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# 707.the section's operations, to supervise in particular opera-tional activity against American diplomatic personnel assignedto the U.S. Embassy. NOSENKO had been specifically instructedby GRIBANOV and American Department Chief KLYPIN to concentratehis efforts on the supervision of operations against themost important American recruitment target, the code clerksat the Embassy, with the aim of revitalizing these acti-vities and making recruitments. (NOSENKO said there hadbeen none since the early 1950's.) According to the agreed-upon division of labor, NOSENKO also assumed case officerresponsibility for John ABIDIAN. the Embassy Security offi-cer (identified by MOSENKO as a CIA officer. but actually aCIA cooptee). Additionally, he was responsible for maintainingthe section's file on factors pertaining to the physicalsecurity of the Embassy and for receiving and disseminatingmaterials from the microphones concealed in various U.S.Embassy offices. These were functions held, NOSENKO said,by his predecessor BAKHVALOV and were turned over by NOSENKOat the end of 1961 to his successor GRYAZNOV: Apart fromthese duties, which apparently were routinely assumed bythe Deputy Chief, NOSENKO supervised, during the early partof 1960 (as NOSENKO first said in 1965), the work of theofficers responsible for operations against the AmoricanArmed Forces Attachos in Moscow; In October 1966, NOSENKOreported that he was personally responsible during thisperiod for the operational activity against Naval and Marineofficers in the Naval Attache's office.d. Knowledgeability as Deputy and Acting ChiefAs deputy to KOVSHUK, NOSENKO said, he was aware ofall the operations being conducted by the section duringthis two-year period; by his own statement, nothing waskept from him. There were in these two years a total ofover three months when KOVSHUK was ill or on leave, and atthese times NOSENKO was acting chief of the section. Inthe latter capacity, NOSENKO was responsible for supervisingthe administrative work and operational activity of the en-tire section and, in particular, assumed KOVSifUK's work indirecting operations against diplomatic personnel assigned tothe U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Therefore, pertinent to hisclaims are the facts presented in the following paragraphs.NOSENKO could not remember any operational decisionsthat he made as acting chief, or any specific or unusualoccurrences during these times. In answer to a question,NOSENKO said that the only specific responsibility of KOVSHUK'swhich he handled in the Chief's absence was reporting to theChief of the First Department about all correspondence goingout of the U.S. Embassy Section.NOSENKO did not meet any of KOVSHUK's agents during hisabsences. He could not remember any of KOVSHUK's agents,except GLAZUNOV (whom NOSENKO said in April 1964 was his ownagent and later said was "KOVSHUK's and FEDYANIN's") andthe American correspondent STEVENS (about whom NOSENKO hadreported in connection with his responsibilities in 1953-55).NOSENKO also said that in 1960 KOVSHUK recruited PREISFREUND,although earlier he had reported that he (NOSENKO) had donethis. (Regardless of who the recruiter might have been,KOVSHUK attended NOSENKO's meetings with PREISFREUND.)TOP SECRET