Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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# 8. TDY's to London (1957 and 1955)NOSENKO reported that his first official travel outside the Soviet Union occurred in the fall of ... when he was selected to accompany a group of athletes to had been invited to visit London. As he explained on April 1904, it is necessary for a security officer to accompany any such delegation, and the Eleventh Department of the Second Chief Directorate, responsible for recruiting Second Chief Directorate officers for this purpose, telephoned K..., Chief of the Tourist Department, to request an officer who spoke English. DUBAS asked NOSENKO whether he wanted to make the trip. NOSENKO replied: "Why not? I have never been abroad yet." NOSENKO consequently travelled to London, using the alias Yuriy Ivanovich NIKOLAYEV and posing as "the deputy chief" of the delegation. He was specifically instructed to observe one member of the delegation, a woman name. MYARIMYAYE, whose father had been killed in a Soviet prison and whose political reliability was uncertain. Additionally, he had the general task of watching all members of the delegation for possibly suspicious contacts with foreigners. The delegation consisted of approximately 50 persons and to help him in carrying out these duties, NOSENKO was assigned three or four agents and several operational contacts among the delegation members. He was the only staff security officer making this trip.The second trip to London took place a year later, in the fall of 1958, again as a security watchdog. This time he accompanied a delegation of 11 or 12 boxers, and again he used the alias NIKOLAYEV and the cover position of deputy chief of the delegation. NOSENKO was the only security officer with the delegation, and he had two agents and two operational contacts among the boxers. His assignment was general; nobody in particular was kept under observation, and the KGB had no derogatory information concerning any members of the delegation.NOSENKO has associated his use of the NIKOLAYEV alias in London with the use of the same name with the British subjects and (see Part V.D.4.d.) shortly before the first of these two trips. On 17 April 1964 NOSENKO explained this situation as follows: "WithI used the name NIKOLAYEV, Yuriy Ivanovich, a representative of the Ministry of Culture. And then when the question was raised of sending me in 1957 with the delegation to England, I was forced to go there as NIKOLAYEV. I was forced to. And again under the cover of the Ministry of Culture. Because [of this) I went as the assistant head of the delegation, representing the Ministry of Culture. I didn't go under my own name because it was decided that when these people came back to England, they would tell who they were with (report their contacts in the USSR). They would probably question especially as one who used to work in intelligence.. would say: 'There was this man from the Ministry of Culture, NIKOLAYEV, He was with us all the time, even went to Leningrad with us.' So they would say: 'How does he look [what does he look like]?' He would say: 'He looked so-and-so.' So,
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of course, I would go there the same year. I'd go there, and they would look at me and say: 'llow come this man--his name is NOSENKO, and yet he is very similar to the one described by That was why it was decided I have to go again under the name NIKOLAYEV. Just a matter of conspiracy. Since I already became known as NIKOLAYEV to the Britishers, this would be noticeable."![image]TOP SECRET
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151. of course, I would go there the same year. I'd go there, andthey would look at me and say: 'How come this man--his name isNOSENKO, and yet he is very similar to the one described byThat was why it was decided I have to go again under the nameNIKOLAYEV. Just a matter of conspiracy. Since I already becameknown as NIKOLAYEV to the Britishers, this would be noticeable..![image]TOP SECRET
