Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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of the CI Department of the First ChiefDirectorate, *KGB*, to prepare for assign-ment to the *KGB* residency under SovietEmbassy cover in Helsinki, Finland, asthe CI officer working against foreignintelligence services.August 1960: Subject was assigned to the *KGB* residency inHelsinki, under the name KLIMOV (his truename was compromised through the 1954defection of Petr DERYABIN in Vienna), andwith the cover title of Third Secretary.15 December 1961: Subject, with his wife and young daughterdefected to the U.S. Government which grantedthem political asylum.28 December 1961: Subject met Attorney General Robert KENNEDYalong with Mr. HELMS, DDP.1962: Subject was debriefed by CIA Officers,officials from other US Agencies and teams ofIntelligence Officers from Free World nations.Subject provided much valuable information onthe *KGB*, its organization, personnel, operations,aims and efforts against the Free World.Subject, however, proved to be a difficulthandling problem, especially as a result ofhis personality and his constant demands forregular meetings with high-level US officialssuch as the President, the Attorney-General,the Directors of CIA and the FBI and for apolicy role in the US Intelligence Community.16 February 1962: Subject had another meeting with theAttorney-General.2 July 1962: Subject met again with the Attorney-Generaland Mr. HELMS.9 July 1962: Subject had a conversation with Mr. HELMS.22 August 1962: Subject had interview with Mr. SORENSON of theWhite House Staff and Mr. Edward R. MURROW,Director of USIA.
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15 Nov. 1962: An FBI source reported that the KGB was aware of Subject's presence in the U.S.A. and ordered all Soviet IS personnel to report immediately any information which they may obtain regarding Subject.27 Nov. 1962: Subject met Mr. McCONE, DCI, and protested treatment by the Agency.14 December 1962: Subject met again with the DCI.21 Feb. 1963: Subject and his family left N.Y.C. on _SS Sylvania_ for England.Spring 1963: Subject worked with the British.8 August 1963: Subject returned to the U.S.A.22 August 1963: Subject met the Attorney-General again.23 August 1963: Subject met the DCI again.4 Sept. 1963: Subject met the DCI again and stated that he wanted to become an advisor to the DCI and the Intelligence Community.October 1963-April 1964: Subject in contact with the Agency mostly in the N.Y.C. area. Subject was cooperative to some extent.1964/1965: Subject, according to a Dutch official, visited The Netherlands.June 1965: Subject interviewed by the Canadians (RCMP) in the N.Y.C. area.August 1968: Subject in contact with the British regarding possible publication of his book.October 1968: An FBI source indicated that he had no current information concerning the KGB attitude regarding Subject but the source stated that if the KGB knew Subject's location it might undertake to eliminate him.July 1970: Subject was in contact with Agency personnel and visited Florida.
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March 1972: A KGB defector, LYALIN, reported that he knew that Subject had been sentenced to death by the *KGB*. An article regarding this sentence appeared in *The Chekist* sometime after 1964.April 1972: Subject was in touch with CIA officials.September 1972 A KGB defector, OGANESYAN, provided a copy of the 1969 *KGB Alphabetical List of Agents of Foreign Intelligence Services, Defectors, Members of Anti-Soviet Organizations, Members of Punitive Units and Other Criminals* under Search Warrants. In this List the KGB listed Subject and his wife as under the sentence of death for revealing Soviet State secrets.
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The following are highlights of the chronology of Source's (Subject's) professional career:September 1944: Subject was mobilized and sent to the Frunze Artillery School in Odessa where he remained until July 1945. At that time Subject left the Artillery School before completion of the course and enrolled in a Counterintelligence School.1945-1946: Student at the one year course, Military Counterintelligence School, GUKR/"SMERSH," Moscow.1946-1948: Desk officer, Assistant Operational Case Officer, assigned to the Eastern Section (*otdeleniye*) of the *SK* (Soviet Colony - security of Soviet officials abroad) Department (*otdel*) of the First Chief (Foreign Intelligence) Directorate of *MGB*. Headquarters in Moscow. During the period November 1947 to September 1948 Subject held the title of *Referent* and his office was designated the Fifth (*SK*) Department of the Third (Eastern) Directorate of the *KI* (Committee for Information), but his functions were unchanged.1948-1950: Student at the two-year course, Higher Intelligence School of the *KI*. Subject studied general subjects and the English language; he was one of 30 students who specialized in counterintelligence during the second year of the course.
