124-10193-10032 SEaie AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10193-10032 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR SEE TITLE ORIGINATOR: FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECT: DOCUMENT TYPE: ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: ‘ . REVIEW DATE: STATUS COMMENTS: DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI GOW, W. DOUGLAS DIRECTOR, CIA CR 105-379908-76 03/01/1990 7 LHO, RP, MNO, SOVIET PERMISSION, RETURN TO US PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret CLASSIFICATION: 01/13/1999 UPDATE DATE: — 02/12/2001 Redact | ~ RESTRICTIONS: JEK Act 6 (1)(B) JFK Act 6 (1XC) ) 25 OF 35 PAGES NAR, INC RPT HY 50953 Docld: 32177784 Page 1
Exec AD Adm. Exec AD Inv. Exec AD LES Asai. Dir: Adm. Servs. m7 Crim, tmv. do Ey ident. ° dasp. a intall. Lab. _.. oa Legal Coun. Ot Cong. & Public Affs. 0 lec. Mgnt. Tach. Servs, Tralning OFF. Liaison & int. Afis. Tetaphons Am. Director’s Sec'y HY ! have been furnished to -CTION 70 TIN ANDIOR, p EE eon cia, RELEASE Ge Ls pW TH DB9H wen CL “ @ECRET L-Mr. J. a. ay BY LIAISON ot oi gle a Ls) EASON: (e,4 Date: March i, 1990 . dD DF CLASSIFY On: To: Director of Central Intelligence’ in an tine [- ° Deputy Director for Operations Urine temedened? “ye | 53. A J on oviet/E ivision —, Chiet /SOYOFS “4s 5643 Chie f NHB 1x04" cs} = | (i ie, i a 4h ‘\ From: § W. Douglas Gow WAL Assistant Director in Charge 18 Ny, of . intelligence Division | . “ve AS,24 ah Subj ect § PLASH-RUN_D 16) 2024/24, 7,35 FOREIGN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE - SOVIET UNION 32,34 ri a7 This communication is classified "Secret" emt QREeTEREY. Enclosed are copies of debriefing reports relating to the captioned subject, a former Major in the Second Chief Directorate of the KGB who defected to the United States in November, 1989. FLASH RUN is presently being resettled by your | Agency (S ‘Copies’ of those debriefing reports which are relevant to the Defense intelligence Agency, the military intélrigence Services, the National Security Agency, and to cther appropriate members of the Intelligence Community. ‘2 Information from this source is being obtained on a continuous basis, and copies of future reports from him will be provided to you as they become available. Such reports will also be disseminated by this Bureau to other interested members of the Intelligence Community-and to appropriate allied foreign govermments. >) GLOSURE ATTACHED 7 ry} (s) Enclosures - ogynid goite if () Sy poe / L| JoB: eee a) SEE NOTE PAGE THREE id ODE s1C18 .. Classifi S Gad SIRE Declassify fom: OADR ilassiiccNoy LEME \ Declassify ti: GADR HH Tesi mri —— Kiaiaen 50953 Docld: 32777784 Page 2
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— Yuriy NOSENKO spent much of his career in the Sixth " Department of the KGB's Second Chief Directorate (SCD), which was responsible for tourists. He spent only a short time of his career in the First Department, SCD, which was responsible for American officials at. the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. NOSENKO had excellent family connections because his ‘father was Minister for the Shipbuilding Industry in the USSR. That is how NOSENKO managed to become a security officer for the Soviet delegation which traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, for arms control talks. He defected to the United States from this position. The SCD was quite pleased when U.S. intelligence began to believe NOSENKO was not a bona fide defector. They were particularly pleased when he was harshly interrogated by the CIA. According to the source, NOSENKO was not sent to the United States to be a false defector. The source said that it is against KGB policy to send an intelligence officer as a false defector. Also, the KGB would never have selected him for such a 2 smission because his father is a high-level Party official. The source doubts that NOSENKO ever saw OSWALD's file. According to the source, NOSENKO was not higher than a Captain or. Major when he defected to the United States. The source believes | that NOSENKO may have tried to show himself more valuable to the CIA- than he really was. At the time of his defection, NOSENKO was mixing in high circles of Moscow golden youth. The source believes he defected for material gain. : REFERENCES: 1. January 12, 1990, Debriefing. Tape #2A. Counter 3342-432. (S) “SECRET HY 50953 Docld: 32177784 Page 6 “22
