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TESTIMONY OF YURI IVANOVICH NOSENKO
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MCMILLAN, PRISCILLA JOHNSON
SOLIE, BRUCE
NOSENKO, YURI, TESTIMONY BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
OSWALD, LEE, RUSSIAN PERIOD
OSWALD, LEE, RUSSIAN PERIOD, DEFECTION TO RUSSIA
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EXECUTIVE SESSION
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U.S. House of Representatives,
Select Committee on Assassinations
Subcommittee on the Assassination
of John F. Kennedy
Washington, D. C.
The Committee met, pursuant to recess, at 6:20 o'clock
P. m in Room 1-D, Headquarters, Central Intelligence Agency,
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Langley, Virginia, the Honorable Louis Stokes (Chairman of
the Committee) presiding.
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Present:
Representatives Stokes, Preyer, Burke, Fithian,
Devine and Sawyer.
Also present: G. R. Blakey, G. Cornwell, M. Goldsmith,
R. Morrison, E. Berning, M. Jackson, J. Smith, K. Klein and
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Chairman. The Committee will come to order.
At this time the Committee will resume its sitting.
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At this time the Chair will recognize Mr. Blakey.
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Mr. Blakey. Off the record.
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(Discussion off the record.)
The Chairman. Anything further?
Bring the witness in.
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Let the record reflect that the Committee has resumed its
sitting and at this time the witness, Yuri Nosenko, is back
before the Committee once again.
Mr. Nosenko, I admonish you that you are still under the
oath that you took last night.
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Mr. Nosenko.
Yes, sir.
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The Chairman. And at this time, then, the Committee will
recognize the counsel for the
Committee, Mr. Klein.
Mr. Klein. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good evening.
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Good evening, sir.
Mr. Klein. You told us that after the assassination
you had an opportunity to be present when Oswald's file was
brought from Minsk, is that right?
Mr. Nosenko. Absolutely right.
Mr. Klein. Did you have an opportunity to read the entire
file at that time?
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Mr. Klein. How much of the file did you read?
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Mr. Nosenko. It was simply looking, page by page, first
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Mr. Klein. You went through the first part of the first
volume, page by page? .
Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir.
Mr. Klein. Did you go through any of the other volumes?
Mr. Nosenko. No, sir.
Mr. Klein. You told us that an officer named Matveev
took the file away to prepare a summary?
Mr. Nosenko.
Mr.
Right.
Klein. Do you know who wrote that summary?
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Nosenko. The summary was written by the First
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Klein. Do you know who, in particular?
Mr. Nosenko.
No, sir, I do not know.
Mr. Klein. And did you ever have an opportunity to read
the summary that the First Department prepared?
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Nosenko. No, sir; I didn't see it.
Mr. Klein. The Russian word "spravka", does that mean
Mr. Nosenko. Is summary, right.
Mr. Klein. And why were you not able to read the summary
that they wrote?
Mr. Nosenko.
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Mr. Klein. Did you make any attempt to read it?
Mr. Nosenko. No.
Mr. Klein. Was it at all unusual that with all your
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involvement in the case you did not have an opportunity to
read that file?
Mr. Nosenko. It was the decision of the Chief of the
Second Chief Directorate, given big importance to this question,
that a resume will be prepared by the most prestigious depart-
ment, American Department, and that is why we couldn't even ask.
Mr. Klein. You didn't even ask to see it?
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Mr. Nosenko. No, it was not unusual.
Mr. Klein. You have testified before this Committee that
the KGB did not allow Lee Harvey Oswald to defect because he
was uninteresting. You have testified the KGB did not even speak
to Lee Harvey Oswald because he was uninteresting; and that you
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1959.
Klein. In 1959, approximately how many Americans
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Mr. Nosenko. There was a defectionist, I remember, one
of the employees, one of the workers, who was helping to or-
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Without giving particular names, how many
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Mr. Klein. From 1955 to 1960, what would be your best
estimate as to how many Americans asked permission to defect
to the Soviet Union?
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Nosenko. As far as I heard, there I think was one
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Mr. Klein. One other, meaning three altogether.
Mr. Nosenko. One besides Oswald and Webster, what I
Mr. Klein. Three?
Mr. Nosenko." Three:
Mr. Klein. Of the three, was Oswald the only one turned
down because he was uninteresting?
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Mr. Nosenko. No.
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give them certain information which is valuable.
Mr. Klein. Do you recall telling this Committee yesterday
that up until 1960 the Seventh Department was recruiting
left and right?
Mr. Nosenko.
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Absolutely right.
Klein. And that you recruited a woman in Utah who was
Mr. Nosenko. I simply had given example of this recruit
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recruitng and giving files to the Intelligence Service, First
Chief Directorate, not asking them before, is it person will
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And that KGB officers were getting bonus
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Right.
Mr. Klein. And despite that, Lee Harvey Oswald, when
he asked to defect, you turned him down without even speaking to
him, to find out if he had any information; is that right?
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Mr. Klein. Would the KGB have any interest in an
American student?
Mr. Nosenko. As I told you yesterday, KGB interested in
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students, but particularly those students who are studying
the Russian language, Russian history, Russian economy.
Mr. Klein. And would they have any interest in an
American who had strong anti-American views and who was a
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Mr. Nosenko.
Here were are coming to a very interesting
and sensitive question. From mid-1950, by the order of
Central Committee Communist Party, Soviet Union, KGB was
prohibited to make any approachment and recruitment of
members of the Communist Party of the West.
Mr. Klein. I am not asking about a member of the
Communist Party.
Mr. Nosenko. Your question is, and if he is some type
of Marxist here, the question maybe he is possibly a member
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Mr. Klein. Would they ask him if he is a member of
the Communist Party?
Would they check it?
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Nosenko. No, they would not ask him.
Mr. Klein. They wouldn't ask him?
Mr. Nosenko. No
Mr. Klein. Would the Soviet Union be interested in
someone who was in the military and worked with radar equipment?
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Mr. Klein. The fact that he worked with the equipment
wouldn't be enough; they would want to know what his rank was?
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Mr. Klein. And in 1959 would the Soviet Union have been
interested in someone who served as a radar operator on an air
base where U-2s took off and landed?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir; it would be very interested.
Mr. Klein. It is your testimony that Lee Harvey Oswald,
who was a student, who was a professed Marxist, who had
Mr. Nosenio.
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to speak to him, to find out if he knew any of this information?
Mr. Nosenko. Mr Kleing I understand your position;
but we didn't know that he had any connection with U-2at
flights. That is one thing.
And if you, Mr. Klein, are basing on what was written by
Mr. Epstein in the book, it is a little bit from the air
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U-2, no.
Sure, it is very interesting, but when Oswald
applied, requested to stay in the Soviet Union, we didn't know
a word about his knowledge, anything concerning U-2 flights.
Mr. Klein. And you didn't ask him if he had any kind of
information about that when he wanted to defect, is that
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Mr. Nosenko. No.
Mr. Klein. And you told us that one reason that no one
was working on Oswald was because all of your people were
concentrating on the American Exhibition in 1959, is that
correct?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir. Not only American Exhibition,
there were other tourists and among them were interesting
targets, very interesting targets.
Mr. Klein. You told us yesterday that things didn't
I can explain you why, because an American
Exhibition in Moscow was by the information which KGB had,
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it is not one officer, it is a big amount of people involved
on each case, because it is very serious target.
Mr. Klein. Do you know what date Lee Harvey Oswald
came to the Soviet Union?
Mr. Nosenko. No, sir, I do not.
Mr.Klein. Mr. Chairman, I would ask that this
document be marked for identification and shown to the witness.
The Chairman. Without objection.
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Mr. Klein. Looking at this document
Nosenko. Right.
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JFK-F-2.
Mr. Klein. Looking at this document, does it say on the
top "Visa and Registration Office, Interior Department,
Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council"?
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Mr. Nosenko. Yes. It is from Department of giving Visas
and Registrations, which is working under auspices of Directorate
of Internal Affairs of Moswcow City.?
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Mr. Klein. Looking at Number 8, does it say what
date Lee Harvey Oswald came to the Soviet Union for the first
time?
Mr. Nosenko.
October, 1959.
Mr. Klein. October what?
Mr. Nosenko.
October 16, 1959.
Mr. Klein. I would ask that this document be marked for
identification, Mr. Chairman.
The Chairman.
Without objection.
Would the clerk indicate for the record?
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Looking at the newspaper article clipping, on
the right hand side, with the heading "U.S. Fair in Soviet
Jammed at Close," do you see that?
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Nosenko. Yes, sir.
Klein. And what is the date of that story?
Mr. Nosenko. The date is September 4.
