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# Oksana and himself. He said that he and his wife refer to heras his "double" (kopiya). His wife, in a letter after thedefections, referred to Oksana as NOSENKO's kopiya.NOSENKO's father, the Shipbuilding Minister, died ofstomach cancer in August 1956, three years after NOSENKO sayshe entered the KGB Second Chief Directorate. The period oftime surrounding his father's death was, according to NOSENKO,a turning point in his personal and professional life. It wasthen that he "found himself" after an irresponsible past.drinking and wenching, and indifference to his work.## Venereal DiseaseThe incident which NOSENKO has most often cited as anexample of his irresponsibility in the period prior to 1956involved his illegal use of KGB alias documents to cover treat-ment for a case of gonorrhea he contracted in 1954, at the timehis wife was pregnant with their first child. The CIA psycho-logist who questioned NOSENKO in May 1966 submitted the follow-ing summary of NOSENKO's statements about this incident, whichare about as given earlier (during the April 1964 interroga-tion):"A girl friend he had known in Leningrad since 1945 cameto visit relatives in Moscow in 1954. She called him, and hespent some time with her. She was not a prostitute, and hehad slept with her before, so he thought nothing of it. Laterhe developed what he feared was a venereal disease. Since hiswife was pregnant, he was safe both from discovery and thedanger of infecting her. He searched frantically around Moscowfor a private doctor who treated such diseases, but could notfind one. Some of his friends at the office suggested a centralclinic that would require no documents. He went here but whenconfronted with a request for documents, had the choice ofshowing his KGB certificate or using a false passport he hadfor business. He tried to talk the doctor into letting himgo home to get his documents, but the doctor said he would haveto be accompanied by a member of the militia; otherwise hemight not come back. He was required to take treatment of acommunicable disease. He was forced to give the false document.He came back for treatment about three times and was orderedto report back in two weeks for a final check. They alsodemanded the name of the girl, but he claimed he had only justmet her and did not know who she was. He forgot to go backand a nurse visited the safehouse about two times and lefta note for him to report. However, he did not go to the safe-house so knew nothing of the note. In the false passport wasa listing of where the named person worked, a fictitiousfactory. As the result of the clinic inquiries, the requestfor information got into the hands of the section which madethe documents. NOSENKO was called before the deputy chief ofthe Directorate and severely criticized. He explained whathad happened and was given five days of house arrest. However,the chief of his section had also gotten word of the infractionand sentenced him to fifteen days of house arrest without eventalking to him. He told his wife he was going on a trip andmoved into the administrative room near the office to servehis term. In the meantime, the Secretary of the KGB Party