Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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## 6. PROFESSION: Electro-technician, an equivalent of German'Ingeneur without diploma' (no college graduate)A. LAST OCCUPATION: Chief electrician (starshiy elekto- tekhnik) with MIKHA-TSKHAKAYA RTS.7. LAST RESIDENCE: Shota Rustaveli Street (ulitsa), #25 (private home of my common-law wife, Nina GANDELI) in MIKHA-TSKHAKAYA, Kutaisi Oblast, Georgian SSR.8. MARITAL STATUS: Single. From 1946 to the time of my escape I lived in a common-law marriage with Nina GANDELI, nee TAKTASHVILI, born 1920. When I first got to know her, she was married to a post-office employee but her marriage was an unhappy one. Her husband was much older and the marriage had been arranged by her parents, old fashioned farmers from a distant village who were happy to marry their daughter off to a relatively educated and well-to-do man. By the time I was drafted into the service Nina and I were lovers. When I returned from the war, I moved in with her for her husband had been killed in action during World War II and she lived, with her daughter born during this time, in a small home inherited from her husband. Her parents were dead, and she worked as a mail carrier for she had very little education. During the later years of our life together, I discovered that Nina was having affairs with other men. This caused frequent quarrels at home, and made my life unbearable. Finally, the woman became pregnant, and since I was positive that it was not my child, I decided to end our relationship. This was one of the reasons for my defection. I have no children of my own.9. PARENTS:A. FATHER: Frank SANDERS, born circa 1885 in the Baltic area, came to Russia proper circa 1910 and worked as a civil engineer in the Baku, Batumi, and Tbilisi areas. In 1918, he married my mother in Tbilisi. He died in 1924 of an accident at his place of work. I do not remember my father at all, but knew from my mother that he was a very good and kind man, and was well liked.B. MOTHER: Maria SANDERS, nee KANTCHELI, born circa 1885 in a small village near the Azerbaydzhanian border in Tbilisi Oblast. She was an only child, and when her parents died of old age, within a few years of each other, she moved to Tbilisi and worked as a clerk in various private enterprises until she married my father. After her husband
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-3-died, she went back to work. She changed her place ofemployment several times and the only job I can rememberwas her last employment as a cashier with the shoe-repair shop (artel) on Sovetskaya Ulitsa in Tbilisi.She died in 1934 of a heart attack.10. BROTHERS AND SISTERS: None at present. I had a brother Leon    born 1923 who died some six months after his birth.11. OTHER RELATIVES: I knew that my father had relatives in the    Baltic area but our family had no contact with them and I    did not know any of them. I had no close maternal relatives,    and the distant relatives in my mother's home village had no    contacts with my family disapproving my mother's marriage to    a 'foreigner' of another faith. I never visited the home    village of my mother.12. CLOSE FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES: I never had any real close    friends, but I was somewhat closer to the following persons    in town:(1) Director of RTS, who was transfered in 1959 to Rustavi,Georgian SSR.(2) Rayon veterinarian who had his office in the rayonveterinary clinic and travelled extensively in the rayonárea visiting collective farms.(3) Club librarian (a girl friend)13. SPECIAL SKILLS: I like to invent gadgets and built up a    relatively good home work shop14. LANGUAGES: Georgian - nativeRussian - from school and contacts withpopulation in Russian speakingarea and in the service.German - from school and residence in GermanyEnglish - from Technicum, home study andassociation with Americans inGermany.15. FINANCIAL STATUS: None
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16. EDUCATION HISTORY:1927-1934 - Trudovaya Shkola #107 (10-year school, desyatiletka) located on the corner of Prospekt Mikhaylovskiy and Kirochnaya Ulitsa, in Tbilisi, (Presently PLEKHANOVA and MARDZHANISHVILI Streets, respectively.) Prior to 1927, it was the German Real Gymansium, but although converted into a srednyaya shkola at that time, the instruction was conducted in German, until 1930 when it changed to Georgian. The majority of the students were Georgians. Russian language instruction was given two hours a week and Georgian one hour a week, until 1930. I completed seven years at this school and then due to the death of my mother, entered a technicum where I would be given board and quarters.1934-1938 - Tbilisskiy Elektro-Tekhnicum, located on Sovetskaya Ulitsa in Tbilisi, in a two-story building with a yard where the shops and the