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1950-1951: Desk officer, Operation Case Officer, supervising *SK* activities in China, assigned to the *SK* Section, Eastern Department, First Directorate of the *MGB* Headquarters in Moscow, the *SK* functions having reverted from the *KI* to the *MGB* in 1949.September 1951: At his request Subject was transferred as a desk officer to the Anglo-American Section, Counterintelligence Department of the First Directorate, *MGB* Headquarters in Moscow.November 1951: Subject was promoted to "Senior Operational Case Officer."December 1951: The *KI*, was dissolved and former state security elements were returned to the *MGB*. Subject's functions continued the same, but, in the reorganization, he was assigned to the CI Section of the American Department of the Anglo-American (First) Directorate of the First Chief Directorate of the *MGB*.March 1952: Subject and an unidentified young colleague wrote a joint letter through the Central Committee of the CPSU to STALIN making suggestions for a fundamental reorganization of Soviet foreign intelligence and counterintelligence work.September 1952: While on vacation in the Georgian SSR Subject was ordered to Moscow for a four hour meeting, with his friend, with STALIN, MALENKOV, and BERIYA. STALIN thanked the two officers for their suggestions, discussed intelligence matters in detail and asked them to send him a letter with specific proposals
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for necessary reorganizations, together with the names of recommended chiefs. In a subsequent letter they recommended Sergey Ivanovich OGOLTSOV, then in prison for "political crimes," and Yevgeniy Petrovich PITOVRANOV, then chief or deputy chief of the MGB in the Uzbekistan SSR. STALIN met Subject and his friend a second time. OGOLTSOV was released from prison and appointed Chief of the First Chief Directorate, with PITOVRANOV as his deputy. A Chief Intelligence Directorate of the MGB was then formed, containing a Counterintelligence Department with an Emigre desk and seven geographical desks. Subject was appointed by OGOLTSOV as chief of the American Desk, supervising approximately 15 staff persons.March 1953: When STALIN died and BERIYA took over control of the State Security apparatus, which he combined with the MVD into a unified MVD, he replaced OGOLTSOV with one of his own appointees. Subject was reassigned as deputy chief of the Russian Emigre Desk of the CI Department of the Second (new designation for foreign Intelligence) Chief Directorate, MVD. Subject supervised activities against emigres in Austria and Germany.October 1953: Subject was assigned to the MVD residency in Vienna, Austria, as an operational case officer in the Emigre Operations Group.August 1954: Subject was transferred to the British Sub-Group of the Anglo-American-French Group of the KGB residency in Vienna. His duties were of a counterintelligence nature, i.e. concerned. with penetration of foreign intelligence services.
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1955-1959: One of 170 students at tending the four year internal security-counterintelligence course, the *KGB* Higher School Juridical Institute. He presented and successfully defended his thesis on the subject of *SK* activities among Soviet delegations and tourist groups traveling abroad. He received his diploma in August 1959. During his school tour Subject also spent several weeks in on-the-job training as a student assigned to pertinent elements of the *KGB's* Second (Internal Counterintelligence) Chief Directorate, with access to operational files on foreign diplomatic personnel in Moscow who were *KGB* targets.September 1959: Subject was assigned as a Senior Operational Case Officer responsible for NATO information within the Treaty Organizations Direction, Information (Reports) Department, First (Foreign) Chief, Directorate, *KGB* Headquarters, Moscow. His function was to translate, edit and summarize information reports obtained by *KGB* agents abroad and to disseminate the pertinent information to the Central Committee of the CPSU, members of the Presidium, including KHRUSHCHEV, and, in the case of information with military aspects, to MALINOVSKIY, the Minister of Defense. At one time, during a CP cell meeting, criticism was voiced about the delays in translation and processing and Subject was assigned to study the situation. Thus he examined registry logs showing the titles of agent information reports, the place acquired, the date received and the date of dissemination of the finished Russian intelligence reports to the government.April 1960: Subject was transferred to the American Section
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Directorate, KGB, to prere for assignment to the KGB residency under Soviet Embassy cover in Helsinki, Finland, as the CI officer working against foreign intelligence services.August 1960: Subject was assigned to the KGB residency in Helsinki, under the name KLIMOV (his true name was compromised through the 1954 defection of Petr DERYABIN in Vienna), and with the cover title of Third Secretary.15 December 1961: Subject, with his wife and young daughter defected to the U.S. Government which granted them political asylum.28 December 1961: Subject met Attorney General Robert KENNEDY along with Mr. HELMS, DDP.1962: Subject was debriefed by CIA Officers, officials from other US Agencies and teams of Intelligence Officers from Free World nations. Subject provided much valuable information on the KGB, its organization, personnel, operations, aims and efforts against the Free World. Subject, however, proved to be a difficult handling problem, especially as a result of his personality and his constant demands for regular meetings with high-level US officials such as the President, the Attorney-General, the Directors of CIA and the FBI and for a policy role in the US Intelligence Community.16 February 1962: Subject had another meeting with the Attorney-General.2 July 1962: Subject met again with the Attorney-General and Mr. HELMS.9 July 1962: Subject had a conversation with Mr. HELMS.22 August 1962: Subject had interview with Mr. SORENSON of the White House Staff and Mr. Edward R. MURROW, Director of USIA.