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Mr. Klein. Are you aware of the fact that the American
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Americans who were working for this Exhibition left Moscow.
Mr. Klein. I will ask you another question.
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normal once the fair ended, did you say yes?
Mr. Nosenko. No, till they were leave the Soviet
Union. No. They are the same targets. Okay, you are right,
it is closed September 4th, but does it change the importance
of these people against whom KGB was working? They were
still in Moscow.
Mr. Klein. Do you recall yesterday my asking you, did
things in your department get back to normaler once the fair
ended, and do you recall saying yes?
Mr. Nosenko.
Well, I meaning fair ended when left all
the people involved in work on American Exhibition, Americans
when they left, and they were staying quite a long time
after it was closed. It was closed for visits for Soviet
citizens, but it took quite a time for them to leave.
Mr. Klein. You also testified yesterday that Lee Harvey
Oswald was allowed to stay in the Soviet Union after he said
that he was going to kill himself if they sent him home.
You told us that he slashed his wrists and two psychiatrists
examined him and both found him mentally unstable.
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Mr. Klein. What was the point of having the two
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right found decision, concerning this person. Two independent.
Mr. Klein. After they examined him, the decision was
made to let him stay; is that correct?
Mr. Nosenko. It is not because of the examination
he was allowed to stay, Mr. Klein. You are a little bit mixing
things. He was allowed to stay because KGB and Soviet Govern-
ment had come to the conclusion if this person will kill
himself it will bereaction in newspapers, which can in any way
hurt the starting, the warming of Soviet-American relations.
Mr. Klein. The Soviets were worried he would kill himself
in the Soviet Union?
stay.
Mr. Nosenko. Right, if they would not allow him to
Mr. Klein. Could the KGB have taken him and put him on
the next plane out of Russia and thereby ended their whole
problem with Lee Harvey Oswald?
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Mr. Nosenko. It is a very sensitive question. He can
jump out of car. If he decided, if he is mentally unstable,
you don't know what he will do.
Mr. Klein. Do you think the KGB didn't do that because
they were worried he might jump out of the car or do something
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Mr. Nosenko. Simply a mentally unstable person, they
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Mr. Klein.. Going by the facts as you have told them
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Klein. Could he have been brought to the U.S.
Embassy and told them he is an American, "You take care of
him; we don't want him"?
Mr. Nosenko. It can be done, sure. It can be done, but
it wasn't done.
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Instead they elected to allow him to stay
indefinitely in the Soviet Union and they have to worry about
him every single day, what an unstable American would do, is
that correct?
Mr. Nosenko. They didn't allow, KGB didn't allow. Soviet
government allowed.
Mr. Klein. The facts as you have testified to them are
that the KGB allowed this mentally unstable person to stay
in Russia, and they sent him to Minsk to live and work in a
radio factory. Then the KGB allowed this mentally unstable
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of mentally unstable, excluding one code clerk, American, was
also mentally ill; he was delivered in Soviet Union. I heard
I never have worked with him, I never have seen him.
And the thing is, I am sorry, but you are putting and stressing
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There is not a thing that KGB can in any
citizen, by the law.
way try not to give, not to make it possible, but this is in
cases when the person who is marrying a foreigner worked in
some sensitive place, let's say, in missiles, rocket
industry production, was in process of any place of his work-
ing seeing classified material. In these cases, KGB will try
to put different type of fences. But it is unlawful. In
accordance with Soviet law, marriage is allowed; he doesn't.
need to ask permission of Soviet Government or anyone. And his
wife, Marina, wasn't working in any place which was sensitive
from the point of view of Soviet security.
Mentally unstable it doesn't mean that he is raving
mad; it is mentally unstable.
Mr. Klein. You testified that not only was Oswald not
spoken to when he first said he wanted to defect but even after
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Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir.
Mr. Klein. You also tetified to the extensive resources
that were devoted to put physical and technical surveillance
on Oswald. You told us the men involved, the time involved,
the facilities involved?
Mr. Nosenko.
Right.
Mr. Klein. Do you find great contradiction
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you don't even have a person go and talk to him and ask him,
"Tell us your background; tell us about yourself."
Is there any contradiction?
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Nosenko. Even in the United States, yes, sure, for
you, for me just now American citizens, yes, sure, but there,
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They don't talk to people there?
They can talk and cannot to talk, but I
don't see contradiction there. Anyone, any foreigner who will
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put on Oswald, not less.
Mr. Klein. You talk about their society is different thận
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and live there without never questioning him, to ask him if he
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was intelligence agent, what he will tell them that he was.
sent with mission as intelligence agent? Why to scare him?
Let him live how he wants. We will be watching him. He
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Mr. Klein. They purposely don't speak to him; is that
your testimony?
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Nosenko. In this case they didn't speak with him
because he didn't present interest for the KGB and because
he was mentally unstable.
Mr. Klein. You testified that you read the reports of
two psychiatrists who examined Lee Harvey Oswald at the
hospital after he cut his wrist, is that correct?
Mr. Nosenko.
Right.
Mr. Klein. You said both found him mentally unstable?
Mr.
Nosenko. Yes, sir.
Mr. Klein. You told us in great detail how this
decision was made to have these psychiatrists examine him.
I would ask that this document be marked for
identification.
The Chairman. The clerk will identify for the record
the number appearing on the document.
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Mr. Klein. Looking at that document in front of you
Mr. Nosenko. Right.
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Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir. It is from Botkin Hospital.
Mr. Klein. Whose name is it?
Mr. Nosenko. Lee Harvey Oswald.
Mr. Klein. Does it say what date he was admitted?
Mr. Nosenko. Discharged, admitted 23rd, discharged
Mr Klein. What year is that?
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Nosenko. October of 1959.
Mr. Klein. And does it have on the bottom the diagnosis
why he was in the hospital?
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Mr. Klein. And that date, October of 1959, is that when
Oswald first came to the Soviet Union and cut his wrist?
Mr. Nosenko. I cannot tell you dates, sir. I do not
remember.
Mr. Klein. You have in front of you the other document
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Mr. Klein. Number 8?
Mr. Nosenko.
Arrival, October 16.
Mr. Klein. And the date on the hospital admittance is
what date?
Mr. Nosenko.
Twenty-third of October.
Mr. Klein. And would you turn to the hospital admittance
form, the one I just gave you, to the third page, please?
Mr. Nosenko.
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Mr. Klein. And do you see where it says "History of
Present Illness"?
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Oh, Number 6, History of Present Illness.
Yes. Just a second.
Mr. Klein. Would you glance through that and would you
tell us if this is the hospital report from when Lee Harvey
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Mr. Klein. Now, would you turn to the next to the last
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Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir.
Mr. Klein. And do you see where it says, two-thirds
of the way to the bottom, "Psychiatric Department" underlined?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir.
Mr. Klein. Would you read what is said under that?
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legible and logically; he has a firm desire to remain in the
Soviet Union; no psychiatric symptoms were noted; the patient
is not dangerous for other people; his condition permits him
to stay in Psychiatric Department by an order of the Assistant
to the Chief Physicians, Dr. Kornika. The patient is
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Mr. Klein. Does that report indicate that he was normal?
Mr. Nosenko. Here I do not see what I have seen. But
this you receive from the Soviet Government, and if you think
you received the true things, what was in file, you are wrong,
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not an authentic copy?
Mr. Nosenko. KGB can prepare you any document. Take
the material, or ask the doctors who are cooperating with KGB
and they will prepare you any document.
Mr. Klein. I -am not asking you what they can do. Are
you testifying that this document is not authentic, it is not
the document?
KGB.
Mr. Nosenko. This document never was in the file of the
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Mr. Nosenko.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Klein. You testified before this Committee that there
was periodic physical surveillance of Lee Harvey Oswald which
was ordered by Moscow, to be carried out in Minsk?
Mr. Nosenko.
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Mr. Klein. And you testified in detail about that,
and you told us how the physical surveillance consisted of
following Oswald for a month or month and a half at a time,
and there were a number of people that would be involved, is
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It was a big operation?
Mr. Nosenko. Big operation? No, it's not a big
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operation even. It's surveillance, it's not an operation.
Mr. Klein. And have you ever stated that the only cover-
age of Oswald during his stay in Minsk consisted of periodic
checks at his place of employment, inquiry of neighbors and
associates and review of his mail? Have you ever stated
that was the only coverage of Oswald in Minsk? `
Mr. Nosenko. I stated before, and I stated it to you
yesterday, and I state now, that the order was given, and I
have seen it to cover him by surveillance periodical, to
cover him by an agent watching in places of his living, places
he is working, control over his correspondence and control of
his telephone conversations.
Mr. Klein. My question is, have you ever stated that the
only coverage was checking at his places of employment and
his neighbors and associates, and not say anything about
periodic, physical surveillance?
