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ACTION: CE/R/XO (952) INFO: C/ORMS, CE/R/IO, CEDORECORD, CIC/NR, CTC/IFC,
CTC/TA, CTCARCHIVE, LA/MCGMXB, LIMITO, MDSX, NR/CEG, NR/EX, ODPD, FILE,
C/CTC, C/LA, CIC/EA, CIC/LA, CTC/CENR, CTC/TRG, CTC/TRGBRB, CTC/TRGPSB,
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TOR: 232208Z NOV 93
NYFR 81563
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CITE FR NEW YORK 81563
TO:
DIRECTOR INFO NC NEW YORK.
FOR:
LIMIT CE/R/XO INFO CE/R/IO, C/CE/CIC, NR/CEG, LA/MBOG,
EA/ICOG, CIC/LA, CIC/EA
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WNINTEL GTDANCER
SUBJECT:
OLEG M. NECHIPORENKO
REF: FR NEW YORK 81555 93 4634425
TEXT:
1.
ACTION REQUESTED:
TRACES ON SUBJECT.
2. SUMMARY: ON 18 NOVEMBER, NOPIGGIN PROVIDED FOLLOWING
INFORMATION ON RETIRED KGB COLONEL, OLEG M. ((NECHIPORENKO)), OF
*<LEE HARVEY OSWALD>FAME, WHO WAS IN THE U.S. TO PROMOTE HIS BOOK,
* "PASSPORT TO<ASSASSINATION."> SUBJECT FLEW TO HOUSTON ON
*18 NOVEMBER TO PARTICIPATE IN A SYMPOSIUM ON THE<KENNEDY>
*<ASSASSINATION>AND HOPES TO RETURN TO NEW YORK NEXT WEEK.
SUBJECT WILL BE PAID FOR HIS BOOK ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT INCOME
EXCEED EXPENSES (INCLUDING HIS CURRENT TRIP). HE IS GOING
THROUGH A PERIOD OF LONELINESS, AND COULD BE APPROACHED · UNDER
APPROPRIATE (WRITER/AUTHOR/ACADEMIC). COMMERCIAL COVER. END
SUMMARY.
3. DURING THE WEEK OF 8 NOVEMBER, NQP WAS OFFERED A
ONE-TIME INTERPRETING JOB BY A COLLEAGUE WHO COULD NOT ACCEPT
THE ASSIGNMENT. ON 16 NOVEMBER, NPO ACCOMPANIED SUBJECT AS
INTERPRETER TO A FILMING WITH A PROMINENT AMERICAN T.V. NEWS
PERSONALITY. THE ROOM WAS FILLED WITH PRINT AND MEDIA
JOURNALISTS AND THE NEWS PERSONALITY MADE A POINT OF STRESSING
THAT HIS NETWORK HAS DEVELOPED EXCEPTIONAL EXPERTISE ON THE
*<KENNEDY ASSASSINATION>AND IS DOING A MUCH BETTER JOB THAN THE
FBI OR CIA. DURING A 3 1/2 HOUR INTERVIEW, SUBJECT WENT INTO AN
EXCRUCIATINGLY DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF HIS MEETINGS WITH
OSWALD: WHO STOOD WHERE, WHO WORE WHAT, ETC AND EQUALLY
DETAILED ANSWERS TO SUBSEQUENT QUESTIONS. SUBJECT RESPONDED TO
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MOST QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH, BUT WAS OCCASIONALLY CONFUSED BY AN
UNEXPECTED QUESTION AND WAS FORCED TO RELY ON NOP. FOLLOWING
THE TAPING, NQP INVITED SUBJECT (AT FBI REQUEST) FOR COFFEE AND
LATER TO DINNER AT HIS HOME. BOTH WERE GRATEFULLY ACCEPTED AS
SUBJECT, WHOSE HOTEL WAS PAID BY THE PUBLISHER, HAD NO WALKING
AROUND MONEY. THE DINNER SUBSEQUENTLY DID NOT TAKE PLACE SINCE
SUBJECT COULD NOT RESOLVE A SCHEDULING CONFLICT WHICH HAD HIM
PARTICIPATING IN AN INTERVIEW AT THE SAME TIME.
4. SUBJECT ENJOYED HIS CIRCA 10 YEARS IN MEXICO AND CUBA.
HE CHEERFULLY LAMENTED THAT THE REZIDENTURA IN MEXICO HAD TO USE
COMMERCIAL PHONE LINES TO TALK TO THEIR CUBAN COUNTERPARTS:
"THE CIA KNEW EVERYTHING WE DID." FOLLOWING HIS EXPULSION FROM
MEXICO CITY IN 1971, SUBJECT WAS ASSIGNED TO THE ANALYSIS
DIVISION OF THE FIRST CHIEF DIRECTORATE FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND
MADE SEVERAL TRIPS TO CUBA AND NICARAGUA. HE BECAME ELIGIBLE TO
RETURN TO MEXICO AGAIN WHEN THE THEN MEXICAN PRESIDENT STATED
PRIVATELY DURING A STATE VISIT TO MOSCOW THAT SUBJECT AND
APPARENTLY OTHERS WHO WERE EXPELLED WITH HIM COULD RETURN
ANYTIME.
