_ Tep Secret os am a never. spoke ‘to. any .KGB personnel officers. nor visited the’ “personnel office {and Re completed no» forms - Provided by - them) « ye : oe “Comment : “the | most important document. filled out by . _ 4". prospective KGB officers was a detailed. 16-page : "personal. history questionnaire, Anketa “gs spetsiaingo naznacheniya sotrudnika KGB, which - Was completed in one copy only. Classified) = ~ even when blank, the form was not: permitted to _. be taken home... KGB. defectors have described : completion of the form “as an experience not. _ likely to be forgotten". NOSENKO omits in all \. accounts: reference to other documents’ which are . known to -have . ‘been. required in connection with Sa KGB officer" Ss Processing. for | duty. ; NOSENKO insisted: that. he took. no: “physiéai.” examination in. connection with processing: for KGB entry. “Comment: | A medical examination’ was. a. ‘routine: ‘and. mandatory Ue oe wath part of a KGB candidate's processing. _ Former | KGB défectors could think .of no. instance’ in. . which - the examination could be waived, parti- .. » i Cularly fora. candidate with, a recorded histo ory. “Ot: ‘tuberculosis. OS - NOSENKO. claims. ain all of. his. accounts: that. he entered the. -: KGB building and, with a pass obtained at the Pass Office, i .was permitted’ to proceed without escort. - NOSENKO specifically “asserted that the: “name of _ the interviewer. aid. not appear on | the, Passe a s meee a ee — Top Secret Ce ' Copy - 10
Tep Secret (KGB ENTRY) Comment: Persons not holding a valid KGB identity . document were not permitted entry to or move- ment in the building without escort. The interviewer's name did appear on the building pass. The interviewer's name was essential to the issuance of the pass: the interviewer -had complete responsibility for the visitor's custody while on KGB premises. Initial Service in KGB (1953) “NOSENKO stated that. in the period of Beriya, in March- June 1953, the two existing directorates were the First Chief Directorate, which was the foreign intelligence directorate, and the Second Chief Directorate, the counter- . intelligence directorate. The designations were later _ reversed: for a few months, he said, by Kruglov, Beriya's successor. —~ — ee tO Comment: Beriya reversed the designations of the First. and Second Chief Directorates in March 1953, and they were not changed back until March 1954. NOSENKO does not know how his own directorate was. designated either at the. time he allegedly | entered on duty or during his entire first “year of KGB service. NOSENKO described the KGB identity. document of the. period, but in spite of repeated questioning, could not recall any- thing unusual about At. 70 0001349) TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy _____
‘Longevity: pay, plus. 500 rubles. "rank pay" -as.a and aid: not - receive the pay for rank. Top Secret - “(KGB ENTRY) - dos : Comment : “twice, following Stalin’ Ss ‘death’ in ‘March: 1953 | Te and again following Beriya's arrest: in June. -1953, all KGB identity. documents: were. ‘temporarily ‘recalled for revalidation.” On both occasions © “new stamps.were placed.on the: document, lacking -.. which the bearer could: no longer enter the KGB- - installation... KGB defectors. state that. the ~< . ‘events: were the topic of numerous anecdotes at “the time. Pe _ : NOSENKO. claims: he ‘received: no ‘training’ in. the KGB, but | was assigned operations. responsibilities. immediately upon | reporting for duty. He’ had explained that - training was unnecessary: because. of. his. Naval. RU: experience, “Comment NOSENKO'. s “tack: of training is “unlike: that. of Be NOSENKO' S.own account; provided little if. 3 Nose as a ‘case “officer, Sine. “secrecy; language and He. recalled that: there was, ‘one year, 1954, _ when: KGB “officers: 2 KGB. officers": rank. pay. was. vabolishea ims oon. September 1952 and not” ‘restored until ‘April »-°1954, a period which covers NOSENKO's_ -first.. _ year of claimed, service» in: ‘the KGB. Top Seer et. oe of | : : 2 Copy. 10 “any other KGB defector.: His ‘Naval RU service, “TS. No. 197124 24
‘Top Secret 7 (KGB ENTRY) NOSENKO claimed that he was promoted to the rank of senior lieutenant in April 1953, shortly after joining the KGB. _ Comment: All promotions in the KGB were frozen from the , time Beriya became Minister in March 1953 until late 1953. NOSENKO's actual sequence of promotions has never been established. He has also claimed this promotion occurred in 1952 ‘and in 1954. See p. 351. ~~ NOSENKO acknowledged that his qualifications for continued KGB service were probably reviewed in connection with the . purges following both Stalin's death and Beriya's arrest, during which reviews numerous negative factors in his back- -ground would have come to light. He stated, however, that he could only.assume that the important and influential position of his own father outweighed the negative factors. Comment: NOSENKO has never mentioned any influence his. : oa _ father had’on his KGB service aside from that 4 . exercised through KOBULOV, who was himself Se, - arrested and executed. Other Aspects. Relevant to 1953 KGB Service NOSENKO insisted that the KGB was organized from components of the MVD not earlier than late 1954 or early 1955. 72. | TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy 6004342
Top Secret. | (Kes ENTRY) “> Comment: The KGB was. organized in March 1954, in a ‘final “  - . * yeform of Beriya's Organization of Soviet... security agencies.” Preceded by a series of ae purges, the inception of the KGB would presumably: be memorable to a KGB officer serving in Moscow ~ Héadquarters at the time. °° 0 °° oo | -NOSENKO stated that the MVD Intelligence Directorate .__ ee » (subsequently to become the KGB First Chief Directorate) | was located in-1953 in four buildings, including the - 7 " Agricultural xpypition and the "KI (Committee of Infor- “-«Mation) Building". . | Somment The Agricultural Exhibition and the fxr as : Building" were one and the. same. From his”: “. (avcombinea foreign intelligence agency) |. . “" céased- to exist in 1951, a matter perhaps... ~.- unfamiliar toa KGB officer serving ‘at a: vo SUbstantially ‘later time,. but one which ::>' Jo) other KGB officers serving in Moscow -in "1953, recalled easily Be a ;NOSENKO did not know where ‘the Chief Directorate of the” itia was located in 1953-1954. 0 So - Comment: Acéording. to KGB’ defectors, a staff officer in Be TT _ the Counterintelligence Directorate at the time _. would: have had. frequent occasion to deal with. "the Chief Directorate of the Militia. aa TS No. 197124 ca geprr statement, NOSENKO is unaware that the KI 2-0. i Se »