Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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# TOP SECRET(iii) TDY'S by KOSOLAPOV on Code Clerk Cases(a) IntroductionAccording to NOSENKO, the U.S. Embassy Section officer KOSOLAPOV travelled only once to Helsinki, and KOSOLAPOV at that time succeeded in his mission of accompanying--together with a KGB female agent--a suspected American code clerk, Paul Prancıs JENNER, by train to Moscow. (The KGB later learned that JENNER was not a code clerk but a pouch clerk who also met couriers at the Moscow airport, NOSENKO said, and this KGB iden- tification of JENNER's specialty is confirmed by U.S. Department of State files.) The report by NOSENKO on KOSOLAPOV is contra- dicted by two sources, travel records available to CIA and the KGB defector GOLITSYN.Statements made by JENNER in 1960 and 1962 parallel those of NOSENKO in 1964 and 1965 to the extent that two young Soviets, a man and a woman, did converse with him on the train, and later JENNER did encounter the same woman at a Moscow airport. Never- theless, travel records contradict NOSENKO's statement that KOSOLAPOV was the Soviet male aboard the train with JENNER on the 24-hour journey.Although NOSENKO insisted that KOSOLAPOV was on a single TDY to Finland, in early 1960, travel records show that KOSOLA- POV (under a different identity) went to Helsinki in both the spring and fall of 1960. Travel records on the second Helsinki TDY by KOSOLAPCV, on which NOSENKO has not reported, are borne out by GOLITSYN. GOLITSYN said that KOSOLAPOV, in order to lay the groundwork for a future relationship in Moscow, accompanied a U.S. Embassy code clerk by train from Helsinki about November 1960, or perhaps as late as the beginning of 1961. Again on the basis of travel records, it has been determined that on 16 November 1960 KOSOLAPOV was a fellow passenger of an American code clerk named John W. GARLAND on the daily train from Hel- sinki to Moscow.The following discussion of the TDY's of KOSOLAPOV is divided into three parts: KOSOLAPOV's false identity for travel, the early 1960 TDY, and the November 1960 TDY. Each part incorporates the information from all sources, including NOSENKO.(b) False Identity for TravelVadim Viktorovich KOSOLAPOV was born in Perm' on 19 Febru- ary 1928. According to travel records, one Viktor Dmitriyevich KOLOSOV, born in Perm' on 19 March 1927, was in Finland from 31 March to 2 April 1960, in Finland from 12 to 16 November 1960, and in Denmark from 25 October to 1 November 1961.* In July 1965, Johan PREISFREUND (see Part V.E.3.c.li.on STORSBERG operation) identified for CIA a photograph of KOLOSOV as that of a KGB offi- cer named Vadim (last name unknown) who approached him in MoscowNOSENKO reported that KOSOLAPOV travelled to Copenhagen in 1961 to recontact the YOUNGERS, an American man and wife who were arrested for espionage and recruited by the KGB while touring the USSR in 1961 (see Part VI.D.2.).# TOP SECRET
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in the fall of 1964 to ask whether he knew anything about NOSENKO'Sdefection. Shown KOLOSOV'S photograph in October 1966, NOSENKOimmediately identified him as KOSOLAPOV.NOSENKO told theSubsequently cia prepared aprotocci, which ROSENKO read and signed, corroborating its accu-racy. This protocol reads:"I do not know about this trip of KOSOLAPOV's toHelsinki in November 1960. I do not know that heaccompanied a code clerk back to Moscow at that time."I was KOSOLAPOV's direct supervisor from January1960 to January 1962 and would have to know and approveany operational travel by KOSOLAPOV outside the USSR.In the case of his trip in March 1960 to Helsinki toaccompany Paul JENNER, I talked with him about it, andthen approved after he wrote it, the cable to the Hei-sinki residentura (legal Residency) informing them ofhis mission, and of course received his report afterthe trip."Normally, I would know about and prove this tripin advance. If I were away at the time, normally Iwould have heard about the trip upon y return. How-ever, I don't remember anything about this trip eitherbefore or after KOSOLAPOV'S trip to Helsinki. If therewere further developments in this case, I certainlywould have known about them."*(c) The Early 1960 TDY (JENNER Case)NOSENKO first rentioned a TDY by KOSOLAPOV in an interviewby the FBI.NOSENKO reminded his interviewer that he had travelled toCuba in November 1960. He was told that CIA travel recordsshow that he transitted Amsterdam on a direct flight to Cubafrom Moscow on 15 November 1960, three days after KOSOLAPOVarrived in Helsinki. NOSENKO was then asked if he would havelearned of the trip in any case, whether or not he was inMoscow, and he stated that he would have....TOP SECRET
