Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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84. sensitive source- said that when NOSENKO was a young man, he attended the GRU Military-Diplomatic Academy and then spent a short time, perhaps a year, in the Information Department at GRU Headquarters. NOSENKO had been a "very undisciplined person" while in the GRU and "not very good," continued, and he was discharged from the GRU. However, his father, an "influential person in the Ministry of Shipbuilding," was able to get NOSENKO transferred to the KGB.- said he did not know NOSENKO personally, but learned this information from "various persons" (unnamed) in Moscow.- The thumbnail biography of NOSENKO which KOROLEV and ROSENTAL submitted to the editors of Paris Match in October 1966 (see Part III.H.) stated that NOSENKO was "closely acquainted with the country's leaders, families, and homes" and that his "father who died several years ago was an important official in the Party and state organs." The document went on to say that "NOSENKO's family consists of a wife, 35, two daughters, 10 and 12, mother and a brother (younger)." KOROLEV and ROSENTAL also provided photographs purporting to be of NOSENKO's wife and daughters.source- said she heard from her KGB friend v. G. SVIRIN that NOSENKO's father was a Minister or a General of Ukrainian origin and that his mother was Jewish and "was always involved in some blackmarketeering." She also said that she heard NOSENKO was a "civilian," not a KGB officer, but was connected somehow with the KGB. (She could not explain this connection other than to say that all Soviets permitted to meet foreigners are either officers or "relatives" of the KOB.)TOP SECRET
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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS STAFF MEMBERSFILE TITLE/NUMBER/VOLUME: CASE OF YURIY IVANOVICHNOSENKO (835 PAGE STUDY)VOL. II PAGES 85 THRU 348INCLUSIVE DATES: (PART II)CUSTODIAL UNIT/LOCATION: SEROOM:DELETIONS, IF ANY: ONGOING OPERATIONS MATERIAL| DATE RECEIVED | DATE RETURNED | REVIEWED BY (PRINT NAME) | SIGNATURE OF REVIEWING OFFICIAL || ------------- | ------------- | ------------------------ | ------------------------------- || 11 MAY 1978   |               | Ken Klein                | ![signature]                    || 18 May 78     |               | Ken Klein                | ![signature]                    || 5 Sept 78     |               | Johanna Smith            | ![signature]                    ||               |               |                          |                                 ||               |               |                          |                                 ||               |               |                          |                                 ||               |               |                          |                                 ||               |               |                          |                                 ||               |               |                          |                                 |NO DOCUMENTS MAY BE COPIED OR REMOVED FROM THIS FILE
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# NOSENKO'S KGB CAREERA. IntroductionDuring his 11 or 12 years' service in the KGB Second Chief Directorate, NOSENKO said, he rose from case officer to deputy chief of a department and from lieutenant to lieutenant colonel (or, as he has stated more recently, only to the rank of captain). An English speaker, he had specialized in operations against American targets in the USSR as he steadily advanced to higher positions in the U.S. Embassy Section of the American Department (from entry on duty with the KGB in 1952 or 1953 until 1955, and from January 1960 to January 1962) and in the Tourist Department (from June 1955 to January 1960, and from January 1962 until the defection). His duties took him to England in 1957 and 1958, Cuba in 1960, and Bulgaria in 1961 as well as to Switzerland in 1962 and 1964; also, NOSENKO made numerous trips within the USSR in connection with operations, inspections, and conferances. Commendations, twice accompanied by bonuses, were awarded to him by the KGB Chairman in 1956, 1959, and 1961 and by the head of the Second Chief Directorate in 1957 and 1958; he was one of 70 Second Chief Directcrate officers awarded the Order of the Red Star in 1962; and in the same year he received a medal for completing ten years of "irreproachable service."[^1] Thus, according to NOSENKO, his defection ended a promising career marked by promotions, responsible positions, extensive travel, and many honors.NOSENKO has discussed a large number of KGB operations, including some in which he had a personal role, either as a participant or as a supervisor, and others conducted by other KGB personnel in the First and Second Chief Directorate about which he learned through his professional and personal contacts.. Those in which he played a personal role are covered in this part of the paper. All are included in Part VI. The text of the paper distinguishes the information from collateral sources and investigations from the details which NOSENKO has provided on the same topics.[^1]: NOSENKO has admitted recently, however, that he never got any awards at all in the KGB.
