Tep Secret (PRE-KGB BIOGRAPHY) Comment: (Continued) in East Germany, before going to Baitiysk. In retracting that claim, he explained that he | knew his CIA interrogators would not believe that he had successfully refused the assignment in Germany. In August or September 1952 NOSENKO returned to Moscow for 7 to 10 days to complete the divorce proceedings which he had initiated in the Far East. This was not regarded “as leave, but official business. He afterwards returned to Sovetsk, but he did not like his work there, and in late 1952. he requested leave to return to Moscow to seek a transfer. When his unit: commander refused him leave, NOSFNKO appealed — to. Admiral GOLOVKO in Baltiysk, and because of the elder NOSENKO's influence, was able to return to Moscow for a month's leave in January. 1953. At the end of January NOSENKO visited the RU Personnel Officer, KALOSHIN, and stated his distaste for his work. KALOSHIN told him to “look around", and NOSENKO spent February 1953 “at the disposal of the Personnel Department", not doing anything. Since he wasn't working, he didn't receive his Pay, and'he lived with his parents. Comment:. Just before giving this account of his January _—_ 1953 leave, NOSENKO claimed that he spent _ January and a. part of. February at the Kubinka. Sanitorium. He has never reconciled these two" statements. — NOSENKO's Information-1965 Prior to his graduation-from the Institute, a military commission tentatively assigned NOSENKO to the Navy, after which he visited a special section at the Naval Ministry to file special forms for a security check. Although nothing was” said at the time, NOSENKO believed then that he was slated 53 6061324 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy 10
“Top Secret “-.. (BRE“KGB BIOGRAPHY) to join ‘Naval-Intelligence.. after passing all of his ~ examinations,;-in the fall of 1950 NOSENKO received orders «= .. .calling him to active duty. -Offered a choice of assignments,’ 'NOSENKO chose the Far East "to: prove that he was now ready | _. |. to make a'man. of himself". ° Arriving in Sovetskaya Gavan" in... - _. ,.Primorskiy. Kray (sic), NOSENKO was assigned to a Reports. Section. .-° an _ , 4 eatel _Gavan', NOSENKO insisted: that it was located in - . Primorskiy Kray. Shown contemporary ‘Soviet. maps’ ., Clearly -locating it: in Khabarovskiy Kray, 9. . - NOSENKO angrily asserted that the map had been. ‘falsified by his interrogators to confuse him. | ' “NOSENKO's contention’ is somewhat: analogous. to “being stationed in Oregon for'an’ extended: fae “period and thinking oneself to be in California. ~ “Questioned in 1965 on the location of Sovetskaya — In! ied ,Sovetskaya Gavan! NOSENKO liked the work and did’a 9 - | | good job. despite rigorous working and living ¢énditions,)-)°.” analyzed.the product of some 300 radio intercept operators — eo . 88 well as information received from Sakhalin and Vladivostok. eS in spring, 1951, after about sever months' service, Bo ~ -NOSENKO' was’ promoted to lieutenant, the normally-required . fy -time. in grade of one. year having been’ reduced to six months Be USI early 1952 NOSENKO published’ in a local newspaper his _ intent. to divorce his wife, and he “forwarded the necessary - ee -« legal papers to Moscow.) 7 Bo a 2. NOSENKO's two-year tour. would not~end until October or — ' November’ 1952, nor was he entitled to any leave before that ~| time. An understanding superior, however, arranged for him - > + to take: leave in April 1952. so that _he- could return to mo, ‘Moscow: in time for his. father's birthday on’l May., On 2 May ~ | TS No, 197124 6004325. es | “Copy - = Top Secret oe
Tep Secret . (PRE-KGB . BIOGRAPHY) he reported to the Naval Ministry and was told to return for reassignment at the end of his leave. NOSENKO was on leave in May and June 1952, and he remained “at the disposal of the Naval Ministry". [According to his 1962 and 1966 versions, he was hospitalized. during this period.] In the summer of 1952 NOSENKO was offered assignments to the RU Military-Diplomatic Academy, to a special Naval espionage school, and to a post in Germany, but he turned them all down. He rejected the opportunity to attend the academy, because he had had almost all of the courses earlier at the Institute of International Relations. "Sometime after his return to Moscow from Sovetskaya Gavan'," NOSENKO completed the formalities to secure his divorce from TELEGINA. [According to his 1964 account, _NOSENKO visited Moscow later, from his Baltic assignment, “to complete divorce proceedings.] In August 1952 NOSENKO received an assignment to Sovetsk, in the Baltic, where he arrived in