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I was
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for quite a big period of time, quite a few years, interrogated,
by hours, and in different types of conditions, including
hostile conditions.
Mr.
Klein.
That was by the CIA?
Mr.
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Where they asked questions in such form
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Mr. Klein. That was by CIA?
Mr. Nosenko. And I cannot tell you what I did say. I
cannot remember dates. You must understand, it's hundreds of
interrogations; hundreds.
Mr. Klein. This period that you are telling us about,
you were questioned by the CIA during that period, is that
correct?
FBI?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sure.
Mr. Klein. Were you questioned during that period.by
Mr.
Mr.
Nosenko. I questioned by FBI in February, yes.
Klein. At this time I would ask that this document
be marked for identification and shown to the witness.
The Chairman. The clerk will indicate for the record
the number appearing on the document.
The Clerk.
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Mr. Klein. These hostile interrogations you just alluded
to, did they lead you to state other than the truth to these
interrogators?
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Mr. Klein. Did you ever not tell the truth?
Mr. Nosenko. No, I was telling the truth.
Mr. Klein. I would direct your
Mr. Nosenko.
Mr. Klein.
Yes, sir.
attention
Just a moment. Before you you have a
Federal Bureau of Investigation report, is that correct?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir..
Mr. Klein. Iwould direct your attention to page 29 of
that report.
Mr. Nosenko.
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from the KGB Moscow, no active interest could be taken in
Oswald in Minsk without obtaining prior approval from KGB
in Moscow. According to Nosenko, no such approval was ever
requested or granted, and based on his experience, he opined
that the only coverage of Oswald during this stay in Minsk
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Mr. Klein. Does that statement say anything about
physical surveillance?
Mr. Nosenko. No, it didn't.
Mr. Klein. Did you forget to tell them about the physical
surveillance?
Mr. Nosenko.
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Mr. Klein. Do you recall speaking to agents Poptanich
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Mr. Nosenko. I cannot tell you. I do remember the date
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Mr. Klein. When you spoke to them, did you recall that
they spoke to you at that time, March 3rd and 4th, about
Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mr. Nosenko. I told you, they were speaking with me
about Oswald, but I cannot tell you the date whem.
Mr. Klein. Was it in March 1964?.
Mr. Nosenko. They were speaking with me February
and the beginning of March of 1964.
Mr. Klein. And did they tape the conversations?
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talking?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir.
Mr. Klein. Did they ever show you those notes?
Mr. Nosenko.
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Mr. Klein. Were you aware that the statements you were
making to them were going to be written down in to a report?
Mr. Nosenko. Sure.
Mr. Klein. Did you ever have an opportunity to
report?
see the
Mr. Nosenko. No. The only 'one which was sent to the
Warren Commission, this I have seen.
Mr. Klein. Were you aware that the report would be put
in your file?
Mr. Nosenko. Must be.
Mr. Klein. Were you aware that report would be shown to
a committee such as this investigating the assassination?
Mr. Nosenko. I didn't know that it would be created, the
Committee, because it was 1964.
Mr. Klein. You didn't know that?
Mr. Nosenko. No.
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Mr. Klein. And were you telling them the truth when you
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not telling them about the physical surveillance, was that the
truth you told them?
Mr. Nosenko. Well, I told them that there was done the
work against Oswald; it was ordered, passive type of work,
Whenever it's ordered not to make an
it's called passive.
approachment, not to make a contact, not to make a recruit-
ment, this is passive.
Anything when enters besides whatever is done, contact,
approachments, recruitment, attempt to recruit, it is
immediately called active.
Mr. Klein. Looking at that report, did you tell them
about the physical surveillance which you told this Committee
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doubts. I do not know.
Maybe I didn't mention that this
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Mr. Klein. Didn't you tell us that you always told the
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Mr. Klein. If they would have asked you, "Was there
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Mr. Klein. you would have answered yes?
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Mr. Klein. You also testified before this Committee that
in accord with the orders from Moscow that there was technical
surveillance, and you told us in detail about how they tapped
his phone and they would record it and make copies of it
and gave it to a certain person.
Again, drawing your attention to page 29 of that same
paragraph, does that say anything about the technical sur-
veillance that you told us about?
Mr. Nosenko. No, sir.
But, if you ask, even an agent of FBI-
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telephone, it's not big deal. It's giving order to control a
telephone can be given by Chief of Section, not speaking of
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Mr. Klein. But you told them about that, didn't you?
Mr. Nosenko. I tried simply to describe them what
kind of, not to take active: what does it mean, passive type
of coverage of the target?
Mr. Klein. If they would have asked you was there any
technical surveillance, then would you have told them?
Mr. Nosenko. I would have said they were told, even
word for word, in this document said not the technical surveil-
lance. They have a certain terminology. Let's say surveil-
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Mr. Klein. If they would have said, "Was there any
technical surveillance of Oswald?"
"yes"?
Mr. Nosenko. Sure.
would you have said
Mr. Klein. You also testified to this Committee that
the KGB would have had to have known about Marina Oswald,
you said, by the end of the month they would have a batch
of papers?
Mr.
Nosenko. You told me, if she had seen him, you,
something metnioned, 15, 13.
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her, who is she, where she is working, where she studied, where
she work.
Mr.
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on Oswald?
Mr. Nosenko. The fact will be known through surveillance;
then through other outfits of KGB they will find whatever
possible on her.
Mr. Klein. Were you ever asked the following question
and did you give the following answer:
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Mr. Nosenko. Sir, I do not remember my questions, and
answers.
Mr. Klein. I would ask that this document be marked for
identification, please, and shown to the witness.
The Chairman. The clerk will identify for the record
the number appearing on the document.
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Mr. Klein. Looking at that document, have you ever seen
it before?
Mr. Nosenko. No, sir.
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Mr. Klein. And is that a report that says on the cover.
"Memorandum for the Record; Subject: Followup Report on the
Was AEDONOR your code name?
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Mr. Nosenko. I do not know.
Mr.
Klein. "Date of Interview: 3 July 1964." Does it
say that on the cover?
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Mr. Nosenko.
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Mr. Klein. Do you recall speaking to
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Mr. Nosenko. "Why wouldn't she have been investigated
when she first met Oswald?"
"They didn't know she was a friend of Oswald until they
applied for marriage. There was no surveillance on Oswald
to show that he knew her."
ever.
Mr. Klein. Were you ever asked that question and did you
Mr. Nosenko. I do not remember, sir. But if it is,
it must be asked and I this answered.
Mr. Klein. Was that the truth?
Mr. Nosenko. As far as I remember, those conditions in
which I was asked, better ask where I was in this period of
time, what conditions I was kept, and what type of interrogations
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told the truth?
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Yes.
Was this question relating to Oswald?
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again, why wouldn't she have been investigated.
Here must be
question was in this form. The investigation, not the checkup
of her, but, let's say, invitation for conversation, something
of this kind, it's some kind of here misunderstanding on both
parts, that would be mine and interrogator.
Mr. Klein. It is an inaccurate transcript?
Mr. Nosenko. I consider many, many things are
inaccurate.
Mr.
Mr.
Klein. Is that transcribed accurately?
Nosenko. I do not know, sir.
Mr. Klein. That answer, do you think it is transcribed
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order, to give us the picture of the character of the target,
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But more, farther investigation, the true investigation
this is called checkup will be studied and they will start
when they see something, let's say, suspicious in behavior of
Oswald and this his connection.
In case of Marina, when they found out that they are going
to marry, sure, they will be more, farther investigation,
thorough invetigation;
but before it will only be checkup.
From thispoint of view I was answering this question.
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Mr. Klein. If you answered that, were you telling the
truth?
Mr. Nosenko. I don't know. I answered. Must be. This
is how I answered question.
Mr.
Klein. You testified to this Committee that the KGB
decided to have Lee Harvey Oswald examined by two psychiatrists
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Right.
Klein. Have you ever been asked the following
questions and given the following answers:
"Question: Did the KGB make a psychological assessment
of Oswald?
"Answer: No, nothing, but at the hospital it was also said
he was not quite normal. The hospital didn't write that he was
mad just that he is not normal.
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Mr.
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Mr. Nosenko. Sir, I do not know whether it is correct or
wrong. I am answering you what I know.
Mr. Klein. Did you ever make a statement like that?
Mr. Nosenko. I do not remember statements for five years,
interrogation.
Mr.
Report.
Klein. I would direct your attention to the Ryan
Mr. Nosenko. Yes.
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and answers, please.
Mr. Nosenko. "Did the KGB make psychological assessment
of Oswald?"
"No, nothing. But at the hospital it was also said he
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psychiatrists examining Oswald and about reading their reports
(which said he was mentally unstable?. Did you say anything
about that there?
