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772. surveillance had been discontinued. NOSENYO did not tell CIA about this incident in 1362, he said, because he knew that the watch had been discontinued and that nothing suspicious had been noted; therefore. he thought the incident would not have been of interest to American Intelligence.MOSLNKO has stressed that ALIDIAN FOs under special surveillance by at least two surveillance teams at all tizes and that, on the day he visited Pushkar Street. ALILIAN wa under continuous watch from the moment he left the inbas NOSENKO has beer able to live a detailed description of ABILIAN'S covezent to the dead drop site.Despite the special surveillance coverage of ACIDIAN, NOSENKO 821a, he was unaware of any unusual movements u ABIDIAN during the days immediately preceding his visit to Pusakin Street. NOSENKO said that he knew definitely that surveillance had reported nothing unusual during this period and that he was sure ABIDIAN had not cluded the sur- veiliace at any time during it. According to CIA records, three days before ABIDIAN went to Pushkin Street in response to indications that the dead drop had beer loaded. ABIDIAN left the U.S. Embassy in his private car for Spaseu ilouse at about nine o'clock in the evening: at about two o'clock the next corning he and DARLLER (CIA Chief of Station) went in ABIDIAN's car to check the telephone pole for the signal PESKOVSKIY was to leave as part of his sigral that the drop had been loaded. Two days before ABIDIAN went to Fushkin Street be drove ais car to the apartment of Air Force Captain DAVISON; he again checked the telephone pole from a window SOSENKO in the apartment and then walked by it on foot. identified GARBLER as a U.S. naval officer but not as a CIA employee (sce above).Asked why, In his opinion. ABIDIAN went to Fushkin Street at the tite he did, NOSENKO replied that in about 960 an American tourist or delegation member had gone to this address. It was the "opinion of the Second Chief Directorate" that this Anerican had selected the site as a dead drop location, and that ASIDIAN went there merely to check the suitability of the site for this purpose. In fact, ABIDIAN went to Pushkin Street in response to what appeared to be a prearranged telephone signal frea PENKOVSKI signalling that de had loaded the dead drop there. It has been confirmed that FENKOVSKIY did not give this signal and, Lecause of the circumstances and type of signal given, the possibility of coincidence has been ruled out. CIA has therefore concluded that the signal came from the KGB.The Pushkin Street dead drop site was proposed by PENKOVSKIY himself in the August 1960 letter through which he initially contacted CIA. There is no record that a "tourist or delegation neuber" visited this address. The only known visits by Americans to the building on Pushkin Street--the only ones having any connection with its use as a dead drop location--occurred on 12 November and 4 December 1960 when the CIA officer MAHONEY checked the address from outside, and on 21 January 1961 when MAHONEY entered the building and dhecked the specific location of the dead drop. MAHONEY is known to have been identified to the KGB as a CIA officer before arriving in Moscow ar J was the target of heavy surveillance throughout his tour. (NOSENKO did not know about MAHONEY or his CIA status.)