early September 1952. His assignment there was as a political officer, in which capacity he was involved with sailors being trained for wartime sabotage missions. His main task was to prepare the . training plan for the agents, to instruct them in such subjects as “The Foreign Policy of the USSR", and generally © to see to their needs. NOSENKO did not care for his assignment in Sovetsk and in December 1952 he obtained leave to spend the holidays with his parents in Moscow... In January 1953 NOSENKO and his parents visited KGB General KOBULOV at the latter's dacha and KOBULOV, learning of NOSENKO's dissatisfaction with the RU, suggested he consider working for the KGB... 2... , ; oo After New Years in 1953 NOSENKO went “to rest for several days" at the Hertzen “House of Rest", located 65-70 kilo- . meters from Moscow near Kubinka. There he met his second wife, Lyudmila Yulianovna KOZHEVNIKOVA. {In 1964 and 1966 statements NOSENKO claimed he was not “resting" but was hospitalized with tuberculosis for several weeks in January and February.] 55 — — G8613.26 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy 10
oo Top Secret a - _(PRE-KGB BIOGRAPHY) | | NOSENKO's Information-1966 (April) At an ‘interview with the militaryplacement commission’. ©. at the Institute before graduation, NOSENKO. indicated that :.. _ he wanted to work in "some sort. of a military organization". - Sonn thereafter the chief of the Institute's special: section . _ . gave him a telephone number to call. “NOSENKO recognized the. .- . humber as one belonging to the MGB [the predecessor of, and ; hereafter referred to,as, the KGB]. NOSENKO was invited to . an interview with KGB-officials who queried him about his ~ background and his knowledge of English. Later, however, | - the chief of the Institute's special section informed. | be “= NOSENKO that his qualifications were. unsuitable for assign= .- -ment:to the KGB. During the summer of 1950 “while state _ examinations were. underway"’ [in earlier versions NOSENKO © .” Claimed the examinations were over in June], NOSENKO began “to process for entry into the’ Naval: RU,..through Colonel... _-, KALOSHIN, the Chief of the RU Personnel. Department. © He | : _ filled out questionnaires in duplicate, wrote: two auto-"* “~blographies and, in’August or September, submitted copies. - Of his diploma. - [Note that this version of events. omits. . a any .reference to delayed graduation caused by his having . 2). | . » to take a state examination a second. time.]- For. the next 20000 ...mine=months, until March 1951, -NOSENKO. awaited being called’. “to RU service. " [In earlier versions,:NOSENKO claims he... °° '.entéréd the RU-in 1949 or 1950.) 28 _ “On-12 March 1951 NOSENKO received'two orders'from the.” ~. Naval Ministry, one calling him to active Naval service and - the other assigning him as a translator. to. the Intelligence. - ~~ Unit of the Seventh Fleet.-in the Far’ East. On 13 March, on KALOSHIN's instruction,’ NOSENKO reported to the Moscow City Military Commission and was issued his travel documents, -and NOSENKO departed Moscow for his post on 16-or 17 March.) |... At the end of March NOSENKO arrived at his post near _-, Sovetskaya Gavan‘ and began work in the Reports Section of _ the Seventh Fleet Intelligence Unit. = 7° > oo TS No, 197124 - Top Secret Copy
14-00000 Top Secret (PRE-KGB BIOGRAPHY) At the end of April 1952 NOSENKO left Sovetskaya Gavan' on leave, arriving in Moscow on 28 April. [Note earlier versions in which he was transferred because of illness, and that he was permitted to return to Moscow because of his father's birthday.] While on leave he became ill with tuberculosis antl spent almost two months in May and June. 1952 in a sanitorium near Moscow. During the month of July 1952 NOSENKO was ordered to the Naval Intelligence Point of the Fourth (Baltic) Fleet in Sovetsk, in Kaliningradskaya Oblast (at the head of the Bay of Gdansk}. Sovetsk was a small village located on the spit of land between Kaliningrad and Baltiysk. [The only Sovetsk in Kaliningradskaya Oblast is located many miles inland from Kaliningrad, in the opposite direction from Baltiysk. When NOSENKO was shown their locations on - contemporary Soviet maps, he insisted that he was correct, although Primorsk, where NOSENKO had said in 1962 that he was assigned while in the Baltic, is located on aispit of land between Kaliningrad and Baltiysk.] NOSENKO remained in "Sovetsk" but a short time, and he returned to Moscow at the end of 1952 to seek another assignment. Before his departure he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant - ‘of the Administrative