Top Secret (KGB ENTRY) KGB Entry: Summary and Conclusion NOSENKO's assertiohs regarding the KGB in the 1953-1954 period throw no more light on the actual date of his KGB entry than did his claims of when he transferred from the Naval RU; the contradictions and inconsistencies are interrelated. It is ‘possible that a former KGB officer, relating the. truth as he recalls it about events occurring ten years earlier, could be inconsistent; that he could forget his date of entry, not remember what administrative procedures - were, fail to recall the circumstances of the organization -. he joined were, be. inaccurate about what his. pay was, and be vague on what his KGB identification document looked like. Recognizing that administrative regulations and wu... procedures are on occasion honored in the breach, it is | mma also possible that NOSENKO was accepted by the KGB despite ‘the fact that he was the son of a senior official, that he had tuberculosis,. that he was unqualified for Party member- ship, that he had been previously rejected and all at a time when the KGB was not accepting new recruits. | - The probability of these events being coincident, however, ‘is remote. On examination, NOSENKO's latest admission, that he "actually" entered the KGB in March 1953, is no better substantiated than. earlier’ “accounts: citing other dates. Conclusion |. " NOSENKO did not enter the KGB in the manner nor at the ‘time he claimed. 74 0001344. | _ TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy
| Top Secret, | “CHAPTER | Vv Scar NEE | UAREReMeebeENTNeeeterestetetemnen® | SEEERUGSECD, , AMERICAN ‘EMBASSY SECTION. OF AMERICAN DEPARTMENT. ae oe (cae 1953-June 1923) > @ o “NOSENKO claims to have’ ‘served in the American Embassy _ coc “Section of the. American. Department (Second Chief. Directorate) - £rom. his entry. in ‘the KGB ‘until. June 1955. -His targets. ~ during this period.were at first American. correspondents residing in Moscow-and later Army ‘Attache’ personnel of. the. “American Embassy.in Moscow. His assignment: involving | rene “American correspondents . dasted anywhere from six. to eighteen . months (depending: on the various dates he claimed: he entered ‘the KGB). .His-involvement with the. Army Attaches: lasted , .from sometime in 1954. until his: transfer to the Seventh. Department | in: June 1955. So . ‘ _NOSENKO has sought. to “avoid discussion Of: his ‘own ‘or: “other: KGB activities - during: this: entire. period: which | he” - characterized. ‘on. occasion.as “not relevant". or: "of no consequence"... He has repeatedly stated that he- "found: ‘himsel£". only” ‘after this. initial KGB service in the American’ Embassy Section...” ‘Until then, he asserted, -he was a wastrel and "did not pay attention to the: work". (He: Has: variously” ‘dated, his: self- ~discovery.as occurring in.1955 when he. “transferred to the Seventh Department; in June 1956. in. - connection with his. ‘participation in and award for. eo ease; and after “August: 1956 when the death of his. father forced. him. to | pull himself together. ‘). “Operations Against Aierican ‘Correspondents a wy a - NOSENKO axempted Himself. from’ reporting. details of: KGB. -, work against any specific American. ‘correspondent in Moscow - “> -in 1953-1954 by saying that, as a new, very. junior employee :* he had no access to operational files and did not partici-. “pate. personally. in the handling of any of the correspondents. 0 a “ ca0t345 ag No. 197124 Top Secret _ Copy are 10
Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION ~ Ca. 1953-June 1955) Although able to identify correspondents in Moscow who were then recruited KGB agents, NOSENKO learned this information either in conversations with his superior {(V.A.] KOZLOV or at some point and in some undefined way after he no longer was working against these targets. NOSENKO made clear that he was not the case officer responsible for the more important correspondents: "yOZLOV himself was working with them, the _ chief of the section himself--with SHAPIROPOwi th [SHAPIRO] s oe wife. I also know that KOZLOV was Working with {WHITNEY} 4 and with (Andrew J.) STEIGER. §% For each of these persons . there was an operational file which I did not see." According to NOSENKO, he was, in no way involved with |STEIGER) and {Edmund STEVENS} American correspondents who he alleged were recruited agents of the KGB. Comment: [SHAPIRO] was identified as a KGB agent by _ —— “GOLITSYN in 1961,. before the lead was received from NOSENKO.(6 SHAPIRO!s KGB agent cryptonym, ‘known to NOSENKO and COLITSYN, appears in the  cCHrREPANOV papers: (see p.309). The KGB defector Nikolay KHOKHLOV in April 1954 Ob. identified tne (Bolisti-born wifé of (WHITNEY) as a KGB agent, an allegation which she denied. - MOSENKO said his early months in the job were spent reading personality (not. operational) files on a number of | the correspondents in Moscow ,(none of which indicated the — individual's developmental or agent status) and familiarizing -himself-with KGB, methods. later NOSENKO was assigned the “agent network" or drivers, clerical personnel, and domestics surrounding four of the correspondents, (SHAPIRO, GILMORE, Cl 66,06 SALISBURY and TWHITNEY|.0s He met with his agents periodically to determine whether. they had developed any important infor~ . mation. His superior KOZLOV often went along to the meetings with NOSENKO, first to show him how to handle the agents and afterward whenever something interesting would begin to develop. In fact, according to NOSENKO, KOZLOV would accompany him to meetings with these Soviet citizens-agents when there was even a hint that something of interest might 76 0001346 | TS No. 197124 [e8n momen tm ummm fee Cant
Top Secret 2 a GMBRTERN Eupnssy SECTION ~ ca. 1953-June 1955) ‘develop. ‘NOSENKO lias described some of these ° ‘agents jal ~ general terms, but for all but’a few he recalled neither : . their’ names nor personalia concerning them. OS, 06. KGB, Files son fSlAprNS .GILMOREY ‘SAEISSURF Jana’ FATTER) On the’ ‘day of his. acce 7 ; ptance into the KGB, NOSENKO » stated that he was: taken. directly to. the offices ‘of the “American Embassy | Section. There he met the Section chief, __V.A...KOZLOV, who told. NOSENKO that he’ would take dver the’ 000 > work: ‘Of: the departing case officer, Captain Anatoliy. *TORMOZOV, in operations against American Correspondents | in “Moscow. a oy een: ae ee “ 4% When NOSENKO reported | ‘for ‘work the | -. “found a’ desk: in. Room: 615 and, —., Sitting there... At.-first Iwas “* Same time'I was: reading the files on journalists... . I think -there -were seven files in all, and I didn't see any other." . _..; |.NOSENKO_ listed. these files as _those ons|Henry SHAPIRO; Eddy] Eddy 06 0¢ | <CGTLHOREY (as well as’ as ones Gh (GILMoRs}s wife (GEREBRYANKOVA) y (7 » and her sister. Ceeniennva, Harrigon OL nn Gnomes "\NHTTNEY Yeoh — i following day “he “There were. three other. guys . ‘running traces,. and ‘at the’ - NOSENKC seen tient ee cs an “old. agent. Of: ours", He said th t WHITNEY] "worked. for us. while he was in Moscow "and : gave us some. material, but he’ refused to work. for. us: -when: he left the country" Di [GIEMORE),\ NOSENKO said, was. an Jactive | ‘recruitment. target in 1953° and, 1954, but~ NOSENKO ~ « Gid not know whether he _was. recruited. [Eikewise,, be did ae know the ‘Status of faa ppm as of, 1953. fe] * . 7 files’ of the agents. The devel oy orsensitive, and<from them "you. w .} Out: whether the (the: subject of. ; nt - ~ not": NOSENKO explained that, once a person became an ‘agent, ‘, another file is set - up, “and thesé agent files ‘were held. by = “the | chief of the | section, KOZLOV. NOSENKO Stated that ~ he | réad “the files” ‘on the seven. persons. “slowly and made some a, as extracts for myself, in’ my Personal tog-~such ‘things. as : 001347 77 Ts. No.’ ‘197124 Copy 10. - ‘Top Secret
14-00000 who were reporting © _(b (GTLMORES) and met them regularly to learn whether “anything -- replied: Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - ca. 1953-dune 1955) notations of their dates of arrival, things I could not remember". He was also given the files on the agents - surrounding these correspondents, their drivers, maids, and cooks. oe Agents Reporting on Correspondents NOSENKO said he was respons ie clbney handling the agents (SHAPIRO) [wHITNEY) SALISBURY and the ai was new, whom did ‘SHAPIRO feet, what might be interesting in his behavior, what might be suspicious in his behavior, whom he is contacting, etc". He then reported to KOZLOV and would sometimes prepare a written report of his. conversations with the agents.. Asked. to describe these meetings, NOSENKO "Let us take the same case of (SHAPTRO}. I would meet drivers about three times a month or even two times. p,At the meeting I would ask the driver what was ney in (SHAETRO! » behavior since our last meeting, - whethe® (SHAPIRO| had suspicious contacts with forei- | gners, about his meetings with Russians, were they conducted openly or, perhaps, was (SHAPIRO) walking O6 - behind the person. he met. - And then the man [agent] - woulda begin his report.. Of course, if he spots anything suspicious he calls immediately, and I would see him the next morning. Otherwise, I would - tell. him at thé meeting that I would see him again in. about ten days or in two weeks, but if there was something interesting he should call immediately. ‘It was the same with the maid and the cook. Upon returning to the office I: would have to report to. - KOZLOV about my meetings, either orally or in “ writing. If,’ for example, [V.M.] KOVSHUK [also of the American Embassy Section] had a meeting with his agents, he too had to report immediately to KOZLOV. If the meetings were taking place late in the day > and lasted until midnight or later and there were no written materials submitted at the meeting, I could go home and then report the next morning." 2186 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy
Top Secret . oan EMBASSY SECTION - ca. + 1953-June 1955) _ ae -KOZLOV accompanied NOSENKO to meetings - with the various” “agents. surrounding the. correspondents. | "At. first he was. . ‘teaching me. -Then he. would go in cases when something © “interesting would. begin to develop, even when it‘hadn't = | ...¢ yet. begun .to develop but when there may have - been a int See an a a case of some. other case’ officer." o oe NOSENKO" s agent network consisted mainly. of: domestic: and | - clerical personnel. in. contact. with the’ correspondents and» “their. families... Asked to describe ‘then, he. Sais” oh Os yy: first: ‘agent QS. a woman’ agent, - a. “Cook, who. Was. working at Be CaS re She also. worked’ vat the” Associated Press later. ‘Her, codename was’ -* ‘AGLODINA',,.. a funny one." (While. ‘reviewing a list - “o£ Soviets. employed’ by, Americans ain: Moscow; ‘NOSENKO | 2 in’ the™ fall of 1965 ‘identified: one Yelena Se ..|. : KOSTENKO as his. former agent "AGLODINA". “At™ that. "time he ‘told. CIA that he had taken over, KOSIENKO.. ».£rom TORMOZOV:: spon - entering the American Embassy-: - Section in 1953; that -she- Subsequent1 worked.” oo . for and reported or PGILMORE} S ‘Successor }.. Richard 06°. “_“RASTSCHREY NOSENKO ‘said. that “-KOSIENKO. “never * . provided™ ‘any interesting information. )- "My | second : ‘ agent was: a chauffeur: whose cryptonyn, I think, was’. ‘SERGEY’. oI think’ he_was driving forfumttuey[so6. ‘--Then I also had-[SHAPIRO} s>chauffeur, a funny. little: Fellows. “In other. “words %* ‘charwomen , chauffeurs, “this was: my, agentura | fagent network] pM os, ae “Although NOSENKO:; was. able. to. ‘give: a. breakdown - ‘of .this nst- _/ work’ in terms of .the: number. and type of agents targetted - ee - against. particular: ‘individuals, he had forgotten ‘their true» ~ Names’. and could not provide personality information on any: .. Of ‘them. “He explained: - “I don't remember now. They’ all. co “passed: by: like.a: river: because. ‘they were. turned over. often .. . NOSENKO did recall that it was he who, selected. ‘and : handled. 2. ': the agent who was: placed: in SHAPIRO} D*ofFice asa: secretary; ~ this. agent. had earlier worked in. the offices of Moscow News» co an English- Language ‘newspaper published in Moscow. “~~~ : eee “Ts No. 197124 | Cony 10 Top Secret
14-00000 Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION = ca. 1953-Jdune 1955) NOSENKO estimated that he was responsible for handling ten to twelve agents in operations against the correspon= dents. This, he said,‘was 4 normal Load, although more experienced case officers might have’ as many as fifteen. ‘MOSENKO described his agentura as follows: Target i. Agents ce ‘Eady GrLMoRe|\OS a two agents, the cook and the : driver; one operational contact, a part-time cleaning girl; and a girlfriend of [GI LMORF] S sister- Sv in-law and [GILMORE's, Russian] wife: a \ {thomas WHITNEY) - “  -  * One agent, his driver, "SERGEE"- Be a nD 7 {Henzy SHAPIRO’ Li, - a mree agents} (SHAPIRO!s secretary ee oe a and his chauffeur, pilus an old _. woman who was a relative of . — Gh LSHAPIRO"s wife and lived with ve ne ‘SHAPIROs\ in Moscow: (The “gecr tary and chauffeur later _- a worked for (Rennet® BRODNEY| and . oe, yeported: on him to NOSENKQ?_ re: (2 6b BRODER, tne took SHAPIRO! s 4 : i . - [Harrison SALISBURY | WO agents; SALISBURY! s devorr he Le : som and part-time cleaning girl. . NOSENKO classified two other of his agents as "neutral", dn that. they aid cot: have specific targets on whom to report. he first of these.was. the director of MOSGRAN, a Russian- language training program for foreigners in Moscow: . His . ‘eryptonym was WRAKETA" » but. NOSENKO could not recall his true - name. The second NYOLODINA", Was a female teacher in this . j same program who instructed some of the correspondents, and Embassy employees in their homesi he could not recall the true name of *YOLODINA" + when NOSENKO was relieved of his responsibility for the correspondents in 1954, he turned over . | all of his agents to other case officers in the American Embassy Section with the exception of .“RAKETA" and "YOLODINA" whom he continued to handle in his work with Army Attaches. | : 80 6001350 | 1S No. 197124 Tae Carret Cc —_———
*14-00000 - in 1960-1961, . overseeing subordinates. four or five targets. ‘american Department. case. ‘against Army Attaches he) ‘assimilating the. producto individuals. who were. his’ “mation received .from ‘the.. Top Secret | '_° (AMFRICAN EMBASSY SECTION. - ca. 1953-June 1955). ee Fe, o NOSENKO claimed specific ‘yesponsibility for work against “ American Army Attaches during twenty months ‘of 1954-55, “. period im which: NOSENKO claimed no ‘supervisory | responsibility J to divert his attention from personal | operational duties... _(NOSENKO ,. explaining why he did not know more details about- the Embassy. Section's targets. while ‘he was its. deputy chief . said that as a supervisor. he was too busy Hence, NOSFNKO ‘continued, he euila . - not: be expected. to, remember. as many such details as would be possible had he been .a.case officer. working. daily. on only | . Elsewhere; he contrasted. operations | » against tourists, who often came and went in a matter of a oe “. few days, with. the work against the “service attaches and’. ge, diplomats permanently stationed in MOSCOW. Who | could be. ~y Studied. systematically. and. Slowly. y, ~ " NOSENKO- chas: Said: in- “aitferent- ‘contexts | ‘that as. the” officer® ‘responsible for operations: me received ‘and was responsible for. of a .wide: variety of sources ‘on. the. ‘targets... He has. mentioned infor- | ‘KGB First..Chief (Foreign: Intelli~ ©. “ gence) Directorate; the ‘Archives of the MGB/MVD/KGB;: and the microphones.which were. emplaced, about a year: before . woe v NOSENKO entered the. American. Department. ee Be piv lp an “Comment: \N oes dn ‘the- Army: “Attache offices: ‘were- his most: --valuable- ‘source “of: ‘information. on his: targets: ‘of 1954-1955;.-that’ he ‘Knew. nothing - .Of these. microphones: until he reentered, the. Embassy. “.Seétion, in 1960; and that he learned of their. ... existence during, 1953~- 1955. but not: where any 7 were located «. i ; . Top ‘Secret : Copy - TS. No. 197124 a
14-00000 “Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION ~ ca. 1953-June 1955) Information was also received according to NOSENKO from the network of Soviet chauffeurs, cooks, language instructors, and other agents in the Embassy; permanent and roving surveillance patrols outside the Embassy; fixed observation posts next to, across from and near the Embassy; advance notification of intent to travel by the attaches and their itineraries; and reports from outside Moscow, including surveillance, agent networks, the Militia, and the military. The point of collecting and assimilating this information, NOSENKO said, was to be able to know what the military attaches were doing in Moscow and thereby to control their intelligence collection activities. Far less important was the goal of recruiting military attaches; NOSENKO knew of only a. few instances when this was attempted, and all of 'these efforts allegedly failed. The KGB's principal interest in control rather than . recruitment has been NOSENKO's explanation for knowing little about the. backgrounds and personal lives of his targets--such information, he stated, simply was not pertinent to the primary mission of control. He has also used this explana- tion to support his assertion that.there were no recruitments ' of American military personnel during this. period. . .Comment: NOSENKO's agsertion that the KGB's mission was to control rather than to recruit American military attaches is contradicted by the . emphasis KGB tradition and doctrine place on conducting operations against the United - States, the-“main enemy", in the KGB’ parlance, in this case Américan officials with access to classified information, who. were residing in " the’ Soviet Unione: - 2 tee _ ‘In the USSR, especially in the early 1950's prior to the U~2 reconnaissance, the Service - Attache travel program was the primary means - by which the U.S. Armed Forces acquired intelli- gence information on the Soviet Union's military~industrial complex. The prevention -or inhibition of this collection activity fell consequently to KGB components concerned with the security of military-industrial installations, 82 TS No. 197124 6004 2« | U1352 Top Secret Copy
