Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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# 109.NOSENKO has described eleven KGB approaches to Americans based on compromising evidence obtained with the assistance of VOLKOV and/or YEFREMOV and several other cases in which Americans were suspected of being homosexuals on the basis of the evaluation of these two. Additionally, CIA records indicate that at least six Americans, not reported on by NOSENKO, have had contacts with one or both of these agents in Moscow. Of these six, three were CIA agents, one a U.S. graduate student, another a psychiatrist visiting Soviet institutions, and the last. Charles W. THAYER, the well-known diplomat and author. With one or possibly two exceptions, all the contacts of VOLKOV and YEFREMOV reported by NOSENKO or other sources took place during the period from April to November 1959. The known exception was the KGB approach to W.E. JOHNSON in January 1962; the possible exception was the contact with the American psychiatrist, which took place in 1959 or early 1960 but cannot be dated precisely. Finally, NOSENKO has described the contacts between VOLKOV, YEFREMOV, and the American Robert BARRETT in the summer of 1959 but does not know of their contacts in the summer of 1961, shortly before BARRETT was approached on the basis of compromising information obtained in 1959.**## 3. Other Soviet AgentsThe Tourist Department, just established when NOSENKO was transferred to it in mid-1955, had no agent network for operations against American and British tourists. Consequently, NOSENKO said, he and the other case officers had to "start from the beginning."As a first step, NOSENKO was introduced by a fellow officer to a number of "trusted persons" in Inturist; these were not agents, he explained, but "just persons known to the KGB so that a KGB man could approach one of them with questions about somebody or something." NOSENKO began to collect information on these individuals and others with the aim of formalizing their recruitment; by the end of 1955, he estimated, he had a network of about eight agents, all of them Inturist interpreters. During the following four years, the number of agents whom NOSENKO handled varied: Agents would be transferred from one case officer to another, some would leave Inturist, and "things were sort of changing all the time, back and forth." In 1956, NOSENKO said, he had about ten agents, in 1957 there were about 12, in 1958 about eight, and at the end of 1959 (when he was preparing to return to the American Department) he had approximately 12 to 14. NOSENKO has provided information on five of these agents, all of whom he says he recruited from within Inturist during 1955. These were:- Larissa SOBOROVA: An Inturist interpreter and one of the first Inturist agents recruited by NOSENKO. SOBOROVA was NOSENKO's agent until 1959 (when she married and retired) and reported to him on all foreigners with whom she worked as an interpreter. She worked with NOSENKO in the operation*See Part V.F.4**See Part V.D.4.m.
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againstin the summer of 1957.*NOSENKO reported specifically on her possible sexual involve-ment with two other tourists, one American and the other British,during 1957-1959. NOSENKO mentioned at one point that he "eventold Larissa about his last name."- Vladimir KUPOMTSEV: KGB cryptonym "LESEDEV," recruited  in 1955. (NOSENKO has also said that MUROMTSEV had been a  Second Chief Directorate agent "since 1958.") MUROMTSEV was  called into the Army in about 1959 and was sent to some Soviet  Air Force academy in Central Asia, where he worked as an inter-  preter for Syrian students studying there. During this period,  his file was held by the local KGF in Central Asia. Later he  returned to Moscow and was reactivated by the Second Chief  Directorate.- Nikolay ROGOV: KGB cryptonym "Ozero," recruited in 1955.  ROGOV had formerly been a "confidential contact" of the KGB.  He worked in the central office of Inturist which assigned  interpreters to British and American citizens visiting the  Soviet Union.- Natalya SHULGINA: Recruited by NOSENKO in 1955, an  Inturist interpreter. Shown SHULGINA'S photograph on 6 February  1964, NOSENKO failed to recognize L: when he was given her name,  however, he said that this was a Second Chrer Directorate agent  on whom boris BELITSKIY had reported to CIA. NOSENKO'S only  other statement on SHULGINA was made on 17 April 1964, when  discussing the agents he acquired in 1955. He said: "So, for  example, I had this SOROROVA. then I had MUROMISEV. I recruited  him. Who else? Natalya SHULGINA, KUNGAROVA. Well, anyway,  during this short period. during 1955 until the end of '55, I  had about eight people, all of them translators from Inturist."  