he was among the first case officers to arrive in the Seventh Department Tourist Section when it was being formed. He took part with other officers in the acquisition of an agent network from within Inturist, in the establishment of facilities and methods, and generally "getting things going". After several months, he partici- pated in what he says was his first operation against an American tourist. This was NOSENKO's behind-the-scenes (and hence unconfirmed) and unsuccessful attempt to compro- mise American student Martin MALIA 06 NOSENKO's next case (the first operation in which his participation is confirmed) took place a year later, in June 1956, when he assisted in the homosexual entrapment and recruitment of Professor 06 *Richard BURGI*. Sometime in 1957, he said, he was personally involved in the attempted recruitment of the German business-// 06 *GEJIRCKENS* and in the sexual and blackmarket entrapment of 06 *SUNDAR*, a Norwegian journalist. [Both *GEHRCKENS* and *SUNDAR* 06 admitted to having been the object of KGB recruitment attempts, the former reluctantly in a private interview, and the latter publicly in the press. It has been possible to question neither in detail.] NOSENKO's presence in the third "operation" in 1957 is confirmed: he accompanied the113# Top Secret0001383TS No. 197124Copy 10
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)British publisher Sir Allen LANE and the latter's interpreter BIRSE on a tour of Soviet publishing houses. According to NOSENKO, it was for the purpose of observing BIRSE, a suspected British intelligence agent.Attempted Entrapment of MALIA (1955)NOSENKO's InformationMartin MALIA, a graduate student, spent about four months in the USSR in 1955 and was suspected by the KGB of having connections with American Intelligence. Toward the end of his stay, while under surveillance, MALIA was observed in contact with a Soviet citizen believed to be a homosexual. The Soviet was detained by the KGB, and NOSENKO eventually obtained a confession that he had had homosexual relations with MALIA. NOSENKO arranged for the Soviet to introduce MALIA to a KGB homosexual agent, and the latter enticed MALIA to a specially equipped hotel room in Moscow. NOSENKO was on the scene (but not directly in touch with MALIA) when the introductions were made in a Moscow restaurant, and from an observation point in a neighboring hotel room he watched the KGB agent and MALIA in homosexual practices. MALIA insisted on the lights being turned off, however, and it was impossible to obtain compromising photographs (the KGB did not yet have infrared photographic equipment) and therefore no recruitment approach was made to MALIA. During this and a later trip to Moscow in 1961, MALIA was "very cautious", and the KGB never succeeded in exploiting MALIA'S homosexuality for a recruitment approach.Comment: MALIA, a U.S. Navy intelligence officer during World War II, visited the Soviet Union in 1955 and twice in 1962. While buying books for the Library of Congress and several universities in 1955, MALIA travelled over 10,000 miles throughout the USSR, an event sufficiently unusual at the time to be publicized in the Soviet press. On 1955 and 1962 trips he had contacts with dissident Soviet citizens and he smuggled to the West literature for publishing
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)Comment: (Continued)abroad. In December 1963 *MALIA* was the object of an attack in the Soviet press which charged that during 1962 he had "spent his time in Moscow looking for dissension in the ranks of young intellectuals at drunken debauches". *MALIA* was then in periodic contact with CIA; in the spring of 1963 he denied having had any involvement with blackmarketeers, homosexuals, or females inside the Soviet Union. *MALIA* has not been interviewed in connection with NOSENKO's allegations.Recruitment of *BURGI* (1956)At the first meeting with CIA in Geneva in 1962, NOSENKO gave a brief account of the recruitment of *Richard BURGI*, a *Yale professor*. The recruitment was effected on the basis of a homosexual provocation operation which began in Moscow and culminated with an approach in Kiev in June 1956.This recruitment, which occurred close in time to the death of NOSENKO's father, was by NOSENKO's later accounts a turning point in his personal and professional life. From it, NOSENKO said he acquired a sense of self-confidence and responsibility and began to "grow" from a wastrel into an effective and successful KGD officer. As a result of this operation, the first successful recruitment in the then short history of the Tourist Section, NOSENKO asserted he first came into personal contact with General GRIBANOV. According to all accounts he gave prior to October 1966, when he retracted the claim, NOSENKO received the first of a series of KGB awards for operational performance because of the *BURGI* case--a letter of commendation. Within a month of this operation, NOSENKO, said, he was promoted from the rank of lieutenant to captain.115Top Secret0001385TS No. 197124Copy 10
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)NOSENKO's InformationNOSENKO stated that at the time of BURGI's arrival in the USSR, his file contained a copy of his visa application (anketa), "maybe" an excerpt from a cable sent by the Soviet Embassy in the United States saying that a visa had been granted, a routine note from Inturist giving BURGI'S anticipated date of arrival and his itinerary inside the Soviet Union, and the results of file checks of the KGB main Archives and of the First Chief Directorate Archives. NOSENKO himself ran the file checks, which proved to be negative; there was no information on record concerning BURGI, and since no other names were mentioned in the material available on BURGI, no other checks were made. The KGB interest in BURGI derived exclusively from the fact that he was a professor of Slavic studies and therefore had contact with students who might eventually work for the U.S. State Department, American Intelligence, and for other target organizations. NOSENKO did not recall who first suggested an attempt to recruit him.When BURGI arrived in the Soviet Union, he came in contact with a number of KGB agents, and their reports were placed in an informal file maintained by NOSENKO. NOSENKO could not recall how many such agents there may have been, their names, or what they might have reported concerning BURGI (BURGI had an Inturist interpreter but NOSENKO did not know whether he was a KGB agent.) From some source, name_forgotten by NOSENKO, the KGB obtained indications that BURGI was a homosexual, and it was decided to try to obtain grounds for recruitment by homosexual compromise. NOSENKO therefore approached Yu. A. LOPUKHOV, an officer of the British Department who handled the homosexual agent Viktor BELANOVSKIY, and asked permission to use BELANOVSKIY in setting up the compromise. After permission had been received to mount an operation on this basis, LOPUKHOV and NOSENKO met with BELANOVSKIY and instructed him to make BURGI's acquaintance in a hotel dining room. The compromise proceeded according to plan: BELANOVSKIY met BURGI, the fact of common homosexuality was recognized, and [BURGI was invited to BELANOVSKIY's hotel room where homosexual acts took place and photographs were made. NOSENKO was in the adjoining room and directed the compromise, although he did not meet BURGI at this time.