Yep Secret — are | (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION’ -"ca._1953-June 1955) ~ “Comment s° (Continued) | Dees swith transportation facilities, - and’ with, the’ geographic regions ‘to which the Service: - Attaches travelled. Approval of) Service . “ Attache travel itineraries was not. ‘within the ‘competence: of a case officer within the Embassy”. ." Section; the determination: would ‘have to: have - “been made by officials concerned with’ the ..USSR's military and industrial security anid. aware o£ reciprocal privileges being extended -" to Soviet Service Attaches in the United - sh 4 '. States, matters: involving the GRU as -well* as °° the KGB.: -An Embassy Section case officer | _'- would have as a matter of course monitored ° cy reports: of Service Attaches’ travel, searching’ for personal vulnerabilities among his. targets, - and assisted’. local KGB elements in- setting. up. provocations outside of Moscow. NOSENKO, - .. ‘however, has included neither ‘of these latter. '- functions - as “having been, among _ his. -Fesponsins “bilities. ee ee “"Sometime. in ‘the. first. hale of. 1954" NOSENKO said; ‘he. was relieved:of his™ ‘responsibilities for the correspondent cases; and from then until his | transfer from ‘the American . Department..he handled’ KGB: Second Chief. Directorate. operations against the.officer. personnel of the Army Attache's office. NOSENKO's account of the. turnover of the correspondent ‘files | to: his. Successor and. of. the. acceptance of, the attache files: is’ “presented. ‘below. 9-0 . to mg, = MpEiL. 19642 ."T took over ~ “the. Axmy: Attache: cases. €rom.. oNikolay KHRENOV.... When 1 was leaving. in-1955; , I-turned. - | the attache files over to. Valeriy. BUDYLDIN. We pe 6001353 83 7 ee TS No. 197124 Top Secret. Copy 10
Top Secret (AMERICAN DCMBASSY SUCTION ~ ca. 1953-June 1955) -10. April 1964: “I made a mistake [when] I said I accepted the cases from KHRENOV.... I accepted the cases _ from Pavel Fedorovich PANKRATOV. This was in the beginning of 1954. : -15 April.1964: NOSENKO said that he thought he turned over the correspondent files to F.V. KISLITSYN (who returned to the USSR from Australia in May 1954). NOSENKO asked when the PETROVs defected in Australia; he explained that he was not sure about KISLITSYN and could have given them to another officer. “If KISLITSYN came [back from Australia]. .in 1953, then it was to KISLITSYN. Otherwise, it was some- one else." Le | «18. June 1964: "KISLITSYN-came into the. Embassy Section - ‘in 1954 and‘'I gave nim the files on American correspondents. — BUDYLDIN also joined the section this year and took the files on the Army Attache and. his assistants from PANKRATOV. “-BUDYLDIN left Tater that year and turned those files over -- tos Mee o., Yuriy LEONTIYEV. joined the section in 1955, and oT) gave him the. files: on the. Army Attache and his assistants." can NOSENKO has. also: ‘been indefinite as “to. ‘the. date. he ‘assumed responsibilities for the Attaches. As noted above, he said on 10 April 1964 that he received the files in the beginning - of -1954.°. le had earlier said that he. worked on the corres-=- “ “pondents “only. ‘about six months" If the date of March. 1953, _which-he most often gave for his. entry into the KGB, is '.correct, this would place the turnover in the fall of 1953. ‘On other. occasions-he has said specifically that he turned ~ over the corresponcent’ cases and began work against the - Attaches in January 1954, on- still others that this occurred in May 1954. In February 1965, NOSENKO said that he could, not. remember when: he changed assignments. “Agents. Reporting on A : rmy Attaches --Asked in April 1964 to describe the agent network (agentura) at his disposal in operations against Army Attaches during this period which began in 1954, NOSENKO replied: "There were two maids, a cook, drivers...about ten persons, plus the agent 'SERVIZNIY' and the one with the cryptonym 'DMITRIYEV'.... These additional two agents, about 12 or 13 agents altogether." With one exception, this 84 600135 | | TS No. 197124 04 Top Secret — Copy —__—
Top Secret os - - 7: 7 - (AMERICAN. ENBASSY SECTION - ca. 1953-June 1955) _ network remained constant: until ‘NOSENKO transferred from “the American Embassy Section in mid-1955..° He met each agent _./ about ‘once a week, except. for the chauffeurs who were met. three ‘times a month in a safehouse or onthe street. The. - Assistant. Army Attaches used a pool of” five drivers at- . random, all of whom were his agents, NOSENKO said. Apart - ‘from the permanent driver for the senior Attache, none’ was. targetted against specific members of the attache ™ office.” ae “““Gomment: As noted @arlier, NOSENKO named "VOLODINA" and_ “and against Army Attache targets, but he never — |. again referred to them and, in describing. his. Own | activities, he = ‘never’ indicated how Or cing " what cases’ they were used. : 7 ; ‘aeeording- to NOSENKO, this network was "Just a.. supporting * agentura, which very. seldom was worthwhile," the’ ‘main source of information. on ‘the Army | Attaches’ being the. microphones in. ‘their’ offices. ; oes pat “Hewly ‘added to the network while NOSENKO held’ this. a genie ‘was a: maid. inserted to’ ‘report on ) Army. eae ee Ob EE artis MICKELSON;and his successor ,(Fillmore_k. +_MEARNS}-D Ob. er name, NOSENKO thought, was -NOVIKOVA. -She. was: an. . .Of English in order ‘to overhear conversations Or read: “letters, without, taking ‘them outside" bey “Besides NOVIKOVA, ' “NOSENKO named one ‘other’ maid who was - his agent,.. Mariya. ‘NEVEROVA ,° ceryptonym. “"SHVEDOVA, and. she - was targetted against. the Assistant Army Attache; (Ira... 36 Soman iS He described NEVEROVA as a “little, old, thin: - woman ,." “from: whom he never obtained anything. of. “interest. ~They "1 met. ins a safehouse. on. ‘Kuznetskiy. Most. - ; : oe a — , - | 85 a ie . ~ Oo - | | a = CS a 1S No. 197124 . Top Secret ~ Copy 10 __ -“RAKETA". as agents he used against’ correspondents. — _ English-speaking university graduate but “hid her Knowledge oho
- Tep Secret (AMERICAN FMBASSY SECTION - ca. 1953-June 1955) Of the KGB agents among the chauffeurs, NOSENKO named Nikolay SHNYRYEV, who was used by various attaches. "He reported where they went, what they said, whether they took notes or photographs, whether they had unusual packages with them, and so on." When viewing photographs (see below) in September 1964, NOSENKO identified Vladislav VOROBYEV as his former agent ‘"“SERVIZMNIY". He had been working in the Embassy since its establishment, starting first as a messenger boy and, in NOSENKO's time, performing clerical tasks. VOROBYEV had no direct connection with the Army Attaches, and NOSENKO said he himself did not know why he had been given VOROBYFV to handle in 1954. The main function of this agent was ‘delivering to NOSENKO copies of the unclassified telephone listings of the Embassy, issued monthly. _ “DMTTRIVEV's" true name may have been Dmitriy KUKOLEV; . NOSENKO saw this name on a 1962 phone list and thought, but - ‘was not sure, that this was his agent. An electrician who worked on the Embassy's electrical wiring systems and elevator, "DMITRIYEV". reported to NOSENKO on antenna wires and other wires he had observed on the top floors. Like . : VOROBYEV,, "“DMITRIYEY" had no direct connection with the “Army Attaches. Be Comment:.. Elsewhere HOSENKO described an electrician who . _ provided ‘some technical information on the Embassy, but he related him to his second tour in the Américan Embassy Section in 1960-1962 and did not then claim that the electrician. was his agent. - Po | a In September 1964 NOSENKO was shown a series of 260 biographic cards on Soviet citizens employed by the American Embassy in Moscow. Each card contained a photograph of the person involved and short biographic notes, including his | name and job in the Embassy. The first time he went through these cards, NOSENKO was permitted to see only the photo- graphs; NOSENKO did not identify the photographs of SHNYRYEV 86 TS No. 197124 G001356 Top Secret Copy ee ee ee
Top Secret . (ANBRICAN ENDASSY SECTION ~ ca. 1953-June 255), and} KUKOLEV but said that. the face. of VOROBYFV was familiar, : ,adding that he thought his name was: VOROBYEV.. “hen shown the: Embassy biographic cards on SHNYRYEV and KUKOLEV, he : os identified each of them as his. agents during the 1954- -1955 .. period in the American Department and equated them to. the » : exryptonyms © given previously. -In the case of - SHNYRYEV, when shown the biogtaphic information, which’ listed’ SHNYRYEV as - “chauffeur for.the military. attache," NOSENKO exclaimed:.. -... "Oh. my God, ‘this is my own’ agent." He later said it was a - - good photograph of SHNYRYEV. Co Ee re an HOSENKO! Ss Targets | we ; “Asked: in. February 1965 ‘to list the ‘Army Attache persorinel - Oe gg Whom he was directly. responsible. during 1954 and 1955, ““:. NOSENKO| ‘oyally listed the following names: “{["MICKELSON, ..< MEARNS , RICHARDS, FELCHLIN, _ BENSON ,. _MULE, STROUD, ands - oo CARDELLA ee - eS aan eee 8h, bb, Ob; Ob, ob, 06, 26, Ob - Comment.: © In ‘the Order. as: given’ by. NOSENKO, “the list a ‘ "comprises two" generations of Army. Attaches. in - yous. > Moscow.: It is neither | in alphabetical order: Oo ged ROK chronological | -according ‘to date or service. Ns, > im.Moscow.--It is,. however, in descending | order..of.rank: from {Colonel ETE ob cee MULE} and Ys" oe Ehiest | MNarrant \. ficer CARPELLAL “BRT - — (Hckenson] ye [eoloner -and_the_Army Army Attache) in’ Moscow during 1954 dnd 1955, _. -BANKRATOV. was “the case’ offiéer. originally handling oe “. “andthe case was turned over: to- NOSENKO in 1954. When aske - -about: agents’ who might have: been working against(MICKELSON} 08 -NOSENKO said that: there was one cook,: a KGB B operational. contact whose name he did not recall, _and [MICKELSON} s” maid, 0b ‘whose name NOSENKO believed: was NOVIKOVA, _iIn_addition to. these two, the only other source reporting on[MICKELSON} was | 06 a his. chauffeur, whose» name - NOSENKO also, did not: remember: : - ‘ NOSENKO™ correctly. ‘daentified Geer L. MICKELSON|as a BR TS No. 197724 Top Secret “Copy 10
Top Secret — (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION —- ca. 1953-June 1955) NOSENKO said that the KGB learned nothing interesting about b& [MrcKELson] from concealed microphones, telephone taps, or surveillance, and that no operational approach or recruit- ment was attempted. There was, in_fact, no interesting or derogatory information on {MICKELSON from any source. MN . Ob Comment: (MICKELSON) was involved in at least two incidents inside the Soviet Union which NOSENKO has not reported. In May 1954 he was arrested in Tbilisi on the (false) charge of : having photographed a bridge. In August 1954 fi, (MICKELSON) was arrested again for illegal photo- . graphy south of Kharkov; on this occasion he was held for two hours before being released. It is judged that such events, particularly those staged by the KGB, would be known to the KGB case officer responsible for the attache officer concerned. ‘ nt, « NOSENKO accurately identified (Fillmore K. MEARNS}as ay FELCKELSON! s replacement and said that he was the responsi- “~ “Ble case officer. There were_two agents and one operational - . eontact working against MEARNS\. \C Of these, NOSENKO could “’.yecall the name only of ‘NOVIKOVA, the same maid who reported . vp Carlier on[MICKELSON|SoBesides being told to attempt to over- “hear (MEARNS| conversations, ‘NOVIKOVA was instructed to _ search his clothing and to copy any notes she might find, but she never overheard or found_anything of interest to . the KGB. . NOSENKO recalled that [MEARNS' personal effects 06 were searched by the KGB while they were being shipped to ' Moscow from the United States, and that all his service ‘records had been discovered and photographed. (NOSENKO i 4 has told-this same story about [MICKELSON.) NOSENKO described 06 OS (HEARNS]as being more “active" in Moscow than | MICKELSON had Ob : een and said that information from concealed microphénes showed him to have a strong character. Nothing of interest concerning him was received from these microphones or from telephone taps. 88 GI0136q | TS No. 197124 398 Top Secret Copy ____— [258
Top Secret . >, (AMERICAN EMBASSY. SECTION = ca. -1953-dune. 1955) ‘fbromameg) | - _ pb 7 7 NOSENKO ‘corxect ly: idéntified: Tra. By RICHARDS) as al Crt colonelPwho served as an;Assistant Army Attache, van “in Moscow. The one agent reporting on( RICHARDS whom MOSENROG, could name’ was: the maid Mariya NEVEROVA, KGB cryptonym ey ’ “SHVEDOVA", but she had never provided any worthwhile a “information about RICHARDS], tf Tn addition, some Soviet drivers .reported. ee ees Sbut: “nothing. useful was . obtained from | thems tb “coment: Ertan served in. Moscow from. July. 1954 ‘to: ae _. duly 1956.’. There was.a microphone in the ‘office. With ie he shared. first with< (QICKELSON) and . dater, “ > with (MEARNS) 4, Tah eae ays (RICHARDS| confirmed: ‘that: Mariya NEVEROVA: was so His maid “and ‘described her‘as a “mousy" woman : > who had a-heart attack: during the. period she. » was employed by ‘him, an. incident which was not, recalled by NOSENKO. °° = an -.. For: about. four. months -of his ‘Moscow. tour, [L-RICHARDS) took Russian-language lessons from® Tudmiila” GROMAKOVA in-‘his: apartment.” _ During” O these’ ‘lessons, (RICHARDS)-often discussed labor - “on! ‘one o¢casion, had-her record -her speech on: his: tape recorder... “GROMAKOVA was | pregnant and “NOSENKO named ‘GRONAROUA In another: context,: ed “ORs to the: 19532 1955 period. ; {RICHARDS} identified one nieledya ara -“aiminutive of Vladimir). as his principal oe Sas driver: About, 62..years old in 1954, Volodya' So .- father was, a. rich. jeweler in Moscow atthe time” .. 6£ the Revolution. Volodya himself: was well- . educated and, on one occasion while picnicking. oy outside Moscow, | ‘he spoke. “intelligently with - ee or ee caei359 res co “4s No. 197124 Top Secret Cony 0 ee 6),
14-00000 Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - ca. 1953-June 1955) Comment: (Continued) | jb [RICHARDS| about the Revolution, propaganda, and news media. NOSENKO did not know of Volodya . who, as RICHARDSY, driver, was NOSENKO's agent by HNOSENKO's own account. Ob | { FELCHLIN | . _p@ NOSENKO correctly identified \Howard L. FELCHLIN]as a ; [Liebtenant colonel| who served as (Assistant Army Attache in & foscow. By far tne most aggressive of his targets and hence the. object of special interest, NOSENKO said PELCHLIN] served0} in the Soviet Union during 1954 and part of 1955, until | being declared persona non grata. NOSENKO did not recall . the. names. of any agents specifically targetted against — 04 [FELCHLIN) although he thought (RELCHLT must have had a maid oy “ho would have been a KGB agent. Additionally, NOSENKO _ said, the lAssistant Army Attaches shared a pool of cars and . - . drivers, an ‘these were his agents. Unable to recall the “ o{ precise date of FELCHLIN's expulsion, NOSENKO related it to ~.gome event regar ing SoViets stationed in the United States _ for which the Soviet Government decided to reply in kind. ‘NOSENKO was imprecise as to the pretext used to expel . 6% FELCHLIN, but. said the action was based on information which »  - had been accumulated. from a number of sources and incidents. (For example, \FELCHLIN| had been caught taking some photo~ '- graphs arid a report. had been written; along with other (Ksimilar indications of FELCHLIN's activities and reports of — (Kagents- in contact with FELCHLIN}| the report was filed away — : _ for possible future use. NOSENKO was questioned further on ane FELCHLIN| during the February 1965 interrogations. | He said i hen that (FELCHLIN jalone had been declared persona non grata, -- ang: that. no other Attaches had been involved. NOSENKO -explained his having. but few details concerning this action ‘by the fact that it took place after NOSENKO had transferred from the American Department to the Seventh Department in. June 1955. NOSENKO knew nothing of FELCHLINY s background. O€ igl6A G00 - 90 ; 1360 TS No. 197124 | Top Secret Copy
14-00008 Top Secret : “(AMERICAN -EMBASSY: SECTION - ‘ca. 1953-gune (1955) | oe comments ore sie the | USSR as a merchant. seaman te and a: diplomatic courier before arriving in. July 1953 as @n Assistant—Army Attache} () O&He . Served in the latter. ‘Capacity. for. one year, . until: July. 1954,.when he. was expelled. He had , previously: served in. Austria and West. Germany | ~ and’ had been in official. contact with -known oe “GRU officers at both posts, as well as in. the United’ States.” _ During. his entire teur in. Moscow: he was the object of. intense: KGB - veillance. | ; . van ae 0¢ Shortly after his arrival in September 1953" pen gtorhs ‘with fellow{Assistant™ Army Attache OF me Martin. J. MANHOFF | and. wo{Air Force Attaches ‘Cook a train trip to Siberia, the . first trip: (08 permitted. such Americans in many years< Six. .months | later, on’25 ‘March 1954, the Soviet | Mewspaper. Tru carried.an. article: falsely” O€alleging that [FELCHLIN|-and his companions: had “- Lost. some “spy~ documents" on the Sesion oo -another . occasion, .while travelling with = “(British Military Attache ,.|FELCHLIN- returnedi foOk.. _. his train compartment to find a scantily clad. _ Sdviet female in his. berth. NOSENKO- recalled: neither of these: incidents. - In June. 1954, while.in the’ company “of bon (@igatenant < colonel: Pld. YEAGER; an” Meeks canal Of a Army Attache, —FELCHET |Was arrested in Kiey 7 at bya a Soviet : Army: officer for photographing a a “, Military. target. (NOSENKO has. never mentioned. OG -YEAGER)s+ name ;: when told the name and’ asked” ~ ‘Eor ‘an -identification, NOSENKO. said that he’ "had heard it and that he thought] YEAGER] was. Ob. “ Oklthe Air _Attaché}.), A large crowd “Gathered and, “after some ie ce eae ~ taken to a Militia station where..they were ° ls ordered’ to- Sign a. confession. - “They were held. ' @leven’ ‘hours,,..and their | arrest caused the, 7 "American ~Ambassador to- deliver a ‘strong protest . note 0e(FELCHLIN] was, told on 3 July 1954 to |. "depart ‘the Soviet Union within 48 hours.’ i S 6 [Major Nalter A. A. MCKINNEY}, the [American ve ( C006 7 ae 6/0 TS.No. 197124 os ‘Top Secret Copy 10 7K.