NOSENKO therefore said he handled SHULGINA and implied that he  recruited her. (Information from other sources indicates that  SHULGINA worked for two years as secretary/interpreter for the  NBC correspondent in Moscow, Irving R. LEVINE. who arrived in  the Soviet Union in July 1955. Although there is no evidence  that SHULGINA was directly involved, the KGB attempted to re-  cruit LEVINE in November 1955. She has travelied abroad twice,  the first time to Paris in 1956 and the second time as an inter-  preter at the Brussels Fair in the summer of 1958. AS NOSENKO  indicated, BELITSKIY reported on SHULGINA, who he said was a  close friend. BELITSKIY said that she was directly involved,  probably as the principal, in a sexual entrapment operation,  in the recruitment of a member of the British Parliament.  BELITSKIY reported to CIA on SHULGINA in October 1962; NOSENKO  said his last connection with the BELITSKIY case was in Geneva  in the spring of 1962.)- Tamara KUNGAROVA: Inturist interpreter recruited in  1955 (according to NOSENKO's statement in April 1964 see  above on SHULGINA). In October 1964, NOSENKO said she was trans-  ferred as an agent to the Tourist Department by the British*are discussed in Part V.D.4.d.**NOSENKO reported in 1962 that the KG3 controlled BELITSKIY,a source of CIA (see Part VI, D.6.).
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111. Commonwealth Department in 1957 or the beginning of 1958. In 1957 or 1959 she was involved in a sexual compromise operation against an American professor, which did not reach the point of a recruitment approach. Between 1957 or 1958 and 1960 she was working against an American tourist named Philip NIELSEN who was suspected of connection with CIA and who was under study for recruitment by the KGB.[^1] KUNGAROVA later married NIELSEN and the two lived in England. The KGB was still interested in NIELSEN at the time NOSENKO left the Tourist Department, but NOSENKO believed there was no recruitment. Mrs. NIELSEN died in 1965.Besides those in Inturist, NOSENKO has named several other agents whom he recruited or was given while in the Tourist Department. These included the following:-Aleksey A. DMITRIYEV: KGB cryptonym "TOMO," a candidate member of the Academy of Sciences USSR and a specialist on Japan and Thailand. DMITRIYEV speaks Japanese and English and worked at the Japanese exhibition in Moscow. NOSENKO did not indicate how DMITRIYEV was used operationally or how he was connected with the American-Canadian-British target.-(fnu) IVANOV: A lawyer employed by the Institute of Foreign Trade in Moscow. NOSENKO did not personally recruit this agent. IVANOV moved to Moscow from the Baltic area and his previous handlers there notified the Center, suggesting that the agent might be of use in the capital. NOSENKO contacted IVANOV and later turned him over to the British Commonwealth Department of the Second Chief Directorate which, NOSENKO believed, "planted him in the British Trade Mission or something like that."-Marina RYTOVA: KGB cryptonym "KRYMOVA," born about 1923 or 1924 and educated at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, a special school which also had Communist students from foreign countries. There she studied military subjects as well as foreign languages. She speaks English and Greek well. NOSENKO could not recall who recruited her, but she was turned over to him by I.A. KONSTANTINOV, a Tourist Department case officer, in 1956 or 1957. At that time she was working as an interpreter at the Russian Permanent Exhibit in Moscow and continued in this job until about 1960, when she became an instructor in the Greek language school of the Institute of International Relations. She reported to NOSENKO any information which she obtained on foreign delegates or foreign tourists who visited the Exhibit in Moscow. As she was often invited by the Ministry of Agriculture to interpret during meetings between Soviet officials and delegates from America, England, and Greece, she also reported this information to NOSENKO. RYTOVA served several times as an interpreter for KHRUSHCHEV and once participated in a conversation he had with Iowa farmer GARST. In 1959 or 1960 she was sent as interpreter with a small delegation which visited GARST's farm in the United States and was used by the KGB Legal Residency in Washington,[^1]: NIELSEN was, in fact, in contact with CIA at the time (see Part VI.D.2.)