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# 86.B. Entry into the KGBNOSENKO has provided a wide range of dates for his entry on duty with the KGB and has offered disparate descriptions of the circumstances and procedures involved in his becoming a KGB staff officer. His statements on these two topics are presented under separate headings below.## 1. Date of EntryA range of dates between early 1952 and 2 April 1953 has been given by NOSENKO as the time when he entered on duty with the KGB, but he has been most consistent in placing his entry in the month of March 1953.* In summary, he has said the beginning of 1952 (statement of 31 January 1964), May 1952 with no day (statement of February 1964), 5 or 7 September 1952 (statement of 6 April 1964), March 1953 with no day (statements of 9 June 1962, 24 April 1966 and 27 October 1966), 12 or 15 or 17 March 1953 (statement of 8 April 1964), 13 or 15 March 1953 (statement of 26 July 1965), and 2 April 1953 (statement of 17 April 1966). When last questioned about this subject, on 27 October 1966, NOSENKO acknowledged that he had lied when he had earlier reported his entry as occurring in 1952. His statements about the entry date are arranged in chronological order below.9 June 1962 (first CIA meeting with NOSENKO): "In the beginning of 1953 I came to Moscow /from duty with the GRU in Primorsk/. This was 1953, in the beginning. in January. Well, I came on leave to Moscow. I was staying at my father's dacha there... I was then in the Navy GRU. So I came to Moscow on leave and, while I was home near Moscow at my father's dacha, /General Bogdan Zakharovich/ KOBULOV** dropped in on us. A conversation simply began. He said: 'What are you doing?' I said: 'I'm working in GRU. I worked in the Far East and now I'm working in the Baltic. I came here on leave.' KOBULOV said: 'How do you like the work? I replied: 'Well, speaking honestly, I don't like the work.' 'Well,' he said, 'You better come to work with us. Where do you want to go? Into intelligence or counterintelligence?'... I did not want to go into intelligence."* Several of NOSENKO's remarks about his date of entry into the KGB were made during CIA questioning about how and when he first learned of the KGB agent "ANDREY"; the lead to "ANDREY" was one of the two pieces of information which NOSENKO offered to sell when he approached CIA in 1962 (see Part II.B.); the "ANDREY case is discussed at greater length in Part VI.D.3.b.** Other sources have reported that KOBULOV was expelled from the State Security apparatus in 1946 and that he did not return to a position of authority until a few days after Lavrentiy BERIYA became MGB-MVD Minister on 9 or 10 March 1953. As of 1952, KOBULOV was working in East Germany for both Wismut A.G., a uranium ore-mining concern, and for the Soviet contingent to the Allied Control Commission. KOBULOV was arrested at the same time as BERIYA, along with others in the KGB. See Part V.B.2. for further references to KOBULOV.
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86a.consider that only people who have seven, even ten years' experience in counterintelligence work should be sent to intelligence. After this, let them go into positive intelligence. Then they know how counterintelligence operates... Well, when KOBULOV asked me where I wanted to work, I answered: 'It is better, of course, to go into counterintelligence.' 'Well,' he said, 'Good. Look, drop in to see me for a minute sometime.' This was simple conversation. Nothing official. A week later I got a telephone call. They were calling from Personnel and told me to stop by. I went. 'Come into this room, they told me/, 'it's not necessary to fill out a questionnaire (*anketa*). We have already obtained your personal file from the GRU. Go directly to the central entrance, A pass has already been issued for you; the pass is already there. Go to the Secretariat of Bogdan Zakharovich KOBULCV. Well, I went. KOBULOV had been summoned somewhere high up in the government, and his assistant received me. 'How about working in the American Department?' he (the assistant/ asked. 'Well, good. Go there right now.' Well, I went to the Second Directorate... His /KOBULOV'S/ assistant sent me directly to the Second Directorate, the American Department, the First Section, working with American correspondents...in '53, in March, in March '53. STALIN had just died.'*[^1][^1]: STALIN died on 5 March 1953.