14-00000 oe © oS -  Fop Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION =- ca. 1953~June 1955) Comments: (Continued) Cy Attache and one of|FELCHLIN/s travelling companions at the time the “spy notes" were allegedly lost, was declared persona non grata at the same time. Ambassador Bohlen success~ .fully insisted, against initial Soviet refusal, that his personal plane be allowed into the USSR to fly/FELCHLIN|and(McKINNEY{out. In 06 06 February 19 NOSENKO was asked té describe ' the unusual circumstances under ‘which|[FELCELIN] 06 left. NOSENKO said he could not, inasmuch, as he was no longer in the American Department at the time. Told that the expulsion took place in 1954, NOSENKO said this was not the correct date. 606 Queried concerning SHNYRYEV, |RICHARDS} and Ch [FELCHLIN] immediately recognized His photograph and name as one of the chauffeurs assigned to the office of the Army Attache at the Moscow Embassy; RICHARDS| was taken on his first trip O6 . outside Méscow by SHNYRYEV. He remarked that the Attaches referred to SHNYRYEV as either. "Nikolay Perviy" (Nicholas the First) or “Nikolay Vtoroy" (Nicholas the Second) to distinguish him from another chauffeur with ,, the same name. {FELCHLIN|\said that SHNYRYEV UO drove primarily For the Army Attache himself, but sometimes drove for the Assistant Army , Attaches, and he remembered that SHNYRYEV was | not well, suffered from war wounds, and had. continuing chest or lung trouble. Asked whether SHNYRYEV had any medical problem, NOSENKO said . he was not_aware of any. oo, Ob [FELCHLIN] said his maid Dora FEDOQROVA was i er 50's. When she spoke with/FELCHLIN OG about a job, she asked for about 120 rubles a month, which seemed excessive, so[FELCHLIN] 06 offered 80. . FEDOROVA refused and left. ‘Two days later she returned and accepted. She spoke little English. Other maids came to the / back door of [FELCHLIN? s apartment to "chat" withO6 her, and suspéctting that they were reporting to FEDOROVA, [FELCHLIN] teased her about it. . 92 6001362 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy SIGK
| (@MERICAN EMBASSY SECTION ad cae (Continued) ,  PEDOROVA' Ss previous ‘einployer- at: the. ‘Embassy’ «:gave. her full name. to columnist Drew Pearson | --.with a statement that she was one of the chief. spies. and the local “boss" of the Embassy net- Pearson printed . the allegation. a accordina to [EFLCREIN, 04 7 _™ Secret “summer: of 1953. or 1954, " Pearson's: source, | the maid approached [FELCELIN}wi th the articlé, «waved it in his face, .and accused him of being a NOSENKO did not recognize ~ FEDOROVA'S name and did not. recall hearing: er. » reading | of this incident. faa] Ob “OS NosENKo < corvectly identified his target {i John nS. BENSOH} | ag: a major] and(Assistant Army ~Attache] in Moscow. He did not O said that (BENSON Sy vane [Staling: with ‘electronic " persona. non mation on] ee . . x b Cana) NOSENKO. “correctly identified spying". devices. -the_names of any agents. working against|BENSON| but 06 | ‘Was: with{MULE|andfSTROUD | (see below)Cin 06,06 grad in 1955\when all three were caught by the KGB They were declared =... The KGB had no other derogatory infor- from, any. other. source. » , ainjand an{Assistant Army~Attachel,. -concealed ‘microphones, - arrival in Moscow that he was an.expeért inthe use 6f He was with({B (BENSON) and [MOLEL 0b, 50. persona non grata along with ; Be Other than this, NOSEMKO Said, the KGB knew ere unusual or interesting sone any _ . @lectronic spying apparatus; - Sin | Stalingrad), vand was declared them. “(see be (OW) 1953- ~giane 1955) ~ STROUD} as a CY The only: agents. Siorking against him were the Army Attache drivers. gillian | R. Ew TROUD! re the KGB. learned before‘ Top Secret “TS No. 197124. | Gory - 19 , now E th eee LO
14-00000 Top Secret {AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - ca. 1953-June 1955) Comment: STROUD} vctn[Beggom ana [iaed) was the victim > Sf the Soviets' seizure of technical equip- ment in [Stalingrad ]|and was declared persona iD non grata on({7 May 1955} On 31 January 1955 94 he travelled to Kharkov from Moscow with First Secretary [Frank SISCOF|to interview an Americanl& , defector living there. According to NOSENKO, . . &bl[Stsco#|was suspected by the KGB of being a CIA officer. The visit ofjex-FBI agent SISCOE| and ()f V6 a military officer to an American defector is / judged to be an event in which the KGB would have. taken interest and one which the Attache's KGB case officer would find memorable. po [MULE | Ce / NOSENKO correctly identified ("alter MULE|as an [Assistant Army Attaché| and as such Said that he was the case officer responsible f6r him. NOSENKO described an operational (6 approach to| MULE) in which he himself participated: In 1953 or 1954 there had’ been several defection approaches to Soviets in the United States with the promise of money and anew life. After the KGB Second Chief Directorate decided o¢ to try the same measures, MULE] was selected .06He was only a [captain] despite his lengthy service in the Army and infor- Mation from concealed microphones indicated that he was often ' disparaged by the other Attaches. - When [MULE) received letters(/, from home, he threw them in the trash, and the maids turned , these_over to the KGB. From this mail it was understood OU that MULE! did not have a house.in the United States but lived-with_his, family in a trailer. The father of two (eehildren, [MULE] had sent his wife from Moscow to Germany for an abortion, as a third child would have imposed too great an economic burden. On the basis of all this the KGB appointed N.M. BORODIN, a recruiter of the American Depart- ment, to attempt to defect [MULE> Together with BORODIN, KOVSUUK, and L.A. LEBEDEV (from the Second Chief Directorate's special technical section), NOSENKO travelled to Leningrad for the operation. LEBEDEV installed a clock containing a concealed camera as well as microphones in (MULE s hotel room, 06 94 C00L364 | | TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy ise ante ae
Top Secret — on : _RMPRTCR mapaesr, SEcnT “8 ca. 1953-June 1955) — “and BORODIN entered: ‘the room. to ‘await fivts @\return. ‘hen. ont ‘started to enter ‘the room, he caught sight of BORODIN | . and. tried: to back out, but NOSENKO and KOVSHUK closed ‘the ” door. from. the hall and prevented his. escape. - BORODIN _ Ofreviewea fox[ MULE) the facts. the . KGB..had accumulated about his -lack of, Success in. the. ALY, | the: disdain of his fellow. .- Attaches; and- his - ‘shortage of money and then offered him a ~ job as a-“consultant". BORODIN had either $5,000 or - . °$10,000.in an envelope to. encourage [MULE] ‘to accept. Accordine(5l “Tt: NOSENKO, (MotE] refused gutright, felling BORODIN to get outs: ar a . - Comment i Ges this. incident. He said that. he oe was: locked in his hotel room and subjected to - oa recruitment attempt by an MVD agent, calling’ himself Jack SIEGAL, who offered him $10,000. for "work": on a long-range basis. SIEGAL i “emphasized that (MULE would not be. required | to 06 procure documents. “from the Embassy ,. and obaccoraing to_ MULE) SIEGAL was aware of facts ~ GLeoncerning[iit “S.personal life that ‘could’ “have been oF stained only from listening devices _ 06 in {Mora S\apartment or office. SIFGAL_left “after about 20 minutes, having warned fLEynot 06 to report the incident. ((MULE}identified “OG - SIEGAL/BORODIN by photographr but was.unablé to | identify NOSENKO. : ~° KGB. lack’ of, interest: in- ‘reeruitments, which NOSENKO elsewhere cited to explain his ignorance . of the personal backgrounds. of his Army Attache targets, is belied by_ the| MULE}case. 06. Ce ST ee REND : bb. Be A to me Nn se ee “— [BEESON wun lanai STROUD Expulsion from. the Soviet Union +" peter NOSENKO had. been transferred to the Seventh — O40 ¥ ' Department. in 1955,<{ BENSON ,” Hype and [STROUD] were the targets! / a 4 | of-a KGB operation which. resulté l three men being ~ OG: , declared persona non non grata. NOSENKO gave the following account | -of this. incident: “For some time the Second Chief Directorate had, een frying: to acquire a small, convenient piece of 8 Coteses " a ne “1s -No. 197124 ‘Top Secret © = Copy =~
14-00000 4 06 [s Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION ~ ca. 1953~dune 1955) ' electronic equipment which American Intelligence officers were known to be using during their travels inside the Soviet Union. As early as the beginning of 1954, the American Department had been given authorization from the Central Committee.of the Communist Party to steal this- equipment from the Americans, provided that the success of such an operation was assured. Refore his transfer to the Seventh Department in 1955, NOSENKO himself had helped to develop plans for the operation and had even arranged an abortive attempt to seize the equipment from an Attache at , railroad station outside Moscow. While|MEMNSON [ MULE) and 06, O6 STROUD | were on one of their trips (after NOSEMNKO's transfer) it was learned that they had the hom on (St with them, and the KGB decided_to take it from them in [Stalingrad].][ The hotel rooms of BENSON}\STROUD) an a [MULE were watchéd constantly from a visual observation pos iC and it Was noted that they never ate in the hotel restaurant but always in their rooms. It was also noted that the apparatus was placed under a pillow before they began to eat. “While they were seated at the table having dinner, therefore, the KGB officers suddenly entered the room and seized the equipment. In order to . partially cover the illegality of We his act, it was decided to make a show of expelling (BENSON) \MULE| and [STROUD] from the U6 Soviet Union, and this was done by hhaving*the Foreign Ministry declaring each persona non grata. Cb (6 Comment: ghe equipment was seized fron (Bpnsom) [ULE] and Oh [STROUD on 5 May. 1955, and the three were déclared _ persona non grata on'7 May, a month before NOSENKO claimed to have transferred to the Seventh Department. “hen the 7 May date was given to NOSENKO during the February 1965 interrogations, he replied that the operation was handled at a higher level, that he did not directly participate in it, but that he had been involved in the earlier planning to seize the equipment. It was pointed out to him that he had always said he was in the Seventh Department at the time of this operation, and that he had consistently said that he transferred .from the American to the Seventh Department in June 1955. WNOSENKO offered no comment. CVO1366 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy *
‘Top Secrets _ (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - ca. 1953-June 1955) | [fiona ee al eee : “NOSENKO - said: ‘that in 1954. and 1955 “there Was a oo giyaiaan administrative officer-.in the Embassy by the name .. of Wames~ CARDELLA:)j The - ‘KGB had_no interesting or unusual information ‘thing nore Sbout hin-OL any source, and. NOSENKO > ‘could say nothing more out Aim. | ‘Comment :* “Ag a! member of ‘the. “Army ° ‘Attache's Staff, OE CARDELLAYalso would have been NOSENKO's target. Abb . lef Warrant Officer _CARDELLA}'served | in Moscow. “From: September 1953 until dune 1955. - In 1964 microphone ‘was: ‘discovered. in. the Embassy > office. ae had ‘occupied. The microphone- was: Pe to. have. been “emplaced in 1952. ‘See, BP. _ ; ay: incorrectly: jaentitied George vi VAN LARTHEM as. ° ax Ree Air Attachéjat. the Embassy against “whom an operation. was attempted in.1953 or 1954. He said that | - .during this: period. a Russian actress, Alla LARIONOVA, was. -uplaced on.a.train: going from Berlin to Moscow with the _ mission. of striking up an acquaintance with, (VAN LABTHPM)O6 which could be. followed up in Moscow. She succeeded in: ‘meeting - ‘him: and: gave him her address and telephone number. Although she was certain that she would hear from-him, he . never did call‘her in Moscow. .NOSENKO said that he had... “heard about this from P.F.: PANKRATOV, the case officer - handling LARIONOVA.' He added that. CHURANOV was the case i officer. responsible for {VAN ‘LABTHEM): along with other Bb a members. of thefAir 2 Attache\'s“office at.that time. - NOSENKO OY knew of no other. KGB interest ‘in or activity: concerning © = [WAN aa: LAETHEM). an pb TS No, 197124 . Top Secret. Copy 10
14-00000 Top Secret Gnas penn eee (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - ca. 1953-June 1955) Fal Comment: [van rere Twas not an jAssistant Air Attacag 0% sant put an|AssiStant Army Attach Yserving in _ slioscow from Marcn 1951 to Ma¥ch 1953. When L|VAN LAETHEIT!completed nis two-year tour in Moscow in March 1953 (when NOSENKO said ne entered tue KGB), he was succeeded py [Nalter 06 WULE, for whom NOSENKO has Claimed resDonsi- bility. The fact tnat ne was |Assistant Army 0X eee | Attacié) and (ULE! & predecessor suould be” known to the responsible KGB case officer, in tais case, NOSENKO. As [cryptographic security OY officer] and officer~in cnarge of the Embassy (ps [code room, VAN LAETHE:TD|}had supervisory respon- Sibility for tne military code clerks and mecuanics, including Dayle SiiITH, and ne was on fairly close personal terms with Sergeant | Roy RHODES until] VAN LAETHEM?s departure from06 yf Moscow in warcn 1953. [VAN LAETHEIIs duties 06 also included responsibility for Sensitive electronic activities in the Embassy. VAN LAETHEi] was again in Moscow from 19 Marcn to 19 May 1955, wien NOSENKO claims to have been. the KGB case officer for Army Attaches. Altnougn this visit was only a temporary as- signment, it was represented to the Soviets aS a@ permanent assignment.of an Assistant Army Attacne (and tnus, presumably NOSENKO's tar- get) because of the sensitive nature of his duties. He was project officer for the entire Signals collection program at the Enoassy, and ne went to Moscow to review the program including tne planned use of the new electronic equipment waich was seized from {BENSON, MULE | 6,06 and [STROUD in Stalingrad) in {tay 1955] (whilef{_ OS\VaN LAETHEM)] was stiil in Moscow). |VAN LAETHEN) Us Stated tnat no meeting such as the One WOSENK described with LARIONOVA ever occurred. TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy wx
14-00000 : | : Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - ca. 1953-June 1955) a L mete ee Additional Reporting a Knowledge of another KGB operation involving Americans was said by NOSENKO to stem from his 1953-1955 service in | the American Embassy Section, against CIA officer and Embassy Security Officer Edward Ellis SMITH (see p. 37). NOSENKO claimed to have personally participated in the | operations against E.E. SMITH in 1954-1955. The incidents which NOSENKO described, however, occurred in June 1956, by which time NOSENKO, by his own account, had been’ out of the American Embassy Section for a year and when he was involved in the Seventh Department recruitment of [Richara (6 BURGI} His involvement in the [BURGI| case has been confirmed. , NOSENKO has also described the KGB recruitment of military cipher machine mechanic “ANDREY" (Dayle SMITH, see p. 33), whose true name he claimed not to have known. He dated the recruitment as occurring “in 1949-1950" and "before he joined the KGB", although he said that he knew of the | existence of the agent during his first tour in the Embassy Section in 1953-1955. However, NOSENKO also related that “ANDREY" was recruited while Roy RHODES was in Moscow, that RHODES “had spotted 'ANDREY'". “ANDREY" and RHODES ®Ver- _ + lapped in Moscow from April 1952 to July 1953. "ANDREY" | fixes his own recruitment.as occurring in December 1953, and until his departure in April 1954 he was responsible for the entire Embassy code room. In that capacity "ANDREY" | was a direct subordinate of the Army Attache cryptographic _, security officer, NOSENKO's target Army Captain Walter MULE}. aS If NOSENKO served in the‘Embassy Section during 1953-1955 as he claimed, itis difficult to perceive how he could have remained unaware of "ANDREY's" identity. ce en once [ American Embassy Section ~- ca. 1953-June 1955: Summary and Conclusion : E| According to NOSENKO, immediately upon entering on duty with the KGB he was assigned without training to what he describes as the most sensitive and important section of | the Second Chief Directorate. There, after first handling agents covering American correspondents resident in Moscow, ae | 99 te) ££ ‘ Ly Ts No tH a Top Secret Copy __10 | 3/6R
14-00000 Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION ~ ca. 1953-dune 1955) he was made the case officer solely responsible for opera- tions against the commissioned officers of the Embassy's Army Attache office, until his transfer to the Seventh . i Department. Alleging. complete knowledge of all service attache operations, NOSENKO flatly asserts that there were no KGB recruitments of American military personnel during the period of his assignment to the Embassy Section. Pertinent to the consideration of .NOSENKO's statements | is his reluctance to discuss the 1953-1955 period, and his ainconsistent accounts of the dating and circumstances of his entry into the Embassy Section, of his assumption of responsibility as sole case officer for Army Attache tar- | gets, and of his transfer to the Seventh Department. ..Al- though NOSENKO could plausibly claim failing memory to ex- plain some areas of ignorance, he does not do so. Instead, | he is positive and insistent that his statements about his targets are a factual and complete account of what was then known to the KGB. His assertion that the KGB was not in- i terested in his targets' vulnerability to recruitment is belied by his own statements as well as by the [MULE) case ,06 as he himself related it. He is uninformed about both At- tache personnel and agent-informants who, by his own ac- count, were his targets and his agents. - Conclusion wet Seton NOSENKO did not serve in the American Embassy. Section throughout the March 1953-June 1955 period as he claimed. Specifically, he neither entered the Section in March 1953 nor transferred from the Section in June 1955. In whatever period he may have served, he was not the sole case officer responsible for commissioned officers in the office of the Army Attache. Unaware of many aspects of KGB activities involving Army personnel and by his own account not involved with either Air or Naval Attache personnel or diplomats, NOSENKO has no valid claim to certainty that the KGB re- cruited no American Embassy personnel during this period. . 100 — 0004370 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy |'R@
Top Secret : a : anne (CHAPTER VI _SEVRNEH DEPART (g fune 1955-dJanuary 1960)” Corment: “merican: and ‘aimeG at exploiting - Govier. Union. Beginning in 1956, the qrowth of ‘tourism which followed the- post- Stalin’ HOSEKO's ‘clained: Sacond Chief Directorate “service: Guring 1055+1969, in which he was. involved. with Seventh Department operations against tmerican and iritish tourists,. coin-_ cides with the h of a substantial Intelligence program ae ourists visiting the’. otha in. the USSR: had arown to the point:  wheré. it: could be usefully exploited by CIA. “Initially,: returning American tourists were debriefed’ ‘on their. experiences in:the Soviet Union and particularly with reaqard to their. “acquaintances there with Soviet citizens who |. “might bbe, susceptible to eventual recruitment. © — _ Gradually, leads were ceveloped to Americans -. - planning to visit’ the” USSR, and from among — these, agents were: selected, trained in’ “Glandestine. operational techniques, . -briefed.i.! see oo ‘on. “intelligence requirements, - and instructed . , how to identify » and develop potential agents © from among their Soviet contacts. Tne 9. 9 "= “American agents. performed a variety of clan". - destine tasks including passive assessment . of Sovict. candiGates: for recruitment, propa~-. " ganda’ ‘activities, and infiltrating equipment, * * loading: Geaddrops ;- or mailing letters bearin | secret: writing, ‘all ‘des tined for CIA agents: —s- “in the Soviet Union. = the“ program: reached its height in “1959, by! the.end of which over .one hundred and fifty agents ‘under: ‘tourist cover from CIA valone: had. performed. missions in the (USSR; by So Geum TS No. 197124 ‘Top Secret = = = Copy 101
‘ - | 7 _ Top Secret (SEVENTID DEPARTMENT. - June 1955-January 1960) Comment: (Continued) ' then a substantial number of similar missions had aiso been launched by American militar intelligence organizations and by the and allied services. It is a matter of fact, not of conjecture, - that as early as 1957 a large number of these poetioeenitini . agents were coming to the attention of the KGB within the Soviet Union. Few were arrested. Instead, all were surveilled, and some pro- voked or entrapped, as the Second Chief . Directorate and its provincial KGB counter~ | intelligence elements sought to identify the r Soviet citizens with whom the American agents were in contact, as well as the agents' specific clandestine tasks. By the summer of 1959 the KGB had obtained from its British agent, George BLAKF, complete detai _the objectives and methods of CIA ct Intelligence tourist programs, together with a number of case examples. a It is within this context that one must ae , examine NOSENKO's claims to KGB service in - DS ‘and consequent knowledge of Second Chief Directorate counterintelligence operations against American and British tourists in 1955- 1960.. NOSENKO claimed he served with the Seventh Department from June 1955 until January 1960. According to him, the Seventh Department exercised counterintelligence functions involving foreigners then visiting the Soviet Union, including businessmen, seamen, foreign delegations and some: ists, as well as the hotels and restaurants utilized by ¢@ visitors. He said that by 1958, however,.the number #Sreign tourists visiting the Soviet Union had grown appreciably, and in June 1958 the Seventh Department Tourist Section was split, and two new sections were created. NOSENKO explained that one of the new sections became 102 600 379 13 TS No. 197124 Top Secret _ p Copy 22
- (SEVENTH: DEPARTMENT oo responsible for counterinte -. against American. and Britis _ other ‘section was cha It is convenient’ £6 Claims -to service in the Seventh Depart periods... The first of /--* -HOSENKO ‘described ‘his personal and direct participation: .., in Seventh Department operations during t half years as including: ~ ce Recruiting and hand Top Secret | . June 1955-January 1960) lligence operations conducted n Commonwealth nationals, the rged with all other nationalities, | divide the. éxamination of NOSENKO's | ment into two -. these covers the years from June 1955 until June 1958, during which. NOSENKO said “case officer handling ‘and recruiting age managing other operation Lod covers HOSENKO's servic : : :O have become Deputy Chie newly-created: American~ . beginning’ o ee Sritish Commonwealth Séct “agentura varied in number from eicht to fourteen wee VE. , sos . principally Americans, in the Sovise Union ~ the. Seventh Department.) a ~ that he learned: of all the against American tourists | to meet [FRIPPE seven aft Moscow to NewYork. anda sipiGunting operations against fifteen foreigners, : (\sRecruiting a pair of Sovi - to be: utilized against forei _Managed -the pair from th aree most of whom were employees. of Inturist, tative In Moscow. | (NOSEN er the latter was transfe fter NOSENKO ‘was transfer wo ss Company] Sopra araritg Gesene FRIPPEE), the[imeriean Of &_Express Company] represen -" From personal involvement or otherwise HOSENKO - “Department service. ; “, Copy 10798 | f he was a nts of all nationa- al activi~ e from June £ of the: ion, to the | his four and one- oo a Re a ling ‘Soviet citizen agents and targetting them against American tourists, NOSENKO's © agents, .: iet homosexuals as agents. _ Coe gn ‘homosexual targets. ~ NOSEMKO..-. ( 1eir recruitment in| 1957 and 1958... until their retirement’ in 1962 or 1963. NL KO“Gontinued-"- rred from ...™ red from. claimea | important operations conducted during this. period of his Seventh.