Mr. Nosenko. Sir, I do not remember what I said to them;
but I would like you to find out the conditions in which interr-
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never announced me names -- one playing part of bad guy and other
good guy, and it starting slapping then, not physically but I
mean, psychologically and in conversation, turning question up-
side down, however they would like, then this leave, another one
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Mr. Klein. When did this
Mr. Nosenko. And I would not trust any of their documents
in those periods of time. Up to 1967 when we started from the
That is the one thing.
beginning, to work, Mr. Bruce Solie.
Second, my knowledge of language was very poor in '64. I didn't
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13 peryabin, knew Russian language and Mr. Deryabin was asking
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remember their questions, and I do not remember my answers; but
I tried to be truthful with them. Then was period of time when
I have seen that they were simply was laughing at me; I rejected
to answer questions, and whenever they were asking, I would
answer, "I do not remember, I do not know, I do not remember."
Mr. Klein. These answers, do they say "I do not know,
I do not remember" or do these give responsive answers?
Mr. Nosenko. Sir, I do not trust this document prepared
by people in those years..
Mr.Klein. Is it your testimony that these might not be
accurate questions and answers?
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I cannot tell you exactly, I
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Mr. Klein. You testified
Mr. Nosenko. One more thing: If we are going into this,
a number of interrogations, I was under drugs, and on me was
used a number of drugs, and I know that, and hallucinations
21 and talking during night and sodium and everything, even many
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24 hours, not giving me possibility to sleep.
Mr Klein. And this was all after April 4, 1964?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir.
That is why I will not take as a document anything what
concerns interrogations in hostile, absolutely hostile,
situation.
Mr. Klein. You testified in detail yesterday about the
cable which you saw which was sent from Mexico City to the First
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Do you remember reading that cable and describing it for
us in detail, how long it was?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir.
Mr.
Klein. Did you ever say to anyone that after Oswald
went to Minsk, the next time you heard of him was in connection
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21 for a Soviet reentry visa, and you did not know how Mexico City
22 advised Moscow of the subject's application; your knowledge
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Mr. Klein. I draw your attention to page 30 of the FBI
report in front of you.
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Mr. Nosenko. I do not have it.
(Pause)
Yes, sir.
Mr. Klein. On the top of page 30, read for us the under-
section on the top, beginning "The next time"
Mr. Nosenko. "The next time Nosenko heard of Oswald was
in connection with Oswald's application to Soviet Embassy in
Mexico City for a Soviet reentry visa. Nosenko did not know how
Mexico City advised Moscow of subject's application. His
knowledge resulted from an oral inquiry of Nosenko's department
by Turalin, Service No. 2, Counterintelligence in Foreign
Countries, First Chief Directorate. Nosenko recalled that Turalin
had orally contacted Vladimir Alexseev, Chief of Sixth Section
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recommended that Oswald's request for reentry visa be denied.
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Mr. Nosenko. Must be; I said this in this way.
Mr. Klein. And did you tell us that not only did you know
how they advised them by cable but that you read the cable?
Mr. Nosenko. This is what I recollection.
Mr. Klein.
Did you tell them the truth?
Mr. Nosenko. I was trying to tell what I remembered.
Mr. Klein. And this FBI report which you just read from,
would you look back on the first page and would you tell us the
date of thatreport?
Mr. Nosenko. Fifth of March, 1964.
Mr. Klein. March 5, 1964. Is that before April 4,
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Mr. Klein. That was before any hostile interrogations
began, is that correct?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes.
Mr. Klein. And at that time you said that you did not know
anything about the cable, is that right?
Mr. Nosenko. This is what I answered them, how I remembered.
Mr. Klein, I have a question. Do you understand from what
psychological turmoil a person passing who defected, do
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chologically, he doesn't know how he will be living, what he will
be doing, and at the same time a person feels attitude on the
part of those who helped him to come CIA? I felt something
going on.
Mr. Klein. You testified to us today that you didn't
know how wrote the summary of Oswald's file in the First Depart-
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Directorate, took the file and wrote a second "spravka", which
you told us was a summary?
Mr. Nosenko.
Summary.
Mr. Klein. Did you ever tell anybody that?
you see, not Fedroseve
yesterday.
Mr. Nosenko. Must be I told, it is again right, because
Fedroseve was Chief of First Depart-
ment, American Department, and I will repeat what I told you
Matveev has come to take file, but surely Fedroseve
who is Chief of American Department, he had given call to Chief
of Seventh Department. He was involved in this%3B that is why I
mentioned him. He was Chief of First American Department.
His deputy, Colonel Matveev, has come, and not alone%3B with him
was a couple of officers, has come and told that Gribanov
ordered and Fedroseve giving call to Department, we must take
it, and took. Who of them wrote, I do not know, no doubts that Fedroseve.
and Matveev were participated in the preparation of documents.
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Mr. Klein. So you have an idea of who would have written,
is that correct?
Mr.
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American Department, no doubts that this
two will be participating or correcting.
Mr. Klein.
Mr. Nosenko.
Mr. Klein.
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I do not remember reading the summary.
Did you read it? Do you have any recollection.
Mr. Nosenko. No, I haven't seen summary.
Mr.
summary?
Klein. Are you positive that you didn't see that
Mr. Nosenko. I have seen summaries in the file of Oswald.
Mr. Klein. Are you positive you didn't see the summary
written by the First Department after they took the file away?
Mr. Nosenko. I do not remember seeing. As I told you,
I haven't seen it.
Mr. Klein. You testified that Oswald was considered normal
prior to the time he cut his wrist, and even told us that you
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give the following answer:
"In what way was the Oswald case handled differently from
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This is what cases I know, who were staying.
Mr. Klein. Did you ever say that he was considered not
normal, referring to the period before he tried to commit suicide?
Mr. Nosenko. I do not remember; but if I said it, it's
not right becuase we didn't know that he was normal or not
normal. Up until the moment of he cut his wrist we started to
suspect.
Mr. Klein. Did you ever say that he was considered not
normal?
Mr. Nosenko. Sir, I do not remember.
Mr. Klein. Well,
if you would have said it, would it have
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Mr. Nosenko. No, it would not be correct, because he cannot
be considered abnormal. We didn't know anything up till he
cut the wrist.
Mr. Klein. You testified to this Committee that you were
present at a meeting with the Chief of the Seventh Department
Chief of your section, Major Rastrusin, at that meeting, it was
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Mr. Klein. Did you ever tell anyone that on the basis of
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Beginning with the underlined section beginning
with the first "On the basis" in the second paragraph, would
you read this?
Mr. Nosenko. "Nosenko and Krupnov on the basis of this¨
information, concluded that Oswald was of no interest to the
KGB and both agreed that Oswald appeared somewhat abnormal."
Mr. Klein. Not that, the second paragraph, "On the basis
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Embassy in the United States.
Mr. Klein. Did you ever say that?
Mr. Nosenko..
I do not remember saying this. It can be
that simply misunderstanding, and, you see, this is not
transcription from the tape. It is, I will say a summary, and
I do not remember. But, if I said this, it is not right because
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Mr Nosenko. It was participation of Rastrusin.
Mr. Klein.. Also is it correct when it says in there that
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Rastrusin involved, decision cannot be done on my own, being
Deputy Chief of Section, decision cannot be done even being
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must be on the level of Chief of Department.
Mr. Klein. So it is incorrect, is that what you are saying?
Mr. Nosenko. It is incorrect, and, Krupnov
remember.
I do not
Mr. Klein. You told us when I questioned you about the
fact that you didn't tell the FBI that there was physical
surveillance, the last question I asked you, if they would have
asked you if he was physically surveilled, would you have told
them, and you said yes?
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Mr. Klein. Were you ever asked the following question
and did you give the following answer:
"Was he physically surveilled" and that is referring to
Minsk, and you answered "No, there was none"?
Mr. Nosenko. It was not right, because it was order given
and he was under periodical surveillance.
Mr. Klein. I
draw your attention to page 9 of the CIA
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Mr. Nosenko. "Was he physically surveilled?"
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The Chairman. Indicate for the record the marking.
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United States in 1964, 12th of February. I felt something was
going wrong because the attitude on the part of the officers
from CIA who was dealing with me, I felt was going wrong, by
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a number of remarks, their behavior.
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psychological process. It's a very big thing, when you are com-
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basis, but still psychologically is very big thing and verý
serious thing.
A very short period of time, April 4, I was invited on check-
up for the doctor, and this checkup turned to be arrest.
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but in rude form, trying to put dignity of the person, of
human being, down, kept in very hard conditions. I was
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I was hungry, and this was the most difficult for me because
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same very, very Spartan conditions; three and a half years.
