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superiors and fearing the possible repercussions, NOSENKO had insisted that the illegal acts take place in a public place, and that the KGB not participate in KOTE's apprehension.) After questioning by the Militia, KOTE: was permitted to continue his itinerary to Kiev, where he was scheuled to stay for two days before leaving the USSR.Meanwhile, the First Chief Directorate, which was growing increasingly concerned that the agent of the Residency would te appreherded by the ?, wanted to get him out of the United States before this happened. To establish the "true purpose" of KOTEEN s presence in the USSR and whether he was an American agent, as well as to hold him until the agent had arrived safely in the USSR (as NOSENKO told the FBI on 24 February 1964), it was requested that KOTE! be detained in the Soviet Union. The decision was made to arrest him at once on the basis of the compromising materials cotained in Thilisi. Following the arrest by the Kiev Militia, KOTEI was turned over to the KGB for interrogation; the purpose, NOSENKO said, was to "break him," to secure the admission that he was an American Intelligence agent, At the same time the agent had failed to keep a number of scheduled meetings with his KGB case officer, and the Legal Residency feared that something had gone wrong. He did eventually appear, however, and NOSENKO has described the subsequent meetings as follows: "They asked him: 'Are you going to leave the States? He said: 'Well, I don't know. I have to think about it some more.' So we said: 'No, you have to leave or else we will wash our hands of the whole affair.' So he said: You know I was thinking of leaving with my wife, but my wife does not want to leave.' To make a long story short, they spent three moetings trying to talk him into leaving, and he kept hesitating. He didn't seem to want to leave, so then they told him: Look, we are breaking off contact with you. If you decide to go. you how how to do it. You are to go from the United States to some place in Europe and go to the Soviet Embassy there. They will give us a signal and the visa will be issued to you. Put as far as we're concerned, we're breaking contact with you.'"After this, according to NOSENKO, the KGB released KOTEN when the American Communist Party and other organizations strongly protested his arrest and imprisonment.b. Information from Other Sources Concerning KOTENAt the time of his arrest KOTEN was an instructor of Russian at New York University director of the Library for Intercultural Studies, and a regular contributor to the New World Review and the magazine Jewish Life. Both the Library for Intercultural Studies and Jewish Life have been designated "Communist fronts" by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the New World Review has been cited as a propaganda organ of the Soviet Government. KOTEN has said that, despite his arrest and imprisonment in the USSR, he hopes to return there in the future and that he "still loved the Russian people and believed in the basic humanitarianism of the Soviet Government."Regarding the arrest the New York Times on 29 August 1963 carried an article under the headline "U.S. Guide Missing