14-00000 | cre Crean Top Secret . (SEVENTE DEPARTMENT ~ June 1955-January 1960) NOSENKO's Soviet Agents The Seventh Department Tourist Section, just established when NOSENKO was transferred to it in mid-1955, had no agent network for operations against American and British tourists. Consequently, HOSENKO said, he and the other case officers had to "start from the beginning". As a first step NOSENKO was introduced by a fellow. officer to a number of "trusted persons" in Inturist. These were not agents, he explained, but "just persons a KGB man could approach with questions about somebody or something". NOSLNKO collected information on these and others with the aim of formalizing their recruitments. By the end of 1955, he estimated, he haa a network of about eight agents, all of them Inturist interpreters. During the following four years, the number of agents whom NOSENKO handled varied. Agents would be transferred from one case officer to another, some would leave Inturist, and "things were sort of changing all the time, back and forth". In 1956, NOSENKO said, he had about ten agents, in 1957 there were about twelve, in .- 1958 about eight, and at the end of 1959 (when he was preparing to return to the American Department) he had approximately twelve. The substance of NOSFMNKO's descrip- tion of his agents is as follows: , Larissa SOBOROVA . An Inturist English-language interpreter, SOBOROVA was one of the first agents recruited in 1955 by NOSENKO within Inturist. She reported to him on all foreigners with whom she worked as an interpreter. She worked with _NOSENKO when . he served as a guide for British subjects BIRSE) and] LANE] in () O6 the summer of 1957. During 1957-1959 she Was involved ahd possibly sexually intimate with American|travel writer OF U6 Horace SUTTON). SOBOROVA was NOSENKO's agént until 1959, "/ when she mar¥fied and “retired". oo g0041374 “104 an TS No. 197124 Top Secret — Copy | 3/6
Top Secret 8 © ° | (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - Sune 1955-January 1960) Comment: SOBOROVA was.-an Inturist guide: fora number '-@f American tourists, TS ontont CIA agents, ~. her. In 1959 she was the head of all English- language interpreters. at’ Inturist headquarters in. ‘the National Hotel, MOSCOW. oe Vladimir MURONTSEV | ; MUROMTSEV, KGB ‘cryptonym LEBEDEV", Was recruited by *. HOSENKO from Inturist in,1955.. He was NOSENKO's. agent! ‘until called into the army in about-1959, when he was. sent to.a Soviet Air Force Academy in. Central. Asia: to serve as an interpreter with Syrian students there. : During that’ period his file was held by tlie KGB organization in Central uc” Asia. ‘When he’ returned. to Moscow he was re-employed by the a KGB Second Directorate. my ‘-' -Comments: . “NOSENKO has ‘gaia elsewhere that MUROMTSEV had Ua bs “7. -been a: Second Chief, Directorate agent “since. - 1958", , implying ‘that. someone else recruited’ .. him and that he thus coulc not have been ““NOSENKO's ° agent in 1955. MUROMTSEV was. «+ identified: in 1957 as.an Inturist (guide. bY oo two CTA sources. °- " Hikolay ROGOV ROGOV Rad) ‘been formerly a- "confidential contact" of the KGB. He “ worked in the central Inturist office which assigned inter _preters to: ‘British and American citizens visiting» the USSR. pe "105 Top Secret oe Copy a _COUL375 between 1957 and 1959..qSUTTONPhas identified 06. “ROGOV, ‘KGB ‘cryptonym ‘“OZERO", was. recruited - in- 1958... “He TS No. 197124 ee ie ee tee or
14-00000 - Top Secret {SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ June’ 1955-January 1960) Comment: CIA records refer only to one Alexander ROGOV who in 1960 was a senior official at the main Inturist office in the Hotel National in Moscow. 6 Nataliya SHULGINA — SHULGINA was an Inturist interpreter recruited by NOSENKO meee in 1955. NOSENKO knew that double agent Boris BELITSKIY | [see p.282] “reported to the KGB that CIA had warned BELITSKIY against SHULGINA". oo Comment: KGB-controlled CIA source BELITSKIY reported to CIA that SHULGINA was a KGB agent: CIA did not warn him. SHULGINA was for two years the secretary~interpreter of NBC correspondent Irving R. LEVINE after his arrival in Moscow in July 1955. She served as a guide for an American musical troupe's visit in the USSR in 1956 and in 1956 and 1957 she served as a guide for American tourists in Moscow. According to BELITSKIY, she.was involved in the sexual / ‘entrapment and KGB recruitment of (British MP Ob Tom DRIBERG| NOSENKO's apparent ignorance of SHULGINA's “involvement with_LEVINE and other - Americans, as well as with (DRIBER , and of her Ob foreign travel, belies his claim that she was his agent during the 1955-1958 period. Shown her photograph in 1964, NOSENKO failed to. recognize it. ‘hen he was then given her name, he identified her not as his former agent but just as a Second Chief Directorate agent once involved with BELITSKIY. Roe 7 ss RES: pouigs7e 8 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy __— 71
; Top Secret ° (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ‘= Juné-1955-January 1960) » “Temara KUNGAROVA ae ae “KUNGAROVA 4 was ‘an Inturist interpreter recruited by: “NOSENKO in 1955.- In 1957. or.1959 she was involved in a- 9 KGB. sexual: entrapment. operation of: an American ‘professor & [John -' THOMPSON), but there.was no attempt to recruit him. tween. (1957 or 1958 and 1960 she was targetted a ainst - American . tourist ‘and.suspect CIA agen o(see p.420) . -KUNGAROVA {married ’ Engiland,. and. the KGB. was still interested in ‘the time, NOSENKO: left ‘the Seventh. Department. Elsewhere NOSENKO has said KUNGAROVA was an -agent' who: came to the: Seventh: Department from: ‘the British Commonwealth. Department.-in 1957 | “or early 1958." If true, he could not have - “recruited her or: have been her case officer ain: “the 1955-1957. period...’ In-describing the _ case,’ NOSENKO indicated he. himself ‘was. “hot Involved and, although. he commented on! | -KUNGAROVA' s role,” he never mentioned that: she was’ or had been his’ agént.". KUNGAROVA was =>? “interviewed by the FBI.on. the basis. of NOSENKO' s , information and she confirmed that she had. been. “intimate: .with| THOMPSON} while serving as an: _£Yiturist guide, aS well.as with other Americans. ‘She ‘denied, however, that” she had ever colla~ ‘porated with - ‘the. KGB - KUNGAROVA. died in 1965... Aleksandr A. | DMETRIVEV _ DMITRIVEV, KGB. eryptonym "TOMO"; “when NOSENKO recruited “him: in 1958, was a candidate member: of the USSR Academy. of: . Sciences and a specialist on Japan and Thailand. He spoke - | Japanese ‘and English and worked at the. Japanese’ Exhibition_ * in Moscow. - He "was used against : British and American ~ “- Nationals".  DMITRIYEV was also. ‘used against. communications... a ae a | _ oneia72 7 a oo 7 eee whit Do» ao ; TS No. «vba Tep Secret. Copy: 10 “Gi.
14-00000 Top Secret _(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) personnel at the Japanese Exhibit, but while he telephoned NOSENKO, he was meeting with another KGB case officer. DMITRIYEV accompanied a sports delegation to Norway andia Soviet circus to Japan. 6 Comment: DMITRIYEV's travel to Norway and Japan in 1958 is confirmed. From NOSENKO's own © statement he was aware of DMITRIYEV's activities, but he was not his case officer. (Fnu) IVANOV Once a recruited agent in the Baltic area, when IVANOV moved to Moscow the provincial KGB suggested he might be of some use in the capital. IVANOV was a lawyer employed by the Institute of Foreign Trade when NOSENKO became his case officer. IVANOV was later turned over to the British Commonwealth Department which "planted him in the British Trade Mission or something like that". - 4 Comment: CIA retords. contain no “reference identifiable with IVANOV. : Marina RYTOVA RYTOVA, KGB eryptonym "KRYMOVA", was turned over to NOSENKO by another Seventh Department case officer, I.A. -KONSTANTINOV, in 1956 or 1957. . She was educated at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, where she studied military subjects as well as foreign languages. When NOSENKO became her case officer she was working as an _interpreter at the Russian Permanent Exhibit in Moscow. She continued this job until about 1960, when she became an instructor in the Greek language at the Institute of International Relations. She reported to MNOSENKO information Lae 108 O004 27 : i378 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy —______
1 4-90000 - Tep Secret ~ . (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT. ~ Tune 19ss-ganuary 1960) whieh: she ‘obtained on. foreign delegates or ‘foreign tourists -..who visited the Exhibit in ‘Moscow, .and on foreign délegates --< attending meetings at the Ministry: Of Agriculture, where .", ghe ‘served as-an interpreter in English and Greek. RYTOVA -. served several times as an- interpreter. for Khrushchev and once’ participated | in a conversation hé had with the: Iowa _. farmer [Roswell]. GARST. In ‘1959 or 1960 she was sent as - an. interpreter with a small delegation visiting GARST's — 2. farm: in the. United: ‘States,, and was used by the. ‘KGB Legal | ~~ Residency. in: Washington to° report: obsérvations made enroute.. - and while ‘there... RYTOVA was married to a captain or major -c who works. .in a. military office in Moscow. She had one _ daughter. approximately - 14 years old. ne a Comment:  RYTOVA: served as. an . “interpreter for Roswell " we GARST in’ the USSR in 1955, ‘1959 and 1963 and she visited’-the U.S. in 1958 and 1962.. Her -/ >. ‘biographic data is consistent. with the infor- vmation related: by. NOSENKO,.. os 7 Yevgeniya (Sane) DANKO Y “DANKO; “KGB exyptonym: “OKSANA", ‘worked in otha Gferican 24 | SEXpress _Compaiiy}.of fice’. in Moscow ese Abaene-PMenU : “(NOSENKO's.agent, see p.137) and later for FRIPPELs- Ob > successor, (Michael. JELISAVCIG;0( NOSENKO took DANKO over. _ from Seventh Department..case officer I.A. KONSTANTINOV in. ~1955- 1957... ‘She: was” “used | to! report On{ZELISAVCIC) > . ; ee es Comment: DANKO was ‘an “Inturist guide in 1956, ‘1958 and Po 1959, "and she was working. for ‘the? American? | ws rr “. GEepréss- Company office’, in: 1960.67 FRIPPED|left ae “. Moscow in 19617 by: which. time NOSENKO ha i 7 Ova Bee transferred from the: ‘Seventh Department... cotta9 oe a “1s No. 197124 => Top Secret Copy —10 TBR
74-90000 Lo ‘Top Secret | . | (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT — June 1955-January 1960) Soviet Homosexual Agents we eat Agents The KGB operations which NOSENKO described commonly | involved sexual entrapment, . Many of the operations in which he claimed a personal role involved the use of homo- Sexual agents, KGB agents whose homosexuality was exploited against susceptible male targets. ‘while NOSENKO was never their official case officer, in Specific recruitment- entrapment operations he worked with "LUCH", “NIKOLAYEV", . "SIBEYAK", “KOSHIKIN" and "STROYEV" (Victor BELANOVSKIY, b used in the compromise of Richard BURGH, VASSALL, and the Canadian Ambassador WATKINS). He provided virtually no personality information on them and usually could not recall their true names, Two such homosexuals, -however, VOLKOV and YEFREMOV, NOSENKO claimed were his own agents. NOSENKO claimed to have re~recruited VOLKOV, a former agent (cryptonym “SHMELEV") and recruited YEFREMOV , (cryptonym “GRIGORIY") and. to have been their sole case officer from the beginning of their KGB careers in 1957- 1958 until they wére discharged in 1963 because they had become too well known. He said he met them frequently, and directed them in at least a dozen entrapment operations or other homosexual encounters, NOSENKO Claimed he took them with him when he transferred to the American Department in 1960 and back again in Carly 1962 to the Seventh Department. . OS  YEFREMOV and VoLKov Because he had been seen meeting a foreigner in a us bublic toilet in Moscow, NOSENKO Said, the KGB concluded: that A.I. VOLKOV might be a homosexual and hence of some Operational value. “To verify this Possibility in 1957, a homosexual agent of the Moscow Criminal Investigations _ Department provoked VOLKOV into a compromising situation. Then VOLKOV, who had previously been a xKcp agent but was at this time inactive, was Summoned by the KGB and, after NOSENKO interrogated him, he admitted his homosexuality and agreed to NOSENKO's Proposal to work for the KGB among 110 6001380 | | TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy ___ 68
| Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ June 1955-January 1960) homosexuals. VOLKOV helped NOSENKO the following year to recruit a homosexual acquaintance, Aleksey (patronymic not recalled) YEFREMOV. The two agents subsequently worked as a team against foreigners under NOSENKO's direction; in addition to specific targets, they had the general assign- ment of associating with foreign visitors in Moscow for the purpose of spotting possible homosexuals. MNOSENKO described on 12 June 1962 his use of these agents: “Although I am a chief of section there I have all sorts of agents. I have a good agent apparatus. I have beautiful girls, whom I can use as I like. I have homosexuals, in particu- lar, one special pair. I am afraid they are known to both you and the British... I permitted this pair to work [without specific assignments] on their own. I give them money and tell them to go look around, but only Americans. Look for American pederasts. They call me at night: "Yuriy Ivanovich. There is a mister so-and-so here.' I say: ‘Well, let him [do what he wants]. We'll talk about it tomorrow.' So the next day they go’ to a special hotel room. We | make photographs. Then we think about what he represents. Is he worth it? Then, as Chief, I recommend that he be recruited or not~-depending:\_ on his position, what he can give, what he can tell. If he can give something, I say: ‘Well, let's have a go [igrat].' After this, I speak to these boys: ‘Well, go with him again. Do whatever is wanted.‘ All this is observed by the KGB. The [hotel] administrator enters. ‘What are you doing?' The administrator calls the Militia. An akt is drawn up. ‘Well, you are a foreigner. “This is not our business. . We don't know what to do.with you.' Then the Chief arrives anda conversation ensues: ‘Listen, what shall we do? Pederasty is punishable by three to five years and now, on the basis of recent legislation, by up to eight. Understand, if your friends find out that you are a pederast-- and how can they help but find out'..." lil ; TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy 10 _
14-00000 Top Secret - | -(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ June 1955-January 1960) | 7 “hen NOSENKO moved from the Seventh Department to | the Second Chief Directorate's American Department in January 1960, he took VOLKOV and YEFREMOV with him. They were never used against targets in the American Embassy but, NOSENKO said, the Seventh Department “used to call ; me on homosexual prospects". VOLKOV and YEFREMOV continued fe as active KGB agents until some time in 1960 or 1961. -. 4 After they were employed once more lagainst [1-5 JOHNSON in OG Cea January 1962]. it was decided that they were oo well ~- nasil known", NOSENKO claimed that the agents were retired and i that he himself sent their files to KGB Archives in 1962 ' or 1963. eseaeet = Geniemmeert 0 ie allt NOSENKO's Soviet Agents: Summary NOSENKO claims to have been these agents' case officer | . | for two to five years, during which he met each regularly, os assigned them operational tasks, and received their reports. With the exception of YEFREMOV and VOLKOV, however, NOSENKO can cite few instances of their operational use, and he has | but superficial knowledge of their personal backgrounds. It is unlikely that this is merely the result of failing recollection. He knows no more about the three whom he claimed he took with him to the Embassy Section, where he continued to be their case officer for two more years, than ‘he does about the others. In the two instances where his | agents were involved in KGB operational activity, NOSENKO _, is unaware of SHULGINA's work with LEVINE and \DRIBERG, an was not involved when KUNGAROVA was targetted against and married CIA agent Philip NIELSEN. NOSENKO's familiarity | ith the nine agents he named appears to be that which would be acquired second-hand, not through personal contact as he claimed. With respect to YEFREMOV and VOLKOV, the evidence does not sustain NOSENKO's claim that he was their case officer . in every operation from their recruitment in 1957 until their retirement in 1962-1963. He is unfamiliar with either ‘agent's background. He cannot say where either of them lived or, indeed, how he got in touch with them when he required their services. With the exception of the[ WE. 06 JOHNSON |compromise in 1962 (see p.268), all of VOLKOV's and G001382 112 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy _ - re | IR
“Top Secret. (sHveNsH DEPART ENT = shine 1955-~ January 1960). YEFRIMOV' s. “known: “activities. with xespect’ to ‘Americans took: place: in ‘the :course of: ‘less than twelve’ months in 1959~ a .L960..° It-is.probable that . HOSENKO' s: claim that: he was" otheiy. sole case officer.during even. this relatively brief pe -period is’ also. false. In the period April- “Hovenber, 1959 at os apparently. unknown, to. MOSENKO; | ‘VOLKOV. and YEFREMOV were.. no involved’ with one Dutch and’ five American visitors ‘ ‘Gneluding ‘three’ CIA-agents) in the Soviet Union. Further, in other’ contexts HOSENKO has described their i volvement with : 7 ee on ‘p.419). ana EARN sin’ 1959, 06 -. ee - ~  Of..which. NOSENXO only learnec. when_he, retired VOLKOV' Ss and -YEFREMOV's file in 1962-1963. <|KARLOV|was a Swedish, not an. American, citizen. 1. oo a) an po Smaps erat aseion aad (2955-1958) Tourist Section Case ‘Officer, Recording 4 to HOSTIIKO, he was “among. ‘the first case » officers ~ Sto! arrive’ in the Seventh Department Tourist’ Section when it “was: being formed. . Ne took part with other officers in the) ‘acquisition Of an’ agent network from:within Inturist,-. “in. the” establishment. of. facilities. and. methods, and generally | “getting: ‘things’ going". After several months, he.: partici ‘pated. in what he. says was” his. first operation against. an “American tourist.’ . This was NOSENRO's béhind-the~scenes ° “(and .hence. unconfirmed anc unsuccessful attempt to compro- | _mise American Seadene [areia MALTA) Os rosra ‘O's next case ©... (the first operation: in which his participation is- confirmed) “00k place a year later, in June’ 1956, wnen he 2 assisted in. the homosexual entrapment and recruitment : of [Professor OG : “cig home BURG]). .. Sometime. ain 1957, he said, he was personally ~ ~ Obegernexena| an the attempted recruitment: of the [German bus iness~II GEIIRCKENS| and: in. the: sexual and peacima ket entrapment of - . bE SUNDAR) &[Norwegian|! journalist. [Roth [GBERCKENS? nd i [sumpaRl 06 admitted: to having been the object. of. KGB. recruitment = attempts, the former reluctantly in a ‘private interview, ‘and > the latter publicly; in the press. It nas. been possible. to © question neither in-detail. ] .NOSENKO's® ‘presence in the... '. third “operation". in 1957 is’ confirmed: he accompanied the > ee ic 6061383 - eS No. 197124 Top Secret’ = = — Copy a