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# Meanwhile, no one replaced NOSENKO as Deputy Chief of the Tourist Department's American Section because (as he explained on 29 January 1965) the Tourist Department, which had earlier operated against members of delegations and various other categories of foreign visitors, was being reorganized in January 1960 for work against tourists alone and the Deputy Chief slot was eliminated. With the exception of A. A. DMITRIYEV, Marina RYTOVA, and the homosexuals YEFREMOV and VOLKOV, NOSENKO turned over all of his agents to another officer in the section named TIMOFEYEV. NOSENKO said on 29 January 1965 that he had two separate files on his agent Arsene FRIPPEL, a developmental file and an operational file, and that he turned the former over to TIMOFEYEV and the latter to V. D. CHELNOKOV, Deputy Chief of the Tourist Department. During later interrogations, however, NOSENKO has said that he continued to handle FRIPPEL while in the U.S. Embassy Section and was the case officer during FRIPPEL's visits to the Soviet Union in 1962 and 1963.**## 2. NOSENKO'S Transfer to the U.S. Embassy SectionIn December 1959, while serving as Deputy Chief of the American-British-Canadian Section of the Tourist Department, NOSENKO learned from K. N. DUBAS, the department Chief, of plans to transfer him to the U.S. Embassy Section as Deputy Chief. NOSENKO said he was opposed to the move and wanted to remain in the Tourist Department: "I was used to it there and wanted to continue. I wanted to stay in the Tourist Department. This /the transfer/ was no promotion. Here I was the Deputy Chief of section and would be the same there. But, of course, its more important there. The American Department is, of course, the most important. But here I was working against American tourists. This is also important. Furthermore, I showed /had proven/ my-self there in '55, '56, '57, '58, and '59 and was considered to be not a bad case officer. And here, in the American Department, I must show /prove/ myself with new people." NOSENKO therefore asked DUBAS in December 1959 to "please fight for me to stay." DUBAS later told NOSENKO that he had twice spoken to Second Chief Directorate Chief O. M. GRIBANOV on his behalf, but to no avail. In January 1960 the official orders transferring NOSENKO were issued.On the day NOSENKO reported to V. A. KLYPIN, Chief of the American Department, to begin his new job, he was told to report to GRIBANOV's office. TO GRIBANOV NOSENKO again expressed mis-givings about the change of assignment. GRIBANOV replied that DUBAS had spoken to him about this but that he, GRIBANOV, "had his own plans and that was all." GRIBANOV told NOSENKO that* There was no change in the functions of NOSENKO's section, however; as before, it continued to be responsible for operations against tourists from the United States, England, and Canada.**FRIPPEL has reported that NOSENKO continued to meet him until he left the Soviet Union in January 1961 and again when he returned as a guide to tourist groups twice in 1962 and once again in 1963; see Part V.D.5.TOP SECRET
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154. he thought NOSENKO could bring "fresh air" to the U.S. EmbassySection's operations and that he was to pay particular attentionto operations against American code clerks, the "number onetarget."* Neither GRIBANOV nor KLYPIN told NOSENKO why he hadbeen selected for this position or who had recommended him forit.NOSENKO was asked on 17 April 1964 whom he had relievedupon reporting for duty in the U.S. Embassy Section. He replied:"Nobody." He was then asked to identify the persons from whomhe had assumed certain of his duties as Deputy Chief of thesection (these are discussed in detail below). KOSENKO said thathe took the responsibility for maintaining the section file onthe security of the U.S. Embassy from the Chief of the section,V. M. KOVSHUK.** Regarding his responsibility as case officer forthe Security Officer of the Embassy, NOSENKO explained that be-cause former Security Officer Russell LANGELLE had been declaredpersona non grata in October 1959 and because his successor JohnABIDIAN was not to arrive until March 1960, no ore in the sectionhad this responsibility when he, NOSENKO, arrived in January1960.. Asked who had been LANGELLE's case officer, NOSENKO re-plied: "LANGELLE was handled by several people - by A.S./ MALYU-GIN, then after that by V.A. KUSKOV, then by KOVSHUK, then* In late December 1961, GOLITSYN also commented on this subject  to his CIA handling officer: "The task of strengthening of  wor: against the Americans has been a standing requirement,  both in the past and most particularly at this time. This  work was particularly intensified after the appointment of  SHELEPIN to the KGB... In 1960, it was recommended in the  KGB to intensify the work against the Americans at the U.S.  