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188. NOSENKO was interrogated by CIA on the JENNER case on 15 February 1965. On the basis of this interrogation, a protocol was drawn up in question-and-answer form, incorporating NOSENKO's responses, and on 19 February 1965, NOSENKO signed the protocol, attesting to its accuracy. The following is taken from this signed statement:Question: Did you supervise the work against JENNER?NOSENKO: Yes.Question: Did you read the file on JENNER?NOSENKO: I don't remember.Question: Did you read reports on JENNER?NOSENKO: Yes, I read materials on JENNER, everything which came into the section on JENNER and the other code clerks.Question: Did you ever see JENNER personally?NOSENKO: Yes. We had his *anketa* (visa application).Question: What was the operational plan on JENNER?NOSENKO: Before his arrival we had only the *anketa*, nothing more. He was listed as secretary/archivist, and there was a date on this *anketa* which was the date he was due to cross the Finnish border--the middle of the month, the 15th. It was the beginning of 1960, not long after I had arrived in the First Department. We decided to create an active operation. We knew the date, and we thought he was to[^1] The position of secretary/archivist at the U.S. Embassy in in Moscow was usually occupied by a code clerk, but as previously stated, this was not true in JENNER's case.TOP SECRET
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be a code clerk. We wanted to send KOSOLAPOV to Hel-sinki with the mission of returning with JENNER onthe same train, during which time KOSOLAPOV was tostudy his behavior. JENNER was young and so wasKOSOLAPOV.Question: How old was JENNER at the time?NOSENKO:I don't know. We sent GRYAZNOV's agent, a ballerina,to Vyborg as part of this operation. I think herfirst name is Yeva, but I don't remember her lastname; her code name was "SOLISTKA"... She was placedon the train in Vyborg as if she had been visitingsomeone there and was returning to Moscow. The mainidea was to place an agent near JENNER before heeven arrived in Moscow. We wrote a proposal to theChairman of the KGB giving the reasons for doing this.We explained that we had usually only one year inwhich to work. The agent "SOLISTKA" met JENNER andspoke with him. KOSOLAPOV also became acquaintedwith JENNER and spoke with him, but I can't say thatthey were all speaking together at one time. Shegave JENNER a telephone number.Question: A KGB telephone number?NOSENKO:Of course not; it was her own telephone number, buthe didn't call her. We then noticed that he wasn'tworking in the code room but in the mail room. O.K.,that was interesting too. We waited one or twomonths for the call to come, but nothing happened.When JENNER once went to the railroad station orairport alone to meet the couriers, we sent her withGRYAZNOV by car in an attempt to have them meetagain. JENNER saw her but did not approach (her).Instead, he turned in the other direction. Onlylater did we learn that he is a very quiet person.There was nothing else on JENNER at all except asuspicion that he may have been a homosexual, butthere was no proof. He was like a child.Question: How much time did you have between the time of theanketa's arrival and the time of JENNER's arrival?NOSENKO: A month, plenty of time to prepare.Question: A month?NOSENKO:Well, approximately a month. The usual approvalfrom the Central Committee was necessary so thatKOSOLAPOV could go abroad.Question: Who wrote this?NOSENKO:I prepared the kharakteristika [official form) onKOSOLAPOV for this TDY and gave it to the PersonnelOffice.Question: Whose idea was it for this Helsinki operation againstJENNER?