IN SECRET The source discussed the Lee Harvey OSWALD case with ounterintelligence] 7 (corner instructors at Afu pin KGB Higher § School of eS his defection to the USSR, OSWALD was resettled in Minsk, outside of Moscow. He was placed under full surveillance by the regional or territorial KGB in Minsk. KGB officers from the Second Directorate of the White Russian KGB were in contact with Oswald and considered him an agent because he would provide them with some information on his past. Marina was also considered an egent. Oswald resided very close to Victory Square and the KGB Higher School in Minsk. His apartment was very nice by Soviet standards. Oswald was also interrogated several times by KGB officers in Moscow. The source does not know what type of’ information OSWALD provided to the KGB in Minsk or Moscow. I, . 1 OSWALD fell into deep depression in the USSR. He homesick and wanted to return to the United States. He eventually received Soviet permission to return to the United States with his wife Marina. Was His KGB handlers did consider passing OSWALD to the First Chief Directorate to be handled by a KGB residency in the United States. This proposal was ultimately rejected, however, because OSWALD was considered too unstable. According to the source, the KGB did not handle OSWALD in the United States and had no further contacts with him. Marina was considered an agent, but she did not like to cooperate with the KGB. She was interested in OSWALD, but even more interested in getting away from the Soviet Union and poverty. ee KGB instructors who were (Colo e? Torchuk, Colonel Sluze These individuals d to be members SCD efficers Alekse about this opératis Vwhe stories old the source about OSWALD and Colonel Schlobochekov.{$} €£,the White Russian KGB. fons Pa SECRET HW 50953 Docld: 32177784 Page 7
SECRET -S- According to the source, [each one of these otticerg (RLY) told him that the KGB did not handlé Oswald after his redefection -.. to the United States, and the KGB did not give any tasks to OSWALD. They also said that the KGB never qave OSWALD a task to kill President Kennedy. The source said that rumors in the West suggesting the KGB was involved in KENNEDY's assassination were absurd. According to the source, the KGB would never risk the scandal of assassinating a major world leader. DEBRIEFER'S COMMENTS: / Needless to say, we will go back over his knowledge of OSWALD in an effort to acquire any additional information. REFERENCES 3 1. January 12, 1990, Debriefing. Tape #2A. Counter #240-341 (5) eek, SECRET HW, 50953 DocId:32177784 Page 8 , roy
U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation ___ In Reply, Please Refer to (fewarx, NEW JERSEY \GS) =~ EHe.No. Bee ANE ORMATION CONZATNED mo “= ¥ SRE SHOWN OTHERWISE, so oa December 12, 1989 (sovier KGB orricers |(6) ws 13 + 3435, = ereeme communication is classified "SECRET". WARNING: THIS INFORMATION IS DERIVED FROM A SOURCE OF EXTREME SENSITIVITY. DISCLOSURE OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN MAY REASONABLY BE EXPECTED TO LEAD TO DISCLOSURE OF THE SOURCE’S IDENTITY, AND TO THE LOSS OF THE SOURCE. 