5. FOR APPROXIMATELY SEVEN YEARS, CIRCA 1975-1982, SUBJECT
WAS ASSIGNED TO VIETNAMESE AFFAIRS. BASED ON THIS EXPERIENCE HE
DISAGREED COMPLETELY WITH THE ALLEGATIONS BY KGB GENERAL
((KALUGIN)) THAT AMERICANS POWS WERE HELD IN RUSSIA. ACCORDING
TO SUBJECT, KALUGIN IS PARANOID AND TRULY BELIEVES HIS OWN
CLAIMS. SUBJECT SAID THE KGB OBTAINED THICK FILES ON POWS FROM
THE VIETNAMESE WHICH THE KGB THOUGHT SERVE AS THE BASIS FOR AN
EXCHANGE OF SENSITIVE (NFI) EQUIPMENT THAT THE VIETNAMESE
WANTED. AFTER REVIEWING THE FILES, HOWEVER, IT BECAME APPARENT
THAT THE FILES WERE USELESS, BECAUSE THERE SEEMED LITTLE
OPPORTUNITY TO RECRUIT A POW AS AN FI SOURCE. CONTINUING,
SUBJECT SUPPORTED HIS COMPLAINT ABOUT THE USELESSNESS OF THE
FILES BY COMPLAINING THAT THE VIETNAMESE NEVER INFORMED THE KGB
ABOUT THEIR OPERATIONS OR CONTACTS IN SOUTH VIETNAM: "WE
SUPPLIED THEM WITH EVERYTHING, INTEL, MATERIAL, WEAPONS, AND
THEY WOULDN'T TELL US ANYTHING."
6. CIRCA 1985, AS VIETŅAM FADED AS AN ISSUE, SUBJECT GOT A
JOB AS AN INSTRUCTOR AT THE KGB SCHOOL, AKA THE RED BANNER
INSTITUTE OR ANDROPOV INSTITUTE. THIS ASSIGNMENT WAS REGARDED
AS PLUSH DUTY BECAUSE THE COLONELS COULD RELAX AND ENJOY THE
BENEFITS OF THEIR RANK IN EXCHANGE FOR TELLING WAR STORIES ABOUT
GREAT OPERATIONS THEY RAN.
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7. IN 1991, SUBJECT REACHED MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE OF
SINCE THEN, HE HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH AN "INTERNATIONAL
COUNTER-TERRORIST TRAINING INSTITUTE" IN MOSCOW THAT IS STAFFED.
WITH OTHER OLD COLD WARRIORS AND WRITING HIS BOOK. ON THE
OCCASION OF THE VISIT OF THE LEAD SENATOR ON POW/MIA ISSUES TO
MOSCOW, SUBJECT'S KGB SUPERIORS TOLD HIM TO SPEAK FREELY WITH
THE SENATOR.
8. UNDER FBI DIRECTION, NQP TRIED TO ELICIT UPDATED CI INFO
BY SPECULATING OUT LOUD THAT "YOUR GUYS PROBABLY DON'T HAVE
ANYTHING TO DO HERE" AND WAS TOLD, "YOU'RE BASICALLY RIGHT.
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THEY DO MORE BASIC INFORMATION GATHERING LIKE THE INSTITUTES."
NQP (AND THE BUREAU) WERE SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT SUBJECT KNEW
NO ONE AT THE RUSSIAN MISSION IN NEW YORK. NQP USED SUBJECT'S
PENURY AND DEARTH OF PLANS TO INVITE HIM HOME FOR DINNER THE
FOLLOWING EVENING. SUBJECT WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THE EVENING,
NOTING THAT NOT ONLY DID HE KNOW NONE, HE WAS HESITANT TO LEAVE
HIS HOTEL ROOM (WHICH HE DESPISED) AT NIGHT. AS IT DEVELOPED,
HOWEVER, SUBJECT'S PUBLISHER ARRANGED HIS SOLITARY INTERVIEW FOR
THE SAME TIME. THIS, COMBINED WITH THE RAIN, LED SUBJECT TO
CANCEL. SUBJECT. HOPES TO VISIT NEW YORK ON HIS RETURN TRIP AND
WILL CALL NQP IF HE DOES.
9. SUBJECT DOES NOT KNOW IF HE WILL RECEIVE ANY INCOME FROM
THE BOOK. HE WILL BE PAID ONLY AFTER ALL THE EXPENSES OF
PUBLISHING AND PROMOTION ARE PAID. NQP OBSERVED THAT SUBJECT IS
LONELY, AND COULD BE APPROACHED SECURELY UNDER AN APPROPRIATE
COMMERCIAL GUISE, SUCH AS THAT OF A WRITER. WHETHER HIS CURRENT
ACCESS WOULD JUSTIFY THE EFFORT HAS YET TO BE DETERMINED.
STATION WOULD PROPOSE THAT SUBJECT COULD BE AN INTERESTING
SPEAKER FOR THE ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS.
10.
ACCORDING TO HIS CARD, WHICH APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN
PRINTED IN ONE OF THE LOCAL $5 FOR 50 CARDS MACHINES, SUBJECT'S
CURRENT ADDRESS IS:
26/2-269, UL. AK. KAPITSA
117647 MOSCOW
TEL: (095) 429-54-17
FAX: (095) 939-83-67.
HIS TITLE IS "COLONEL KGB (RETIRED) INTELLIGENCE AND
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE EXPERT".
11. FILE: HQS: ASSIGN/ADVISE.
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DECL OADR DRV HUM 4-82.
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