Embassy in Moscow, and against American colonies in other  countries... This question of intensifying work against the  Americans was up before the Collegium of the KGB. Thereafter,  there was a directive from SHELEPIN regarding the intensifi-  cation of work against the American cipher-clerks."**There is an apparent contradiction between NOSENKO's desig-nation of KOVSHUK as Chief of the First (U.S. Embassy) Sec-tion in 1960 and information earlier supplied by GOLITSYN.GOLITSYN told CIA of a conversation he had with KOVSHUK inJanuary 1961 in Moscow (see Part V.E.3.c.2. concerning arecruitment approach to the American code clerk James STORS-BERG) but at that time described KOVSHUK only as an AmericanDepartment officer, without indicating his position. Theonly time that GOLITSYN has given a position for KOVSHUK wasin the context of questioning concerning KHRUSHCHEV's "SecretSpeech" denouncing STALIN in 1956; GOLITSYN said that at thistime KOVSHUK was Chief of the American Department (sic) ofthe Second Chief Directorate. On 16 February 1962 GOLITSYNidentified Vladimır PETROV as Chief of the "section concernedwith the American Embassy of the American Department of theSecond Directorate in 1960, NOSENKO had identified PETROVas Chief of the Second Section of the American Department,which was concerned with the penetration of U.S. intelligenceoperations inside the Soviet Union.TOP SECRET
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allegedly in the Tourist Department in this period) and couldnot describe their functions. On this basis NOSENKO was thenasked to list the officers who had joined the section between1956 and January 1960, when NOSENKO said he had returned. Heprovided 14 names, but BAKHVALOV's was not among them. Askedto name the officers who had left the section in the same period,he named five, again omitting BAKHVALOV.TOP SECRET
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3. Duties and Knowledgeabilitya. IntroductionShortly after reporting for duty in the U.S. Embassy Section and following his short discussion with GRIBANOV, NOSENKO met with Department Chief KLYPIN and Section Chief KOVSHUK to discuss his responsibilities and functions in the section. Repeating what GRIBANOV had already said, KLYPIN stressed that NOSENKO's most important single responsibility in the section would be supervision of all KGB operational activity against American military and State Department code clerks stationed in Moscow. As for the other Americans at the Embassy, KLYPIN suggested a division of labor under which KOVSHUK would be responsible for supervising operations against State Department personnel and NOSENKO would supervise work against the Army, Air Force, and Naval attaches and their assistants.* NOSENKO was also made responsible for maintaining certain files in the section. On 19 February 1965 NOSENKO signed an interrogation protocol which he agreed contained a listing of his principal responsibilities during 1960 and 1961. It read in part:"During the entire period in the First [U.S. Embassy] Section, First [American] Department in 1960 and 1961 my position was Deputy Chief of Section. My responsibilities were the following:-General Deputy to the Chief of the First Section, Vladislav Mikhaylovich KOVSHUK, and Acting Chief of Section in his absence.-Immediate supervisor for the operational work against American code clerks. In this capacity I closely guided the work of case officers Gennadiy GRYAZNOV and Vadim KOSOLAPOV.-Case officer for U.S. Embassy Security Officer, John ABIDIAN.-For about the first six months of 1960, supervisor of the work against the offices of the U.S. Military, Naval, and Air Attaches.-I maintained the file on American Embassy security.-I maintained the log books for the reports sent to the First [U.S. Embassy] Section by the Operational Technical Directorate, KGB, based on the information obtained from all the microphones installed in the American Embassy. I read all the reports and gave the pertinent reports to the appropriate case officers in the Section. In my absence this work was done by KOVSHUK or GRYAZNOV.**"*NOSENKO mentioned his responsibility for supervising attache operations for the first time in 1965. These functions are discussed below.**The final sentence was added at NOSENKO's request at the time the protocol was signed.