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190. NOSENKO: It was the idea of the group.Question: Did you advise KOSOLAPOV on what his role was to be before he left--what he was to do?NOSENKO: I was discussing this case with GRYAZNOV and KOSO-LAPOV, and maybe we discussed it with KOVSHUK on the day before KOSOLAPOV left.Question: Was "SOLISTKA" an experienced agent?NOSENKO: She had been working before 1960, but I don't know for how long.Question: Who handled her before GRYAZNOV?NOSENKO: I don't know.Question: How did you coordinate this trip of KOSOLAPOV's with other units, for example, with the [KGB] First Chief Directorate (FCD)?NOSENKO: KOSOLAPOV wrote a cable saying that he was coming for two or three days.Question: Did you approve this cable?NOSENKO: I didn't sign it, but I read it, and then we took it to KLYPIN for his signature. Once it was signed, KOSOLAPOV took it to the Second (European) Department, FCD.Question: What cover did KOSOLAPOV use for this trip?NOSENKO: I don't remember.Question: What name did KOSOLAPOV use?NOSENKO: I don't remember if he used his own name or another.Question: What other correspondence was there?NOSENKO: Correspondence?Question: What other cables or letters were sent to or received from the Helsinki Rezidentura (Legal Residency of the KGB) concerning this operation, KOSOLAPOV'Ss trip?NOSENKO: Only this cable, nothing else. KOSOLAPOV was to discuss with the Rezidentura the possibility of obtaining their help in Helsinki with the work against code clerks, to see what agents they had, or to study the situation, the possibilities. We wanted to use agents against the code clerks in hotels and restaurants, to use girls...Question: With whom was KOSOLAPOV to speak in Helsinki?
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NOSENKO: He spoke with the Resident and the Deputy Resident. He discussed this question with them and they said they would see about it, but we were told that the Residency has more important questions.Question: What was more important than the work against code clerks?NOSENKO: They didn't tell us.Question: Well, wasn't there some sign, some hint as to what was so important?NOSENKO: Code clerks in Helsinki would be more important for them; this is the work of the FCD.Question: How did KOSOLAPOV know how to find JENNER, to recog- nize him and make contact?NOSENKO: KOSOLAPOV had his photograph, knew his name, and with the help of the Residency, I think, they found out at the railroad station who was going on the train. Then they bought a ticket on the same train for KOSOLAPOV. We knew JENNER must cross on the 15th.Question: When did KOSOLAPOV leave for his trip to Helsinki?NOSENKO: I don't know.Question: When did he return?NOSENKO: I don't know, don't remember.Question: How long was KOSOLAPOV gone in all?NOSENKO: About one week, not more than one week counting travel time.Question: How did KOSOLAPOV travel to Helsinki?NOSENKO: By train, both ways.Question: Was he alone on the way down or did someone go with him?NOSENKO: He was alone.Question: How did you arrange for "SOLISTKA" to board the right train?NOSENKO: GRYAZNOV sent "SOLISTKA" alone to Vyborg and had the local KGB officers there meet her and place her on the correct train. They knew the date and would establish the fact that KOSOLAPOV was on that train before placing her aboard...Also on 15 February 1965 NOSENKO made the following additional statement not included in the protocol: "The agent was 'SOLISTKA.' She was GRYAZNOV's agent even before 1960. GRYAZ- NOV briefed her for the mission... KOSOLAPOV wrote a report on
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his trip. Nothing unusual or interesting in it. 'SOLISTKA' also gave a report to GRYAZNCV, but there was nothing there, either."NOSENKO was questioned on 20 October 1966 about his responsibility for and knowledgeability of KGB operations against American code clerks. He was required to give only brief answers, without discussion, to specific questions. The CIA questions and his answers were as follows:Question: Did you supervise all code clerk operations in 1960 and 1961?NOSENKO: Yes.Question: Were GRYAZNOV and KOSOLAPOV your subordinates during this period?NOSENKO: Yes.Question: How many times did KOSOLAPOV travel to Helsinki in order to travel to Moscow on the train with American code clerks?NOSENKO: I know of one.Question: When was that? Which one?NOSENKO: Don't remember. 15 March or April 1960.Question: Which code clerk?NOSENKO: It wasn't a code clerk. When he arrived it was found that he worked with the mail. He came as a secretary/archivist and the First [U.S. Embassy] Section thought he is a code clerk. Found out later that he worked on the mail.Question: JENNER?NOSENKO: Yes.Question: Do you know of any others?NOSENKO: No. What do you mean?Question: Only one?NOSENKO: Only one--JENNER.Question: Was the operation successful?NOSENKO: No it wasn't successful. But it was interesting. It was the first try to send an officer to HelsinkiQuestion: When did it happen?NOSENKO: First part of 1960. I think approximately 15 March or April.Question: Other than the trip to meet JENNER, did KOSOLAPOV make other trips abroad?