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sleeping drugs, hallucination drugs, and whatever I do not know,
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wasn't mentioned, my name, but simply nameless defector, who
was over three years in extremely Spartan conditions.
Interrogations were done sometimes 24 hours, not giving me
an hour to sleep. Interrogations were in very hostile manner.
Simply, what I would say were rejected. How long I will be, why
it is without due process, no warrants; "You will be eternally,
How long we would want you to keep. That is why
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and don't want to see them. And I am asking you not to ask
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question with correspondents.
I never went in press, because
I am loyal to the country which accepted me, and I didn't wanted
to hurt the country.
I didn't hurt, even to hurt, the intelligence, the CIA.
I didn't consider the whole CIA was responslbe. Were responsible
several people, for this. Thank God they are not working there
anymore. They are out. If I will go in press, if I would
be telling about these inhumane conditions, I will hurt not only
the agencies, the intelligence service of the U.S., I will hurt
the interests of the U.S..Who would like to defect, reading
in what conditions and what treatment defectors is receiving.
Sir, I prefer that you be using materials when it was started
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were coming with what they were told, how to approach to me,
how to treat me. They have come with made opinion, before'
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on counterintelligence of the Soviet KGB.
The Chairman. And in that capacity, sir, are you paid an
annual salary?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir, I am paid an annual salary.
The Chairman.
And what is that salary?
Mr. Nosenko. $35,000.
The Chairman.
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Mr. Nosenko.
It is the last year, because it was cost of
living.
The Chairman. I see. In that capacity, do you contract
out also to other persons or other organizations?
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by Epstein was mentioned CIA bought me home. No, sir, I bought
home on my money, nobody bought me a home, no.
The Chairman. You also now are remarried and you have
Mr. Nosenko.. Yes, sir, I am married. I am American citizen,
I have five stepchildren and six grandchildren.
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Yes, I have a passport, which I once used
being sent by the Agency in 1975, in England, for week where
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torate, KGB in general.
The Chairman. Is that the only country to which you have
traveled since your defection?
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Nosenko. No. I have traveled on behalf of the
Central Intelligence Agency also for the last four years. I.
was in eleven countries. And I never received or demanded or
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The Chairman. Have you ever returned to Soviet Russia?
Mr. Nosenko. Never once in Soviet Union from 1964 and
hope will never see it again.
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The Chairman. Now, will you clarify for us when you first
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Mr. Nosenko. Sir, I do not know, it was somewhere around
Washington, close to Washington, where I was '64 and beginning
'65, approximately. I don't hear any radio, I didn't see any
newspaper, I do not know, didn't know anything what happen in
the world for many years.
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peculiar conditions, was put under shackles and handcuffs,
blindfolded, put in the car, and don't know where I was going,
only I heard, passing through city, I couldn't understand, I
"couldn't see anything, then I heard airplanes, I understood
that I was somewhere in airport, and once I was scared to death,
I think I was thinking they were returning me to the Russians.
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Mr. Preyer. Mr. Nosenko, one thing that comes through very
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be good for a country to welcome a defector, but to the
intelligence mentality apparently a defector is immediately sus
pect, and you have recounted your treatment here, and apparently
Lee Harvey Oswald, from your testimony, was greeted somewhat
like this in the U.S.S.R. His treatment was much different
from yours.
One thing he was not an intelligence agent, of course.
But you have indicated that he was kept at arms' length by the
KGB. The impression I get was the mere fact of being a defector
caused the KGB to be less interested in him than if it was
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Russia, is at arm's length?
Mr. Nosenko. Every defector will be watched but, sir,
when you mentioned what he received being in Russia, it is very
little. I can give you only one example. When defectors
Martin and Mitchell, employees of NSA, who cooperated with KGB
abroad, and then they defected to Soviet Union, they received
extraordinary help. It is not like Oswald. Oswald is nothing.
Mr. Preyer. The amount of money?
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Mr. Preyer. For Oswald were not extraordinary?
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Mr. Preyer. You mentioned the other three defectors that
you had known of. What sort of treatment did they receive?
Mr. Nosenko. I will tell you what Martin and Mitchell
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Were they two of the other three?
Mr. Nosenko.
These two, for example. I can mention others,
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for Moscow Radio, she was receiving life pension of big amount,
amount approximately what in Soviet Union is received by Deputy
of Minister, of Ministry, of this or that industry.
Mr. Preyer. But the defector who was not giving informa-
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Mr. Nosenko.
and by the way, in very short period of time he decided he
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pension like was Oswald, to Oswald given pension. I don't'
know what was given to Webster, a worker, who was defected in '59
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Mr. Devine.
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Mr. Devine. Had you been out of the Soviet Union prior
to your defection?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes.
Mr. Devine. Other than to Geneva?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes, I was in England twice, then I was
passing through a number of countries, staying day, two,
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Mr. Nosenko. No.
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Mr. Devine. But not enough to keep you there?
Mr. Nosenko. Not enough to keep me there. And in '64
I has come knowing that I will never return.
Mr. Devine. You were willing to abandon your family?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir, because I didn't see possibility
to take family out. I was living the last four or five years
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on because I was working in KGB, I knew it. I simply couldn't
more tolerate to be with this double splitted personality.
Mr. Devine. How did you dispose of your children and your
wife in Russia?
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The thing was psychologically, my had, had
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death of Stalin, from middle 1950s, quite a little changes took
place in the Soviet Union, and the family will not suffer.
Another thing, oh sure, will be certain things which they
cannot achieve. Let's say my brother who studied later in
the same Institute what I finish, Institute of International
Relations, he will never have possibility to go abroad, but
he will never be put in jail, can never be exiled from Moscow,
the same, nothing happened with family.
Mr. Devine. The fact that you were a KGB man didn't your
defection cause some irritation among those in power over there?
Mr. Nosenko.
Sure.
Mr. Devine. Did they want to get you back, didn't they
want to get even with you?
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Nosenko. Oh, yes, and they are looking for me.
Mr. Devine. But they took no reprisals against your family.
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Mrs. Burke. Well, I would like to go back a little bit
after you
decided to defect. I think you had a number of
conversations with the American Embassy, was it, or was it
CIA, during those ten days that you were in touch, where you
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Mr. Nosenko. They met me and I was meeting them every
day, visiting, and when I had free time, visited secret address
in Geneva.
Mrs. Burke. All right, during those times you were meeti
them, did you negotiate in terms of what your situation would
be here in the United States if you defected, or where you wo
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Mrs. Burke.
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Mr. Nosenko. It's in 162.
Mrs. Burke. In '62 you said that. In '64 you didn't
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only to come what I knew where I participated in the depart-
ment where I worked but to find out as much as possible what can
be valuable to the American intelligence and I had come with
some luggage.
Mrs. Burke. All right, well, during the time that you were
talking to them about what your salary would be, the circum-
defection, and I assume you told them what your
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Mrs. Burke. Did you tell them that the Soviet Union thought
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Oswald, or anyone from the United States who
come to live on his own decided to defect, or they contacted
him before, they will still will be suspected in a possibility
that he is an agent of American intelligence, and also this fact.
Mrs. Burke. And is this the reason that you gave him why
he was not allowed to remain in the Soviet Union?
Mr. Nosenko. The reason was that they didn't want him to
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Mrs. Burke. I know that. In fact, I remember you
saying something about a person would only be interesting under
certain circumstances, one of which would be if they came in as
a tourist and they applied a very short time before they arrived..
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Union.
So he would be automatically suspect, and he would be
automatically what you would call an interesting person.
Mr. Nosenko. No, no, no. In this case, you see, Oswald
even didn't receive a visa in United States; he received it
passing through Europe.
Mrs. Burke. Through Helsinki?
Mr. Nosenko.
Right, in Finland, where it's process was
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a tour and he received, managed to receive visa.
Mrs. Burke. Let me just ask one other thing.
Did you tell them any of your, aside from the ideological,
why you wanted to defect? For instance, did you tell them
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Mr. Nosenko. Yes.
Mrs. Burke. But then you
Mr. Nosenko. No, I didn't tell them. I simply said that
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said my position was Lieutenant Colonel. It wasn't true. It
was false statement. The same false statement was concerning
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materials. I do not know. Maybe it was signed in January. But
up to my leaving, nobody informed me that it was signed. I
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wasn't rejected.
The Chairman. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
Mr. Dodd?
Mr. Dodd. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I wonder if you might let me ask you let me start back
here, very quickly. One of the very first questions you were
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correct recall on my part.
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Mr. Klein asked you or stated that you arranged for your
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He used the words
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Is that an
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Did you
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Would you like to work in MGB?