14-00000 HY et GAS RES i | | ih Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - Jurie 1955-January 1960) oy bé British publisher Sir Allen LANE| and the latter's inter- 0G preter TRSE| on a tour of Soviet publishing houses. - nl, According to NOSENK , it was for the purpose of observing U [BrRsE} a suspected [British intelligence agent}. OW Attempted Entrapment of MALIA) (1955) 06 Martin maLta} a graduate student, spent about four months in the USSR in 1955 and was suspected by the KGB of having connections with American Intelligence. Toward the end of his stay, while under surveillance, [MALIA was observed in 6 contact with a Soviet citizen believéd to be a homosexual. The Soviet was detained by the KGB, and NOSENKO eventually obtained a confession that he had had homosexual relations with|MALIAl.  NOSENKO arranged for the Soviet to introduce ~ 6L'MaLTAYto @ KGB homosexual agent, and the latter enticed oj) [MALIA to a specially equipped hotel room in Moscow. NOSENKO, . was On the scene (but not directly in touch with MALIA) when(} the introductions were made in a Moscow restaurant, and from an observation point in a neighboring hotel room he watched 06 the KGB agent and| MALIA in homosexual practices. [MALIA] 0 insisted on the lights being turned off, however, and it was ‘impossible to obtain compromising photographs (the KGB did not yet have infrared photographic equipment) and therefore no recruitment approach was made to [MALIA.D¢ During this and a later trip to Moscow in 1961, [MALLE was "very cautious", ()( and the KGB never succeeded in é ploiting [MALIA'S| homo- 6 sexuality for a recruitment approach. NOSENKO's Information Ob . 7 | (maural, a U.S. Navy intelligence officer during World War II, visited the Soviet Union in 1955 and twice in 1962. While buying books for the Library of Congress and. several universities Ob in 1955,|MALIA\travellea over 10,000 miles throughout thé USSR, an event sufficiently unusual at the time to be publicized in the Soviet press. On 1955 and 1962 trips he had contacts with dissident Soviet citizens and he smuggled to the West literature for publishing Comment: 6004384 4a : - TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy ___— (FR
aoa : “(SIVERTY DEPARTMEET ~ June 1955~ “January 1960) A Se Comment: © ~ (continued) ne os 7 eee , = abroad. In- Deceriber 1963 [FASTA] was the object | “of. ‘an. attack in’ the. Soviet pvress- which charged » “that during 41962 he had. “spent his time in “ Mosocw looking. for’: dissension in the ranks of: al oe at drunken Gebauches" (MALIA was then .in periodic contact with. CIA; in t spring of 1963 he-c¢enied having had any, involvement.with blackmarketeers,\ shomo-- “pemuals,, or females. inside the Soviet Union. 2D [Sr with Sos not been interviewec in connec- tion wi HOSE! KO's allegations. - “Ob Recruitment of or( BURGE] (1956) 2 At ‘the first, meeting with CIA in Geneva in 1962,  HOSENT ave a brief account of the recruitment of {Richard “BURGT); a na ‘Yale professor}, The recruitment was effectéd on the basis © “SE a homosexual ‘provocation operation. which began in Moscow | ang culminated | with. an. approach. An’ ‘Kiev, in. June L956. oo his recruitment) | which occurred close in tine’ ‘to: ‘the death of | HOSEWKO' -§ fatiier, was by HNOSINKO's later accounts. a turning, point. in his personal’ and’ professional: aecomnts . - From: Lt, NOSENKO. said ie» acquired | a sense of self-confidence sand xesponsibility and: began to: “grow" from'a wastrel into. ens effective and successful KGB" officer. As a-result of -_ | “this: operation, the first ‘successful recruitment. 4in-the then - “short, nistory of. the’ Tourist Section, NOSENKO asserted he. . First came. into personal . contact. with General GRIBANOV. _ “According to- ‘all accounts ‘he gave prior to October 1966, “when. “he retracted the claim, NOSEL IKO received the first of. “Oboe ‘the BURGT}case-—a letter- of commendation. “Within a month - : aos an this Operation, HOSENKO, said, ne was promoted | from the : rank. of. lieutenant | ‘to. captain.’ oy - Po is 145 oa . _ “TS. No. 197124. 8 a _ Top Secret a : Copy 10. Petae5
14-00000 i ; ! i Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ June 1955-January 1960) NOSENKO's Information NOSENKO stated that at the time of BURGI"s arrival in | the USSR, his file contained a copy of his”"visa application (anketa), "maybe" an excerpt from a cable sent by the ‘ Soviet Embassy in the United States saying that a visa had. been granted, a routine note from Inturist giving BURGI!'s Ob anticipated date of arrival and his itinerary inside the Soviet Union, and the results of file checks of the KGB main:-Archives and of the First Chief Directorate Archives. ‘NOSENKO himself ran the file checks, which proved to be 6 negative; there was no information on record concerning BURGI, and since no other names were mentioned in the The KGB interest in Ob Material avallable wa Reaes no other checks were made. . Ob. BU Gi\ derived exclusively from the fact §%§ that he was ja professor of Slavic studieS] and therefore “of had contact With students who might eventually work for the U.S. State Department, American Intelligence, and for other target organizations. NOSENKO did not recall who first suggested an attempt to recruit him. © When [BURGI| arrived in the Soviet Union, he came in contact with a number of KGB agents, and their reports were placed in an informal file maintained by NOSENKO. NOSENKO could not recall how many such agents there may have been, their names, or what they might have reported concerning {BuRGIY (6(BURGI] had an Inturist interpreter but NOSENKO did not Know whether he was a KGB agent.) From some source, ame forgotten by NOSENKO, the KGB obtained indications that , n Cpppurei was a homosexual, and it was decided to try to obtain 66 grounds for recruitment by homosexual compromise. NOSENKO therefore approached Yu. A. LOPUKHOV, an officer of the British Department who handled the homosexual agent Viktor BELANOVSKIY, and- asked permission to use BELANOVSKIY in setting up the compromise. After permission had been . received to mount an operation on this basis, LOPUKHOV and NOSENKO met with BELANOVSKIY and instructed him to make [BURGI" s’ acquaintance in a hotel dining room. The compromise proceeded according to plan: BELANOVSKIY met [BURGI, the fact of common homosexuality was recognized, and [BURGI) was 6 invited to BELANOVSKIY's hotel room where homosexual acts took place and photographs were made. NOSENKO was in the adjoining room and directed the compromise, although he did not meet [BURGI] at this time. Oh 6001386 116 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy ____— 1484 Atearareettie Rests, etenatenest,
“Top Secret - (Severe DEpaRE -: ane 3958 Taney 1960) BO a os a As the. result of NOSENKO' s ‘special request, the: compromising - photographs were ‘ready ‘by the > ‘following day.. A report of the ‘ compromise” and a- ‘request. for. permission to attempt. recruitment “were: then . submitted to NOSENKO's superiors. The request .came . .. back™ with the approving signatures of O.M..GRIBANOV and A.S. . FEKLISOV,' the Chief of the American Department. of: the ‘First _ . / Chief ‘Directorate, which had’ expressed interest, in. Te ine Pauraz} 06 “in the United States §p BURGI!S\itinerary called for him to fly _ £rom° Moscow to Kiev a short~ hile after. this episode and, | . having. called- the. Kiev KGB with instructions, NOSENKO .and: KOZLOV ' flew thereto prepare the operation. {BURGI}arrived the next ()G, .. morning, and: was met at the airport. by (fnuy KHODAKOVSKIY, an officer .of the Sécond Directorate in Kiev. _who operated under . » Enturist poverss ws ne bie hs In “Becordance Yeh the operational plan, “the ‘local. KGB. : . officer tola{BURGT| enroute. to the city that. all the hotels in ‘Kiev. were full at “the moment because of various conferences, oe bute: that ‘Inturist’ chad arranged for him to stay for about a day | ina ‘private apartment in the center of. town; he would ‘be. “=> moved to. a hotel -as soon as possible... When the car arrived. at '--the | ‘apartment: building in. Kiev, NOSENKO,. KOZLOV,.V. See’ a PETRENKO,® a:local: KGB officer,. and: (fnu). -RASTYKAITE,- a. ‘woman | ~~ housekeeper, _ were waiting for. them..° NOSENKO could not - “pé _ remember - chow. ex whether he introduced: himself. tel BURGT, le The ~recruitment: conversation, he- ‘said, was handled by»: “KO LOV— _ NOSENKQ" ;° but _NOSENKO | had forgotten by. 1965 who Said. Whatr., ONT don' t remember what. I talked about and r don! te ‘remember -what KOZLOV: talked about... Many things: - . were’ discussed. “It started: with how he liked. his. of stay in the Soviet Union.....Then we slowly pro- © ceeded. to ‘say how unfortunate it was. that informa~.. tion. had beén ‘received about his ‘conduct: in Moscow. MS -We-told him that his. homosexual activities were wy vi. “known > - ‘that. this.was punishable under Soviet law: en - according. to article so~and~so of ‘the ‘¢riminal code y) -. ete.,.that- he was not a diplomat, had no diplomatic: > oo immunity ;: that: ‘he could be taken to court according © ': to the. Soviet:.law... .Well, he was scared; - confused, -.., “upset, and, felt uncomfortable. Then we slowly - _, Proceeded to say that everything could be. smoothed oe cOtt367 17 Cot pet han} rs eT “as. No. 197124 Top Secret = Copy 10
14-00000 Top Secret 7 : | (SLVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ June 1955-January 1960) out, and the basis was prepared for the man to say: : | ‘All right, I agree to help'... We showed him the ; 7 pictures. He was embarrassed of course-~he was : . naked; Then we prepared the basis: ‘You have a- | noble task. You teach; you have students; the students may become future specialists on Russia or may work as diplomats, etc., but many of these | students can be used by intelligence. They may be sent somewhere with special tasks. Maybe you will tell us who among the students is preparing for | government service, how they are distributed, etc.'... During the first conversation everything was made completely clear... He was not at all willing to = help or work for Soviet Intelligence. He was told | that he must understand that in this case ‘helping Soviet Intelligence' was a very broad term. I remember that I told him: ‘Understand, nobody is going to ask you that you help our friends. over 7 there, or me, if I should be there, or that you do anything bad or conduct any kind of subversive activities, that you organize explosions or murder.' | fter the Soviet Union, he was supposed to go to | (Feary) to visit the{Russicum] of the Vatican], and oY ?) ere KOZLOV grabbed the subject and began to ask _ a _ questions about this school. He told us a bit about Othe (Russicum! and we asked him to write about it and he wrote down some names of the professors who: ' teach Russian subjects..." hours; at its end BURGI| signed a short statement that he agreed “to assist the organs of Soviet Intelligence". oo (NOSENKO first said that it was he who took this statement 06 from [BURGI but later he could not remember whether it was_ he or KOZLOV.) BURGI| was then taken to a hotel. { According to NOSENKO, the discussion lasted about five o6. This was the first time NOSENKO met [BURGI). Following the recruitment, he moved into the same hotel, a floor above Ob[BuRGT, and for the remainder of| BURGI)'s stay in Kiev became (7 his constant companion and guide. An attempt was made “to smooth out all the dirty business that had been brought up during the recruitment talk". NOSENKO took [BURG] to an old DG 0J01388 = 18 TS No. 197124 | Top Secret | Copy
Top Secret | we (Severs DEPARTMENT ‘+. June © doss-ranary 1960) - cathedral in - Kiev;. with KOZLOV and PETRENKO they * visitea a. kolkhoz and the;writer SHEVCHENKO's grave in nearby Kaniv. ‘The subject. of -homosexuality was not raised. again. From. o Ob-Kiev,, [BURGIbleft the Soviet Union without returning to “| Moscow. “Before. the approach, NOSENKO. had visited the © - American Department of the First Chief. Directorate and “had “arranged with its chief, FEKLISOV, for a recontact. ayia ‘in New York City should | BURGI}be recruited. BURGI[ was Oe (Ob -instructed how.to use a-recognition signal for a. first me “meeting in ‘the. New (York. Public. Library~. : . About ‘five: days: after returning to_Moscow, NOSENKO ‘turned ‘over all his materials. on Zo etic, torte, to 06 the ‘First Chief Directorate. Somewhat later Sergey GUSKOV;, »: .Chief of the American-Canadian-British Tourist Section, . _ KOZLOY, and. NOSENKO. visited’ American Department. Chief FEKLISOV _ ein the. First Chief.Directorate and expressed an interest in _ oi. further developments. in the case. FEKLISOV told them that - Ob fRORGT >had been observed ‘to arrive for the first meeting but | . the RGB refrained from establishing contact... The first a 3 actual meeting in New York City took, place the second of third (6 time BURGT appeared, ‘and a.KGB officer of, the New York. Legal o »Residency © ‘continued to meet with him until the revolution in .Hungary in late [October] 1956,, when {BURGH refused to colla- 06 - ‘borate furthers NOSENKO later -heard from someone in the- - - ‘American Department ,. ‘First Chief Directorate that ‘the case . was closed. . For'their roles in this first recruitment of as -. the..Seventh’: Department, NOSENKO said he and -KOZLOV- received . letters of commendation and bonuses of one month's’ pay by -order of SEROV, Chairman of the KGB; PETRENKO was given a ‘letter of. commendation ‘and ‘half -a month's salary; - and. even RASTYRAITE the. ‘housekeeper, got a commendation.” Ses Pas “In 1964 ‘NOSENKO. ‘reported ‘for. the first time. ‘that his - ‘superior, A.S. KOZLOV, Deputy . Chief ofthe Seventh. bepart= ment, had also taken part in- ‘this. operation, but. that. he,.. 7 -” NOSENKO;_ was the responsible. case officer. > In August 1965, -. when asked who had recruited-(BURGI}: - TIOSENKO replied:.06 : *KOZLOV- and. NOSENKO." Asked Who Fecruited. him first, . . -NOSENKO said: __KOZLOV, naturally.: le was the Deputy Chief. Of the. Department. « The collection of. the materials fin. . preparation for ‘the. approach], (was: in the hands” of Case 7 Officer NOSENKO.: me ; ae -60tL 389 119 a So. 197124 Top Secret = = — c —10_ - _fOp sec opy - ae
14-00000 Comment: ob Ob GUC 399 Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ June 1955-January 1960) In a 22 November 1957 interview with the FBI,. Ob {BURGT) haa recounted how he was compromised and recruited by the KGBvwhile in the USSR in June 1956. His version substantially confirmed that.provided eight years later by NOSENKO. (BURGI) asserted (contrary to NOSENKO's account) that the KGB officers knew a good deal more about him than what might have been acquired 06 during|[BURGI|'s visit to the USSR, including details of |BURGI}!s close relatives, his work of fo with the(Russicum|in(Rome], his earlier travel to Brazil, his military service in Korea, and. his acquaintance with Alexander KERENSKY. _ 40n 25 May 1964 (BURGI] positively identified SENKO (from a photograph) as being the junior of the two KGB officers who recruited him. The other KGB officer (KOZLOV) was ‘the controlling figure and was in command". 6 The [BURGI]| case is the earliest confirmed instance of NOSENKO's participation in a KGB operation. .See fbr for comment on the (ib xelevance of the| BURGI])case to the period of NOSENKO's claime Department. OG _NOSENKO's claim that]BURGI"’s compromise and recruitment was based only on information ‘routinely acquired from [BURGI|'s visa applica-0bo service. in the Seventh tion and from apparently chafice meetings with KGB agents on his arrival in Moscow, is contradicted by (BURGI\s description of the (6 KGB's familiarity with his personal life. NOSENKO carinot sustain_his claim of having personally traced| BURGI) through First Chief 06 [Foreign Intelligénce] Directorate files (the probable repository of information on [BuRGT] 06 which the KGB recruiting officers used). NOSENKO, as described elsewhere, is unfamiliar with the mechanics of KGB tracing procedures. . According to[BURGI)'s statement and NOSENKO's own eventual admiSsion, NOSENKO lied when he 120 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy | PY 58
~ Top Secret “(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) 9° . Comment? (Continued) OS oe 06 Bo . ——, first claimed to’ have: seorustea[Bune7]wnaiaes. ~ NOSENKO has’ subsequently retracted all claims... _. xegarding the effect of this. case on his. Be .» Career: -. Contrary to his earlier assertions, scoc hé- now says. it. won him. neither. awards nor '.. promotion. Me see “Abtemptea & Recruitment of [(GeuRCKENS| 42957) oe _ NOSENKO' Ss. ‘Information oe ‘NOSENKO made® “an. ur “insuccessful recruitment: ” approach in® 1957 0G. ‘to; ‘Hamburg ‘Shipping executive Hans” ‘GEHRCKENS|, on the basis. OG of: SEHRCKENS) commercial ventures in the USSR... The responsi-.” ble “case officer originally | was A.I. VERENIKIN: Of. the Sixth Section. .of the: Seventh . Department;. this section was then’ | responsible’ ‘for operations against. foreign seamen... Since: VERENIKIN. spoke®no {German ni and-|GEHRCKENS) was known to’ speakU 06. English, -NOSENKO was sélécted. to make fhe approach because: eo : he. "knew English a little". When asked why a [German S. Pe speaking KGB case officer ‘was not used, NOSENK “answered: ° . oo "The higher-ups ‘said ‘go work on this case"; and: that was~ all." . After being rebuffed. by-{¢ SEHRCKENS|, NOSENKO saw Te cw several more: times during the 1957 visit_to- Moscow, but when. NOSENKO | ‘attempted to. renew contact: ‘upon; Seay ae j t. Union ain 1958," the latter refused fo see hime: ant Bee interviewed: Sy ‘CIA on 19) galy- 1965, and; while generally uncooperative, described: a "mild approach" in Moscow during -. “21956 -or 1957 which may be .the one described bys ".NOSENKO.° (He was not questioned on thes! .) identities of the Soviets involved.) <{G Soren 0b “’ continues to have extensive business contacts ~ - “.- with: Soviet” commercial ‘representatives in| Mest-|( -/(Germany}.and was recently reported to have | ose 121 re . TS No: 197124 Top Secret ple We. Copy ap
14-00000 _ Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ June 1955-January 1960) Comment: (Continued) OY . negotiated a sizable [shipping contract with the Soviet Union shortly after a“visit to the USSR. His principal contact at the Soviet Trade Mission in Cologne] has been a GRU officer. (0 ed eel smeititen Contact with LANE) and [BIRSE | (1957) NOSENKO's Information The British subject |Sir Alles LANE] travelled in the summer of 1957 to the Soviet Union to visit various publishing. houses and brought with him as an interpreter [Arthur BIRSE}. (6 The latter was of Russian extraction, having I[@éft Petrograd (Leningrad) before the Revolution, and he served in[ British 249 Intelligence] during the Second Norld War. The case was a , handled by another section of the Seventh Department, but . 0f because of (BIRSE|'s past, "some of our leaders decided that it would be good if one of our workers could approach him, would get in on the case under the cover of the Ministry of Culture, who would take care of this person, who would help _ him meet with all sorts of people representing our publishing companies. The choice fell to me. I was chosen for this job." Taking along the KGB agent Larissa SOBOROVA as an interpreter and using the alias "NIKOLAYEV", NOSENKO OL (accompanied BIRSE! and[ LANE in Moscow and Leningrad during - . their stay there. The only. object was to watch BIRSE] () because he was suspected of having an intelligence mission, and no approach was made or contemplated. NOSENKO explained .. that the use of the NIKOLAYEV alias with[BIRSE] and(ZANE |made(Q 6 it necessary for him to use the same namé when travelling - to Great. Britain in 1957 and in 1958. oo, : 4 4 i Comment: |LANE'was interviewed subsequent to NOSENKO's - eféction, and. he was able to identify NOSENKO's photograph as that of a "Russian official he usages . met in Moscow _who was introduced to him as oe "NIKOLAYEV". | LANE) said that he could remember 6 6001392 122 . TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy _____ 15/68
. Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) “Comment: (Continued) a , - va oe nothing in particular about NIKOLAYEV except Cs. ‘that -he- ‘appeared a "friendly, helpful man who ~ had opened up considerably. towards the end of. “my visit to.Moscow in July 1957". — ae ‘NOSENKO seems unaware of the probable basis. for KGB interest in| BIRSH- 246 Born of [Scottish2O¥ “parents}-in pre-revolutionary [Petrograd;_F BIRSE], OD; 06 “Served with the{British Military. Mission in Moscow during World War II and was interpreter - ob for \Churchiil) »during the jatter' S:-meeting ~*~ 06. with: (Stalin} He was the lofficial interpreter0 6 -  +£for the Royal “Conmission}investigating the”. “yevetations: “Of KGB. officers Vladimir: PETROV: - | “and his. wife, who defected in 1954 in Australia. “= "NOSENKO apparently does ‘not know that(BIRSE} Of, ~, neturned on similar trips to Moscow in 1958 ‘and 1959 (while NOSENKO was still in’the ..~ oy “Tourist Section) and. that ‘Ln the ‘latter year” a —_ two KGB officers attempted | to’ recruit himy: 2. Reo itme t: of Et SONDARI\( 1957 : crui n gars Seen hass7y _ NOSENKO's Information. voy od aa “tn: 1957. or! asse-afiorwegtan- ~journa Oe cenay SUNDA). “visited the Soviet Union a and an attempt was made to recruit Lege him. A . Second Chief: Directorate officer, N.A: ARKHIPOV,: - 6. made [SUNDAR}'s_ acquaintance: and handled the entire. ‘operation --\ againSt him,. but NOSENKO h himself played | a réle. NOSENKO. presented himself. to: »[SUNDAR) Musing the name’ "SMIRNOV". or. : "SERGEYEV": and posing as a? painter, and told [SUNDAR}-that ne O06” -,. could: find -women.for-him. A: party. was arranged wi a KGB . _ Dbagent, as: /SUNDAR} s>date and-a Second Chief Directorate secre- ‘ - tary. as NOSENKO's. ‘Late_in the evening NOSENKO. and: his date |. - excused ‘themselves, - and {SUNDA had sexual relations with the 06 - female: agent. Photogra is of the. scene were taken by the KGB. ... When -NOSENKO - and SUNDAR Saw. one another the next day, 06: Ob {SuNbABJannounced that he had“some articles, cameras and. the”. like, Jann he wanted to: sell: on: the blackmarket .. . NOSENKO 123 £306 TS. No. 197124 cee Copy ——— “Top Secret
14-00000 Tep Secret | (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) offered to arrange the sale and took [SUNDAR] to a dingy section of Moscow. As they arrived before a small house, OENOSENKO asked|SUNDAR to give him the things to be sold. At this moment a KGB officer posing as a militiaman approached and arrested the two for blackmarketeering. At the Militia O6 station, | SUNDAR' was recruited by K.N. DUBAS, then Chief of the Seventh Department, under threat of imprisonment. There -was-no further contact with SUNDAR/ after he left the USSR, GG however, because on his return to [Os1o) he published an article in which he described his @éxpériences, “but not all of them". 06 0% , 10 Comment: (Egil SUNDAR, a journalist for Aftenposten in Oslo} travelled to the USSR in December 1957 as member of a press delegation in connection with the opening of a new|SAS'air route to'?% Noscow po (SUNDAR] wrote an article on his return in which. he described his arrest for blackmarket activities and his subsequent recruitment; he _also reported this to Norwegian authorities. - Ol According to] SUNDAR) he was introduced to . Moscow blackmarketeers by an artist, whose name he did not know, and_was apprehended oo - immediately afterwards. [SUNDAR!has not. been OS interviewed on the basis of NOSENKO' s infor- mation. Travel to London (1957-1958) NOSENKO reported that his first official travel outside the Soviet Union was in 1957 when he was selected to . accompany a group of athletes who had been invited to visit London. As he explained, it was a KGB order that a security officer accompany any such delegation. [NOSENKO elsewhere cited this KGB practice, but later denied any such order was issued]. The Eleventh Department of the Second Chief Direct- orate (responsible for designating Second Chief Directorate — GVCL3E 124 TS No. 197124 Top Secret ek CoPY ——
Top Secret (SEVEN ouPARIMEN = gune Asse senudy 1960), “officers: for. this. purpose) . ‘teléphonea® K.N. DUBAS, Chie£. of _. the ‘Seventh Department, to: request .an officer who spoke . “: English. ‘DUBAS. asked NOSENKO whether’ he wanted to make the - \ trip. .. NOSENKO replied: "Why not?” I have never been | “abroad: yet.": NOSENKO consequently . travelled to: London, . - using the alias. Yuriy. Ivanovich NIKOLAYEV and posing“as. “"the deputy chief" of the delegation. “He “was ‘specifically _ instructed to observe one member of the delegation, ‘a woman — . named MYARIMYAYE, “whose father had been killed in a Soviet | prison and whose political reliability. was ‘uncertain. oh “© Additionally; he had: the- general task of watching all Members of the delegation for possibly suspicious contacts. ewith foreigners. The delegation consisted of - approximately 60 persons. and to help him in carrying out. these duties,. a a - NOSENKO was assigned three or four agents and: several - operational contacts’ among the delegation members. He was _ the. only” KGB. Security. officer which, “accompanied . the group. _— Phe Second trip. ‘to ‘Londen: ‘took place. a. year ‘later, in the. fall of.- 1958, again’ as a’ ‘security escort. This time he accompanied ‘ a delegation of eleven or twelve boxers, and _ "again he-used the alias: NIKOLAYEV. and the cover position of: . .- deputy chief of the delegation. | NOSENKO. said. he was the. only security. officer with the delegation, and he-had two agents and two’. operational : contacts, among the ‘boxers. His | “assignment was: general; no one in particular was kept under | - observation, and the KGB -had ‘no derogatory. information “eoncerning any ember. Of. the delegation... “NOSENKO. used. the NIKOLAYEV: alias for travel to > London ye NOSED it.was the alias used earlier with the’ British subjects [BIRSE) and JEANE)S NOSENKO. | explained this | situation | + as: Follows? "OG. : 0b» ; no “With B Bra¥8) ana fe (LANE) I used. the name NIKOLAYEV, “) yuriy: ‘Ivanovich, a-rep Of. Culture.” And then when the question was. raised of sending me in 1957 with the delegation to. England, T'was forced’ to go there as NIKOLAYEV. “Because [of. this] I. went as the assistant head of - the delegation, again representing . -the Ministry of ~ Culture... I didn't go under my own name because it was decided’ that | ‘when ! ‘these, people (BIRSE}and| LANE) o boltse 305 oy Oo Top Secret - aE: : ad 10° a SR - TS ‘No. 197124
14-00000 Top Secret | (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 195 2 -~January 1960) went back to England, they would tell who they were with [report their contacts in the USSR]. They . would probably question [BIRSE\especially, as one 06 who used to work in intelligence... [BIRSE|would 0G say: ‘There was this man from the Ministry of Ciilture, NIKOLAYEV. He was with us all the time, even went to Lehingrad with us.' So they would say: ‘How does he look [what does he look like]?! He would say: 'He looked so-and-so.' I'd go there, and they would look at me and say: - 'How come this man-~his name is NOSENKO, and yet he is very Similar to the one described by[BIRSE}. ' That was O6 why it was decided I have to go again under the name NIKOLAYEV. Just a matter of conspiracy. Since I already became known as NIKOLAYEV to the Britishers, this would be noticeable." Comment: That NOSENKO (as_NIKOLAYEV) took the trips is corroborated by |British records) according to || which, a Yuriy IVanovich NIKOL YEV, born 30 October 1927, arrived at London from Brussels on 20 August 1957. His visa application described him as a member of a group invited by the Light Athletics Association to partici- pate in contests in London. He left on 27 ; August 1957. With the same name and date of birth, NIKOLAYEV arrived again at London on 12 October 1958 with seventeen others, all described as boxers. His visa application described him as an "office worker", but on his landing card, NIKOLAYEV was listed as a boxer. He left London on 19 October 1958. On neither visit did NIKOLAYEV attract the attention of any/British security service} (49 While these trips are corroborated, they _ are not material to NOSENKO's claims to have served in the KGB positions he alleges he held at the time. 6001396 | 126 | TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy —___ ss
Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) oy ee  “Opérational’ “‘Retivities: (1958- 1960). o a Deputy. Chie of the Aner ican"Sritish "Commonwealth ‘Section ve ie “According to ‘NOSENKO,. ‘the. Seventh’ Department was ‘reorgan- “ized in June 1958, and NOSEWKO! s° section, which -theretofore - had’ been ‘concerned with operations against foreign. tourists: » £rom all countries,. was split. into two new sections, one. _* concerned with tourists from the United States and the . - British ‘Commonwealth. and the other with tourists from Europe, | Latin America, and all other countries. - NOSENKO claimed : that at that time he was promoted.to the position of Deputy .. Chief. of the Américan~British Commonwealth Section, : “the - "most. important. ‘section of ‘the Seventh Department". ay September ‘1958, . he claimed to have personally: recruited 06 [Giselia TAR HARRIS). It was also-in 1958, he said, that he ‘sSuper- vised the sexual. entrapment of{Virgil | KRAFT yO 1though Seventh _ Department Chief DUBAS. made. the actual approach. Beginning : ‘in the spring . of 1959 he said he directed his agents YEFREMOV: * wit and VOLKOV in a series of successful entrapments<z DREW, LUKIS> Yoh COWTLBY yo TAYLOR); and [MERTENS]. § NOSENKO stated: that. he also Bae used. ‘these hdémosexual - ‘agents in 1959 in compromising two: “famericanvguides” at the Sokolniki- Exhibit; BARRETT and_WILLER- “EORD), Finally, NOSENKO said, he. recruited the Moscow: aa _representative of ‘the’ aAmerican-Express- _Company, -FRIPPEL) 29 0 -NOSENKO. claimed that his ~¢ Opérational Success during 1959 — ‘earned hima commendation ‘from the KGB Chairman... [He has =). --. _ since retracted all. claims ‘to any awards earned during | his . “ RGB, :service.]../It was because of his position as Deputy | “ Chief: of the. American-British Commonwealth Section, NOSENKO 2 osaddy, ‘that he first) became, involved: with Lee Harvey OBMALD eo | “MOSENKO™ ‘abserted: ‘that’ ‘the. recruitment ‘of agents among . ra féreign tourists was secondary to his department ' s principal 2° mission, the. detection ‘of. Western intelligence officers and - agents among the increasing flow of tourists visiting. the .- Soviet Union.” In line with that. counterintelligence mission, .7 on General GRIBANOV' s order in the fall of 1959, _NOSENKO oitkas7 | Top Secret _ | ae «Copy - 10 Gi
14-00000 Top Secret | (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ Juhe 1955-January 1960) reviewed what the KGB knew through 1958 about the use of tourists and tourist cover by Western intelligence services. It was from this task that NOSENKO claimed he learned of all the important arrests and recruitments among American tourists as recorded by the KGB at the time. Recruitment of [HARRIS ] (1958) NOSENKO's Information ,_ OG NOSENKO in 1958 recruited /Gisella HARRIS), an employee of the) American Express Company in Salt Lake City). The recruit- ment was based on her romantic and sexual involvement with | a Soviet citizen, who told [HARRIS] that he was in trouble 04 with Soviet authorities and persuaded her to accompany him. to the police. (HARRIS! agreed to meet and cooperate with OG. the KGB in{Salt Lake City. The case was turned over to the/() First Chief Directorate, and NOSENKO was unaware of any ~- further contact with her. ; nf, Of i . Comment: [ HARRIS, a’ former German citizenl, visited the USSR on a tourist visa in 1958, According to Statements made to the FBI in 1958, the purpose. of her visit was to contact her former lover, . ', -& Soviet soldier who had fathered her child in {| Germany] in 1953. She hoped to persuade him: to ivorcé his Soviet wife and marry her. She described her recruitment by two men, one of whom resembled NOSENKO. When shown a photo- graph in 1964, she tentatively identified . NOSENKO as one of the men who recruited her - and said that, of the two involved, he "was definitely the man in charge" while the other 6 “was merely present and listened", According =O to [HARRIS], she has had no further contact with Soviet intelligence, oe 6004; 46 ‘1398 128 i TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy
14-00000 x “(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ June 1955-January 1960) 7 - Sommronise | ors) ue © a og. mo “NOSENKO! s: ‘Information ee (Rae KRAFT; a a. ~elérgyman: ~froit the: “Chicago” ated} with his ' wife visited ‘the- Soviet Union as a tourist’ in 1957 or 1958, ; and) NOSENKO was assi ned as. the responsible: case officer. _ 2 The KGB ‘learned(KRAFT {had been intimate with a Soviet woman “.during-an earlier ‘trip’to‘the USSR, -and ‘"NOSENKO. arranged: for ~ her. to. come’ to’ Moscow from” Leningrad ,. where she was then -— - living; in ‘order. to compromise: KRAFT OO(RRAFT) and the. Soviet Ol, ee woman. were” intimate ° ‘in the latter's room in the Grand Hotel. Photographs were. taken, and then militiamen broke into the ©. “Obroom, ‘finding]KRAFT and the woman. -unclothed. NOSENKO was in’ me nearby room,. supervising the operation. The! recruitment: ~~.) approach was. then made by DUBAS, the Chief of the Seventh , Department. (NOSENKO had been the case officer and had_ . handled the operation, but he took no part in the confronta~ “tion or. recruitment approach "because ‘DUBAS wanted it for “himsel£".) Although: the ‘recruitment was not firm ;{KRAFT) 06°. . and -DUBAS "had an agreement" that ‘nothing would be done ~ “about! ‘the compromise - if{KRAFT}did: not criticize ‘the ne 0S “Union. in lectures about his. trip which -he was to give ino. the United: States.» ‘DUBAS | again contacted /KRAFT) when . he cane }6 to Moscow: in 1963,°‘and afterwards his £ilé& was turned over “to the: First. Chief Directorate.:: NOSENKO : recalled that. the - Fe First: ‘Chief Directorate . "said that{KRAFT}was not in a good () Ob “region: of the United States.” ‘And ‘also TS0 it. smelled: like he. : -had. spoken of the “approach made to him". Therefore, NOSENKO - concluded, he: “probably. ‘had | not, been, contacted in. the. (United. ‘States: - ; - Ce: Comment a a 0 focar wrote a: pamphlet in which he described “ <,. €hé “KGB ‘approach, omitting reference to his . sexual compromise. -In a statement given to. - “, the: FBI. on 4. November 1964 {SRBET, who is an D6 “ GOCL3g9 - 129 ae —— no ~ TS No. 197124 ‘Top. Secret “et ee) i Copy 10.
14-0000 _ (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-Sancaty 1960) | | > Comment: (Continued) OF 10. : — 5  ). sfAsSoOciate Pastor of “Ehe- Beopies_Chureh— “ins |, 7 -  SChicago} “stated: that he had visited the Soviet. Coe | °- Uaien in 1956, 1958, and 1963. He confirmed. - NOSENKO's information in detail except that he. denied having been intimate with the Soviet. : woman involved. He related that the "Chief..." who interviewed him had “several photographs _ le - which portrayed him and the female in intimate =». op _ os.) compromising positions and. which appeared to: > oy ss have been.taken in her hotel. room". (KRAFT. saiat — me -.. that™he had told the "Chief" that they could do-.- him no possible harm ‘as ."no one would believe oe that they. were valid photographs". [RRAPT} denied O06 - _ agreeing. | to collaborate. with the: KGB: at any ne time. “ eae v a bk ~ Reerititment seGaiEana, ‘ob a ee Dra ‘an’ “Amexican’ who visited the soviet: ‘Union | in: the spring of 1959, was the responsibility of case officer’ OV. V.. IVANOV... By® chance, however /{DREW|]became. involved wten Ob ~ NOSENKO' s. homosexual agents VOLKOV and YEFREMOV and they . "Reported this to NOSENKO, then the Deputy Chief of the _ NOSENKO" s: “information i “section. “NOSENKO. and .IVANOV. discussed the case with Spas”. : ae i ‘and possibly: GUSKOV, the Section Chief, and WOSENKO flew — Stone to Leningrad to.make the approach. | (IVANOV was: not “Ll. judged qualified. ) =: NOSENKO. arranged . “£0x,[DRE"]) to be Qe: compromised in a Leningrad hotel room with a homosexual ~agent of the: local KGB: handled. by’ a Leningrad officer’... PERELETOV. Using the alias. "Mr. SERGEYEV", NOSENKO alone °° <b recruited{DREW] in an office of the. hotel.. The KGB First oe . Chief Directorate was interested. other Tone recruitment | : . because he might .be able to spot other homosexuals, possibly | . some in. the Ue 8. Government « . ; - OU0L4C0 oo oo TS No. 197124 Top Secret 7 a Copy ———
1 4-90000 “hotel in Moscow in July 1959 -\ mised: by.either ‘VOLKOV or YEFREMOV, NOSENKO's homosexual Top Secret — 7 ' res (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ June 1955-January 1960) connent: [Hitil]reportea the approach in 1959, describing . a four-hour interrogation by “SERGEYEV' - oo» Leningrad” and generally confirming NOSENKO" s *. account. of the operation. - Re-interviewed by *-.the FBI on 12° May. 1964, (DRE |identified dP core Ob . photograph as that.of his interrogator and os os () -gaid that, although NOSENKO was a young man, ’ oi £xom the way everyone reacted: to him it’ was “lo. ..° ¢lear that he was_the man in charge. Another man, was: ‘Present, (BREN) said. JOIN Pgs “ob | ; Recruitment oe(ee.assn, ee - -NOSENKO! S| Information an In’ ‘June or » possibly July _ 1959 NOSENKO personally: recruited a: ‘British subject, ((Enu) LUKIS (or ‘LUCAS)]y - in a room of ‘the 06 Hotel’ Astoria in Leningra after(LUKIS had been compromised O¢ “py. NOSENKO's homosexual agents, VOLKOV and .YEFREMOV.. The case was then ‘turned over to Ye. A.- TARABRIN, at that time Chief of the British: Department of the First Chief Directorate. - , NOSENKO furnished - no more information on this case and: ‘did’ yee not.’ ‘know its current status, but he’ believed the. ‘KGB has» pnot been’ in contact / “t “with {LUKIS] subsequently. ~~ Gonment:’ [EUKIS|has’ not yet-t been: identified by ‘the. | Recrastnent [TE TEBY} 41.959) _NOSENKO' Ss ‘Information. By himselt NOSENKO recruited[iliTHian stanley WiLBypin a ex[WILBY|had been. eEnpro agents. (WILBY|is a British: citizen and his case was also. Ob | (Like((LUKIS|p see above) turned over to TARABRIN . hyg Ob o : ne 7 _ we Ce ae a - GOCL4C1 a ; et 131. oe 7 -_ Be . PTS No. 197124 Top Secret. Copy 10 | re ae ne “
14-00000, Sere | - Yop Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ June 1955-January 1960) ~ by Comment: fixtny] reported the approach to(British authori- . ties}in 1959, saying that he was "brought up before SERGEYEV" (an operational alias some- times used by NOSENKO). He has not been -re-interviewed since NOSENKO's information was . Yeceived. Recruitment of |PAYLOR| (1959) NOSENKO's Information | NOSENKO personally and alone recruited the Moscow representative of [British European Airways}, whose name ‘-NOSENKO did not recall, at the Hotel Metrdépol in Moscow during the summer of 1959, possibly in August. The approach was based on homosexual compromise involving NOSENKO's agents VOLKOV and YEFREMOV. _NOSENKO explained that the Seventh Department in 1959 had a section dealing with commercial representatives, which was responsible for the[ BEA|man. That section had asked ' NOSENKO's section for help.*>4 "They said they didn't have any agents or any~ thing and didn't know what to do. So somebody said, ‘Well look, why don't you ask the chief of the section? He's a specialist on homosexuals and can arrange everything for you.' So I wound up handling the case, and TARABRIN (of the First Chief Direct- orate) said I should teport to him." {In this passage NOSENKO was referring to himself, although he has always claimed he was Deputy chief of the section.] ee coer 5IGK 132 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy ____— — 6004462
Top Secret _ uO i “(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT. ~ June 1955-January 1960) | 8 comment : Serna fe ma xual, is d ee escribed “by as ane potic? 4. Ce gk “type who had ischarged trom the |R.A.F.] 07 _ “on. grounds ‘of mental instability. _In i962, (before: the. -NOSENKO lead was received) TAYLOR =. admitted his* recruitment. to{[British” —authori=|/. ties S|> indicating that it took place in August. 1959 on the basis of his homosexuality. He reported in 1962 that the recruitment had - been effected by a "Colonel SERGEYEV", and. when re-interviewed in “1964, he "anhesitantly- - identified NOSENKO as "Colonel SERGEYEV'.,.". - So, adding: that.the mere sight. of NOSENKO's photo- - -/: graph "sent shivers down his back". TAYLOR. co pu also:. identified a Photograph of. VOLKOV.’ _ - Regruitment. of [ennai wa9ssy ne NOSENKO '"'s Information gee ease the Soviet. Union. in , July’ or August 1959. -»NOSENKO's homosexual agents- VOLKOV and este -YEFREMOV, seeking ‘out: American, homosexuals, accidentally | b.met (MERTENS) in, Moscow and reported their suspicions. to. _- NOSENKO...: NOSENKO wrote a. report of this. contact ‘and. requested. authority. to take compromising. photographs ‘in: ‘preparation for a recruitment ‘approach, .and DUBAS, his ©. so Ghief, “then assigned the case to him. ‘4MERTENS) had is ob. , the. responsibility of -A.A. VETLITSKIY,,: ‘another case. officer. ) ‘Dk Photographs were taken of homosexual’ relations. between: VOLKOV and [MERTENS|:on- two separate. ‘occasions in Moscow... Ob When [MERTENS} Later travelled to.Uzhgorod he was “arrested”: ~ by’ ‘KGB officers (posing as” militiamen) while he was: engaged. - in relations with a. KGB homosexual agent, ‘from Odessa, whom ;: ~ NOSENKO had arranged by phone to bring to Uzhgorod. - {He ° | “: did not recall ‘his name ,. and could only supply CIA with a. “», Physical’ description.] {MERTENS|was then brought before 06 -. NOSENKO,. who recruited iim during a session lasting a approximately five hours. NOSENKO later travelled with ;  60644¢3 | 133. oo TS NO. 197124 | . | WR
