(404-10172-10262 we se Orann-< eae SECRET to May 1974 SUtySCT: GOLITIYN Biographical Highlights L. Anetolly Mikhaylovich GOLITZYN @KLIMOV was born on 25 Augus: 1926 at Piryatin, Poltaava, Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, of lower class parents. After childhood education and Studies at the Frunze Artillery School in Odessa, where he was a@ Komsonol (Cv Youth) organizer, Subject requested and was granted transfer into Military Counterintelligence. 2 The following are highlights of the chronology of é@e Subject's professional career: Septenber 1944: Subject was mobilized and sent to the Frunze Artillery School in Odessa where he remained until July 1945. At that time Subject left the Artillery School before | completion of the course and enrolled in a Counterintelligence School. 1945-1946: Student at the one year course, Military i Counterintelligence School, GUKR/"SMERSH," Moscow, 1946-1948: Desk officer, Assistant Operational Case “Officer, assigned to the Eastern Section . (otdeleniye) of the SK (Soviet Colony - security of Soviet officials abroad) Depart- ment (otdel) of the First Chief (Foreign Intelligence) Directorate of MGB. Head- quarters in Moscow. During the period November 1947 to September 1948 Subject held the. title of Referent and his office was desienated the Fifth (SK) Uepartment of the Thire (Eastern) Directorate of the KI (Comaittee for Information), but his functions were unchanged. 1948-1550: Student at the two-yecr course, Higher Intelligence Schoel ef the Ki. Subject Studied general subjecis and the English errprr
14-00000 1950-1951: November 1951: December 1981; March 1952: September 1952: OLEATE. languace; he was one of 30 students who specialized in counterintelligence during the second year of the course, Desk officer, Operational Case Officer, Supervising SK activities in China, assigned to the SK Section, Eastern Depart- ment, First Directorate of the MGB Head- quarters in Moscow, the SK functions having reverted from the KI to the MGB in 1949. September 1951: At his request Subject was transferred as a desk officer to the Anglo-American Section, Counterintelligence Department of the First Directorate, MGB Headquarters in Moscow. Subject was promoted to "Senior Operational Case officer.” The KI,was dissolved and former state security elements were returned to the MGB. Subject's functions continued the same, but, in the reorganization, he was assigned to the CI Section of the American Department of the Anglo-American (First) Directorate of the First Chief Directorate of the MGB, Subject and an unidentified young colleague wrote a joint letter through the Central Committee of the CPSU to STALIN making suggestions for a fundamental reorganization of Soviet foreign intelligence and counter- intelligence work. . While on vacation in the Georgian SSR Subject was ordered to Moscow for a four hour meeting, with his friend, with STALIN, MALENKOV, and BERIYA. STALIN thanked the two officers fer their suggestions, discussed intelligence matters in detail and asked thea to send him a lecter with specific proposals oe
14-00000 oT ae en a ee March 1953: October 1988: August 19$4; LF ae MILD bate te ree for necessary reorganizations, together with the nanes of recommended chiefs. In a subsequent letter they recommended Sergey Ivanovich OGOLTSOV, then {n prison fer “political crimes," and Yevgently Petrovich PITOVRANOV, then chief or deputy chief of the NGB in the Uzbekistan SSR. STALIN met Subject and his friend a second time. OGOLTSOV was released from prison and appointed Chief of the First Chief Directo- rate, with PITOVRANOV as his deputy. A Chief Intelligence Directorate of the MGB was then formed, containing a Counterintelligence Department with an Emigre desk and seven geo- graphical desks. Subject was appointed by OGOLTSOV as chief of the American Desk, supervising approximately 15 staff persons. When STALIN died and BERIYA took over control of the State Security apparatus, which he . combined with the MVD into a unified MVD, he replaced OGOLTSOV with one of his own appcintees. Subject was reassigned as deputy chief of the Russian Emigre Desk of the CI Department of the Second (new designation for foreign Intelligence) Chief Directorate, MVD. Subject supervised activities against emigres in , Austria and Germany. Subject was assigned to the MVD residency in Vienna, Austria, a3 an operational case officer in the Emigre Operations Group. Subject was transferred to the British Sub- Group of the Anglo-American-French Group of the KGR residency in Vienna. His duties were of a counterintelligence nature, f.¢. concerned with penetration of foreign intelligence services. 3 CECRE
14-00000 g 29$$-1959; September 1959: April 1960; One of 170 students attending the four year internal security-counterintelligence course, the KGB Higher School Juridical Institute. He presented and successful ly defended his thesis on the subject of SK activities among Soviet delegations and | tourist groups traveling abroad. “He ree ceived his diploma in August 1959. During his school tour Subject also spent several | weeks in on-the-job training as a student assigned to pertinent elements of the KGB's. Second (Internal Counterintelligence) Chief. Directorate, with access to operational files on foreign diplomatic personnel in Moscow who were KGB targets. . Subject was assigned as a Senior Operational Case Officer responsible for NATO information . . within the Treaty Organizations Direction, Information (Reports) Department, First (Foreign) Chief, Directorate, KGB Headquarters, Moscow. His function was to translate, edit and summarize information reports obtained by KGB agents abroad and to disseminate the pertinent information to the Central Committee of the CPSU, members of the Presidium, including KHRUSHCHEY, and, in the case of information with military aspects, to MALINOVSKIY, the Minister of Defense. At one tine, during a CP cell meeting, criticism was voiced about the delays in translation and processing and Subject was assigned to study the situaticn. Thus he examined registry logs showing the titles of agent information reports, the place acquired, the date received and the date of dissenination of the finished Russian intelli- gence reports @ the governaent. . Subject was transferred Co the American Section 4 APARPT