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112. D.C., to report on observations enroute and while there. RYTOVA is married to a man who works in one of the military offices in Moscow and is a captain or a major. They have one daughter, approximately 14 years old.-Yevgeniya ("Jane") DANKO: KGB cryptonym "OKSANA." She worked in the American Express Company office in Moscow for Arsens FRIPPEL and later for FRIPPEL's successor, Michael JELISAVCIC. DANKO was handled by I.A. KONSTANTINOV from about 1955 to 1957 and was then turned over to NOSENKO. She reported on JELISAVCIC, who was not approached, according to NOSENKO.4. Operations with Foreign VisitorsNOSENKO said he participated in 14 operations with foreign visitors to the USSR while a member of the American-Canadian Section of the Tourist Department. Nine of these operations resulted in recruitments (excluding one who later was recruited by another element of the KGB, but including another whom NOSENKO classified as a borderline case). Of the remaining five operations which did not end with a re-cruitment, no approach was contemplated by the KGB in one case, one target rejected NOSENKO's proposal, the KGB was unable to obtain compromising material for an approach to a third, and for political reasons the KGB decided against approaching the final two.Although the information from NOSENKO on the timing of these operations does not always agree with that from other sources, these cases can be grouped chronologically as follows: 1955 - one; 1956 one; 1957 three; 1958 - two; and 1959 - seven. The operations in 1955, 1956 and, with one exception, 1959 were homosexual provocations. The re-cruitment of Arsene FRIPPEL in 1959 was based on heterosexual compromise.These fourteen operations are summarized briefly below in the approximate order in which the cases began. For each case, NOSENKO's information is followed by a summary of the results of CIA investigations. The description of the BURGI case is more detailed than the others, for reasons in-dicated in the text.a. Attempted Entrapment of MALIA (1955)NOSENKO's Information: Martin MALIA, a graduate student, spent about four months in the USSR in 1955 and was suspected 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. After NOSENKO had arranged for the Soviet to introduce MALIA to a KGB homosexual agent, 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*See Part V.D.5. for further details on FRIPPEL and JELISAVCIC.
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116. This was the first time NOSENKO met BURGI. Following the recruitment, he moved into the same hotel, a floor above BURGI, and for the remainder of BURGI's stay in Kiev became his constant companion and guide. An attempt was made"to smooth out all the dirty business that had been brought up during the recruitment talk.." NOSENKO took BURGI to an old cathedral in Kiev; with KOZLOV and PETRENKO they visited a kolkhoz and the writer SHEVCHENKO's grave in nearby Kaniv. The subject of homosexuality was not raised again. From Kiev, BURGI went directly to the West, without returning to Moscow. Before the approach, NOSENKO had visited the American Department of the First Chief Directorate and had arranged with its chief, FEKLISOV, for a re- contact plan in New York City should BURGI be recruited. Before he left BURGI was briefed on these arrangements, which called for a first meeting in the New York Public Library. BURGI was given a recognition signal and a KGB cryptonym, but the latter was not discussed with him.About five days after returning to Moscow, NOSENKO turned over all his materials or the BURGI operation to the First Chief Directorate. Somewhat later Sergey GUSKOV, Chief of the American-Canadian-British Tourist Section, KOZIOV, and POSENKO visited FERLISOV in the First Chief Directorate and expressed an interest in further develop- ments in the case. FEKLISOV told them that BURGI had ar- rived for his first meeting, but the KGB had not established contact; the first meeting in New York City took place the second or third time BURGI appeared and the New York Legal Residency continued to meet with him until the Revolution in Hungary in late 1956. NOSENKO later heard from someone in the American Department, First Chief Directorate that the case was closed. For their roles in this first recruitment of the Tourist Department, NOSENKO said in 1965, he and KOZLOV received letters of commendation and bonuses of one month's pay by order of KGB Chairman SEROV: PETRENKO was given a letter of commendation and half a month's salary; and even RASTIKAITE, the housekeeper, got a commendation. In October 1966, however, NOSENKO said his only KGB award was for his longevity of service.Investigation Results: BURGI was first interviewed on 22 November 1957 concerning his recruitment by the KCD.