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15 Nov. 1962: An FBI source reported at the KGB was aware of Subject's presence in the U.S.A. and ordered all Soviet IS personnel to report immediately any information which they may obtain regarding Subject.27 Nov. 1962: Subject met Mr. McCONE, DCI, and protested treatment by the Agency.14 December 1962: Subject met again with the DCI.21 Feb. 1963: Subject and his family left N.Y.C. on *SS Sylvania* for England.Spring 1963: Subject worked with the British.8 August 1963: Subject returned to the U.S.A.22 August 1963: Subject met the Attorney-General again.23 August 1963: Subject met the DCI again.4 Sept. 1963: Subject met the DCI again and stated that he wanted to become an advisor to the DCI and the Intelligence Community.October 1963-April 1964: Subject in contact with the Agency mostly in the N.Y.C. area. Subject was cooperative to some extent.1964/1965: Subject, according to a Dutch official, visited The Netherlands.June 1965: Subject interviewed by the Canadians (RCMP) in the N.Y.C. area.August 1968: Subject in contact with the British regarding possible publication of his book.October 1968: An FBI source indicated that he had no current information concerning the KGB attitude regarding Subject but the source stated that if the KGB knew Subject's location it might undertake to eliminate him.July 1970 Subject was in contact with Agency personnel and visited Florida.
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that Subject had been sentenced to death by the KGB. An article regarding this sentence appeared in *The Chekist* sometime after 1964.April 1972: Subject was in touch with CIA officials.September 1972 A KGB defector, OGANESYAN, provided a copy of the 1969 KGB *Alphabetical List of Agents of Foreign Intelligence Services, Defectors, Members of Anti-Soviet Organizations, Members of Punitive Units and Other Criminals* under Search Warrants. In this List the KGB listed Subject and his wife as under the sentence of death for revealing Soviet State secrets.
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The following are highlights of the chronology of Source's (Subject's) professional career:September 1944: Subject was mobilized and sent to theFrunze Artillery School in Odessa wherehe remained until July 1945. At that timeSubject left the Artillery School beforecompletion of the course and enrolled in aCounterintelligence School.1945-1946: Student at the one year course, MilitaryCounterintelligence School, GUKR/"SMERSH,"Moscow.1946-1948: Desk officer, Assistant Operational CaseOfficer, assigned to the Eastern Section(otdeleniye) of the *SK* (Soviet Colony -security of Soviet officials abroad) Depart-ment (*otdel*) of the First Chief (ForeignIntelligence) Directorate of *MGB*. Head-quarters in Moscow. During the periodNovember 1947 to September 1948 Subject heldthe title of Referent and his office wasdesignated the Fifth (*SK*) Department of theThird (Eastern) Directorate of the *KI*(Committee for Information), but his functionswere unchanged.1948-1950: Student at the two-year course, HigherIntelligence School of the *KI*. Subjectstudied general subjects and the Englishlanguage; he was one of 30 students whospecialized in counterintelligence duringthe second year of the course.