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- During this period I was the agent handler for agents 'SHMELEV', 'GRIGORIY', 'PROKHOR', 'ARTUR' and 'SARDAR'.""Throughout this entire period I sat in room 618 of KGB Headquarters at House Number 2, Dzhershinskiy Square, Moscow. GRYAZNOV and KOSOLAPOV shared this office with me throughout most of this period."b. Functions as General Deputy and Acting Chief of Section(1) AccessSince his defection NOSENKO has maintained under repeated interrogation that as general deputy to KOVSIIUK, with the responsibility of taking over in KOVSHUK's absence, he had access to all information on the section's activities and was obliged to keep current on this information. On this basis he has been able to assure his questioners that the KGB was completely unsuccessful in its attempts to recruit Americans assigned to the Embassy in these two years. NOSENKO has also said at various times that his access to section files and his discussions with section officers made it certain that there were also no successes from 1953 to 1960 and from January 1962 to January 1964. His statements on this subject during the February 1965 were distilled in a protocol which NOSENKO signed on 20 February (quoted in full):"1. As the only Deputy to the Chief of the American Embassy Section, First Department, Second Chief Directorate, KGB, Vladislav Mikhaylovich KOV- SHUK, from January 1960 to January 1962, one of my func- tions was to serve as KOVSHUK's general deputy and to assume the rights and responsibilities of Chief of the Section during KOVSHUK's absence. In order to perform this function I had the right and the obligation of knowing the details about every important activity of the section against the American Embassy and its per- sonnel. No activity of this nature was withheld from me."2. As Deputy Chief of the Section I know defi- nitely that no U.S. officials serving in the Embassy were agents of the KGB or reporting unofficially in any way to the KGB during my service in the Section. There were no approaches or recruitments made by the Section during the period January 1960 to January 1962 against personnel of the American Embassy, including personnel of the State Department, the offices of the Military Attaches (Army, Navy, and Air), the Department of Agriculture and USIA, including Marine guards, Army sergeants, State Department code clerks and Army code clerks except against STORSBERG and KEYSERS, both un- successful approaches.*VOLKOV, YEFREMOV, Johan PREISFREUND, FRIPPEL, and respectively, who are discussed in other parts of this paper. At other times NOSENKO has named additional agents he handled in this period; they are discussed below.
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"3. There were no approaches or recruitments made against any employees of the United States Government who were assigned to the American Embassy on temporary duty during this period. I have read and understood this report and certify it as correct."(ii) **Duties**On 29 January 1965, NOSENKO was questioned concerning his supervisory duties as Deputy Chief of the section, particularly his function of supervising activity against code clerks. The transcript of this discussion is quoted here:**Question:** To which of the major responsibilities you have mentioned did you have to devote the most time?**Answer:** I don't know.**Q:** What was the most important?**A:** Everything was important.**Q:** Whom did you supervise in the American Embassy Section?**A:** GRYAZNOV, KOSOLAPOV, [Vladimir] DEMKIN, and later [Yevgeniy] GROMAKOVSKIY who worked with DEMKIN. Then there was [N.A.] GAVRILENKO, [I.Ya.] KURILENKO; and BELOGLAZOV: working with the Attaches.**Q:** They were all in the First Section?**A:** Yes.**Q:** What were their responsibilities?**A:** GRYAZNOV and KOSOLAPOV had all the code clerks. DEMKIN was charged with all persons living in America House, except code clerks. GROMAKOVSKIY helped him. GAVRILENKO had the Air Force Attaches and [their] assistants, and also he had the plane of the Ambassador. He must think about watching the pilots who were living in a hotel. KURILENKO--Army Attache and assistants; BELOGLAZOV--Navy Attache, assistants, and Marines.**Q:** What is your understanding of the meaning of the word "supervisor"?**A:** Personally to be at the head, to direct.**Q:** So, it is your responsibilities of supervising all the work against all the code clerks, this meant that you are the head of this work, that you were participating in discussions concerning this work, and in these discussions you were talking about what measures were necessary.
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Q: (Interrupting.) When necessary, because there are little questions which the case officer must decide himself. When it was necessary.Q: And participating personally when necessary?A: Yes.Q: What sort of case officer questions were you answering?A: All kinds. If I couldn't answer them, if my authority isn't enough for this, it is necessary to discuss them with KOVSHIK. I was discussing with KOVSHUK, with KLYPIN, with [KLYPIN's successor as Chief of the American Department, S.N. FEDOSEYEV. Several times, not once, we were discussing questions with GRIBANOV. Also, concerning measures, concerning future steps. When it was necessary.Q: What other duties did you have as a supervisor?A: I told you. When it was necessary I was going to agent meetings with case officers. When it was necessary. Or, besides, I met personally with "PROKHOR" (PREISFREUND) or "PROKHOR" was working against STORSBERG, "SARDAR" against ZUJUS. I was working myself with them.Q: You personally worked agents "PROKHOR" and "SARDAR"?A: Yes.Q: When did you find it necessary to go to an agent meeting with a case officer?A: Well, for example, DEMKIN would come to me and say: "You know Ella [ UMANETS, an agent in America House). Ella said that MORONE had looked at her and was smiling." This is just an (hypothetical) example....Okay, I am going with him, hearing Ella myself, [ to learn] what happened, [whether] it is possible to make something or not.Q: You met Ella and talked with her?A: Yes, with DEMKIN. Very, very difficult to say, why and how we are going. When it was necessary to go.Q: As a rule did you try to make it a practice to visit the agents of the section who were working against the American target?A: Yes, I am telling you. There was such an agent, Inga [VARLAMOVA]. GRYAZNOV was meeting with her. It might be necessary to go to meet her. But, we knew how Inga was afraid of intelligence. And, you see, they don't like it when a new case officer appears. But, maybe, for the sake of the file.