students' hostel were located. In summer 1934, I submitted an application to this school supplemented with the seven-year school certificate and a photo. In July or August I passed the entrance examinations consisting of Mathematics, Physics, written and oral Georgian and Russian and when I saw my name posted on the school's bulletin board. I knew I had been accepted. I paid no tuition and was given a small stipend just enough for a bare living. The hostel accommodations where I shared a room with three other students were free. On the first floor of the technicum building, near the school office, was located a students cafeteria where meals could be bought cheaply. The food was of poor quality. The female students of the school lived in a small annex on the same street, two or three blocks from the technicum.For four years I studied physics, mathematics, history, English, Georgian language and literature, Russian language and literature, and from 1936 or 1937 - Constitution of the Soviet Union. The general subjects were on a high school level. Specialized subjects given at the technicum were technology of metals, theoretical mechanics, strength of materials, electrical machines, electro-techniques, electrical gears (privody), electrical measuring instruments, drafting. The students were also given military and physical training. Classes ran from September to July of each year; summer recesses I spent usually in near-by kolkhozes in a group organized by the technicum to help out farmers with their crops.Examinations were held twice a year, prior to New Year and at
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-5-the end of second semester, and were graded by the followingsystem:5 - Otlichno (excellent)4 - Khorosho (good)3 - Posredstvenno (satisfactory)2 - Plokho (bad)1 - Ochen plokho (very bad)The first three were passing grades.In the spring of 1938, I took the final examinations, oraland written, and was issued a diploma. It was a one-pagecertificate and indicated that I had attended the technicumfor 4 years. It listed the grades I had received on thevarious subjects and showed that I was graduated as anelectro-mekhanic.All graduates were assigned to various places of employmentwhere they had to stay not less than two years. This is aform of repayment for the money which the government spenton their education. I was sent to the MIKHA-TSKHAKAYA M.T.S..which in 1958 was converted into an R.T.S.17. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:1938 - 1941 and 1946 - until defection - Mikha-TskhakayaM.T.S. (Machine-Tractor Station), later converted into R.T.S.(Repair Technical Station) - Machino-Traktornaya and Remontno-Tekhnicheskaya Stantsiya, respectively. Mikha-Tskhakaya,referred to by the population simply as Tskhakaya, was therayon center of Tskhakayskiy Rayon being renamed so after thefamous Georgian Revolutionary Mikha Tskhakaya (the old nameof the town was Akhal-Senaki and Akhal-Senakskiy Rayon,respectively). M. Tskhakaya was one of the organizers of theGeorgian Communist Party. The town has now about 10,000population and is located on the RR line Samtredia-Sukhumi(the main connection between Tbilisi and Moscow) with thejunction to Poti, the Black Sea resort. The town is locatedbetween two large tributaries of the Rion River: Tsivi andTerakhi Rivers. On the latter, located a few kilometersfrom Mikha Tskhakaya, is situated a small hydro-power stationwhere I was a part-time employee upon my return from WorldWar II.
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-6-At the M.T.S. (which was in 1958 converted into R.T.S. after the machines and equipment were distributed to the local grain and grape producing collective farms with the sole responsibility of repair of these machines left with R.T.S.) I soon became the foreman of a small brigade of electro-mechanics responsible for the maintenance and repair of electrical parts for those agricultural and other machines. My starting salary was 400 or 500 rubles, but it was increasing rapidly and when I was drafted into the army, my salary was almost doubled by that time.For personal reasons I returned to this town after my discharge from the service, and obtained my old job. I also got a job as electro-technician with the above described power station which supplied power for the town and the rest of the rayon. I was assigned this second job since there was a lack of qualified personnel after the end of the war. I worked in the second shift at the power station from 1947 until 1953 (when the position was filled by a young graduate of Kutaisi technicum) earning 700 rubles in addition to my basic salary with the R.T.S. Prior to my escape, my income was about 120 new. rubles before deductions. I also had some additional week-end income from repairing electric household appliances, radios, etc., for the local citizens. The old currency was converted 10 to 1 in 1961.
