JFK Assassination System Date: 4/9/2018 Identification Form ep Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10240-10235 RECORD SERIES: NY AGENCY FILENUMBER:  105-38431-1388 tee Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: 05/24/1983 PAGES: 2. SUBJECTS : SEE FBI 105-82555-2ND NR 5762 DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 05/12/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS :
jReleased under the John _F. Kennedy Assassination, Records Collectign Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 ros me Poni RE € cnt waved 1983 - SUBJECT:YURIY I, NOSENKO f si CHARACTER: FCI - R,.* 12 S [\ wm! ; | FeDi0os ¢s THE [CODE wend eer dues to(a KGB : LINE N OFFICER WHO ECTED TO THE WEST IN JUNE, 1982. HE WAS BORN 3/28/47] HE WAS A[KGB MAJOR IN THE ILLEGALS DIRECTORATE, HIS LAST POST BEING HEAD OF LINE N IN TEHRAN, IRAN.\S)HE WAS RECRUITED BY THE(KGB WHILE STUDYING PERSIAN (WITH ENGLISH AS HIS SECOND LANGUAGE) Ree MOSCOW SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL _LANGUAGES]*’ HIS ENTIRE (KGB HAS BEEN DEVOTED TO (TRANIAN pare RELATED: TO ers AND HE HAD BEEN ASSIGNED TO THE(S DIRECTORATE ,XULEGALS) AT THE "CENTER" }@® PREVIOUS TO (f1s POSTING IN TEHRAN CLASSIFICATION: SECRET . _— . ; . ; é i O ia BUREAU NEW YORK : | 1.+fu34-14546 Ws) 1 - [ios- -340770 9) 1 - fios-172079 sup aS) | bk - 134- 54 7 | 1 - 65 + 68530 Lb - 2105-65721 0°. (5105-82555 1- = 1105-38431 1-62-1090600 1-89-75 1- [ob- ee ifo5- -20300f° of} «- passs: : NOT RECORDED 136 JUN 13 1993 ° CLASSIFIED BY: S668 SLo/aee_ . | Whe REASON: 15. (¢ A) ; oo SrdHJN 24.1383 ae 2D MR. F716 Ce Fage 2
Released under. the John F. Kennedy. Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). “DATE: 14-14-2017 —o a ogre Be ees i. rar v \ ° SECRET “ YURI_I. NOSENKO ;-° ~~ ee On 1/17/83, source was queried concerning any. * knowledge he might have of the NOSENKO matter. He advised that "officially" the KGB never discusses defectors and generally all one would hear would be rumor and gossip. NOSENKO is considered a “ (% or" in the eyes of the KGB : {L) . as far as source is aware The source assumed that NOSENKO told western intelligence everything concerning Second Chief Directorate (SCD) activities in Moscow and further assumes that, as is custom, a "special Commission" of the SCD was convened following NOSENKO's defection tg do a damage assessment. As an aside, source noted that his defection. would be ‘examined" by members of the K Directorate of the First Chief Directorate and by members of the 9th Department of the S pirectoratefa) Source has no knowledge concerning any connection between the NOSENKO defection in 1964 and LEE HARVEY OSWALD's assassination of President JOHN F. KENNEDY in 1963. Asked to give his opinion on the merits of some speculation that NOSENKO defected under the direction of the KGB.to convince the US that the KGB had nothing to do with OSWALD's actions, ‘source did not believe that to be the case. In source's —~ opinion, NOSENKO's defection and all the information he furnished about the SCD wougd have been too great a price to pay "to save one man.” wy Source does not believe that /the KGB would risk "blowing an illegal" by tasking the ilTégal t attempt to locate a defector such as NOSENKO in the west]. Likewise, source has never heard that the KGB killed or attempted to kill a defector. Such actions, if they ever occurred, certajnly ended (after OLEG LYALIN's defection in England in 197475 ) COMMENT : ) In 1969, [the ATLAST illegal was, in fact, ordered by the KGB to attempt to verify NOS O's ence ata Washington, D.C. apartment complex. [ATLAST s not, however, given NOSENKO's name but only a physical description ~ i tH 1 |. WHERE'SHO CUS Ste ee DECLASSIFY ON: X_G.xe2_. SECRET era: sdb Bins