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344. reservations about NOSE KO'S bona fides. Over the next severalmor.ths GOLITSYN was provided with material from the 1952 and 1964meetings with HOSENKO in Switzerland, and as his request was sup-plied with all the available biographic data to assist him inanalyzing the KGB operation. On 29 June 1954, GOLITSKI was inter-viewed in detail on the subject of NOSENKO. He confirmed NOSE:I-KO's identity as the son of the former Minister of Shipbuildingand said that he was a KGB officer who had worked in the AmericanDepartment and the Tourist Department of the KGB's Second ChiefDirectorate. He was shown a photograph of NOSENKO (not buriedin a photo spread, but singly) and he said that the photographdepicted NOSEIKO, GOLITSYN Said he knew this because he was per-sonally acquainted with NOSENKO, having met him two or threetines in the U.S. Embassy Section while there on KGE Firs ChiefLirectorate business in 1953. He had also seen NOSENKO occasion-ally at work during 1958 and 1959, and when COLITSYN asked himwhere he was working in 1959, AUSENKO teldum that he was inthe Tourist Department. Finally. GOLITSIN said, he and NOSENKOknew one another through their mutual friendships with u. I.CUK, V.À. CHURANOV, ana Ye.G. KASHCHEYEV. Acording to GOLITSYN,NOSENKO served in the U.S. Embassy Section from 1953 until 1957or 1958 and was specifically responsible for KGB coverage of Wuer-ican military personnel in Moscow during the first year of thisperiod. For the remainder of his service in the U.S. EmbassySection, until 1957 or 1953, GOLIISYN Said. NOSENKO may have hadthese same responsibilities or he may have been working againstother Embassy personnel or correspondents. He was definitely inthe American Department during this entire period. In 1957 or1958, NOSENKO transferred to the Tourist Department and was asenior case officer there as of 1959. GOLIMSYN was certain thatNOSENKO did not work in the American Department of the SecondChief Directorate at any time during 1960. This he said he knewbecause he had visited the U.S. Embassy Section on at least threeoccasions during the early part of 1950 and again in about Decem-ber 1960 (sac, accually January 1961)*** COLITSYN said that heknew in detail who was in the section, and that he would haveknown if NOSENKO had been there, particularly if he were theDeputy Chief.*****NOSENKO. on the other hand, failed to identify GOLITSIN'Sphotograph and has consistently denied ever seeing or meet-ing him. After the defection, HOSENKO was asked what he knewof GOLITSYN. He immediately gave a detailcd account ofan incident which GOLITSYN himself had previously reportedto CIA: GOLITSYN and KASHCHEYEV in 1951 or 1952 had writtena letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Partyproposing a reorganization and redirection of First ChiefDirectorate intelligence. activities: as a result of thisletter COLITSYN and KASHCHEYEV had been received by MALENKOVand STALIN, and their proposals were accepted. This wasNOSENKO's first mention of KASHCHEYEV, but he added at thistime that he was personally acquainted with him, had seenhim periodically at KGB Headquarters, sometimes had a drinkwith him after work, and had once entertained KASHCHEYEV athis dacha in 1953 of 1954. GOLITSYN saw NOSENKO's reply tohis question prior to making the above statement, and KOSEN-KO's claims of friendships with Yu.I. GUK and V.A. CHURANOVwere included in the file GOLITSYN studied.(Footnotes continued on next page.