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# 87.31 January 1964: Yuriy Ivanovich GUK was reassigned from the KGB Second Chief Directorate "in something like 1952," NOSENKO said, "exactly just about the time when I came from the GRU to the KGB. He was already gone by that time."*February 1964: After his defection on 4 February 1964, NOSENKO prepared an official statement about his biography. He said that he had entered the KGB in 1952, and he shifted the dates of most of the events during the 1945-1955 period one year backwards from the version given in 1962. This was discussed with NOSENKO, and he repeated the new dates; he then studied and approved an official statement on his biography (for the Intelligence Community) which contained the new dates, including his claim that he entered on duty with the KGB in about May 1952.6 April 1964: Confronted with the above inconsistencies, NOSENKO said that he returned to Moscow in August 1952 and during the same month had a conversation with KGB personnel about getting a job. The interview continued with the following dialogue:Question: You came (to Moscow) in January?NOSENKO: No, it wasn't January, it was the second part of 1952. Yes, before that I was in the GRU... Maybe - if I tell you 7 - 7 September - maybe it was 5, I don't know.Question: ...What date did you enter on duty with KGB?NOSENKO: I don't remember.Question: Early September 1952?NOSENKO: Early September 1952, yes... I came and the first few days was sitting in a room with KUTYREV, RAKOVSKIY, and GROBOV, in Room 615. Yes, it was 7 September when I had joined... 7 or 5... And so the first few weeks I had been reading cases, studying forms; I worked like that (during) December, January, February... No, it was March, yes, after STALIN's death, after the reorganization. And at the end of March I was transferred to the attaches cases.*** This would place the entry date some time at the beginning of 1952, for the KGB defector GOLITSYN has reported that GUK was transferred from the Second Chief Directorate in January 1952.** NOSENKO later settled on June or July 1954 as the time of this transfer. Part V.C. covers the period when, according to NOSENKO, he was engaged in operations against the U.S. military attaches in Moscow.
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# 8 April 1964: The interrogator pointed out to NOSENKO that he had on different occasions dated his entry into the KGB as January 1952, March 1953, and in September 1952. The questioning continued:Question: Which is the truth?NOSENKO:After the death of STALIN, in March 1953. Why did I say it (the other dates)? You see, I finished the Institute in 1949. Then I defended my diploma, and then came the State exams. I passed all the exams except one - "Foundations of Marxism-Leninism" the philosophy. And I had to take all the examinations over again. All of them. I took four, passed three, flunked one. Just the same, all four had to be taken over again. For that reason I graduated, or I received the diploma from the Institute in 1950, although officially I graduated in 1949. This is an unpleasant thing and I did not want to mention it. And right after that I was sent to the GRU.* The rest is just as I told you, word-for-word. This was the only thing. And then, after I said it, I did not want to correct it. To twist around again. And the mistake I made was about my work in the KGB. It was not 1952, of course, but 1953... It was 12 or 17 or 15 March. KOBULOV accepted me right away. STALIN was still not dead and I was already accepted. March 1953, about the 15th, about 15 March 1953.26 July 1965: "At the end of 1952 I came to Moscow from Sovetsk in Primorskiy Kray, near Baltiysk. I had worked in the Naval Intelligence Point (MRP) there. My aim in coming to Moscow was to get out of this work in the MRP. I couldn't stand that work. I couldn't stand that work... I arrived in Moscow at the end of 1952, December... I don't remember exactly the date of the order appointing me an officer in the KGB. It was 13 or 15 March 1953."17 April 1966 (letter to CIA case officer): "From August 1952 until 1953 I worked at the Intelligence Point of the Naval Intelligence of the 4th Fleet in, Sovetsk, where I received the rank of lieutenant of the Administrative Service. From 2 April 1953 until 4 February 1964 I worked in the Second Chief Directorate of the MGB-KGB."24 April 1966 (signed autobiographical statement): "In the middle of March (1953/ KOBULOV's assistant, Colonel SAVITSKIY called me at home and told me to come to see KOBULOV... I worked in the First Section, First (American/ Department from the middle of March 1953 until July 1955."27 October 1966: NOSENKO reaffirmed that he entered the KGB in mid-March 1953. He said that he had lied when he earlier said that he had joined the KGB in 1952, and that he knew he was lying at the times he made these statements. Asked why he had lied, he replied: "There was no sense." NOSENKO then went on to explain that because he was only an average student and because he was a heavy drinker, he had been found unsuitable* Since April 1966, NOSENKO has said he joined the GRU in 1951, a year later.