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NOSENKO: He went to Copenhagen to meet this couple [the YOUNGERS]and was in the United States at one of the GeneralAssemblies. That's all. That was in the '50's. Noothers.Question: Did KOSOLAPOV personally meet JENNER?NOSENKO: Yes.Question: Did you read his report of this meeting?NOSENKO: Yes.When on 26 October 1966 NOSENKO was shown the KOLOSOV photo-graph for the first time, the following discussion ensued:Question: Do you know the person in this photograph, number 17[Viktor Dmitriyevich KOLOSOV, employee of Vneshtorg,born 19 March 1927 in Perm, USSR]?NOSENKO: KOSOLAPOV, Vadim KOSOLAPOV, the former case officerof First Chief Directorate, First Department. From'59, the end of '59, case officer of the First Depart-ment, Second Chief Directorate.Question: We have information that a Viktor--NOSENKO: (interrupts) Vadim Viktorovich.Question: Anything else you want to say about the name?NOSENKO: KOSOLAPOV.Question: Concerning his travel to Helsinki by train in Marchof 1960 under cover of Vneshtorg, does that meananything to you?NOSENKO: I was telling you that there was trip when he wasreturning with Paul JENNER.Question: JENNER, the code clerk?NOSENKO: He was secretary/archivist, but he wasn't working asa code clerk. He was working with mail.Question: Well, according to official records he arrived inHelsinki by train from Moscow.NOSENKO: Yes.Question: On the 31st of March 1960.NOSENKO: Yes.Question: And he went to meet JENNER, to come back on thetrain with him. Right?NOSENKO: I was thinking and I'm not sure. '60 or '61. I'mnot sure. '60 or '61. I'm not sure. I'm not sure'60 or '61. I was telling '60, but i'm not sure.Anyway, I cannot tell exactly. I know he was inHelsinki, that he was going to Helsinki...
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# TOP SECRET194. Question: It's 1960. He made a trip in 1960, in March, to Helsinki by train using this name, KOLOSOV, and using this cover, Vneshtorg, and we also have a report from official Finnish sources that he left Helsinki by train on 2 April 1960 and went to Moscow.NOSENKO: I don't remember the dates. Don't remember. Must be 15 March or 1 April, 15 March or 1 April.Question: No, he didn't arrive until 31 March. We have the official record on his travel. We have his photo here, which you just saw.NOSENKO: On the visa certificate, anketa, with this picture of Paul JENNER, it was said that he must come; we knew that he must come 1 April or 15 March, or something of this kind.Question: But we have the official records showing KOLOSOV's, or KOSOLAPOV's, arrival on 31 March.NOSENKO: I cannot give you any details. All I have said, everything what I knew. If you need something on KOSOLAPOV, I will try to remember.Question: The interesting thing is KOLOSOV, or KOSOLAPOV, left Helsinki on 2 April. JENNER, Paul JENNER, according to the same official sources, left Helsinki by train to go to Moscow on the 31st. Two days before.NOSENKO: They were going in one train.Question: They weren't even on the same train.NOSENKO: Here, please, they were going in one train.Question: KOSOLAPOV remained in Helsinki.NOSENKO: (interrupts) KOSOLAPOV in one even carriage, in one even carriage with Paul JENNER. Then...Question: (interrupts) How do you know this for sure?NOSENKO: I was reading his report after his coming. I was reading also the agent's report of the female agent who was put in this carriage, in this carriage in this train, and at the station Vyborg, the first Soviet station, Vyborg, where she was taken by GRYAZNOV, and was put in the same carriage, and she was acquainted with JENNER. And later, it was a try, as I was telling, to show her to JENNER, but JENNER didn't want to have a contact with her. That's all. It was finished... And she was acquainted with him and was speaking with JENNER, and KOSOLAPOV himself was speaking with JENNER... I was reading KOSOLAPOV's otchet (official account) about his (trip).Question: That's quite possible. It's quite possible that they gave you a report to read concerning this. But it is a fact that official records show that the two men were not on the same train. They were two days apart.NOSENKO: No (whispered).