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Q:it was necessary to go, to hear her. Not becauseyou do not believe GRYAZNOV. No. But, you see,to hear from the source *[emphasized]*, directly,what is going on, and how it is going on, to geta feeling. Because the source will tell the caseofficer, then the case officer will tell you.Maybe sometimes he will not give you every detail,every intonation. But in some cases, it is neces-sary to feel this. But, of course, it depends onthe agent, on the target, whether you will go ornot go. It's very difficult, again, to say.Q: Could you say that you met 50 per cent of thesection's agents?A: No, I can't say.Q: Fifty per cent or 75 per cent?A: I can't answer you.Q: What about your functions as a supervisor in re-gard to safehouses, to "K.K.'s" and "Ya.K.'s".*A: Oh. I myself had a file on my flat, a yavochnayakvartira, which I brought from the Seventh*[Tourist Department]*. It was my own. GRYAZNOVhad his own yavochnaya kvartira. KOSOLAPOV hadalso his own yavochnaya kvartira. And not one ofus had a conspirative apartment.Q: And you took the "Ya.K." from...A: (Interrupting.) Which I had from the Seventh.And, by the way, when I was leaving the First*[American]* Department, I took this file againto the Seventh.Q: And not one of you had a conspirative flat.A: No, because the section had only--how many?--*[P.I.]* MASSYA had one conspirative. *[V.P.]*FEDYANIN had one conspirative, and then there wasone conspirative flat, where, in fact, an agentwas living. In the First Section there werethree or four conspirative flats.Q: But among you, GRYAZNOV, and KOSOLAPOV there wasnone?A: Only "Ya.K.'s".*A "K.K." (konspirativnaya kvartira--conspiratorial apart-ment) is defined by NOSENKO as a safehouse or apartment ownedand maintained by the KGB. A "Ya.K." (yavochnaya kvartira--meeting apartment) is an apartment occupied by a tenant whois perhaps subsidized by the KGB and absents himself whenthere is a need to use the apartment for meetings or otheractivities. The "K.K." is used for more sensitive operationalpurposes, he said.
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## 162.Q:Who kept a record of these three?A:The case officers.Q:Where was your "Ya.K."?A:Vorovskogo Street.Q:And where was GRYAZNOV's?A:GRYAZNOV's was on Kachalogo Street.Q:And KOSOLAPOV's?A:Don't remember. Don't remember. (Pause.) It was in the vicinity of the Suvorovskiy Boulevard. KOSOLAPOV's or DEMKIN'S. In the region of Arbat Square. KOSOLAPOV'S or DEMKIN's. KOSOLAPOV's. DEMKIN'S I don't remember.Q:And you didn't have any responsibility for supervising the activity that went on at these flats?A:I don't understand.Q:Was there some central control of the use of the "Ya.K.'s"?A:What kind of control?Q:Who would be using them, when they would be using them, under what conditions?A:No. The case officer who was working with it decides how to use this flat or how not to use it, et cetera, et cetera. Besides that, very often we were using rooms in hotels.Q:SO GRYAZNOV would take any of his operational activity to his "Ya.K."?A:He would also meet with his agents, with his operational contacts in hotel rooms. KOSOLAPOV was meeting his agents in his own "Ya.K."; NOSENKO was meeting his agents or operational contacts in his own "Ya.K.".Q:Could GRYAZNOV or KOSOLAPOV ever use these "Ya.K.'s" without your knowing about it?A:Of course. It's their own flat.Q:But you're supervising their work?A:Must I keep them like a little, little child? No, no. They don't have to report to me: "Today I go to meet my agent at my flat."Q:They can use them whenever they like without checking with you as supervisor?A:Of course, of course. They are meeting their own agents.