Service. [In previous versions he claimed to have become eligible for promotion and was promoted while in the Far East, after less then a year's ' service.] — On 1 January 1953 NOSENKO and his parents were guests at the KOBULOV dacha. .NOSENKO indicated his dissatisfaction with his RU assignment and KOBULOV promised to find hima place in the KGB. _ From the middle of January to the middle of March 1953 NOSENKO was under treatment at the sanitorium near Moscow. where he had been hospitalized in 1952, and there he became. acquainted with his second wife, Lyudmila Yulianovna KOZHEVNIKOVA. [NOSENKO's earlier accounts either omitted reference to this period of hospitalization, or indicated - that it was of considerably shorter duration.] 57 C004 32g TS No. 197124: Top Secret Copy 10
‘Tep Secret _ "\(PRE+KGB BIOGRAPHY). _-NOSENKO' s. Ingormation- -1966 (October) o ‘In his most ‘recent. account," in ‘October: 1966, “ NOSENKO~ Said. that before graduation from the Institute the. military. “placement commission sent him to the’ KGB, but there he was. . told that he ‘was. not. qualified as a. candidate because of - _ mediocre~ academic record and drinking habits. >. NOSENKO | said - _vhe.did not mention this rejection earlier, ‘because his~* . _ interrogators. would not have believed. that he ever became | - a, KGB. officer’ after once being rejected. 00° ~ a! -NOSENKO. also volunteered’ that he had "lied" ‘when he Glaimed: to have entered the Naval RU in 1950. In fact, “he saidy, he entered the RU. in March: 1951. and ‘was, on’ active - Saty | in: ‘the. Far East from. 1951 until A953 6. oo. Co id ~ SComment': «This latest asertion discredits almost all. ve. JOf his earlier. claims: ‘regarding entry into- the RU, including “the date of his graduation, _ | from the Institute, the timing if not ‘the ° a “\. fact of his. ‘promotion, the number, sequence, ~ ara Soo and purposes of his visits’ to: Moscow, his ...- a . °. hospitalization. with, tuberculosis, and. his.) _ assignment | to, the. Baltic > Pleety: 62 be Naval, RU Service: Summ minary. and Conclusion: ae According to NOSENKO! Ss -  gontradictory ‘statements, which. -, are still unresolved after interrogations over .a.three-.. Pas - year period, he graduated from the Institute of International ': Relations in either 1949 or 1950. .- Before. gyaduation, - he. a (a) was selected for Naval. assignment,’ (b)-ssought a Naval. . ‘assignment, or. (c) was selected for and rejected by the .. KGB’and then he = sought. an assignment to the RU; or, | |: immediately following graduation, or three months or nine <> Months: later (Gn the following year)» ‘he was: called to fo G0 sie 7 7 . - 58 ee “Ts No. 197124 _ Top Secret 7 Copy —
14-00000 _Tep Secret (PRE~KGB BIOGRAPHY) active Naval service and assigned to the RU. With neither . training nor indoctrination he was assigned initially to the Far East for nine months or three years; there he participated in agents' operational training, or reports work. In the‘latter capacity he was or was not involved in RU radio signals intercept operations. He either never served in the Baltic. or, if he did, it was for three months or six months, during which he either participated in agent training or was an administrative or political officer. He was promoted to lieutenant in the Far East or in the Baltic, after either seven months’ or thirteen months' RU service. i Despite his claimed active commissioned service in the Navy, NOSENKO knows nothing of Soviet Navy tradition, doctrine, organization, or procedures. He dis¢taims know- ledge of RU. organization other than at the posts where he served, "because of his junior rank". However, even at those posts he describes neither the staff, the functions . mor the personnel intelligibly nor does he describe the -- posts' actual locations. _... fhe sole Headquarters RU officer NOSENKO identified was | '“ the personnel. chief, Colonel KALOSHIN..: He identified .no ranking officers in either the Baltic or Far East intelli- gence staffs. Some thirty GRU officers he did identify, ‘by his own.admission, NOSENKO knew not from his Naval RU service, but through social acquaintance, later, in Moscow, -or through his visits to Geneva. Conclusion.’ . NOSENKO did not serve in the Naval RU in any of the capacities at the places and times he claimed. 59 AL L1B3O TS No. 197124 [ Top Secret Copy 10 —
