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# TOP SECRET822. 3. NOSENKO'S Knowledge - Damage to the X33has mentioned NOSENKO's disclosures to the Americans concerning the microphones in the U.S. Embassy - her only reference to information he might have provided - on each occasion when she has discussed NOSENKO. She once attributed to SVIRIN the remark in October 1966 that NOSENKO had done consider- able harm to the Soviet Union by revealing this information, thus (and specifically only in this context) underscoring the importance of NOSENKO's information. (NOSENKO himself has characterized this information as the most important he has provided.) The context in which she has discussed NOSEIKO has been the general one of defectors from the Soviet Union: she has repeatedly emphasized that the Soviets attempt to convince all Soviet citizens that "anybody who defects will find his grave by the hand of KGB people"with reference to NOSENKO, she once quoted SVIRIN as having said that NCSEIKO, too, would one day be exterminated, thus clearly implying that NOSENKO was a genuine defector.4. Parallels with NCSE KO's Reportinga. The CHEREPANOV CaseIs account of CHEREPANOV's disaffection, treason, arrest, and execution confirms in general outline and in emphasis that of NOSENKO. claims direct knowledge of the case through her own and scand's personal friendship with CHEREPANOV and his wife. described her husband, in fact, as the only friend of CHEREPANOV who remained faithful enough after CHEREPANOV's downfall to call on CHEREPANOV's widow, whose address knew. This direct knowledge is com- parable to that of CardShe introduced her account of the CHEREFANOV case, as in her discussions of NOSENKO, by references to the determination and effectiveness of the KGB in apprehending and executing those who were "running away"; she offered CHEF EPANCY as an example of a Soviet traitor who had been caught and executed. Her account of the details, however, differs sharply from that of NOSENKO (and others). Her identification of CHEPEPANOV as a classmate of her husband at the GRU'S Military Diplomatic Academy (CA) from 1956 to 1959 is unique among the sources who have reported on CHERE- PANOV. For the period during which said CHEREPAΑΟΥ attended the OA, NOS has made no specific statements con- cerning CIEREPANOV'S career; he has said only that at some un- specified date after CHEREPANOV's return from Belgrade (elsewhere reported as mid-1956) and before early 1960 CHEREPANOV had been assigned to the U.S. Encassy Section. American Department, KC3 Second Chief Directorate. clsc stated, however, that after his graduation from the MA in 1959 HEREPANOV "finally" obtained a job in the Ministry of Foreign Trade, sug- gesting that he had no intervening assignment. Where NOSEIKO has failed to establish a clear motive for CHEREPANOV's having collected KGB documents during his assignment to the U.SJ F-bassy Section for later transmittal to the Americans, has described his increasing bitterness from the date of his entering the MDA in 1956. She was not sure that he had been a KGB officer; she neither mentioned ror did her account allow for his assign- ment to the U.S. Embassy Section in 1960-1961 (as stated byTOP SECRET