74-90000 . at wee bine Jo eee ne ee te ee wee of the CI Department of the First Chief Directorate, KGB, to prepare for assign- ment to the KGB residency under Soviet Enbassy cover in Helsinki, Finland, as tee Ci officer working against foreign intelligence services. August 1960: Subject was assigned to the KGB residency ‘in Helsinki, under the name KLIMOV (his true hame was compromised through the 1954 | defection of Petr DERYABIN in Vienna), and with the cover title of Third Secretary. 15 Decenber 1961; Subject, with his wife and young daughter -defected to the U.S. Government which granted them political asylum. 15-18 Dec. 1961: Subject and his family (his wife Svetlana Mikhaylovna GOLITSYNA nee CHERNOVALOVA, DPOB: 1 March 1929, Salsk, Restov, USSR, who he married on 23 August 1953 in the USSR, and daughter Tatyana, born 22 June 1955) walked in to a J.S. Embassy officials's home in . Helsinki on the evening of 18 December 1961. Subject and his family then flew that night to Stockholm, Sweden by commercial flight accompanied by the U.S. official. U.S. Embassy personnel in Stockholm provided a safehouse fer the group where they. stayed during 16 December 1961. That night the family and the U.S. official from Helsinki in company with the U.S. Air Attache to Sweden flew in the Air. Attache'’s plane from Stockholm to Wiesbaden, Germany. The group then started off for the U.S.A. on an old Liberator but the Subject's daughter became {1] and the plane returned to Wiesbaden, The next day, 17 December 1961, the family still accompanied by the U.S. mF ms bye
14-00000 28 December 1961: 1962: 16 February 1962: ‘2 July 1962: 9 July 1962: 22 August 1962: 18 Nov. 1962: 27 Sov. 1962: Eabassy official fron Helsinki flew on Pan-Am fron Frankfurt/Main via London and Bermuda to N.Y.C. They then traveled by rail to the Washington, D.C. area where they finally arrived on the nignt of 16 Dec- ember 1962. Subject met Attorney General Robert KENNEDY along with Mr. HELMS, DDP. Subject was debriefed by CIA Officers, ; officials from other US Agencies and teams of Intelligence Officers from Free World nations. Subject provided much valuable information on the KGB, its organization, personnel, operations, aims and efforts against the Free World, Subject, however, proved to be a difficult handling problems, especially as a result of his personality and his constant demands for regular meetings with high-level US officials such as the President, the Attorney-General, the Directors of CIA and the FBI and for a policy role in the US Intelligence Community. Subject had another meeting with the ' Attorney-General. Subject met again with the Attorney-General " and Mr. HELMS. Subject had a conversation with Mr. HELMS. Subject had interview with Mr. SORENSON of the White House Staff and Mr. Edward R. MURROW, Director of USIA. . An FBI source reported that the KGB was aware .of Subject's presence in the U.S.A. and ordered all Soviet IS personnel to report immediately ‘any information which they may obtain regard- ing Subject. Subject met Mr. NcCONE, DCI, and protested
14-00000 treatment by the Agency. 27 Nov, 1962r Subject was dissatisfied with his talk / . with the DCI and visited the Attorney- General on his own unofficlally. Subject and his fanily travelled as|Jonnl LtoneJ Ob 14 December 1962: Subject met again with the DCI. 21 Feb. 1963: Subject and his family left N.Y.C. on , SS Sylvania for England. Spring 1963: Subject worked with the British. 8 August 1963; Subject returned to the U.S.A. 22 August 1963!" Subject met the Attorney-General again, 23 August 1963: Subject met the DCI again. — | 4 Sept. 1963: Subject met the DCI again and stated that he wanted to become an advisor to the DCI and the Intelligence Community. . & October 1963- ; April 1964: Subject in contact with the Agency mostly in the N.Y.C. area. Subject was cooperative ta some extent. 1964/1965: Subject, according to a fficial, oe visited The Netherlands. Hh 2 June 1965: ‘Subject interviewed by the . | in the N.Y.C. area.:  \ August 1968: Subject in contact with the British regarding | possible publication of his book. October 1968: | An FBI source indicated that he had no current information concerning the KGB | attitude regarding Subject but the source stated that if the KGB knew Subject's location it might undertake to elininate hin. July 1570 Subject was in contact with Agency personnel . and visited Florida. September 1970: Mr, SOURNINE of the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommitte expressed an interest in Subject under the name DOLNYTZYN. *“ March 1972: A KGB defector reported that he knew S
LF in mre Sie teen me reese aetna gate + ences 2 nee Me ae og myers on ete noes April 1972: September 1972 Early 1974: that Subject had been sentenced to death by the AGB. An article recardis this sentence appeared in The Chekist senstiae after 3964. Subject was in touch with CIA officials. A KGB defector provided a copy of the 1969 XGB Alphabetical List of Agents . Of Foreign Intelligence Services, Defectors, Members of Anti-Soviet Organizations, Members of Punitive Units and-Other Criminals under Search Warrants. In this List the KGB listed Subject and his wife as under the sentence of death for revealing Soviet State secrets. Subject and family living in N.Y.C. Area, he is writing and conducting research. He is presently in contact with the Agency and also with the French. He has also visited South Africa and worked with the South Africans in recent years.