14-00000 Top. Secret - -.. KGB ENTRY , culminated inthe creation of the Committee for - - “State Security: (KGB) -in March.1954, . Vladimir - and Evdokia PETROV, Yuri RASTVOROV,. and Petro: -. “DERYABIN, among others, defected in the wake. oyideds eg vents: From'information they pron  Ronrede ecveli as: from that acquired from other “Sources, CIA“has a substantial ‘amount of infor- _ Mation against. which NOSENKO's accounts of this... »--» period may be weigheds 0 eee a te Forthe conve ae . nvenience of the reader, the term _» "KGB" is used hereafter to refer as well. to its ». Predécessor organizations in 1953-1954, om . | aFer his ate sot A biographic seatenene weietee eet tery - after his defection, however, he asserted his KGB service’ oe began in 1952, a date he insisted waS correct even after. reminded a variecstiier said 1953. Repeated interraguerone. ." produced a variety of dates of. claimed KGB entry, ranging... .- . £rom "the beginning of 1952" to April 1953, all of Which =" were accompanied’ by modified accounts of the circumstances. Of his entry (as well’ as of his. earlier period of service. a gottaat Mtge —TS.No. 197124" 7 7 Top Secret Be Copy 10 _ ee
. Fop Secret (KGB ENTRY) in the Naval RU and of his date of graduation from the Institute of International Relations). To the extent to ' which he has been consistent at all, he has cited March 1953 as the time of his entry to the KGB. € Date of Entry NOSENKO at his: first meeting with CIA in Geneva in 1962, volunteered how and when he joined the KGB. NOSENKO had just returned from his Naval RU assignment in the Baltic, he said, when he met KGB General KOBULOV and KOBULOV urged him to join the KGB. NOSENKO stated that after completing his processing, he reported for duty in the Embassy Section of the Second Chief Directorate's American Department in March 1953, “just after Stalin died". (Stalin died on 5 March 1953.) coe Comment: According to KGB defectors, the precise date oo of entry to the KGB would not likely to be | forgotten by a KGB officer. The date is the “basis for computing length of service and is a common entry. on KGB administrative forms periodically filled out by KGB officers in the course of their service. , According to NOSENKO in January 1964, he transferred to the KGB from the Naval RU "in something like 1952", "just after. Yu. I. GUK transferred from the Second Chief Directo- rate". oe Comment: _GOLITSYN had reported that GUK was transferred - . Out.of the Second Chief Directorate in January 1952. 6001332 °° a | TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy —___
oo Top Secret 8? ak ee ENTRY) _ In February. 1964 NOSENKO ‘wrote a biographic statement’, in which he noted that he entered the KGB. in 1952, and in’ aden he back-dated by one year his 1962 account of. his activities. , in the period 1945-1955.-- Although he was ‘then reminded. Of: his: 1962 statement and the contradiction was discussed. with oo. him, after study he indicated his approval by signing an . official biographic statement (for the Intelligence Community) . a which indicated that he entered. on duty with | the KGB. in. ce about May 1952. At the first. hostile interrogation. in. "April. 1964, -NOSENKO | was confronted with his contradictory Claims. . In response, . NOSENKO ‘stated that he returned to Moscow from: the Baltic. in: . August 1952: [by. most of his other. accounts, NOSENKO returned ” .in January 1953] and entered the KGB: on 5-7 September 1952.. By. March 1953, NOSENKO stated, he had already worked in n the Chis earlier claims that:he’ joined the KGB variously \in -- January 1952, September. 1952,: or March’ 1953, NOSENKO.: f2%- “ ‘asserted that the ‘truth’ was that! his service dated from. March: “1953, after Stalin's: ‘death. : He -went on to explain: that he Embassy - Section’ for. some months against American correspon-~ . dents, and it was “just after Stalin's death, after the © _| xeorganization": ‘that’ he assumed responsibility for. operations . 2. against American Army Attache personnel. © [NOSENKO ultimately” ss’. settled on June or July! 1954_ as the time Of» this reassignment . " See. De 84, J] > Pe a, ; reece “Chaliengea + in: april 1964 to “resolve. the. contradictions of > finished his Institute studies. in 1949 (sic), "defended: his. “ diploma" and then failed one of ‘the four required State: examinations. - All four. examinations, he said, he had to: take ‘over again, and as a result he didn't -receive his. diploma © "oantil 1950 although. he “officially" graduated in 1949. ae ', NOSENKO said’ that to ‘avoid admitting | "this unpleasant) thing, “-he claimed he joined: the KGB in 1952. and after claiming that > tobe a.fact, “did not want to. correct it, to twist it. around. again". .NOSENKO went’ on to say that the actual date of entry. “. was while Stalin was still alive, on “12 or 15 March 1953" a Or) about. 15 March » 1953. _ : os eg" 6001333. Top Secret” Copy 10