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# TOP SECRET275. to visit the United States in mid-November 1960.* HOSENKO waslisted as an engineer employed by the State Scientific-TechnicalCommittee (CNTK). After defecting, NOSENKO told CIA that he hadbeen scheduled to accompany this delegation as a security offi-cer but that the delegation's visit to the United States hadbeen postponed at the last moment. He therefore did not travelto this country.He further explained, on 17 April 1964, why his visa appli-cation had been submitted in true name and under a differentcover: "In 1957 and 1958 I went to London as NIKOLAYEV repre-senting the Ministry of Culture. Then in 1959 I didn't go any-where. Then when this question came up of my going to the Statesin 1960, I said: 'I'm not going. I've been going under theMinistry of Culture (cover) and with sports delegations. Thishas to be changed somehow at this point.' So we thought aboutit and finally somebody said: 'Lock, how about this? Perhaps[you can use] this committee of RULNEV'S (GNTK].' So I said:'Well, it's up to you. You decide.' By that time my passportwas ready, but the Americans and the Soviets hadn't come to anagreement yet. It was decided that this delegation would go tothe U.S. in 1961." NOSENKO was then asked why he could nothave used the NIKOLAYEV name for his trip to the United States.He replied: "Sure, I could have gone as NIKOLAYEV, but I justdidn't want to. Pecause, look, it was known to us that theBritish and American Intelligence exchange information on peoplethey suspect of being KGB, and that the British, of course,had probably watched me when I was in England [in 1957 and 1958]and probably there it was noticed that here's this man underthe cover of Ministry of Culture. He's not a sportsman. Itkind of looks suspicious. Then he goes to the Soviet Embassy.Also suspicious. So then I have to go to the States. And ifI go as NIKOLAYEV I couldn't use--in that case I couldn't usethe same cover of Ministry of Culture because of the type ofthe delegation. I'd have to use a different cover. So I'd gothere and they'd say: 'Aha, here's NIKOLAYEV under differentcover now.' But if I go as NOSENKO, the British never heardthe name. Nobody knows the name. Everything would be О.К."NOSENKO was then asked why he could not have travelled undersome other alias. He answered: "That's the way it was de-cided. I guess so as not to get all mixed up they decided tosend me as NOSENKO anyway. It's up to the people who are incharge of these operations. They are the ones who decide.**** This visa application was submitted approximately six months  after the KGB rejected his request for PCS assignment to  Ethiopia.** With regard to his trips to England in 1957 and 1958, NOSENKOsaid that he had been forced to use the name NIKOLAYEV becausethis was the name he had used with British citizenswhen they visited the Soviet Union in the summer of 1957; hecould not, he said, have shown up in England with another nameas upon their return from the USSR (see Part V.D.4.h.).This apparently was not a consideration when selecting a namefor the U.S. visa application, for NOSENKO had used the nameSERGEYEV in his approach to American George DREW in 1959 (PartV.D.4.h.) and the name PETERSON when he recruited ProfessorGerard MERTENS, also in 1959 (Part V.D.4.1.). NOSENKO was incontact with Arsene FRIPPEL under the name NIKOLAYEV during thisperiod. NOSENKO and other sources have said that the "KGB sus-pected that FRIPPEL was an American agent (see Part V.D.5.).TOP SEC