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# Question: JENNER left on the 31st.ΜΕΞΙΚΟ:I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe this is a mistake of Planish officials. I don't know, but he was on the same train and he was returning from Helsinki with Paul JENNER. The same train,The remaining information on KOSOLAPOV'S TDY in early 1960 comes from other sources:- After arriving in Moscow on 1 April 1960, JENNER reported that he was approached on the train from Helsinki by two young Russians, "a bcy and a girl, probably university students."* The two Russians struck up a conversation and were soon baiting him on the question of racial discrimination in the United States. They said that they might see JENNER in Moscow. About three months later, on 29 June, JENNER was performing his normal duty of escorting Embassy couriers to Sheremetevo Airport when he was again approached by the hussian girl, Yuli, who acted surprised to see him and asked him to go outside to talk. Yuli explained that she was waiting to say goodbye to a friend who was leaving on a flight to Irkutsk (JENNER had seen the Irkutsk flight depart a half hour earlier) and told JENNER that her male companion on the train trip to Moscow, Yura, had returned to his studies in Vyborg. Interspersed with Yuli's questions concerning JENNER'S impressions and personal activities in Moscow were others about how often he came to the airport and how he liked his job at the Embassy. When JENNER said he must leave, she gave him her telephone number in Moscow and insisted that he call her.** She advised JENNER that "it would be better if you did not mention our conversation to anyone."- Besides information about his Soviet companions on the Moscow journey, JENNER also told U.S. Department of State security officials about sexual advances made by his first maid in Moscow and about provocative clothing worn by his second maid. (NOSENKO has not indicated that either of these two women was KGB agent, but has said in another context that all maids of American code clerks were KGB agents or informants.)- CIA investigations showed that I. Ye. SERGEYEV, a KGB officer and the Soviet Consul in Helsinki, contacted the police chief there on 31 March 1960 to ask his assistance in locating an American named Paul F. JENNER who was due to arrive in Helsinki the day before.*** SERGEYEV explained that he had some "business" with JENNER, but he* KOSOLAPOV was 32 years of age at the time.** NOSENKO has mentioned several times that GRYAZNOV's agent "SOLISTKA" gave JENNER her telephone number.***GOLITSYN identified the Helsinki police chief as a Soviet Intelligence agent from "about 1945 on."TOP SECRET
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136. did not specify its nature. Reportedly this was the firsttime that SERGEYEV had made such a request of the policechief.- CIA travel records show that JENNER arrived in Hel-  sinki en route to Moscow on 30 March 1960 and departed by  train the following day. KOSCLAPOV arrived in Helsinki  the same day that JENNER left, 31 March 1960, and remained  there until 2 April 1960 when he too departed for Moscca  by train. The Finnish train manifest for 31 March 1960  indicates that there was only one passenger abcard the  daily train leaving lielsinki for Moscow on this date,  Paul JENNER, listed as a U.S. citizen and secretary/archi-  vist. The manifest for 2 April 1960 carries the name  Viktor KOLOSSOV (KOSOLAPOV) and shows that no American  citizens were aboard.(d) The November 1960 TDY (GARLAND Case)Apart from denying that it ever took place, NOSENKO has saidnothing about a trip to Helsinki by KOSOLAPOV in November 1960,but GCLITSYN said such a trip occurred and related it to an in-cipient KGB operation against an American code clerk.GOLITSYN was not posted to the KGB Legal Residency in Hel-sinki until July 1960, i.e., after KOSOLAPOV's first trip toHelsinki, under the KOLOSOV alias. He has reported that at"about the end of 1960, about November or possibly by the begin-ning of 1961," the KGB Second Chief Directorate sent a telegramto the Helsinki Legal Residency. The teicgram advised that anAmerican code clerk would arrive in Helsinki in transit toMoscow; the responsible case officer would be KOSOLAPOV, whowas being sent to Helsinki under an alias and under Uneshtorgcover; KOSOLAPOV was to strike up an acquaintance to be con-tinued with the American in Moscow.The following extracts are from the transcript of GOLITSYN'Sfurther remarks on this subject in early 1962:Question: You say that around November 1960 KOSOLAPOV cameto Finland?GOLITSYN: Came to Finland.Question: He came under cover?GOLITSYN: Yes.Question: Under a new identity? With an alias?GOLITSYN: Yes, as an employee of Trade Union (Vneshtorg).But, of course, there may be some different dates.Maybe November. I suppose (believe) it was theend of 1960 or it can be the beginning of 1961.And he waiting for some days, a week or so.Question: In Helsinki?A similar request to the police chief was made by SERGEYEVwith regard to GARLAND (see below).