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which I studied at the Institute, why not? That is all. And
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conversation and several days after death of Stalin I was recalled
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days. I am afraid of that any moment my Chief of the Second
Chief Directorate will be returning from France.
Mr. Dodd. I didn't ask you that, Mr. Nosenko. My question
is, were you asked whether or not you had a copy of
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some very rough treatment, inhuman treatment, to use your words
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give information to. So for a period of that '64, to '69,
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Mr. Nosenko. Yes.
Mr. Dodd.
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Mr. Nosenko.
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Mr. Dodd. Is it your statement to me that for five
years, while you were incarcerated in almost solitary confine-
ment, that you thought that this was the individual acts of a
couple of employees of this Agency?.
Mr. Nosenko. Not employees.
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authority in this Agency?
Mr. Nosenko. Sir, I have seen Chief of Soviet Russia
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they are sitting in this place. He is not going into details,
he is not going and studying, he is not going himself visiting.
The Chairman. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Mr. Sawyer?
Mr. Sawyer. First, have you received any compensation
for the period during which you were held in jail?
Mr. Nosenko. I received in several years later, I put
the question, I want to be paid for every year which I was
unlawfully. arrest, the amount of money which we have agreed,
with taken taxes and whatever American citizens are paying.
Mr. Sawyer. Did you get that?
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Mr. Sawyer. I see.
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I will tell you what bothers me about your testimony, very
You stated that they would be very interested in a
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even compel to defect. Here you had a willing defector, a guy
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He might have worked in the missile silos,
he might have done anything, but nobody asked him, and that he
lives there for a period of, a long period of time. Here is a
guy that is totally willing to talka. It is not like approaching
to talk to you.
somebody who doesn't want to talk to you or that might not want
And here is a fellow who was a radar operator,
experienced to some degree, and I don't know to what degree,
but apparently the Russians don't know to what degree either,
because nobody asked him, in a highly secret air base in Japan,
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They never considered him an interesting
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Mr. Nosenko. I understand, sir, but I am telling you he
wasn't considered interesting target, and
Mr. Sawyer. But they didn't have any facts to know
whether he was interesting, and here is a guy that wants to
talk to them.
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Mr. Nosenko. But the judgment made on each person to work
actively against him on the basis of his questionnaire.
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teacher, let's say he is working for the government, any
department, but for the Federal Government, or he is an officer,
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Mr. Nosenko. Sir, what I know, there wasn't any interest
to get him. He managed to get this visa.
Mr. Sawyer. All right.
The other thing I am curious about is when they interrogated
you so carefully here, why someone like Oswald, a known defector
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Mr. Nosenko, as I piece it together, there are four
possibilities for this Committee to believe. Let me sketch
out what those possibilities are.
One, that you told the truth in 1964, but you are now
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obvious reasons. They would badly need this for all sorts of
international reasons.
And finally, the fourth option is that you were dispatched
here by the Soviet Government and the KGB because there was an
actual connection between the KGB and the assassination of
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either that the KGB dispatched you here because they needed it
for political reasons, though they were not involved, or they
dispatched you here because in fact they did collaborate with
Oswald.
First, Oswald goes to Russia. You say he is rejected, but
they grant him a pension, however small.
Second, they grant him the pleasures of a hunting club,
even though you said earlier he was mentally unbalanced, and
you are allowing him to use a gun.
Three, they allowed him to marry in Russia.
Four, they gave him a job.
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story makes no sense.
The rejection of Oswald's offer to defect makes absolutely
no sense to me.
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Mr. Sawyer has just pursued that momentarily. I think that
can be rejected by us, by reasonable people prima facie.
no reason to accept that part of your story whatsoever.
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No reprisals against your family Nobody was working
against Oswald, you said, yet later on you said you had seven
to eight large files, you only read the first portion of one
'file. You said no KGB ever talked to Oswald regarding
letting him defect. The reason you gave us for that was that he
slashed his wrists and you concluded he was unstable. Yet prior
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in two days and he asked to be permitted to defect prior to
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prior to slashing his writs, prior to knowing that he slashed
his wrist, that you were going to reject him. That doesn't
hold water either.
Finally, you said in your testimony American defection was
very rare. All the more reason, if it only happens once every
year or a couple of times a year, or three times between '56
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In the first place, you remember too much now. You remember
too much in the way of details after 15 years. Therefore, I .
have great difficulty accepting any of your story.
We as a Committee of the United States Congress are charged
with trying to assess what actually happened in the assassination
of President Kennedy. That is the central story.
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The Chairman. The time of the gentleman has expired.
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Mr. Nosenko. Mr. Congressman said his opinion.
Do you
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Mr. Fithian. I would just like to have you tell me why I
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kind of duress. It doesn't wash with me.
The Chairman.
Mr. Nosenko.
The time of the gentleman has expired.
Sir, if you want me to defend myself, I can
say only one thing. I never done from the first day in the
United States anything directed against this country. I tried
before I has come, when I contacted '62 the CIA, and has come
in '64, I tried to get as much as possible information. I
am the source who told concerning existence of microphones in
American embassy in Moscow. I am the man who have given, I
don't know, 300 cases
Mr. Fithian. We are only concerned
⚫. The Chairman. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Mr. Edgar.
Mr.
Edgar. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
It is very hard to follow Mr. Fithian's comments
because
I would like to shift gears a little bit. But you indicated
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Mr. Nosenko. It is the only job.
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Mr. Edgar. In the course of acting as consultant to the
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Mr. Edgar.
Have you ever been in a conversation with any
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Mr. Edgar. You indicated earlier you thought it was a man
by the name of Murphy.
Mr. Nosenko. Murphy, Chief of Soviet, former Chief of
Suviet Russian Division, and Chief of Counterintelligence,
former Chief of Counterintelligence of the CIA Mr. Angleton
because it cannot without him be decided.
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Mr. Edgar. Do you know of any other KGB agents or other
defectors who were held in those very same conditions?
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Yet you are still willing to be a consultant
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Mr. Edgar. Well, you have suggested to the Committeelthat
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statements.
Is that not correct?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes, because I considered the whole arrest
was unlawful, without due process of law, illegal arrest,
what was the finding as unlawful by Rockefeller Commission.
Mr. Edgar.
Thank you.
You were held under those spartan conditions and you
indicated that those statements would have to be unreliable.
Now, I have three specific questions, then, to ask you.
Have you ever told the CIA that these statements could
not be considered reliable?
Mr. Nosenko.
Sure, when we started, they change the
situation, they moved me from spartan conditions, started to
talk with me as a human being, to treat me as a human being.
Mr. Edgar. Did you go on a point by point correction of
any of those statements you previously made?
Mr. Nosenko. It wasn't in the form of simply returning
to document, it was case by case, whatever concerns me, my
biography, my work, whatever cases I knew, whatever cases I
was involved, all questions were raised by 20, 30 times each
when it was reevaluation of all information given by me.
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at the best.
Mr. Edgar. And those statements of '67-'68 should be
considered by this Committee as the absolute truth?
Mr. Nosenko.
Right.
Mr. Edgar. And nothing but the truth.
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Mr. Edgar. And it is clear to you that all the questions
that were raised about Oswald were also raised in 1967 and '68?
Mr. Nosenko. Everything was raised in this period.
Mr. Edgar. If, then, this Committee discovers inconsis-
tencies in your statements that you made in 1967 and '68,
after your incarceration and the illegal period that you
talk about, if we find inconsistencies between that statement
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Mr. Nosenko. Sir, if you must believe
not you must
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But, sir, let's say was read
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The Chairman. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Mr. Nosenko, in reply to Mr. Sawyer's question, you
indicated you were paid for the period of time that you were
under arrest, that it was a lump sum payment I suppose?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir.
The Chairman. What amount of money was that?
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The Chairman. About $80,000?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes.
The Chairman. Any other sum in addition to that were
you paid?
Mr. Nosenko. I think I received about $15,000 or $20,000
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The Chairman. So that the record is clear, you received
$80,000 for the period of time you were under arrest.
Mr. Nosenko.
Right.
The Chairman. In order to get started again, you we re
given an additional $15,000, and that was in 1969.
Mr. Nosenko. Right.
The Chairman. Since 1969, to the present time, you have
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received $35,000.
Mr. Nosenko. Right.
The Chairman. Can you give us some indication of how many
days you have worked during 1978?
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sending me the last few years abroad to talk with friendly
intelligence services. I am also working at home on my own.
I am studying Soviet periodicals, Soviet magazines, Soviet
newspapers.
I am making certain researches, I am trying not to
lose what is going on, what changes taking place in policy.
The Chairman.
Would it be fair to say that you sort of
set your time and that no one else sets your time?
Mr. Nosenko.
When I am out of this area, yes, at home,
I am myself setting time.