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92. called me at home and told me to come see KOBULOV. KOBULOVdidn't see me and SAVITSKIY directed me to the Deputy Chiefof the Second Chief Directorate, Colonel SHUENYAKOV...SHUBNYAKOV told me that an order had been signed appointingme a case officer in the First Section of the First Depart-ment, Second Chief Directorate. SHUBNYAKOV called the Chiefof the First Department, Lieutenant Colonel GORBATENKO, andintroduced me. Then I went to the First Department and wasintroduced to the Deputy Chief of the First Department and theChief of the First Section, KOZLOV. KOZLOV said I would takeover the cases of Senior Case Officer, Captain (Anatoliy)TORMOZOV and suggested that I begin work the same day. I wasaccepted for work in the MVD in precisely this way. It isnecessary to note that none of the workers of the MVD PersonnelAdministration spoke to me, either before or after the signingof the order assigning me to the Second Chief Directorate ofthe MVD."
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93. C. To June 1955 (American Department)1. IntroductionDepending upon which date he has given for entering the KGB, NOSENKO's first assignment in the U.S. Embassy Section of the American Department, working on American correspondents living in Moscow, lasted for about six to eighteen months. From that job, he said, he moved in 1954 to operations against U.S. Military Attaches assigned to the Moscow Embassy, remaining in the same section until being transferred in June 1955. His activities, as NOSENKO described them, and pertinent collateral information on his targets while he was in the U.S. Embassy Section are reviewed below.2. Operations Against CorrespondentsOn the day of his acceptance into the KGB, NOSENKO was taken directly to the offices of the U.S. Embassy Section. There he met the section chief, V.A. KOZLOV, who told NOSENKO that he would take over the work of the departing case officer, Captain Anatoliy TORMOZOV, in operations against American correspondents in Moscow.a. KGB Files on SHAPIRO, GILMORE, SALISBURY and WHITNEYWhen NOSENKO reported for work the following day, according to statements made on 8 April 1964, he found a desk in Room 615. "There were three other guys sitting there. At first I was running traces, and at the same time I was reading the files on journalists... I think there were seven files in all, and I didn't see any other." NOSENKO listed these files as those on Henry SHAPIRO, Eddy GILMORE (as well as one on GILMORE's wife SEREBRYAKOVA and her sister CHERNYSHEVA), Harrison SALISBURY and Thomas WHITNEY.*During the 1962 meetings with CIA, NOSENKO identified SHAPIRO as an "old agent of ours." He said that WHITNEY "worked for us while he was in Moscow and gave us some material, but he refused to work for us when he left the country and would not contact us in the United States." GILMORE, NOSENKO said, was an active recruitment target in 1953 and 1954, but NOSENKO did not know whether he was recruited. Likewise, he did not know the status of SALISBURY as of 1953.NOSENKO stressed that the files he was given to read during the early period of his KGB service were developmental files (delo formulyar) rather than the operational files of the agents. The developmental files were less sensitive, and from them "you would never be able to figure out whether he [the subject of the file] is an agent or not." NOSENKO explained that, once a person becomes an agent, another file is set up, and these agentNOSENKO made clear that he was not the case officer responsible for the more important correspondents: "KOZLOV himself was working with them, the chief of the section himself--with SHAPIRO, with SHAPIRO's wife. I also know that KOZLOV was working with WHITNEY and with [Andrew J.] STEIGER... For each of these persons there was an operational file which I did not see.". According to NOSENKO, he was in no way involved with STEIGER and Edmund STEVENS, both of whom were American correspondents recruited as agents by the KGB..
