14-00000
104-10227-10003
2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
Methodology:
SECRET
1.
The portion of the 11 June 1962 tape in question
was provided 
to two 
employees, both of whom are professional
transcribers and 
native Russian speakers.
with the background of the difficulty, i.c., that previous
They were 
provided
transcriptions of the 
tape quoted Nosenko as saying that
he had "also been 
in the States" and that he had used the
alias 
Nikolayev "both in England and 'u vas' i.c., in the
United States.
2. Mr. Kozlov and Mr. Berest produced a transcription
which 
contains no statement 
of Nosenko's saying he had been
in the United States
. In addition, their rendering of the
sentence pertaining 
to Nosenko's use of the alias Nikolayev
reads, with 
no equivocation, "both in England and 'u nas'",
i.c., "in the Soviet Union."
3. Independently, the same portion of tape was given
yet another professional transcriber, a native Russian
speaker. She 
was given no background whatsoever on the
problem. 
Her transcript contained no statement of Nosenko's
saying he had been in 
the United States. In addition, her
rendering of 
the sentence pertaining to Nosenko's use of
the alias Nikolayer 
reads unequivocally as "both in England
and 'u nas".
', i.e., "
in the Soviet Union."
WARNING NOTICE
INVOLVED
-
SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS
E2 IMPDET CL BY 011340
SECRET