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1950-1951: Desk officer, Operation Case Officer,supervising *SK* activities in China,assigned to the *SK* Section, Eastern Department, First Directorate of the *MGB* Headquarters in Moscow, the *SK* functions having reverted from the *KI* to the *MGB* in 1949.September 1951: At his request Subject was transferred as a desk officer to the Anglo-American Section, Counterintelligence Department of the First Directorate, *MGB* Headquarters in Moscow.November 1951: Subject was promoted to "Senior Operational Case Officer."December 1951: The *KI*, was dissolved and former state security elements were returned to the *MGB*. Subject's functions continued the same, but, in the reorganization, he was assigned to the CI Section of the American Department of the Anglo-American (First) Directorate of the First Chief Directorate of the *MGB*.March 1952: Subject and an unidentified young colleague wrote a joint letter through the Central Committee of the CPSU to STALIN making suggestions for a fundamental reorganization of Soviet foreign intelligence and counter-intelligence work.September 1952: While on vacation in the Georgian SSR Subject was ordered to Moscow for a four hour meeting, with his friend, with STALIN, MALENKOV, and BERIYA. STALIN thanked the two officers for their suggestions, discussed intelligence matters in detail and asked them to send him a letter with specific proposals
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for necessary reorganizations, togetherwith the names of recommended chiefs.In a subsequent letter they recommendedSergey Ivanovich OGOLTSOV, then in prisonfor "political crimes," and YevgeniyPetrovich PITOVRANOV, then chief or deputychief of the MGB in the Uzbekistan SSR.STALIN met Subject and his friend a secondtime. OGOLTSOV was released from prison andappointed Chief of the First Chief Directo-rate, with PITOVRANOV as his deputy. AChief Intelligence Directorate of the MGBwas then formed, containing a CounterintelligenceDepartment with an Emigre desk and seven geo-graphical desks. Subject was appointed byOGOLTSOV as chief of the American Desk,supervising approximately 15 staff persons.March 1953: When STALIN died and BERIYA took over controlof the State Security apparatus, which hecombined with the MVD into a unified MVD, hereplaced OGOLTSOV with one of his own appointees.Subject was reassigned as deputy chief of theRussian Emigre Desk of the CI Department ofthe Second (new designation for foreignIntelligence) Chief Directorate, MVD. Subjectsupervised activities against emigres inAustria and Germany.October 1953: Subject was assigned to the MVD residency inVienna, Austria, as an operational case officerin the Emigre Operations Group.August 1954: Subject was transferred to the British Sub-Group of the Anglo-American-French Group of theKGB residency in Vienna. His duties were of acounterintelligence nature, i.e. concernedwith penetration of foreign intelligence services.
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1955-1959: One of 170 students at ending the four year internal security-counterintelligence course, the *KGB* Higher School Juridical Institute. He presented and successfully defended his thesis on the subject of *SK* activities among Soviet delegations and tourist groups traveling abroad. He received his diploma in August 1959. During his school tour Subject also spent several weeks in on-the-job training as a student assigned to pertinent elements of the *KGB's* Second (Internal Counterintelligence) Chief Directorate, with access to operational files on foreign diplomatic personnel in Moscow who were *KGB* targets.September 1959: Subject was assigned as a Senior Operational Case Officer responsible for NATO information within the Treaty Organizations Direction, Information (Reports) Department, First (Foreign) Chief, Directorate, *KGB* Headquarters, Moscow. His function was to translate, edit and summarize information reports obtained by *KGB* agents abroad and to disseminate the pertinent information to the Central Committee of the CPSU, members of the Presidium, including KHRUSHCHEV, and, in the case of information with military aspects, to MALINOVSKIY, the Minister of Defense. At one time, during a CP cell meeting, criticism was voiced about the delays in translation and processing and Subject was assigned to study the situation. Thus he examined registry logs showing the titles of agent information reports, the place acquired, the date received and the date of dissemination of the finished Russian intelligence reports to the government.April 1960: Subject was transferred to the American Section
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of the CI Department of the First ChiefDirectorate, *KGB*, to pre for assignment to the *KGB* residency under SovietEmbassy cover in Helsinki, Finland, asthe CI officer working against foreignintelligence services.August 1960: Subject was assigned to the *KGB* residency inHelsinki, under the name KLIMOV (his truename was compromised through the 1954defection of Petr DERYABIN in Vienna), andwith the cover title of Third Secretary.15 December 1961: Subject, with his wife and young daughterdefected to the U.S. Government which grantedthem political asylum.28 December 1961: Subject met Attorney General Robert KENNEDYalong with Mr. HELMS, DDP.1962: Subject was debriefed by CIA Officers,officials from other US Agencies and teams ofIntelligence Officers from Free World nations.Subject provided much valuable information onthe *KGB*, its organization, personnel, operations,aims and efforts against the Free World.Subject, however, proved to be a difficulthandling problem, especially as a result ofhis personality and his constant demands forregular meetings with high-level US officialssuch as the President, the Attorney-General,the Directors of CIA and the FBI and for apolicy role in the US Intelligence Community.16 February 1962: Subject had another meeting with theAttorney-General.2 July 1962: Subject met again with the Attorney-Generaland Mr. HELMS.9 July 1962: Subject had a conversation with Mr. HELMS.22 August 1962: Subject had interview with Mr. SORENSON of theWhite House Staff and Mr. Edward R. MURROW,Director of USIA.