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18. MILITARY HISTORYA. DRAFT BOARD REGISTRATION: In the summer of 1939 1received a notification from my rayon-voyenkomat(draft board) of my rayon and reported there on aspecified date before the draft board, then I wassent in a group of other future conscripts to therayon polyclinic for a medical check-up. I had lostthe first joint of my left thumb and index fingersduring an accident at the job, and when the findingsof the medical examinations were reported to the draftboard, I was rejected for active duty and deferredinto the reserve. At that time my pripisnoyesvidetelstvo (registration certificate) was exchangedfor the military booklet.B. INDUCTION DATE: On about 26 August 1941, I received anotice instructing me to report to the rayvoyenkomaton 27 August. I reported there and was notified toreport for induction on the following day. Then I,with a group of either 80 or 100 conscripts from myrayon, was put on the train and via Tbilisi travelledto Baku, where the group was put in so called SalyanskiyeKazarmy (Salyany Barracks) located on the outskirtsof Baku, on the highway to Salyany and the Iranianborder.C. BRANCH OF SERVICE AND SERIAL NUMBER: I served in theanti-aircraft artillery. I had no serial number(which is never issued in the Soviet Army).D. BASIC TRAINING: I took basic training at Salyany barracksin Baku for a period of two months. One month. I took theregular basic training, and the remaining month improved
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-7-my qualifications as a car driver (I learned how to operate an automobile while working on electric detail on car repair at my M.T.S.). I can not recall the unit number where I went through the basic training. At that time the barracks were full of troops, basically infantry and artillery units which rotated quite frequently.E. SPECIALIZED COURSES: One month's driver's training as mentioned above.F. RESERVE STATUS:Summer 1939Rejected from the active duty for medical reasons and given reserve status.Fall 1946Discharged from the army and after submitting my travel and discharge papers to my Rayvoyenkomat was issued a new military booklet which contained an indication of my reserve status. I was never recalled for military training or duty of any kind after my final discharge from the service.G. CHRONOLOGY OF MILITARY SERVICE:In a group of other enlisted men, I was sent by train to the 2nd battery of the 253rd separate anti-aircraft artillery division (OZAD-ogne-zashchitnyy artilleriyskiy divizion). Commanding officer of the battery was Lt. VAKS. Commander of the vzvod upravleniya (administration platoon) of the division was Lt. ENDELADZE. Deputy divizion commander for political affairs was Capt. CHOKHA and politruk of my battery was Senior Lt. SAMARIN. Major Vlado (Vladimir) GURGENIDZE was the commanding officer of OZAD and in February 1943 he was also appointed the commander of the PVO (protivo-vozdushnaya oborona or anti-aircraft defense) in the town of Michurinsk. The headquarters of the division was located in Michurinsk, while the battery itself was stationed near the station TARASOVO near the settlement of Konskoye, 7 km. from Michurinsk and 6 km. from the six marshalling yards located at Kochetovka station. A higher HQ was in Tambov and was at first commanded by Col. CHERNYAVSKIY and later by Col. TSVETKOV, a demoted General.When I first arrived in Michurinsk, I was assigned as a truck driver with the division's supply platoon (khoz-vzvod
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-8-or khozyaystvennyy vzvod) commanded by Junior Lt. MAKAROV,but later I made the acquaintance of the above mentionedENDELADZE, a countryman, and through latter's interventionwas assigned as a personal driver to division commanderGURGENIDZE, also a Georgian, who was later promoted to Lt.Col. and who kept me with him until I was discharged fromthe service.H. PROMOTIONS AND DEMOTIONS: After six months in the service,I was promoted to yefreytor (corporal), and at the endof my first year to Junior Sergeant. In 1944, I was madea sergeant.I. DECORATIONS: NoneJ. DATE OF DISCHARGE: I was discharged from active militaryduty at the end of September 1946. I received my travelorders and per diem funds at my unit in Michurinsk andturned them in at my rayvoyenkomat. In 1955, I was givenanother medical check-up by orders of the voyenkomat anddischarged from the reserve for medical reasons (same asbefore) and issued a so called belyy bilet (white ticketor permanent deferment from service).19. RESIDENCES FROM BIRTH:1919 - 1926 Several addresses in Tbilisi1926 - 1934 Tbilisi, Kirochnaya Ulitsa #35, anapartment in a two-story house, formerlya private house, later taken over bythe State ZHAKT (housing organization)enterprise. After my mother's death,I entered the local electro-technicumand moved to the students' dormitories.1934 - 1938 Tbilisi, Ulitsa Sovetskaya, # not recalled,student hostel of Tbilisi Electro-Technicum.1938 - 1941 Mikha Tskhakaya, Ulitsa Tsulukidze, #14.Here I rented a room in a private one-story house of a retired RR switchman,Ilya LORDKIPANIDZE, who had to rent aroom in his house to boarders tosupplement his pension. Ilya's wife, Keto(Catherine), for an additional chargetook care of my laundry and cooked for me.The couple had no children of their ownand treated me as their own son.