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120. BUEGI then continued to describe the reminder of his stay in Kiev (generally agreeing in NOSENKO's account).c. Approach to (1957)NOSENKO's information: NOSENKO made an unsuccessful recruitment approach in 1957 to on the basis of poorest in continuing his commercial activities in the USSR. Originally the responsible case officer had been A. I. VERENIKIN of the Sixth Section of the Tourist Department; this section was then responsible for operations against foreign seamen. Since VERENIKIN spoke no German and was known to speak English, NOSENKO was selected to make the approach because he "know English a little." When asked why a German-speaking KGB case officer was not used, NOSENKO answered: "The higher-ups said 'go work on this case,' and that was all." After being rebuffed by NOSENKO saw him several more times during the 1957 , but when NOSENKO attempted to renew contact upon return to the Soviet Union in 1958, the latter refused to see him."Investigation Results: was interviewed by CIA on 19 July 1965, and, while generally uncooperative, described a "mild approach" in Moscow during 1956 or 1957 which may be the one described by NOSENKO. (He was not questioned on the identities of the Soviets involved.)
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continues to have extensive business contacts...t commercial representatives in West Germany andwas recently reported to have negotiated a sizable shippingcontract with the Soviet Union shortly after.His principalc. Recruitment of (fa) in 1957 or 1958attempt was made to recruit him. A Second Chief Directorateofficer, N.A. ARKHIFOV, made acquaintance andhandled the entire operation against him, but NOSENKO him-self played a role. It had somehow been determined thathad a fondness for girls. NOSENKO therefore presentedhimself to him, using the name "SMIRNOV" or "SERGEYEV" andposing as a painter, and told that he could find womenfor him. A party was arranged, with a KGB agent as*See Part V.D.8 for more discussion of this point.**This incident is described more fully in Part III.A.
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122. date and a Second Chief Directorate secretary as NOSENKO'S. Late in the evening NOSENKO and his date excused themselves, and had sexual relations with the female agent. Photographs of the scene were taken by the KGB. Then NOSENKO and saw one another the next day. announced that had some articles, cameras and the like, that he want to sell on the black market. NOSENKO offered to arrange the sale and took to a dingy section of Moscow. As they arrived before a small house. NOSENKO asked to give him the things to be sold. At this moment a KGB officer posing as a militiaman approached and arrested them for blackmarketeering. As the militia station, was recruited by K.N. DUBAS, then Chief of the Tourist department, under threat of imprisonment. (It was DUBAS who had had the photographs taken the previous evening.) There was no further contact with after he left the USSR, however, because on his return to Oslo he published an article in which he described his experiences, "but not all of them."> [Figure: Image of an 'investigation results' report, heavily redacted, with only the title visible.]f. Recruitment of HARRIS. (1958)NOSENKO's Information: NOSENKO in 1959 recruited Gisella HARRIS, an employee of the American Express Company in Salt Lake City, based on her romantic and sexual involvement with a Soviet citizen. The Soviet told HARRIS that he was in trouble with Soviet authorities and persuaded her to accompany him to the police. HARRIS agreed to meet and cooperate with the Soviets if they established contact with her in Salt Lake City, but the case was turned over to the First Chief Directorate, and NOSENKO was unaware of any further contact with her.> [Figure: Image of another redacted document, with a handwritten notation and illegible content.]
