Question #1 Answer: y ° During : was held in a. b. Question. #2 Answer: During a. NOSENKO - Conditions under which Nosenko was held while at.- Clinton? Locked in? Let outside for entertainment? Prisoner? Treatment? the period of 4 April 1964- 13 August. 1965, Nosenke strict confinement under the following conditions: Confinement in single oom except for periods of interrogation. Constantly under. guard and subject to 24 hour visual observation with regular room search. Dress was coveralls and food was of sufficient quantity but limited in variety. No. unnecessary. conversation was permitted, radio and television were not allowed, newspapers or any information concerning current events were forbidden and reading material was extremely limited. ~ Conditions at ISOLATION. ' Same as above. | the period of 13 August 1965 to 25 October 1967, conditons cited above were basically maintained with the following additons or changes: . . From February 1966 to May. 1967, Nosenko was furnished no reading material. After May 1967, Nosenko was periodically given. a different volume of the Encyclopaedia. Britannica to read. From February 1966 to October 1967, Nosenko was not permitted cigarettes. Subject was permitted daily exercise in a small confined area outside the building when weather permitted, C9 MM bedava tmegis S85, al taitattmidtarteasceccstimes
“ Answer: Question #3 - Did McCone or Raborn have any information on this: What? . Answer:.. Office of Security records contain only Limited information in regard to this question. The SE Division (then SR) was the responsible office for the confinement of Nosenko until late October.1967 when total responsibility was transferred to the Office of Security by the DCI. It is presumed that the DCI was at leust gencrally aware of the confinement of Noscenko and the ‘conditions of. confinement, but any definite statement must be - based on SE records. Question #4 - Where is Nosenko working now? Answer: Nosenko is currently employed at his personally owned’ residence in North Carolina, We is engaged in research and unalytical work based on his previous knowledge of the KGB and other Soviet matters. He is in the Washington, D. C. area for several days approximately every six weeks for direct interviews by the FBI and Office of Security personnel. Question #5 - Is he working for CIA? Nosenko has been employed by the Agency on acfull-time. contractual basis since 1 March 1969. The original contract has been periodically amended to reflect additional remuneration, primarily to compensate for cost of living increases. In late 1974, Nosenko was compensated by mutual agreement for salary © : not received during the 1 April 1964 to 1 March 1969. In addition, ; on 12 July 1973 Nosenko signed an acknowledgement and release of the United States.Covernment and the Central Intelligence : Agency from any claims prior to that date. Question #6 - What is his legal status? Answer: Nosenko was naturalized as a United States citizen in April 1974,
SECRET MEMORANDUM FOR: The Inspector General SUBJECT : The Nosenko Case Attached please find a summary of a document written in 1967 tothe General Counsel outlining the Nosenko case and explaining to him actions which had been taken with regard to “Nosenko. . As noted in the first paragraph, in October 1967 ' Nosenko took up residence in the Washington area and was advised that, should he wish to leave the apartment for any location whatsoever, he was {ree to so do. In other words, “from that date, Nosenko was essentially a totally free man. ‘That he chose not to flee in any way may be indicative of his attitude toward the manner in which he wag handled prior to October 1967. While one can criticize the fact that Nosenko was kept incommunicado for approximately three years, and therefore presumably denied full civil rights, the attached document does indicate, we believe, that the Agency was on the horns “of a dilemna in this regard. There were legitimate doubts about. Hosenko's bona fides and concern that he was a Soviet plant. There. was no Country.to which he could be deported save the Soviet Union, and Nosenko himself refused to return there. ‘Yet, in the United States, save when isolated from society, he was considered to be a continuing threat to national security. Recognizing that only legal experts can judge defini- tively the merits of the case, it seems to the writer that the Agency had. no choice but to hold Nosenko incommunicado pending resolution of his bona fides. He was admitted to the United States under the provisions of Section 212 (d) (5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, namely as a parolee to the Agency. As a parolec, Nosenko de facto from the date of his entry to the United States did not enjoy the full civil rights of the normal citizen. He was a ward of the Agency, in a sense, and the Agency was ultimately responsible for his E2 IMPDET CL BY 018307 SECRET
iors oe dy : A iY a 3 as My 3 or that he came to the U.S. of investigations. We concluded that it had been established beyond reasonable doubt that Nosenko was a KOB agent who. established contact with CIA, subsequent ly defected on _KGB instructions, and that he came to the United States on a. deception mission. The implications of this mission had a grave und direct bearing on U.S. national security. Although . our findings were supported by the results of two polygraph examinations, the nature of the evidence was inadmissable in a court of law. In any case, it is clear that Nosenko had’ not been ina position to perform any overt act of transgres- sion of U.S. espionage laws since 4 April 1964 whéh he was. | placed in-a restricted area and deprived of any conceivable means of communication with the KGB. Nosenko did not admit that he defected on’ KGB orders ; ne on 4a KGB mission. He has admitted, — however, that he made numerous lies about- his personal history and about the details of his KGB service to U.S. officials, both before and after arriving in the United States. : Coordination with Other U.S. Government Agencies USIB Members. [n accordance with the DDCI's ruling relating to a defector who has been a member cf a hostile intelligence service, Nosenko's status and handling was dis- cussed at an executive session of USIB and decided on. an 7 SECRET
. ok, SECRET ad hoc basis. Nosenko defected on 3 February 1964, and the Secretary. of State, the Attorney General, the Special Assis- tant to the President on National Security Affairs, McGeorge Bundy, General Carroll, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the FBI were all notified immediately. On 5 Febru: ary 1904, General Carter reported the defection to an executive session of USIB and followed this up with formal statements to USIB members on 11 and 19 February 1964, which stated that —__.. Nosenko's bona fides had not yet been established. It was oan agreed that no DS number would he issued to Nosenko, and that he would be handled on a special basis by this Agency. In fact, normil USIB interest in Nosenke as a defector dropped off drastically as it became quickly apparent that he had no. positive intelligence interest of value to any part of the community. The President was informed of the full extent of our suspicions ‘about Nosenko's bona fides by the then Director, ar. Mccone, on ll February 1964, Mr. Patrick Coyne, Executive Secretary af the PFIAB, was given a similar briefing by Mr. Helms on 19 February 1964. Genera'ls Carroll and Fitch of DIA were also subsequent ly infornea of, the problems about Nesenko's bona fides. I a 8