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1941 - 19461946 - 1962(until defection)--9-Army ServiceMikha Tskhakaya, Ulitsa Shota Rustaveli, #25, the private home of my common-law wife, Nina GANDELI. I was in love with her and had an affair with her before I went to war. During the war, I found out that Nina's husband was killed in action and decided to return to Tskhakaya to be near her. I moved in with Nina and continued to live with her without registering our marriage at the local ZAGS (registrar office for marriage, deaths and births). Although I insisted on legalizing our union, Nina was always opposed, being unhappy in her first marriage, and wanted to feel free to end the relationship at any time.For the last several years Nina, as I found out, was meeting other men during my absence from home. A rift between us developed and grew more and more with the passing of time. Being deprived of Nina's intimacy, I reacted by dating other girls. We were on the verge of separation many times but somehow made up. I tried desperately to resolve our problems since, when I still was very close to Nina, I made anti-regime remarks on several occasions and even planned a joint escape from the USSR. I was afraid to aggravate her too much in order not to push her into possibly reporting me to the militia. However, for some reason Nina did not want to break off with me completely, and one day announced that she was expecting a child and wanted to legalize our marriage. Since, I did not consider myself the father of the child and fearing black-mail by Nina, I decided to speed up my defection which I was planning anyway.20. TRAVEL:None except as described previously.
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21. HISTORY OF ARRESTS:In June 1962, I was approached by the rayon militia at my place of work and was taken to the militia offices where I was accused of being a long standing member of a Georgian resistance group and of making anti-government statements. Although I had actually made such remarks on occasions and was therefore guilty of the latter charge, I noticed that the militia did not have sufficient information on this subject and I denied all accusations. I could not figure out who was behind the report. After prolonged interrogation, during which I was extensively questioned on my biography, parents, army service, contacts, etc., I was released with the warning that I was not to leave the area for the time being and that I would be contacted in the near future by the militia. Except for this case, I was never arrested or detained by militia or security organs.22. MEMBERSHIP IN POLITICAL PARTIES OR ORGANIZATIONS:I never belonged to the Communist Party. I was urged to join the Komsomol in 1937 while at the Tbilisi Elektro-Technicum, and was sponsored there by two of my class-mates, each of whom had more than two years of Komsomol standing. I submitted the application to the local Komsomol yacheyka (cell) and at a general meeting of the cell members mý application was discussed and I told my life story and answered questions put to me by the members. After I was accepted, I received my membership card in about two months from the city rayon committee of the Komsomol in Tbilisi after which I had to attend meetings and pay very small dues. I never held any official position with the Komsomol organization. When I left Tbilisi, I had to deregister from the Tbilisi organization and register with the local organization at my new place of residence in Mikha Tskhakaya (usually referred to by the local population simply as 'Tskhakaya'). The same proceedure had to be repeated upon my departure to and discharge from the army (deregistration from the old organization and registration at the new place). Upon my return from the army to Tskhakaya, I never registered with the local organization again.When I started to work in Tskhakaya, I was automatically enrolled in the prof-soyuz (trade unions) where I was a passive member paying my dues (something like 1% of my salary) to the trade union organizer of MTS (prof-org) and attending the obligatory meetings from time to time. I never took any advantage of trade union members privileges such as the cut-rate accommodations in rest homes (putevka v dom otdykha).