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)As the result of NOSENKO's special request, the compromising photographs were ready by the following day. A report of the compromise and a request for permission to attempt recruitment were then submitted to NOSENKO's superiors. The request came back with the approving signatures of O.M. GRIBANOV and A.S. FEKLISOV, the Chief of the American Department of the First Chief Directorate, which had expressed interest in using (BURGI) in the United States BURGI's itinerary called for him to fly from Moscow to Kiev a short while after this episode and, having called the Kiev KGB with instructions, NOSENKO and KOZLOV flew there to prepare the operation. BURGI arrived the next morning and was met at the airport by (fnu) KHODAKOVSKIY, an officer of the Second Directorate in Kiev who operated under Inturist cover.In accordance with the operational plan, the local KGB officer told BURGI enroute to the city that all the hotels in Kiev were full at the moment because of various conferences, but that Inturist had arranged for him to stay for about a day in a private apartment in the center of town; he would be moved to a hotel as soon as possible. When the car arrived at the apartment building in Kiev, NOSENKO, KOZLOV, V.S. PETRENKO, a local KGB officer, and (fnu) RASTYKAITE, a woman housekeeper, were waiting for them. NOSENKO could not remember how or whether he introduced himself to BURGI. The recruitment conversation, he said, was handled by "KOZLOV-NOSENKO", but NOSENKO had forgotten by 1965 who said what:"I don't remember what I talked about and I don't remember what KOZLOV talked about. Many things were discussed. It started with how he liked his stay in the Soviet Union... Then we slowly pro- ceeded to say how unfortunate it was that informa- tion had been received about his conduct in Moscow. We told him that his homosexual activities were known, that this was punishable under Soviet law according to article so-and-so of the criminal code, etc., that he was not a diplomat, had no diplomatic immunity, that he could be taken to court according to the Soviet law... Well, he was scared, confused, upset, and felt uncomfortable. Then we slowly proceeded to say that everything could be smoothed117Top Secret0001387TS No. 197124Copy 10*5IBR*
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# Top Secret(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960)out, and the basis was prepared for the man to say:'All right, I agree to help'… We showed him thepictures. He was embarrassed of course--he wasnaked. Then we prepared the basis: 'You have anoble task. You teach; you have students; thestudents may become future specialists on Russia ormay work as diplomats, etc., but many of thesestudents can be used by intelligence. They may besent somewhere with special tasks. Maybe you willtell us who among the students is preparing forgovernment service, how they are distributed, etc.'...During the first conversation everything was madecompletely clear... He was not at all willing tohelp or work for Soviet Intelligence. He was toldthat he must understand that in this case 'helpingSoviet Intelligence' was a very broad term. Iremember that I told him: 'Understand, nobody isgoing to ask you that you help our friends overthere, or me, if I should be there, or that you doanything bad or conduct any kind of subversiveactivities, that you organize explosions or murder.'After the Soviet Union, he was supposed to go toItaly to visit the Russicum of the Vatican, and 08 11Here KOZLOV grabbed the subject and began to askquestions about this school. He told us a bit aboutof the Russicum and we asked him to write about it andhe wrote down some names of the professors whoteach Russian subjects…"According to NOSENKO, the discussion lasted about fivehours; at its end BURGI signed a short statement that he 06agreed "to assist the organs of Soviet Intelligence".(NOSENKO first said that it was he who took this statement06 from BURGI but later he could not remember whether it washe or KOZLOV.) BURGI was then taken to a hotel.06This was the first time NOSENKO met BURGI. Followingthe recruitment, he moved into the same hotel, a floor above06 BURGI, and for the remainder of BURGI's stay in Kiev became 06his constant companion and guide. An attempt was made "tosmooth out all the dirty business that had been brought upduring the recruitment talk". NOSENKO took BURGI to an old 06