The Chairman. And during the last year, how many weeks
would you say you have spent here at the Agency?
Mr. Nosenko. Not at the Agency. They are meeting me in
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The Chairman. For how long?
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The Chairamn.
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Mr. Preyer. Mr. Nosenko, your testimony has been considered
a major piece of evidence, and was so considered by the Warren
Commission as rebutting any Russian connection with the assassi-
nation of Lee Harvey Oswald, and I think the key part of your
testimony that we are concerned with, not so much the question
about any inconsistencies in it, but are you right on the big
question, namely, was Lee Harvey Oswald a KGB agent?
I want to mention, I have been a little surprised by your
testimony, bythe gaps in your knowledge of Oswald, and really
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Mr. Preyer. Right. Now, I am not questioning you about.
The question I wonder, that that brings to my mind is,
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President, when it start, demanded the file back from Minsk,
when started conversation with Minsk, started in KGB investi-
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So you convinced that seeing the first section--
Seeing the first section in which the most.
important material in the whole file will be this in first
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Were the rest of the sections of that file,
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Mr. Nosenko. It will be information from agents in
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friends of Oswald.
Mr. Preyer. Well, on this question of your knowledge
of Oswald and being in position to know about him, you knew about
the cablegram from Mexico yet you did not know he had gone back
to the United States. Is that because you had moved too.
Mr. Nosenko. Again, I returned in Seventh Department
and I was working '62, 163, up to '64 in Seventh Department
and the cablegram has come in Seventh Department. Seventh
Department was started against Oswald in '59.
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Mr. Nosenko.
Have you read a lot about the Oswald case
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I only didn't read the last book which was written about Marina
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Mr. Preyer. I just wondered if you had read about the
Mexican cable, and perhaps through the years may have been
Mr. Nosenko. No, I never have seen that it was mentioned
Mexican cable. I have seen that he visited Mexico, in Mexico
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to change the subject, one of the things that struck me is
that when you defected, as Mrs. Burke mentioned, in Geneva,
in 1964, very shortly after the Kennedy Assassination, I get
the impression that the CIA or American forces to whom you
defected, did not have much to say about the assassination or
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Mr. Devine.
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Mr. Devine. That person didn't recognize you?
Mr. Nosenko. I immediately turned and went, turned my back
and went in another direction.
Mr.
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of American diplomats, I have seen for five, say seven
minutes, Consul from Soviet Embassy and interpreter, another
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Mr. Devine. What did they want with you?
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the country, and I said, gentlemen, nobody pushed me on this
question, it is absolutely my own decision, and decision of free
will, which I made long ago, and without any return. Then they
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Mr. Devine. They made no threats of reprisals against
your family back there?
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Nosenko. No, no. They later only, Mr. Congressman,
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incarceration, the fact that they gave you $15,000 or $20,000
which you used for furniture and so forth, were there any
strings tied to either of those funds, the $80,000 or the subse-
quent amount?
Mr. Nosenko. No, sir, no.
Mr. Devine. That you would not contact the press or
anybody else about this?
Mr. Nosenko. No, it never was mentioned, never.
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Mr. Nosenko. No.
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connection with Oswald and the assassination of President
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Whatever I said, nothing more. I do not
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The Chairman.
The time of the gentleman has expired.
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mentioned Priscilla Johnson's book. Did you by any chance
while you were working in the American tourist area, did you
have any occasion to investigate her coming to Russia or did
she come during any of that time as a student?
Mr. Nosenko. Priscilla Johnson?
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in Moscow working, and KGB didn't like her dispatches and they
made very, very rude operations against her. They
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What did they do to her?
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wine or vodka or whatever it would be, and she was absolutely
drunk. And she was delivered in local regional, one of the
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Mr. Edgar. If the gentlewoman would yield, are you sure
that you are talking about the samer person?
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Let me ask you one other question.
When she was there, did she interview Oswald?
Mr. Nosenko. I know it is now reading here the books. I
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Mrs. Burke. That she interviewed him. That didn't show
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this is what in
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Mrs. Burke. Let me ask again about Oswald in Minsk, and
first of all, can American tourists go to Minsk easily?
Mr. Nosenko. Minsk is open city, yes.
Mrs. Burke. It is an open city now. Was it an open
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Mrs. Burke. And when he was there, of course, I realize
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Mr. Nosenko. No, there wasn't. For the whole his period
of time there wasn't found any indication on suspicion,
suspicious meetings or anything suspicion concerning his contacts
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As I understand it, it was fairly
routine that everyone's phone would be tapped, so that that
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Mr. Nosenko. Yes.
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today than in your earlier statements.
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Mrs. Burke. You never mentioned the interpreter?
Mr. Nosenko.
No. I do not remember her name.
Mrs. Burke. It was just this officer Rastrusin?
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Mr. Nosenko. No, this is the officer who reported about
Mrs. Burke. He reported it, but he didn't find him?
Mr. Nosenko. No, no, interpreter found him with
administration of the hotel where Oswald was staying.
Mrs. Burke. Oh, I see.
Nosenko. You see, interpreter has come in the
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started a little bit to talk, but it wasn't very, it wasn't
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I would like to just pick up on that line of questioning,
if I could, with you, Mr. Nosenko.
Correct me if I am wrong, but as I understand it, Oswald,
you were aware of Oswald's desire to defect. There was a
decision, and in fact he was informed through his Intourist
guide that his request had been rejected.
Is that correctssoffaŕ?¨
Mr. Nosenko. Is in general, but it wasn't in this ways
told to him. It was in so-called, you know, soft manner. It
was explained to him by through Intourist
Mr. Dodd. That he would have to go through his embassy?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes, that Intourist not dealing with this
question. He must go through this, this, this procedures.
Mr. Dodd. Okay.
Now, you, at the time of this, of Oswald's request, you
were working in the Seventh Department of the Second Directorate
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Right.
Mr. Dodd. Okay. Could you tell me what would be the
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take in order to deal with that individual?
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Mr. Nosenko. I would assume, sir, that he will be,
he immediately will be taken in polyclinic, will be informed
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Mr. Dodd.
Those kind of steps.
Right.
If you had made a decision that Oswald should
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American Embassy and notify them that you have an American on
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Mr. Dodd. No, but you found him with his wrist cut.
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alone that he is not playing with a full deck of cards, and
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Mr. Dodd. Let me jump onto something else quickly in the
time we've got.
You knew that Lee Harvey Oswald was a Marine?
Mr. Nosenko. Yes.
Mr. Dodd. You knew by your answer to Mrs. Burke's question
a minute ago that Oswald had a student's knowledge of Russian?
Mr. Nosenko. When he was living in Minsk, not before,
before he has come. No.
Mr. Dodd. You didn't know that?
Mr. Nosenko. No, when he was living in Minsk, when he
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Mr. Nosenko. No.
Mr. Dodd. Did you know that he had given the U.S.
embassy his notice to defect?
Mr. Nosenko.
No.
I know that he visited embassy and
after was, he was told that he will be allowed to stay, after
this.
Mr. Dodd. You were not aware at that time that he con-
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it known that he intended to defect or wanted to defect, you
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Mr. Nosenko.
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He wasn't under surveillance...
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didn't know.
Mr. Dodd. I didn't ask you how you know.. I just asked
you whether or not he didn't tell you that?
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knew your family was okay or that they hadn't invoked any
reprisals, I didn't get the answer.
Mr. Nosenko. Sir, I asked Mr. Solie in '69, '70, once
I asked, anything about my family?
Mr. Sawyer. Mr. who?
Mr.
Nosenko. Mr. Bruce Solie, CIA officer who was in
contact with me, '69, 170. He answered me that they are all
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Father died, I said. Father died in 1956.
After father's death she received a pension.
Mr. Sawyer. I understand. You went through that before.
I noticed here though, when he slashed his wrist, the
psychiatric examination report here by the doctor says the
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anything Russian.
Mr. Nosenko. Who specializes in any field of Russia,
who will be working for the United States government.
Mr. Sawyer. But here is a guy at that time, when he first
came there, within a matter of days after, the doctor says the
patient apparently understands the questions asked in Russian.
Mr. Nosenko.
Mr. Sawyer.
wouldn't it?
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That would have keyed interest right there,
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Mr. Sawyer. It says on the report, this was on the 21st
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know anything would be apparently capable of going back to the
United States at the behest of KGB in areas of the country that
Russian diplomats and so forth, KGB people weren't allowed to gb
and dig up information for them and come back. Here is a guy
you didn't have to threaten, he volunteers. And it seems strange
you wouldn't talk to him or be interested in him just from that
point of view.