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23. CONNECTIONS WITH ANY INTELLIGENCE SERVICES:I never had any contacts with intelligence services. I was never approached to serve in any capacity for Soviet security organs.24. DEFECTION AND ESCAPE:A. MOTIVATION:In spite of being born and raised in a Communist country, I, at an early age began to understand that real freedom did not exist for the individual. It was also clear to me that personal advancement did not depend on talent and integrity but on the degree of one's political activity. I analyzed the Communist lies seeing reality so different from the official propoganda. During and after the war, I met people who visited Western countries and was able to benefit from the particles of truth about a different life there from the even sometimes very carefully worded reports of those people. After I purchased a good radio of 'Mir' make in 1956, I started to listen intensively to foreign broadcasts. For a long time I cultivated the idea of eventual escape from the USSR where I had no relatives, no family, no possibilities for advancement and a decent life. My anti-government sentiments which developed as time passed became stronger and stronger, and it became more and more difficult for me to hold myself back and not to express them openly, which I did anyway on several occasions. My involvment with the militia and the unfavorable developments in my personal life accelerated my plans for defection.B. TECHNIQUES OF ESCAPE:On 25 June 1962, three days after my experience with the militia, I left my residence at 0700 as I normally would to go to work. I walked out of town toward Samtredia. I wore my regular clothing, had 80 rubles and a small hand bag. I did not want to take the train being afraid of militia surveillance. After I walked two or three kilo- meters on the highway, I got a ride on a truck from a near-by collective farm which was headed in the same direction. I got off the truck downtown in Samtredia and paid the driver one ruble, then walked toward the railroad station. Here I purchased the ticket for Batumi and boarded the train at 1150 arriving in Batumi at 1415.
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-12-found a safe place and slept until dark. I started off on foot from Batumi and followed the sea shore until I reached the old shooting range about 1 1/2 or 2 km to the south. Here I entered the water at about 2200 hours, after destroying my passport (the rest of my documents were left at home) and burying my clothing and bag. I knew from previous study of a map at home that I had to swim some 18 km. to Turkish territory. I swam all night and was not sure if I had reached Turkish soil, but being exhausted, I came ashore at about 0300 or 0400 hours. The point where I stepped out was on the gradient of a steep slope. There I saw the silhouette of a hut and went in. There was an old discarded electric motor in the hut. From the Russian description on the motor, I understood that I was still in Russia. I hid in the underbrush near-by and spent the rest of the night and the following day there. When it was getting dark, I climbed the slope to observe the area. I walked for a while hearing voices in Russian coming from the shore. I saw a dark object on the sea which resembled a submarine. I continued walking near the shore and around 2200 or 2300 hours I entered the water and started to swim 3 km off shore and then parallel to it. When I came into the range of a search light which swept the sea, I submerged. When I came to the surface the search light swept over me but nothing happened and I knew I had not been discovered. I continued to swim until I was completely exhausted, and several hours before dawn went ashore and hid in a cave opposite two big rocks in the sea near the shore. I remained there until morning. The next morning I climbed up the slope where I saw a stone structure resembling a grave. I went in and observed the land around me from a small opening. I saw a large village which I later learned was Kemal-Pasha. I thought at first that a minaret was an observation tower. I also presumed that this was the village of Sarpi, still on Soviet territory. I was very thirsty and climbed down the hill to a near-by stream to drink water. I met an 11 or 12 year old boy whom I addressed in Russian but the boy drew away from me. Being still not sure as to where I was, I walked in the stream for a while to hide my footprints. Then I hid in the underbrush until it grew dark. I came out and went around the village to its opposite end. There I entered the town and knocked on the door of a house situated on a hillside. I called out in Russian. Even though I heard voices and footsteps in the house nobody opened the door. I climbed on the roof of a sort of stable in the courtyard and spent the night there. Early next morning I was awakened by