424-10365-10001 JFK Assassination System Identification Form 6/9/2015 Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10365-10001 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 65-68530-649 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: WMFO TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 08/13/1970 PAGES: 3 SUBJECTS : NOSENKO RE OSWALD DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Secret ‘ RESTRICTIONS: 1B CURRENT STATUS:  Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 10/16/1998 x OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA A COMMENTS : v9.4 ! HW 50953 DocId:32318806 MEMO, INC LHM Page i
Memorandum seine ov 9 Se a On ie To: DIRECTOR, FBI {(ss- -68530) | ¥ sar "DATE: AUG 13 870 | Ie spoon oeAgh AGENCIES oy Ts “TIONAL. ron NO, to ft a 7 aN ’ _? SSA PPMR {at GPR) 101- M6 nee wt . “~~e STJNITED STATES GOVERMENT be : SAC, WFO fase -5437) (P) = aoa SUBJECT: | Ni cana) | 0: WFO) . Enclosed herewith | are five copies for the ‘Bureau, _one for New York, of LHM captioned ''KIM GEORGLYEVICH ‘ KRUPNOV; ESPIONAGE - RUSSIA," ‘reporting the “recollection. | * Hintenicc apie: “of SAMMY concerning this subject as won during : ‘many | -% ly, ACL: interviews singe Decembe (8) ; an ee a Aassoei er | g, arnoe /9/ 7.26, mae  & a EEK EO Be LHM has aa Ras! LA secret" since it. ce: ae contains information from CIA which is so classified. w a Source T-1 is SAMMY. Bw) Since KRUPNOV has never been in this— country. and saly it is considered unlikely he will be assigned. here | the ory, EY CHL, fis , . oe PHYO  REASGN on cc ASeSIOn ; FCIM, Ul, 1-24 2 . coor PET came ~“Bureau (Ene 5 Ww 1 - New York Kiss. 56721) mb an (RM Z - a. \65- 11395). ae, HW 50953 DocTd:32318806 Page 2
Hepes UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION SECRET. oa Washington, D. C. 20535 CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO. Be No AUG 13 1970 DECLASSIFICATION ANDIOR, Si" RELEASE OF Cid INFORMATION. ep KIM GEORGIYEVICH KRUPNOV. |. - BKeatver ESPIONAGE - RUSSIA} FR) aM. The information set forth hereinafter: conc captioned individual was obtained from a confident (T#1) who is a former Soviet intelligence office ng | the course of numerous interviews, The bona fides £:‘this: °< source has not been established, however, he ‘has. furnished = 4 reliable information in the past. (u) oe foe ae i The source advised he was well acquainted, with Kim Krupnov and had worked with him from 1962-to 1964 in the: . Seventh Department (Tourist) of the Second Chief Directorate. \) 3. (SCD) of KGB. Source described subject. as -being: about forty ate five years of age at this time. He said Krupnov: was’ well “Sy de educated and had studied and completed “a cour: ! ‘) mics at some Soviet Institute, name-not ree Q entering KGB the subject completed a fiv x » course in the Higher School of KGB and -received a ‘de; law. T+1 also recalled that Krupnov was working “in 1962 or UNS 1963 on a masters degree and source believed his: thesis was SS. ‘Whee’ On the subject of tourists. Source advised’ Krupnov-is  °§ = § 2 @ married and has one son by the name of Andréy, His. wife, \™ Vera, was employed outside of KGB and worked tina clerical = * capacity, Source stated when Vera Krup . e she had lived in territory occupied by the German: A observed that in earlier days such as the 1940's: t have precluded Krupnov from marrying her and’ remair ing’in) |}. Source identified one Mikhail Fedorovic! as a diplomat in the Soviet Ministry of For remarked that this individual was a relative: REASON FOP ONGEUSE “FCIM, 1,1 df from automatic. io ond feation
(em ceonornevrce moro} 4 Gy turn reported his supposition that the approach was perpe~ _ trated by] J2Bource said he had gone. to Geneva, Switzerland, on March 14, 1962, as security officer SECRET visitor in the Soviet Union. She was well known to KGB from her work in 1960 or 1961 with a ballet group from Leningrad; Source explained that a female artist from the. ballet troup mentioned above-had received a letter proposing defection and — had reported it to the security officer of the group ‘who in. with .a Soviet delegatian. Upon his return in June 1962, he learned. that Krupnov and Anatoliy Kovalenko, D Chief, Seventh Department, SCD, had approached S) rec -._bowever, she was;not trusted by KGB. Source eid suspected of having been an agent of FBI * but she was not accused by KGB and she made no admissions of any such agency to KGB.. toe mee ie Source mentioned an interesting item concerning Oo Harvey Lee Oswald, assassinator of President John Fs Kennedy, Sourcestated in 1962 (actually. 1963) Oswald: applied:at oe Mexico .City,;: Mexico, for a Soviet visa in.order tozreturn to . Russias<cThe: matter was reported to Vladimir-D. Chelnokov, Chief, Seventh Department, SCD, who stated. the department and the Second: Chief Directorate had:no interest in Oswald, howe \ ever, he: instructed: the source to call the KGB, Belorussia, \ and obtain:a summary of the file on Oswald.: Source said this file Ya) file was:opened in ‘1960: by KimG, Krupnov;) Senior: Case’ Officer, First Section, Seventh Department, who thereafterssent: it to KGB headquarters at Minsk with:instructions:to watchnQswald. Source said:jhe received: the summary in due course: but by this time thePresident: had: been assassinated* by Oswaldvand. there ~ i HW 50953 was an order from General Oleg Gribanov-to bring. the: Oswald file to:Moscow. immediately by military plane. Source, stated ‘this was’ done and the file was carefully’examined’ by: him along with: Krupnov and Vitali Dera, It:was*ascertained there - Was nosrecord of any approach:having been made toc:Oswald or — of any conversations:of KGB with: Oswalds=:~r Nii 7 ; “ ee ~ OTF NOS As - Q RQ ¢ BDocld: 3273168806 Page 4