And how and another thing that greatly bothers me,
how did you know that he, being in the Marines, you knew that,
but how did you know he wasn't a cryptographer or how did
you know he wasn't stationed in the Office of the Joint Chiefs
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Apparently they knew he could speak Russian.
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Judging by the questionnaire, they decided, the KGB decided,
Seventh Department, he is not an interesting target.
Mr. Sawyer. Well, why would a person like this not even
be interesting for something like the Tokyo Rose, on some kind
of propaganda program where he could say how bad things were
in the United States, and why he didn't want to stay there
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and how KGB was thinking about him.
Mr. Sawyer. I yield back the balance of my time.
The time of the gentleman has expired.
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I wonder if I could let Mr.Edgar go ahead of me?
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recruit journalists?
Mr. Nosenko. I was working, when I started to work in the
KGB in 1953, the first year I was working against American
correspondents.
Mr. Edgar. But the KGB, not you personally, but the KGB
did have a policy of going against journalists and trying to
compromise them, yes or no??
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Trying to recruit or compromise them.
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Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir.
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Priscilla Johnson interviewed Oswald on the
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notes from that interview?
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it is government organization was censoring
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Mr. Nosenko. Yes, I heard such a name", Mosby, a woman
who was a correspondent.
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Mr. Edgar. In the earlier questioning of Congresswoman
Burke, you were not confusing MArlene Mosby with the treatment
of Priscilla Johnson?
Mr. Nosenko. I think it was Priscilla Johnson, the case
which I described, I think so. I think so, it was Priscilla
Johnson.
Mr. Edgar. How do you know?
Mr. Nosenko. What I heard from colleagues who were in
KGB, who were working against correspondents.
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Mr. Edgar. But you are not absolutely certain?
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Mr. Edgar. We have only a few pages of written testimony,
some three pages that you gave, and in fact, in the beginning
part of that testimony, you indicate that you don't want to go
through it again because your earlier testimony will stand for
itself. I am paraphrasing what you said.
Were the notes and the recordsings of those corrections
made and kept by the CIA?
Mr. Nosenko. Sir, Mr Bruce Solie talking with me every day
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conversation he was recording. But he never has come and showed
his notes, transcriptions or anything. He was returning to
every case, to every aspect by 20, 25, 30 times.
Mr. Edgar. But specifically on the Oswald case, would it
be correct in our assuming that it was more than three pages of
notes on specifically Lee Harvey Oswald after 1967?
Mr. Nosenko. If he was raising questions concerning also
Lee Harvey Oswald.
MR. Edgar.
Mr. Nosenko.
Mr. Edgar.
We have some information that Bruce Solie
Yes, Mr. Solie.
Stated in a deposition that there is nothing on
Oswald other than the three pages.
Mr. Nosenko. I cannot say how many pages. I know
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that he was passing through all cases, all questions, with me
for the period almost two years.
Mr. Edgar. Who other than Bruce Solie did you talk to about
correcting your earlier statements?
Mr. Nosenko. I wasn't correcting them. They were correcting
they were talking returning back to every case.
Mr. Edgar. One final question.
Mr. Nosenko. And also besides Mr. Solie, were people coming
from FBI with cases in which were interested for them.
Mr. Edgar. One final question. You stopped our hearing
about an hour ago and were concerned about our playing the tape
and bringing up old memories, and I respect the fact that you are
very patriotic in coming before this Committee and helping us.
Would you be willing to sit down with our staff and go
through a series of written questions which outline specifically
for you the contradictions of your 1964, '65, '66 and early '67
timeframe, with the statements that you made, in '67, '68 and
'78, and indicate in a yes-no manner which statement, laid side
by side, is true and which statement is false?
Mr. Nosenko. If it is the wish of the Committee, sure..
Mr. Edgar. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The Chairman. The time of the gentleman has expired.
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Mr. Fithian. Mr. Nosenko, do you remember when it was that the
FBI first interviewed you concerning Oswald?
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It was between February and April?
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Right, right.
The information we have is that it was early
March, the first week in March. Is that about right?.
Now, have you talked to the FBI about that testimony at any
time since then?
Mr. Nosenko.
Gentlemen, on many, many times I have seen
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Mr. Fithian.
Mr. Nosenko.
About the Oswald testimony?
About Oswald were asked questions, but not about
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Mr. Fithian. My question is, there is a written transcript
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Fithian. My question is, have you at any time since
then visisted with the FBI about this testimony?
Mr. Nosenko.. No, sir, no, sir.
Mr. Fithian. Now, next, when
what is your understanding
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when the KGB first knew he was interested in defecting?
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Mr. Nosenko. No, no, no application, in oral form. He
told the interpreter in oral form.
Mr. Fithian. This was the Intourist?
Mr. Nosenko.
Mr. Fithian.
Interpreter of the Intourist.
And then the Intourist came to the KGB?
Mr. Nosenko. Right, and it immediately was informed to KGB
that this American applies, wants to stay, said to interpreter.
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Mr. Fithian. And then you reviewed the file?
Mr. Nosenko. It was several pieces of pages what we had on
It wasn't even file.
Mr. Fithian. But you reviewed whatever applications
Mr. Nosenko. Right. No it wasn't application to stay. He in
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Mr. Fithian. You reviewed the pages that he had filled out
for the visa and any other sheets that you had?
Mr. Nosenko. He didn't yes, these documents, yes, for
the visa, questionnaire and
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What I am trying to get at is what did
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Mr. Nosenko. On his name, what he supplied, who he is, when
he was asking visa.
Mr. Fithian. But they conducted no check, no search?
Mr. Nosenko. It is in the archives of KGB, if he ever was
in Soviet Union, on him there will be something. If he wasn't in
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Mr. Nosenko. Yes, sir, and his questionnaire for who he
is, his name, whatever he filled about himself. That's all.
The Chairman. The time of the gentleman has expired.
The Chair has one additional request from one member, for
one additional question.
Mr. Sawyer?
Mr. Sawyer. I just have one additional question, and that is
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Mr. Dodd. Mr. Chairman?
The Chairman.
Mr. Dodd?
Mr. Dodd. I just wondered for the record, I wondered if,
Mr. Nosenko, you could tell us when you arrived in this country on
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Mr. Dodd. No vacation?
Mr. Nosenko. Oh, I went in March on week to Hawaii. I was.
Mr. Dodd. Were you on your own?
Nosenko. No, no, no, with guards.
Mr. Dodd. It was a relaxed period for you and just a chance
to rest?
Mr. Nosenko.
Chance to get a little bit rest.
Mr. Dodd. Is it your knowledge that this is the normal way
that defectors are treated when they come to this country?
Mr. Nosenko. I do not know.
Mr. Dodd. Just one last point, Mr. Chairman, and that is
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of the exhibit was?
Mr. Nosenko.
Yes, he showed me an article.
Mr. Dodd. Is it your knowledge that employees that worked
during the exhibit stayed on for a period of time after that?
Mr. Nosenko. Sure, to it will be disassembled, this is the
whole process is going on. It is closed for visitors to visit,
to look.
Mr. Dodd. How long a period would that have been, a week?
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Mr Dodd Thank you, Mr.Chairman.
The Chairman. Mr. Nosenko, with reference to your earlier
comments this evening regarding what transpired during your
period of isolation, which you described as extreme spartan
conditions, I would like to make this request of you. I think the
record ought to in a very graphic way portray those conditions
under which you were subjected during that period of time, and
while you are complying with Mr. Edgar's request and working with
the staff in terms of the contradictory data, would you also agree
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The Chairman. Thank you.
Did you have some?
Mr. Cornwell. Following up on the question that Congressman
Dodd just asked you, the staff, in an attempt to determine how long
it took to disassemble the exhibition, checked with a knowledge-
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Would you disagree with that information?
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Anything further from the Committee?
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Mr. Devine. No. He is under continuing subpoena.
The Chairman. Under the rules of the Committee, Mr. Nosenko,
any witness appearing before our Committee is entitled at the
conclusion of his testimony to address the Committee for a
period of five minutes for the purpose of clarifying anything
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for the record or making any statement he so desires, and I want
to at this time afford you that five minute period to make such a
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Mr. Nosenko. Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I consider
my appearance, invitation to appear at Committee, as I told also
the same applies before, my meetings with the staff of the Commit-
tee, I consider it honor, great honor for me. I will try to
answer whatever I remember, whatever I know as only truth, and
but the truth. And you would like to see me appear at any time,
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That is the completion of your statement, sir?
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The Chairman. Mr. Nosenko, on behalf of the Committee and
the United States Congress, I want to express our appreciation to
you for having appeared here and having given this Committee the
benefit of your testimony. At this time I would remind you of
the terms of your agreement to work with our staff and provide
further information to the Committee, that you will continue
administered to you by this Committee.
under the oath
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