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# agent by a cryptonym (known to NOSENKO and confirmed by GOLITYN)appearing in the CHEREPANOV papers.*The KGB defector Nikolay KHOKLOV had earlier identified thePolish-born wife of WHITNEY as a KGB agent, an allegation whichshe denied, and it had been long assumed that WHITNEY too hadreached some sort of accommodation with the KGB because of thisfact and because of the long duration of his tour as a correspond-ent in Moscow.GILMORE also had been suspected by CIA before NOSENKO's in-formation was received. He served in Moscow for 12 years, from1941 to 1953, and is married to a Soviet national.SALISBURY served two short tours, of about one year each,in Moscow during the 1950's. During the second of these, hebecame enamored with the Pole who was to become WHITNEY's wife(see above) and was during this period a subject of criticism byother American correspondents in Moscow for his pro-Soviet arti-cles. When WHITNEY married the Pole shortly after STALIN'sdeath, SALISBURY returned to the United States and his articlestook on an anti-Soviet tone.NOSENKO claimed no involvement with the other two Americancorrespondents whom he identified as KGB agents, STEVENS andSTEIGER, both the subjects of a considerable amount of derogatoryinformation in CIA files. They are discussed in Part VI.D.2.under the heading of NOSENKO's American leads.3. Operations Against Military Attache PersonnelSome time in the first half of 1954 NOSENKO was relieved ofhis responsibilities for the correspondent cases, and from thenuntil his transfer from the American Department he handled KGBSecond Chief Directorate operations against the officer person-nel of the U.S. Military Attache's office. NOSENKO's account ofthe turnover of the correspondent files to his successor and ofthe acceptance of the attache files is presented below.- 8 April 1964: "I took over the Military Attache cases  from Nikolay KHRENOV... When I was leaving in 1955, I turned  the attache files over to Valeriy BUDYLDIN."- 10 April 1964: "I made a mistake... I said I accepted  the cases from KHRENOV when I was taking on the Military Attache  work. This is not right. KHRENOV was not working in the First  (U.S. Embassy) Section; he was working in the First (American)  Department. I took over the cases from--let's see, there was  ZHUKOV and Vladimir Aleksandrovich CHURANOV, and here was my  table (desk), and I accepted the cases from Pavel Fedorovich  PANKRATOV. This was in the beginning of 1954."- 15 April 1964: NOSENKO said that he thought he turned  over the correspondent files to F.V. KISLITSYN (who returned  to the USSR from Australia in May 1954). NOSENKO asked when  the PETROV's defected in Australia; he explained that he was* See Part V.D.7.c. for a detailed discussion of the CHEREPANOV  Papers.
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97. not sure about KISLITSYN and could have given them to another officer. "If KISLITSYN came [back from Australia] in 1953, then it was to KISLITSYN. Otherwise, it was someone else."- 18 June 1964: "KISLITSYN came into the First Section in 1954 and I gave him the files on American correspondents. BUDYLDIN also joined the section this year and took the files on the Army Attache and his assistants from PANKRATOV. BUDYLDIN left later that year and turned those files over to me... Yuriy LEONTIYEV joined the section in 1955, and I gave him the files on the Army Attache and his assistants."NOSENKO has also been indefinite as to the date he assumed responsibilities for the attaches. As noted above, he said on 10 April 1964 that he received the files in the beginning of 1954. He had earlier said that he worked on the correspondents "only about six months." If the date of March 1953, which he most often gave for his entry into the KGB, is correct this would place the turnover in the fall of 1953. On other occasions he has said specifically that he turned over the correspondent cases and began work against the attaches in January 1954, on still others that this occurred in May 1954. In February 1965, NOSENKO said that he could not remember when he changed assignments.