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always had a lot of money. especially during the war. A salaryof 15,000 or 20,000-plus--25,000. There was much money. She isa rich woman. She has paintings by Ayvazovskiy, Makovskiy. Evenif she had insufficient money, she could always sell her posses-sions. What do I want to say? That I've never wanted for money.Never...As I said, perhaps the thing which drove me to you was notmoney, but this great, great resentment."14 June 1962: The subject of motivation was not discussedduring the third and fourth meetings with NOSENKO. As he wasabout to leave the Geneva safehouse after the fifth and finalsession, however, NOSENKO again touched on the economic inequi-ties existing inside the Soviet Union and raised a new reason forcooperating with CIA, his basic sympathy for the American people.NOSENKO said that he realized that the reason he had given forcoming to us, his need for money, was "not good." Before heand his case officers parted, NOSENKO said, he wanted to em-phasize "without attempting to justify himself" that he had'always felt a certain sympathy toward the American people." Heexplained that it was not the technical progress of the UnitedStates which attracted him, nor was it the high standard ofliving of the American people. It was rather the openness anddirectness with which the Americans whom he had met and seenhandled themselves. As examples he cited his American targetsin Moscow and Secretary of State Dean RUSK, whom he had seen inGeneva.Although NOSENKO did mention the difficult economic situa-tion in the USSR on a few other occasions, he did not relatethese remarks specifically to his motives for volunteering toCIA. The above excerpts are representative of his total state-ment on motivation during the 1962 meetings.### 3. Decision to Defect (January 1964)On arrival for his first meeting with CIA during the secondGeneva phase, on 24 January 1964, NOSENKO said that after longand careful consideration since the 1962 meeting series, he haddecided to defect. He once again criticized the Communist regimealong the same lines as during earlier meetings, but his immedi-ate motivation seemed to have nothing to do with this. NOSENKOexplained that he had recently been promoted to the position ofFirst Deputy Chief of the Seventh (Tourist) Department of the KGBSecond Chief Directorate, and that because of the stature andresponsibilities of his new job, there would be fow opportunities,if any, for him to visit the West in the future. Therefore, hehad decided to seize the opportunity at hand and to flee to theUnited States at once, leaving his family behind. He foresaw nopossibility of his wife and children being permitted to leave theUSSR for the "next twenty years." NOSENKO told CIA that "thehardest thing is to part with my family." He had, however, care-fully considered their fate as the close relatives of a defector,and he knew that, because of his mother's position in Soviet so-::ciety, no harm would come to them.Whereas NOSENKO declared his intent to defect immediately,the CIA case officers at this first meeting in 1964 persuadedhim to remain in place for at least two or three weeks on thegrounds that, first, CIA would benefit much from this, andsecond, arrangements for his transfer to and reception in theUnited States would have to be coordinated in advance with CIAHeadquarters.TOP SECRET