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737. subordinate KRUPNOV to handle the case, but KRUPNOV was not able to get anywhere with BRAUNS and in the middle of the approach called NOSENKO for help. NOSEIKO went to the Moscow Hotel where KRUPNOV and BRAUNS were talking, and he eventually secured BRAUNS' agreement to cooperate, against threat of imprisonment for treason on the basis of his wartime flight from the Soviet Union. BRAUNS left Moscow the next day for Leningrad, and because NOSENKO felt the recruitment was "shaky," KRUPNOV was sent after him to consolidate the agreement. BRAUNS refused to see KRUPNOV however, so again NOSENKO went to help him. It was clear to NOSENKO, however, that BRAUNS was so frightened that he would never work for the KGB; NOSENKO thereupon decided to terminate the case, and BRAUNS was sent on his way.NOSENKO could not recall his position at the time he approached BRAUNS, he did not know why BRAUNS had visited the Soviet Union, and he was unable to name any Soviet citizens with whom BRAUNS came into contact while in the USSR. BRAUNS, in fact, had spent almost a week in Moscow before the approacia was made. During this time he spent his days with an Inturist tour and his even-ings with an old girlfriend he had known before the war. She had been writing to BRAUNS in the United States for about a year, telling him of her unhappy marriage and impending divorce. DRAUNS had written her of his intention to visit the USSR, and the travelled specially from her home in Leningrad to Moscow to spend this time with him.According to the account given by BRAUNS, the man (NOSENKO, according to NOSENKO) who joined him and his original interrc-gator in Moscow was the person who first approached him in Lenin-grad. This suggests, if correct, that it was NOSENKO who was sent there to consolidate the recruitment, not KRUPINOV. BRAUNS was unable to identify NOSENKO's photograph but explained that he was so frightened that he probably could not recognize any-one involved. Other aspects of his story therefore may be cor-fused.(iv) The Arrest of KOTENNOSENKO said he supervised the homosexual provocation and arrest of American tour guide KOTEN in 1963 and the develop-ments in the case were reported to him (Pages 298-303); he was not in face-tc-face contact with KOTEN. HOSENKO explained that KOTEN, a member of the CPUSA, had frequently visited the USSR since the war, hef numerous suspicicus contacts there, and was considered possibly to be a "plant" (presumably of the FBI) ir the Communist Party. Prior to his arrival in 1963,![photo of the document being stamped CONFIDENTIAL]Legal Residency reported that KOTEN was in contacwith an important agent in ![agent photo] that he was carrying the address of relatives of this agent with im on his trip, and that he intended to visit them. On this basis, it was considered that he might have the mission of investigatina the ![agent photo]agent inside the USSR. ![photo of confidential marking in a document]As it was suspected from earlier trips that KOTEN was a homosexual, the KGB planned to compromise him, arrest him, break him, and provide time for the agent to make his escape from the United States. KOTEN was arrested, but the 6![Top Secret marking in a document]