17-4 al - Cass y OS: WARNING: THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS PROVIDED FOR LEAD PURPOSES ONLY. IT’S ORIGIN MUST BE SUITABLY DISGUISED TO PROTECT THE SOURCE. : WARNING: NO FURTHER DISSEMINATION OF THIS INFORMATION MAY BE MADE WITHOUT FBIHQ AUTHORITY. ; 5 On December 11, r98a( vk T-1, a source with whom there ; -has been limited contact, but Whd is in a position to know the type of intormation which follows, and who is believed to be reliable, pravided information on the following: individuals: (FNY) SHERARDIN, replaced KRYUCHKOV as head of First Chief Directorate fFCD). SHEBARDIN was formerly the resident in India and worked wit OLUBOVSKIY, the current head of the Second Chief Directorate’s (& Secon epartment, in that country ($) q KONSTANTI RGASOV works in“th “Ae-Sect jon, Second Department? SCD. He wa portr“in-approximacely 1544~in, Leningrad Usd bh and<ts"an ethnic Tatar. @ iS a graduate of the Dzerzhinskiy KGB Higher School in Moscow. Three years ago he worked against the U. S. consulate in Leningrad. He speaks no english ) SECRET Classifi by: G-3 ( Declassi : OADR , , This document contains neither the recommendations no ‘conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is . loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be , distributed outside your agency. HW 50953 Docld:32177784 Page 9-
SECRET “T0e LAS LEKSANDR_ YUE MLS GIN, is a Captain in Directorate K, FCD. He is was born in 1 , is a graduate of the FCD’s Red _ Banner Institute, second faculty (European languages), served in *F SMthe Sixteenth Directorate for two years, then the lst Séction, Second Department, SCD, and finally transferred to the FCD approximately three years ago. He will be sent to Britain or an er Commonwealth country in the near future. His father, U IN, is a Colonel the head of a department in the KGB I pection Directorate(s) . 219374 © . EK SAND GIN isan mofficer in Directorate S, FCD. He was born in LipetSk circa 1953, has two front gold teeth, is 579" tall, has blond hair, and graduated from a Minsk technical college. He was initially in the second line of the territorial KGB in Lipetsk, but then married the daughter of a local ors (&) and was sent to the FCD Red Banner Institute for three years. S) me SERGE Ye STERANOVICHBKOROLEV is the head of the Fifteenth Directorate. Prior to this he*was the First Deputy head of head of the Ninth Directorate. He resides atw2_Zoclagicheskaya U near_the Moscow zoo. Many KGB génerals 1 reside at this addres He,has travelled many abroad many times. 5) Ly ~ ae is the head cf the Seventh Directorate eee an) He is a Lieutenant General. -Ten years ago he _was the head of the First Department, sco (6) . . ANDREYXSHCHTININ is a case officer in Directorate K, FCD specializing iS the merchant marine. He graduated the, KGB Higher School, Minsk, with the source. | He was born in Leningrad, USih and formerly worked at the Leningrad territorial KGB_in the 4th line. He graduated the FCD school three years ago. S) . G wRENTAMIN VLADIMIROVIC SHIRSKIKH, a Colonel, is-the head of thé Eighth Départment, Sco Latin America). He graduated from the Baumanskiy Higher Technical Institute, then went to the 2nd faculty (eurcpean languages), KGB Higher School, Moscow, then was assigned as the deputy head, Second Department , seb. wore a !4§ 044 EVGENTY_ ANDREEVICH®GUMENYUK is a Iiteutenant Colonel and a deputy head of the Secon& Department, SCD. He is in his mid=™40/s_ and was in the navy for three years. He was formerly a Ninth Directorate personal guard to Soviet President KOSYGIN, who later requested that he receive a KGB higher education. cuMENYUK/S)\ SECRET HY 50953 Docld: 321777654 Page 10
[SECRET ~— worked for one year in the consular group, First Section, Second Department, ScD Loss’? OZENOV_is a Senior Lieutenant in the Second @ graduate of the Baumanskiy Higher 8 Technical Institute, served two years in the Air Defense troops (PVO), attended the Dzerzhinskiy KGB Higher School, Moscow, eight faculty for two years, then was assigned to the Second Department. le SECRET 3% HY 50953 Docld: 32177764 Page 11