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# Compromise of KRAFT (1958)NOSENKO's Information: Virgil KRAFT, a clergyman from the Chicago area, visited the Soviet Union as a tourist in 1957 or 1958, and NOSENKO was assigned to be the responsible case officer. During an earlier trip to the USSR, the KGB had learned, KRAFT had been intimate with a Soviet woman. NOSENKO arranged for her to come to Moscow from Kiev, where she was living in 1957 or 1958, in order to compromise KRAFT. Although his wife was accompanying him in Moscow, KRAFT and the Soviet woman were intimate in the latter's room in the Grand Hotel. NOSENKO was present at the time supervising the operation. Photographs were taken. Then militiamen broke into the room, finding KRAFT and the woman in the nude; a recruitment approach was then made by DUBAS, the Chief of the Tourist Department. (NOSENKO had been the case officer and had handled the operation thus far, but he took no part in the confrontation or recruitment approach "because DUBAS wanted it for himself.") Although the recruitment was not firm, KRAFT and DUBAS "hau an agreement" that nothing would be done about the compromise if KRAFT did not criticize the Soviet Union in lectures about his trip there which he was to give in the United States. DUBAS again contacted KRAFT when he came to Moscow in 1963, and after this his file was turned over to the First Chief Directorate. NOSENKO recalled that the First Chief Directorate "said that KRAFT was not in a good region of the United States. And also it smelled like he had spoken of the approach made to him." Therefore, NOSENKO concluded, he probably had not been contacted in the United States.Investigation Results:# Recruitment of DREW (1959)NOSENKO's Information: George DREW, an American who visited the Soviet Union in the spring of 1959, had originally been the responsibility of V.M. IVANOV, a case officer of the section dealing with American and Canadian tourists. By chance, however, DREW became involved with NOSENKO's homosexual agents VOLKOV and YEFREMOV (see Part V.D.2), and they reported this to NOSENKO, then the deputy chief of the section. NOSENKO and IVANOV discussed the case with DUBAS and possibly GUSKOV, the section chief, and NOSENKO flew alone to Leningrad to make the approach. (IVANOV was not considered to be sufficiently experienced and his English was not good.) NOSENKO arranged for DREW to be compromised in a Leningrad hotel room with a homosexual agent of the local KGB handled by a Leningrad officer, (fnu) PERELETOV. Using the name "Mr. SERGEYEV," NOSENKO
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124. alone recruited DREW in an office of the hotel. The KGB FirstChief Directorate was interested in DREW's recruitment be-cause he might be able to spot other homosexuals, possibly somein the U.S. Government.Investigation Results:i. Recruitment of (1959)NOSENKO's Information: In June or possibly July 1959 NOSENKO personally recruited a subject, in a room of the Hotel Astoria in Leningrad after had been compromised by NOSENKO'S homosexual agents VOL-KOV and YEFREMOV (see Part V.D.2.). The case was then turned over to Yc. A. TARABRIN, at that time Chief of the British Department of the First Chief Directorate. NOSENKO furnished no more information on this case and did not know its current status, but he believed the KGB has not been in contact with subsequently.Investigation Results:j. Recruitment of (1959)NOSENKO'S Information: By himself NOSENKO recruited in the Nova Moskovskaya (now the Bucharest) Hotel in Moscow in July 1959, after had been compromised by either VOLKOV or YEFREMOV, his homosexual agents (see Part V.D.2.). is a citizen and his case was also turned over to TARABRIN.Investigation Results:k. Recruitment of (1959)NOSENKO's Information: NOSENKO personally and alone recruited the Moscow representative of.* NOSENKO explained his involvement with British nationals by saying that, after 1958, the Tourist Department had two geographic sections, one dealing with U.S. and UK citizens and the other with tourists from other countries. NOSENKO was involved in the first of these, "so they assigned them to me."