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15 Nov. 1962: An FBI source reported that the KGB was aware of Subject's presence in the U.S.A. and ordered all Soviet IS personnel to report immediately any information which they may obtain regarding Subject.27 Nov. 1962: Subject met Mr. McCONE, DCI, and protested treatment by the Agency.14 December 1962: Subject met again with the DCI.21 Feb. 1963: Subject and his family left N.Y.C. on *SS Sylvania* for England.Spring 1963: Subject worked with the British.8 August 1963: Subject returned to the U.S.A.22 August 1963: Subject met the Attorney-General again.23 August 1963: Subject met the DCI again.4 Sept. 1963: Subject met the DCI again and stated that he wanted to become an advisor to the DCI and the Intelligence Community.October 1963- April 1964: Subject in contact with the Agency mostly in the N.Y.C. area. Subject was cooperative to some extent.1964/1965: Subject, according to a Dutch official, visited The Netherlands.June 1965: Subject interviewed by the Canadians (RCMP) in the N.Y.C. area.August 1968: Subject in contact with the British regarding possible publication of his book.October 1968: An FBI source indicated that he had no current information concerning the KGB attitude regarding Subject but the source stated that if the KGB knew Subject's location it might undertake to eliminate him.July 1970: Subject was in contact with Agency personnel and visited Florida.
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March 1972:A KGB defector, LYALIN, reported that he knew that Subject had been sentenced to death by the KGB. An article regarding this sentence appeared in *The Chekist* sometime after 1964.April 1972: Subject was in touch with CIA officials.September 1972 A KGB defector, OGANESYAN, provided a copy of the 1969 KGB Alphabetical List of Agents of Foreign Intelligence Services, Defectors, Members of Anti-Soviet Organizations, Members of Punitive Units and Other Criminals under Search Warrants. In this List the KGB listed Subject and his wife as under the sentence of death for revealing Soviet State secrets.
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# 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992## SECRET21 MAY 1982US/82/71Dear Anthony,Regarding your letter (6/705) of 10 May 1982, our records indicate that Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov traveled to Mexico, France, Spain, the U.S. and Cuba during the period 1959-61. In 1961, he was assigned permanently to Mexico City as a consular officer and served there until August 1965. He was variously described as a translator, vice-consul, and attache. During this tour he attempted to cultivate a U.S. Government employee assigned to our embassy in Mexico City.In September/October 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald approached the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City in an attempt to get a visa allowing him to return to the USSR. Kostikov, as a consular officer, handled this visa request. We have no information which indicates any relationship between these individuals other than for the purpose of Oswald's making his visa request.Kostikov returned to Mexico City for a second tour of duty in July 1968. During this tour he was again assigned to the consular section and was a second secretary. It appeared that he was tasked with following the activities of the Central American communist parties and left-wing groups, and he met often with members of these groups, reportedly providing them with funds and technical guidance. In July/August 1969, Kostikov made an unusual TDY trip to Moscow lasting three weeks. (His family remained in Mexico.) In July 1970 he made a four-day trip to Havana.Kostikov's tour in Mexico ended unexpectedly in September 1971. Our information indicated that he was not due to leave for another three to four months, and at the time of his departure, there was some speculation that the suddenness of his departure was due to the fact that he was known to Lyalin.