14-00000 i 1 sehen "Ob CbaRRET and YEFREMOV whom he met at the [fairground]. AlthoughOy B Fep Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) Ob MERTENS | when he visited Lvov and Minsk before leaving the USSR. _NOSENKO said that he had used the name "George" with ob (MERTENS|, but he could not recall what last name he had given him. When he rélated the case in 1962, NOSENKO could not recall the nor ARTIS name. In 1964 he stated the name was [NARFIN) ox Comment : MARTINS| Ob. In a signed statement given to the FBI on 5 August 1964, MERTENS|, an American professor, (% generally confirmed NOSENKO's account. He names his recruiter as one "George PETERSON" and stated that NOSENKO's photograph might be that of a person whom he had met while visiting the Soviet Union in 1959. [MERTENS] C6 reported one KGB attempt to recontact him after he returned to the United States. In September 1959, according to arrangements made at the time of his recruitment, he received a letter signed "George PETERSON" telling him to be at a rendezvous point in New York. By the time he received the letter, however, the date of the meeting had already passed and so he ignored it. [MERTEN claimed (6 that there were no further attempts by the ' Soviets to contact him. a are Ub a Compromise of |BARRETT] (1959). Af -NOSENKO's “Information 7 Us — . Ob . ~ Robert BARRETT, a guide at the/U.S. Exhibition in Moscow | in 1959, had becdme friendly with the homosexual agents ARRETT) was not an active homosexual, VOLKOV succeeded after a long period of development in involving him in homosexual acts, which were photographed by KGB personnel from an adjoining hotel room. As case officer for VOLKOV and YEFREMOV, G00L404 134 \2/5K TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy ___
Top Secret. __ eens DEPARTMENT ~ June 1959 Senvary 1960)” NOSENKO_ was. ‘responsible for: arranging the compromise, was ” present when the photographs were. taken, and he has described | the occasion: in detail... (Theré was much complaining among. the photographic technicians because of the. amount of time they spent.waiting for VOLKOV to succeed in his’ mission, and ‘NOSENKO -recalled that. he’ ‘provided them with drinks and. “treated them well because they were a big help to him in. this) operation.) .. The photographs were good, but’ the KGB. was unable to.use them in 1959 because of a general -ban placed by: the: Central Committee on ‘the recruitment ofS | OBR sguisesjane to ‘Eisenhower ' Ss. planned visit to the . Soviet Unione coos a 0b a “NOSENKO ‘reported that fB annie \was 2 recruited on ‘the basis - of the 1959. photography When he ‘returned with another . _. @xhibition in°1961. © The: ‘recruitment was: carried out ‘by 2: the First. (American)’ ‘Department of ‘the KGB- Second. Chief. Directorate, and NOSENKO" ‘was not ‘involved. Immediately on. his return’ to. the United States. “an January 1962, (BARRETT ‘confessed to the FBI. ob that he-had been recruited in 1961.‘on the ep ate > OF photographs. depicting: him in a homosexual - act with VOLKOV, which had been taken during . his. 1959 trip- to. Moscow. He. Claimed. that’ the’ photographs ‘had been taken while he was ‘unconscious, after being cruaged., (GREK vas OG ~ contacted. once. by the KGB. in New York City: wt following his - admissions to the FBI. He was. "contacted by KGB officers, including SKVORTSOV ‘i > Of the. First Chief Directorate, during later~ ~ “trips to the Seviet Union. in 1963, - ‘1964, and . (1965. and arrangements were made for. meetings “in the United States. : No Soviets appeared ; at =, Such scheduled meetings. . | as | 1S ‘No. 197124 - Top Secret - si Copy 10
14-00000 me (Kroommate during the Tep Secret . (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ June 1955-January 1960) Compromise of WELLERFORD | (1959) NOSENKO's Information : Ob I), 06 [Frederick WILLERF Rb, an American Negro} was BARRETT} s (1959 exhibition] in MoScow. Tnitiai. y he was a target of the Moscow City KGB Directorate which believed WILLERFORD] to be an FBI agent and had been collecting . information on him. Unaware of the interest of the other _KGB element, VOLKOV and YEFREMOV had made (WILLERFORI}!'s O6 acquaintance, and NOSENKO had arranged for compromising photographs to be taken of [WILLERFORD land YEPREMOV in a Moscow 06 hotel room. NOSENKO watched |WILLERFORD] and YEFREMOV through ()/ a two-way mirror and was able to describe the scene in detail. It was Only after these compromising photographs had been obtained that NOSENKO learned of the Moscow City KGB Directorate's interest in QVILLERFORD).Jé NOSENKO'! s own department and the Moscow City Directorate then made a joint request for operational approval to recruit (WILLERFORD] but 06 permission was refused because of the ban on recruitment attempts at the time. The case file was retained by the Moscow KGB organization, and NOSENKO did not know whether (WILLERFORD] was approached subsequently. bG Comment :. IWILLERFORD) was interviewed by the FBI in July 1964 and “advised emphatically that-he had feel that he ever could be compromised by anyone except through the use of drugs, since he felt that he was 'too smart’ and most Soviets that he has ever met are aware of his 66 pro-American sentiments", BARRETT |has reported So that |WILLERFORD| had visited VOLKOV in his hotel room and was friendly with him{>[BARRETT|said that he had often wondered if WILLERFORD was af) homosexual because of his manner and bearing. | 136 60014¢6 TS No. 197124 Top Secret |G/SK Copy
ent hated “Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ June 1955+danuary 1960) .. "Recruitment of (ERP 959-2: 1963), oe As: ‘a “jember’ ‘of the American-British Commonwealth Section, . NOSENKO in 195% personally participated: in the recruitment . (of. .the-\|American Express” ‘Company)}\representative in. Moscow, _ i,{arsene. FRIPPEL. .. He Gontinued to be: one of this agent's two _ KGB. handlers, even after transferring to the American . |: Department: in: 1960 OG\PRIPPEL) left Moscow in 1961 but ©. ; - returned. on: trips: to. the USSR in 1962 and 1963,. when. NOSENKO. met him..’ The only. recruited American whom NOSENKO ever -Claimed.to. handle, [FRIPPEL confessed to his recruitment 06. -:: when questioned’ by the FBY on the basis. of. the NOSENKO lead. © OGAlthough the [FRIPPEL} case. only started during NOSENKO's . first assignment | to.the Seventh Department (1955- 1960), it: ES. described in’ its. entirety through 1963, for’ the conven~ ¢ dence. c of the: reader. O00 oe - ‘NOSENKO' s 5 tntommation «| at his. ‘second: meeting with | CIA in Geneva on 1. June’ 1962,. . NOSENKO described. -the circumstances: in -which an: unnamed . foreigner was. compromised. by. a. KGB ‘female: agent, ‘Klara. Konstantinovna: ‘GORBACHEVA. “He described the. scene in detail including the. attempt™ by: a KGB technician to take. motion | My - pictures through-a- two-way mirror,..and the confrontation of the foreigner by: ‘the militiamen, who.:-broke into the’ LOOM... NOSENKO identified ‘that foreigner. as [FRIPPET. by. name the (6G following. day: while: discussing: KGB _Successe “in. ‘Moscow: » ee -. “there” ‘was: “another. ‘agent, [KGB ‘eryptonyml | ‘artur! . “He: was not: a correspondent.: - He. knew.me as George,:. oy Yuriy. Ivanovich, and my. last’ name as NIKOLAYEV... He - Was ‘a perm ent_ t_ representative, not in the Embassy, . but of thelAmerican- Express. Company) in’ Moscow. 2 can et ee FRIPPEL|” He liked drinking, always. _ °° drank He was also stréngly | attracted to women. -I - previded. him. with beautiful women...- Well, we- - decided to havea -talk with. him.: Why? What could ‘he give? . He now works “in. the: “American Express % a _Combany main” office in New York. City]. A new cota? 137 - re - TS No. 197124 Top Secret | Copy 10 a a | AR
14-00000 Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) department has now been organized for the Soviet Union and the Peoples' Democracies. And he is chief of the department... He is no longer in Moscow, but he was here two and a half or three years. We hope that he will return. We are waiting for him to come back. We know that the company wants to send him again, because he knows the Russian language very well. He is, in fact, an emigre, this _- GFRIPPED). And he also did a good and intelligent job of establishing relations with Inturist. He had very good relationships with ANKUDINOV, the Chairman of Inturist, and with other people, both the chiefs and _the low-level workers... But, why was [FRIPPEL O6 ‘recruited? I was interested in knowing’ precisély by whom, by name, and how approaches were being made to our delegations [in the United States]. I was interested in him from the point of view of counter- intelligence, not intelligence. What kinds of , approaches are taking place to our people in America and by whom? This is what interested me. But he didn't know anything. He provided only superficial information, nothing more." . a.) BS NOSENKO was then asked whether |FRIPPEL would not have been ~ useful for coverage of Americans visi€ing the Soviet Union. He replied no, that the KGB had already had great success in this by other means. SO - In Geneva: in i964 and during subsequent debriefings. and interrogations, NOSENKO’ made additional statements concerning _the [FRIPPEL\ case. - ) ; oe . . NOSENKO attributed his involvement in the/ FRIPPEL| ' recruitment as follows: . . "In 1958, after 1958, when I became the Deputy “Chief of the section, my area of activity was narrowed down. I didn't handle all the tourists at that time. I worked as the Deputy Chief of the section and I had. my own little area--for example, ; the permanent representative of the| American Express ° 4 Company} and besides that 1 began to collect all the material on all American tourist firms which have anything to do with Inturist and which send tourists to the USSR." 138 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy 6/8 6901408
Top Secret (SEVENTH DERARDAEI June. 1955-January 1960) ies. ‘Although he had personally recruitea} FRIPPEL| he did not “| do so alone.. Col. V.D.'CHELNOKOV, “Deputy Chief (and later oy Chief). of the Seventh Department, was present, and he and -.: NOSENKO |! ‘carriedout*the recruitment together" in early a September. 1959. ‘NOSENKO- was ,. ; however ,[BRIPDED s case. Ve Officer.’ a . “ NOSENKO. met “tpretty steadily" viene Qloeet) anes January . ve “1961, and once NOSENKO and his wife, in company with . ee “. CHELNOKOV and his wife, had dinner ath FRIPPEL('s, home, - wherepG © - 06 they ‘met. Mrs. [FRIPPELLOL[ Odette _ FRIPPED was unaware of her husband's status as @ KG agent, » and therefore NOSENKO and. CHELNOKOV: used Inturist cover for their acquaintance with. - ug CENTERED) Although unusual for KGB Second Chief Directorate ‘Gase officers to visit agents in their homes with wives “. present, NOSENKO_ explained that he went because he "was. invited", “and CHELNOKOV’ went “because he was also, involved inv ‘the: recruitment". Bis ats “AS Deputy Chief of a. Tourist ‘section of ‘the Seventh. _ Department and later. as Deputy Chief and Acting Chief of . the. American, Embassy Section of the American Department, - ve “°° NOSENKO continued | -to--meet - ‘with [PRIPPEL in Moscow hotels and 06 “restaurants... ‘Throughout this. period, The was almost.. — - so invariably “accdmp anied: by. CHELNOKOV: : “Perhaps one ‘time I- of met with] -FRIPPEL ‘alone, otherwise it was. always with. vs “. CHELNOKOV, " _. Usually. NOSENKO would arrange meetings. with. (GFRIPPED) at CHELNOKOV's request and the two continued to “meet: with [FRIPPEDpbdespite his lack of produttion,-: because: : ' they "kept hoping’ he would. give Something"... (In. a- different. context, but" speaking of CHELNOKOV, NOSENKO- explained that: - GRIBANOV. insisted that even Department Chiefs-of the - ‘Second - Shdek. Directorate must each have’ two or three agents. yo “when ‘NOSENKO. began: to work in. the, American ‘Embass oe Sc him because{FRIPPED was acquainted with some Americans gcotnen: of the. American Department in 1960; he. aa nag ~ at the Embassy. - NOSENKO questioned FRIPPEL about the Embassy. on » “and about Embassy officers George. WINTERS and Lewis We as BOWDEN, , Puc {ERIFPEL) never told NOSENKO anything. useful. TS. No. “9724
14-00000 Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~- June 1955-January 1960) Ob [FRIPPEL) left the Soviet Union and after NOSENKO had been Vleransferred and promoted to the position of Deputy Chief of the Seventh Department. He met twice with FRIPPEL] during©6 this latter period when[FRIPPEL|visited the Soviet Union as 6§¢ a guide with groups of foreign visitors. Both of these “meetings were handled by NOSENKO alone, without CHELNOKOV. i | i . NOSENKO continued to act as [FRIPPEL]s case officer after The first meeting took place in the summer of 1962, after ’ NOSENKO returned to Moscow from Geneva. [FRIPPEL] arrived OG -in the Soviet Union as a guide for some American journalists. (NOSENKO was unable to give the composition of the journa- list group or to recall where they stayed in Moscow and where else they travelled in the Soviet Union.) NOSENKO contacted him in Moscow. to. learn what questions the newsmen _. intended to ask Khrushchev during a scheduled interview; ' [subsequently NOSENKO acknowledged that standard practice required visiting journalists to submit their intended questions for Khrushchev in writing to Soviet. authorities ~prior to interviews]. After the interview, he recontacted QC TERIPPEL|to learn the reaction of the journalists to .their ‘Salk with the Soviet leader. NOSENKO could not recall their - specific reaction to the Khrushchev interview but did remember that they were "satisfied". Another reason for _ Obcontacting(FRIPPEL) NOSENKO added in a later discussion, was to learn whether any. of. the journalists might have ‘joined the group at the last moment in the United States, which might suggest intelligence connections on their party NOSENKO met [FRIPPEL\alone for_the second and last time during March 1963. Since |FRIPPEL] was a guide for tourists O64 aboard the ship "Olympia", which stopped for a day in Yalta _, nd Odessa, NOSENKO flew to Odessa from Moscow and accosted ; O> (eRrPPEL| in the lobby of the hotel where the tourists were ceaterdeseen _ having dinner. Finally able to get away from his group, 7 06 [FRIPPEL) called on NOSENKO in the latter's hotel room, and the two drank and talked. NOSENKO had given({FRIPPELJa O( bottle of vodka.as a gift, and[FRIPP fi said he wanted £0 0G _° give NOSENKO some whisky in return. ey drove in NOSENKO's car to the port, where NOSENKO waited in the car while (6 [FRIPPEL| went aboard for the whisky. (He had invited NOSENKO o visit the ship but could not obtain a pass for him.) i(/BK TS No. 197124 9004440 - | 140 | _ Top Secret — | Copy ete ee : ot ess 5 sere 13 C95 Rea RLARAR EH TEND #1 ORENSTEIN WATE EPROP HT ee sw ert at Te SF
14-00000 7 Top Secret : (SEVENTH cia ad ‘June: 1955- “January 1960), ee ey he brought another american, so “’. NOSE 6 invent for himself a suitable cover (Inturist) =. O- had _cs-on the spot., The three returned. to the. hotel and drank ‘some “more; everyone getting drunk, - During this contact; ceprenar| _.“ reported ."nothing of" importance" ‘and his most interesting “.snews, was that.he might again be _Eeassignéd + to Moscow in’ . . December 1963 as the (American Express Com nye resentative: eh | (NOSENKO. said: he. later read a. report ‘thatlF SEL] had" ‘been OC assigned elsewhere, | and it was therefore unlikely that. his.. agent ‘would return to Moscow. This’ report was submitted by ©: V.V..KOSTYRYA (alias VLADIMIROV) , : a member. of the KGB Legal © Residency. and overtly an Inturist. ‘employee in New York cfeye who: was. a. former ‘Second. sChier’ Directorate. colleague. of NOSENKO,,) Sa Sos oe wars wo AS eet sp GAUDI proviced no interesting infotmation ‘auring - NOSENKO's two meetings. with him“in.1962 and‘°1963, when ~~, ‘Oe terrppet returned to the. Soviet ‘Union as a tour guide. — ‘On 3 February 1964, “While” reviewing “the ‘CHEREPANOV 4 ‘papers * (see p.309) in Geneva; NOSENKO was asked. about the: : ‘following. passage dealing with [PRIPPEL| which appeared ioe the-KGB- ‘opgratianal- plan. against : ‘BOWDEN’: ie Doe Le ree sees "He. [wowDEN)- showed. himself. to: “be” ‘an “indisereet . person. - One ‘day, as.. though by chance, he. - oe [BOWDEN blurted out ‘to.,our agent SHVEDOVA_ [the Fact: Of)". ARTUR' s! I, affiliation: with American” ae ntelligence.' an ea Asked. ‘who. SHVEDOVA. was; “NOSENKO ‘said. “she was _ "probably a cleaning: woman"... {Elsewhere’ ‘NOSENKO. described ws SHVEDOVA as his own agent working. ‘against-Ameérican..- / Amen y..: Attaches, see.p. 85..].. Asked what connection - OG{ERIPPED)had’ with American‘ intelligence, NOSENKO replied - a - that: he.could, not say.. “To, the inquiry why not, since *- vhe: was (FRIPPED! s S case. officer, 'NOSENKO - was: silent. ‘Spencer _ ROBERTS | [whose KGB. recruitment: ‘is | described | oo on: p.424] in August 1962 became friends with a young. .". Soviet male who acknowledged. having. been a KGB’. agent used - against. French- “speaking: foreigners. Tneluded among. the» ; a Sara “Ts. No. . 197124 Top Secret. “Copy 10
14-00000 Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) 6 — o6 a latter, the Soviet told |ROBERTS|, was [FRIPPEY, whom the 7 _ KGB suspected of being an American intelligénce agent. (NOSENKO reported (ROBERTS|,recruitment but has never 7 indicated awareness of other KGB agents being targetted against [FRIPPEL} 06 6 0 ; {FRIPPEL! s Information to _ OG a . {FRIPPEL, who uses the nickname ("Arthur was the American C / Express Company representative in Moscow from 7 April 1958 | to 3 January. 1961. He was first interviewed on the basis o£ NOSENKO'S information on_30 April 1964, and when shown a aoe picture of NOSENKO, (FRIPPEL admitted his recruitment by the O6 | KGB in 1959. During this and subsequent interviews with ! O06 the PBI, (FRIPPEL has reported in detail on his association @iwith the “KGB. FRIPPEY'S version coincides with that provided | by NOSENKO to a considerable degree, with the following | | . | | "exceptions: of FRIPPEL\ asserts that at the time of his recruitment .- €he KGB wanted only general information on American Embassy officials and American tourists travelling to the. Soviet Union[under American Express auspices Ok According: to NOSENKO, _FRIPPEL| was originally (0) recruited to provide information on American intelli- gence approaches to Soviets in the United States, ‘and he claimed that [FRIPPEL| was not needed for O4 coverage of Americans visiting the Soviet Union, ‘since the KGB had already “great success" by other - means. NOSENKO stated that later, when he trans~ . ., ferred to the American Embassy Section, he took oo, OGnis agent [FRIPPEL] with him to report on acquain- oo AG tances among the Embassy employees. NOSENKO and [PRIPPEL) agree that, with one exception (when O(FFRIPPEL| was queried regarding BOWDEN and WINTERS), ae RIPPEL| was not so used. BG a g(CFRIPPEL), while acknowledging that NOSENKO partici— po pated in all meetings and on occasion met[FRIPPEL {6 alone, stated that CHELNOKOV "was in charge of th entire operation". .  gnaL4i2 po | 142 ? oe TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy
“Top Secret oa (SEVENTH, DEPARTHEHT -. June. "A985" acuaty 1960). Gis uk ad Pe alce: in Odessa, while visiting the USSR in’1962 and -1963... NOSENKO insisted that he met{FRIPPELbbut once 2 Ob vin. (Odessa and once in Moscow, in. that period. mas .." Commerit:., NOSENKO; volunteered his’ account of “cao “  /. ease-in Geneva.in 1962 and 1964. Me freely . -. "related the details. of the summer 1962 and. February 1963 meetings: Perey ete) in. the Ob “USSR. His account. of. FRIPPEL} s activities is- ot “consistent with (ERIPEED) j'S,versiony except as © _ noted aboves i" * - lee Harvey OSWALD. /(1959- 1960) as For’ “continuity of presentation, both : “periods Of NOSENKO' si ae z ae . alleged: ‘involvement with: OSWALD:in 1959-1960 and: in 1963 . ra . oO are: ‘described elsewhere. (See p.303.).- According to NOSENKO,. . he- ‘was: involved. with OSWALD: in, 1959. because he was.then .———"" . Deputy Chief: ‘of the American“British Commonwealth’ Sect ¥on Of. the Seventh. Department. In that. capacity. he. participacet “in the decision that OSWALD was of no irniterest to the KGB... should. noe: be. allowed. to’: ‘remain, cin the Soviet. Union. Busi Be. BP io @ “NOSENKO's information on his’ involvement with’ OSWALD in 1959 is- insufficient. to serve as... * . .evidence. confirming. or. refuting his claimed ao * sservice: as Deputy. Chief. of the Amexican. Section - Un EOE: the Seventh ‘Department in (1959. BR, Lats 143 be rns TS. No. 197124 TopSecret copy 10 &
14-00000 Top Secret - (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) i Operational Activities - 1955-1960: Summary According to NOSENKO, after an uneventful assignment in the. American Department's Embassy Section, in 1955 he was transferred to the newly-organized Seventh Department Tourist Section as a case officer. Between 1955 and 1957 he assembled. a network of agents and: was involved in four KGB attempts to recruit_foreign tourists. One of these attempts, that against /Richard BURGI), was the first recruit-0G ment of the Tourist Section; it won NOSENKO.a commendation, brought him to the attention of General GRIBANOV, and turned | NOSENKO into an effective and successful KGB officer. In 1958 NOSENKO was promoted to the position of Deputy Chief of the American-British Commonwealth Section. He then ~ recruited the second member of his two-man homosexual team and, in 1958 and 1959, participated in ten KGB attempts to +. yeeruit American and British visitors to the USSR and one American resident of Moscow. NOSENKO's success in the Seventh Department prompted GRIBANOV to transfer him back 9 the American Embassy Section as Deputy Chief with the reryicas priority task of reviving KGB operations against . rican Embassy code clerks. . : oo - it is worthy of note that of the fifteen cases in which ->he personally participated, by his own admission, NOSENKO became involved in.-nine not because they were operations of his section, but because the targets were the victims of homosexual or other entrapment. In addition, three of the fifteen operations were not directed by his section, but: by senior Seventh Department officers. According to his own statements, four others were specifically the responsi- bility of other Seventh Department sections of KGB elements including the Foreign Seamen Section (GEHRCKENS), Delega~ (i 0, Obtions Section (LAN and(3IRSE), Commercial Representatives ol CbSection (PAYLOR), and (WILLERFORD] (Moscow City KGB). [FRIPPEi]U¢ .~* does not relate clearly to ilOSENKO's claimed Seventh  . Department service:. NOSENKO states he was also used as an / agent of the First Department Embassy Section. Even the ‘remaining case, that of (HARRIS} was not necessarily a G00L414 144 Fn , : 718 TS No. 197124 - Top Secret ‘| Copy Bob ydgeey
14-90000 Top Secret. 2 (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ ‘June 1955-January 1960) Seventh Department operation: by NOSENKO' other statements, “..she was not a "tourist" and she would have been the target. “of. the Moscow Oblast KGB because of her’ intention. to. marry - a Soviet: citizen. — ; ; 2 oS While NOSENKO" s participation. ‘in, the: attempted. recruit- “ment. of the targets he ‘describes, even where not confirmed, is not’ disputed, : the evidence suggest that he was an- English-speaking specialist in sexual - ‘entrapment, not a -eounterintelligence officer. responsible for the- identifi=. = cation of foreign agents among tourists. ‘ox for the -develop- |. opment, recruitment, and exploitation: of. agents. for. the KGB. : ae Nothing NOSENKO has. said indicates ‘ghat. there was’ any. material: change’ in his: ‘duties. and” ‘responsibilities after: --s he was°allegedly. promoted to, Deputy Chief..of the ‘Anierican- . oe "British Commonwealth Section. ‘ The. ‘evidence is that he was. oo. more” active, ‘but not that he- had" any’ administrative. and . ! » Supervisory. responsibilities: 7 ' ot Kiowled e: “of ‘other’ Seventh Department a “American Tourist Operations . bes x “NOSENKO- ‘said: that | upon his. ‘return’ ‘to ‘the Seventh: Depart= . “ment in..1962 as Chief .of ‘the _American-British. Commonwealth. .“Section,’ he’ reviewed the section's: activities Guring his: = _tworyear sabsence, e.g. January 1960. :to January 1962.°.In* .<the-course of. that review he made written notes of the: ‘section's ‘Operational. targets: during that. period’ notes iy - -. which. he. brought. to Geneva in 1964. (See: p. 319.). “NOSENKO ™ ~ -could not. describe the . Operations | other “than. to say ‘that he. “.xecorded the: target's names -and such details:as he could. .-* aequire: at the time of his: review. Eleven of the operations '. included‘in his: notes.were those. against Bernard- PECHTER, * out ig “Patrick” ‘PRESSHAN; John RUFE, Gerald SEVERN, - Sofia. SHATEAUER, “Ol 6 gy. Enuek KARLOV, Norman-FISK, Ralph_ ATLA): Marvin KANTOR, ; Oy [Hichaet. _GINSBERG|, and (William TARASK (4, ALL were from the period: 1956-1959 and six of the e: eleven individuals were, “identified. by the KGB as homosexuals... All Of. these | cases’ are, ‘described in _ Annex: Bes . ao a ° TS.No. 197124 — AQ
14-00000 eck aes saecn ee emo Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) Comment: NOSENKO has never resolved why these cases, ; -. ‘which predated the records he claimed he reviewed, were included in his notes. More important, he never could explain why he was unfamiliar with American tourist cases which occurred at a time, when he claimed that he was Deputy Chief of the American-British | Commonwealth Section and was knowledgeable of all such cases. KGB Counterintelligence Operations Among Foreign Tourists, 1955-1960 Besides those operations in which NOSENKO claimed personal involvement or about which he learned in his capacity of ‘Deputy Chief of the American-British Commonwealth Section, “NOSENKO claimed awareness of what the KGB knew of the use of tourists in the USSR. by foreign intelligence services ‘throughout the 1955-1960 period. “Information from other sources. serves as’a basis for judging the validity of NOSENKO's claim. NOSENKO's Information: . NOSENKO's Tourist Study - Sometime between May and October 1959, during the “tourist season, NOSENKO was ordered. to gather facts for Second Chief Directorate Chief GRIBANOV concerning the use of tourist cover by foreign intelligence services during the. period 1955. through 1958. NOSENKO said he assembled this material from the Seventh Department's annual reports of the years 1955-1958, supplemented by information he - obtained from discussions with knowledgeable Seventh .-. Department case officers. NOSENKO recalled only that the “: study incorporated statistical data on the growth of foreign tourism; he did not remember the content of the ‘study, any examples included in it, or what the study “. goneluded about American or British Intelligence tourist an 146  GUOL4ZLE | TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy
7374-00000, (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) -Operations. .Nevertheless, based on his research for this Cees, , Study as well as. on his géneral and supervisory. responsi-. 9) - bilities in the Seventh Department, NOSENKO’ asserted that ~~" vhe-cotild. accurately. describe KGB counterintélligence’ 7 operations among tourists during the period 1955-1960. Extent’ of KGB Knowledge |. _. According ‘to NOSENKO,” operations against foreign tourists “were developing slowly during this period and very little’ was known by the KGB about the American Intelligence use. - “3 Of, tourism atthe timehe wrote the study-in 1959. - No. » agents were definitely identified among ‘American tourists,  ~ and’ ne tourists were "caught inthe act" mailing letters," ~. / Ob(MCGUIRE}\sic, see below.) The Seventh Department, NOSENKO ' because of their apparent interest in photography,.or because ‘they were disseminating foreign ‘literature. - The KGB never. v ee. _ established ‘any firm intelligence connection, however, = °°.” ... despite various’ operational’ measurés ‘taken such as. vyemka ne _ (covert baggage search) ‘and maneuvering KGB agents: ins ee _° ,¢ontact with the suspect: tourists... No American tourists <= ° “were definitely identifiéd as American Intelligence agents, : Lo . . NOSENKO concluded. On related matters, NOSENKO asserted - 9.00 «5 -othat during. his 1955-1960 service in the Seventh Department °° ~*~: 7 the KGB acquired no information regarding American Intelli= °~ . - gence: use. of tourism; specifically, the KGB obtained no . © _-documentary informati ’ “American Tourist Agents: <The one exception in, which an American’ tourist was . ebserved performing a clandestine task, NOSENKO said, Was. _ letter in Minsk in 1959.’ NOSENKO said he never knew what- os clandestine letter.mailing. servicing deaddrops. or contacting agents, .with one exception... said, da eloped suspicions concerning a number of tourists. °° ~ on on this topic from any agent source. 9 KGB operational activity led to the discovery of McGUIRE'S °° ° 147 Top Secret an ae Copy ae
14-00000 Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ June 1955-January 1960) O6 Comment: NOSENKO here is apparently referring tol Edward McGOWAN} a CIA tourist agent who was infact detectéd by the KGB while clandestinely mailing — an operational letter in Minsk, but in August © 1958. . . . “There was a|Robert Alan McGUIRE |who visited the Soviet Union during NOSENKO's Seventh Department service, but he was. not connected with American Intelligence at the time and he . mailed no letter. [McGUIRE], however, was a is former CIA staff employee. He visited the Soviet Union as a tourist in April-May 1959, -during which period he was the target of numerous KGB provocations, including black- market, females, and a Soviet citizens’ request for assistance in defecting to the Americans. -- Also, a customs. officer confiscated from Gb. (ccGurRE| a Radio Liberation Russian-language AL Script, and (McGUIRE] was compelled to sign an 162 - acknowledgement of the event, although the 7 meres __,xeasons were left blank. Interrogation has -... 0, |, néver resolved how NOSENKO knew the name of 04 [McGUIRE) but. not the background of the case, or the background of (McGOMAN} s case, but not © . his name. oe ot eden meee ne ee Fo eee tor AE San Seah ATSC TAPER AR SLETEERGEIES 3, HADES 8 80:4 11 een eer stn mnt a A tt ST Et A REL A OE TT AD! SEE peo secothntctcemcre ene | Senge een xovmeeteottecr: SANDE) «_‘Serceltmeeeetonpeebeneenc Information Furnished the KGB by George BLAKE = In 1959 the KGB obtained from its agent in MI-6, | [George BLAKE, who was arrested by British authorities in April 1961] the complete details of the CIA-MI-6 program for utilizing tourist agents in the Soviet Union. In early June 1959 a three-day conference was held in London between CIA and MI-6 representatives, at the conclusion of which a “nineteen-page document was drawn up which described opera~ tional doctrine on tourist operations, including agent , spotting, agent selection, agent assessment, agent training, and agent tasks planned for the current (1959) tourist season. The document stressed CIA planned use of tourists 6901418 ; 148: TS No. 197124 . Top Secret - Copy ——— jute neeeeenenet: some —ecnenegmataiaReReetnaN ae ein etn tea temanan © Are
Top Secret - (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT. ~ June 1955-January 1960) £08: spotting, contacting, and- assessing and, eventually, _ _ communicating with agents in the Soviet Union. - BLAKE ~~. confessed: to passing the document ‘to the KGB ‘as soon as it -. Came: into. ‘his possession. oo. ; 2 It. is. “not. advanced. that. NOSENKO™ should’ neces-- “sarily have known of’ BLAKE, although his .. Statements on the matter’ have been ambiguous. | Asked- in.1962' whether he-knew of BLAKE (whose | © earlier. arrest. had ‘been . publicized), _ NOSENKO.. - affirmed that he did but indicated that. BLAKE ~~ - ‘was a less important source than’ ‘the Canadian. Ambassador. (WATKINS) : or. the: agent inthe >. - British Admiralty. (VASSALL) « “When.. BLAKE. WasSr Le, 7 “mentioned in-1964, .NOSENKO. asked “Who's. BLAKE?" Ta ye The significance ‘Of BLAKE is that his = 9 °°: confession established that. the KGB- was fully - , aware. of the-status and. ‘Character of. ‘American. . ‘ and British Intelligence. ‘tourist. ‘operations’ while’ NOSENKO alleges - ‘he was in, the’. Seventh. Department. “It is’ judged, by any: measure’ as® ONS ~ well as by» NOSENKO! -$. statements about the KGB, _ that the substance: of the. information’ if ‘not - the document..itséelf would-be brought “to. the attention. of a. -key_ ‘KGB. ‘counterintelligence » officer : Goncerned ; the Deputy Chief: of. the» :... American-British Commonwealth Seetion.” which | . ig NOSENKO claims. was himseif.’ - KGB. study, of American Intelligence Tourist, operations er Oko, tn 1961- CIA. acquired a ‘lengthy. ‘KGB- ‘Top. Secret: study « on. ei tthe’® Subject. of the use of ‘tourists by American Tatelligence .£0r. espionage and operational . support. in-the Soviet. Union.. oe the’ KGB. study draws ‘recognizably upon the information: v8 supplied by BLAKE: -and,- although concerned - primarily with... . “Américan tourist operations in ‘1960, it also refers to. American’ agents whom KGB" “counter intelligence elements. _ . identified among - ‘tourists | ain the years 1958 and..1959, “while - NOSENKO claims he was Deputy Chief: of the Amevican-British | .. Commonwealth Section and. during which’ time he: claims. the: — KGB identified no American intelli ence a ents. aoc | 3 oo  C00LAt9 149 | 7 “1s ‘No. qayi2d “ wep bore: Copy
14-00000 OO OIRCAINOE Onl Ws 4m Rar astet ecnineRe I mi eh ones Bs a Ses at ERAN BS CREE dp aC eattnte e Lh RE AI Aa 0 . Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) SEVENTH DEPARTMENT ~ 1955-1960: Summary and Conclusion KGB operations. Other than to allege that certain KGB officers he named were -his subordinates, he provided no information to substantiate his Claim that he had any _ ve supervisory or. administrative responsibilities. The common © feature of the operations do not relate to NOSENKO's own. description of the function of the Seventh Department's Tourist Section or later, to the American-British Common wealth Section. Most were sexual or other entrapment operations, and he acknowledges that several were operations conducted by KGB elements other than his own section, - In_ short, NOSENKO need not have been in the Seventh Department - Sections, as he claims, to have learned of Or participated .. _.in the activities he describes. Although NOSENKO gives a . graphic account of the Second Chief Directorate's (and his Own) counterintelligence mission, his knowledge is not of _ counterintelligence operations among tourists; in the only ‘three such operations he describes, the counterintelligence. - aspects were incidental. Contrary to his claims, NOSENKO is aware neither of all important KGB operations conducted against American tourists during the period, nor what was known to the KGB about American Intelligence and British - tourist operations. Conclusion aie. uston While NOSENKO was associated with a KGB element conducting Operations against American and other foreign tourists during the period 1955~1960, he was neither a senior case officer nor Deputy Chief of the Seventh Department American- ‘British Commonwealth Section, ‘150 TS No. 197124 C001 429 ae | : Top Secret | Copy
‘CHAPTER VII: = ANBRrcaN EMBASSY SECTION OF’ AMERICAN, DEPARTMENT’ a , | Camry Ter 1960- SEEEAEL ary 1962). “> ‘Deputy Chief of She Section! in an . - NOSENKO claims to: have served as Deputy’ Chief of ‘the! ae American ‘Embassy Section of the American Department ,.. KGB eS “Second Chief Directorate, from sometime in. January: 1960... until. ‘the first days of January: 1962. . This. section, in sey. “his words, was working ‘against "the most. important counter- ve “intelligence: target in.the Soviet Union", the. permanent - wok S American representation in Moscow. “It regarded every... °* “American ‘stationed there a possible spy and, simultaneously “as” a fatget” for recruitment. est te et Eo, : > pie! ‘fanctions “of ‘the: Amexican’ Embassy. Section were’. described. by. ‘NOSENKO. as. being to’ monitor: all contacts: by -Embassy personnel with Soviet citizens, to collect all: “information possible on American Embassy - employees, and” * “to use..this. information as.a ‘basis for: planning and imple ‘menting recruitments. The. ‘Americans' ‘personalities;.. jobs; Poo ‘personal relationships, weaknesses,. daily routines, security. be ‘precautions, ‘contacts with Soviet ‘citizens, and the’ ‘major. : -.,and minor. scandals in ‘their Moscow lives formed the basis: fr. ‘for this work. “To gather such information, the: section' Ss. i »,O£fficers employed large numbers of agents and informants: = among the indigenous employeés. of the Embassy, Soviet ce -Citizens-moving in Embassy social ‘circles, and third-country * Nationals ‘with American contacts: The officers also | me benefitted from the reports of numerous. surveillance ‘teams: at their disposal, as well. as information obtained from : -..° telephone taps and microphones. in Americans’ offices and “ o homes. Each officer had a limited number ‘of. American. ee ‘targets with whom he attempted to become . thoroughly" familiar. ~ - Annually, they. submitted detailed ‘operational. ‘plans, for’ ‘ oe TS. “No: 197124 Copy - 10
14-00000 - his fellow-officers of 196Q0—and 1961, who remained in the time he left the section in Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) exploiting the knowledge they had gained of their targets. During 1960 and 1961, NOSENKO said, within the section special emphasis was placed on “identifying intelligence officers in the Embassy and actively developing them, acquiring ciphers, and painstakingly studying code clerks, creating the basis on which they can be recruited". As Deputy Chief of this section, NOSENKO said, he had access to all information concerning its activities: "Nothing was hidden" from him. On this basis, he expressed certainty that in 1960 and 1961 the KGB recruited no Americans associated with the Embassy, there were no KGB agents among Americans assigned to the Embassy in this period and, in fact, the KGB had recruited no American Embassy personnel since "ANDREY" (Dayle SMITH, recruited ca. 1953, see p- 33). From continuing friendships with section when NOSENKO transferred, NOSENKO has also claimed certainty that there were no KGB recruitments from the ; January 1962 until his January 1964 departure in Geneva. . Transfer to.the American Embassy Section In December 1959, while serving as Deputy Chief of the. american Section of the Seventh Department, NOSENKO learned from the Department Chief DUBAS of plans to transfer him back to the American Department's American Embassy Section, as Deputy Chief. NOSENKO said he was opposed to the move and wanted to remain in the Seventh Department: "yt was used to it there and wanted to continue. I wanted to stay in the Seventh Department. This {the transfer] was no promotion. Here I was the Deputy Chief of section: and would be the same there. The American Department is, of course, the most important. But here I was working against American tourists. This is also important. Furthermore, I showed [had proven] myself there in 55, '56, '57, ‘58, and '59 and was considered to be not a bad case officer. And there, in the American Department, I must prove myself with new people." en 152 Qv0LAZ2 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy
F-90000 '- “Directorate Chief O. M.: GRIBANOV. on his behalf; but to no; yy NOSENKO” were Assued, , “.."bo report to GRIBANOV's office... NOSENKO expressed his. 5 w$isgivings about the change of. assignment. to GRIBANOV. |: -°'. GRIBANOV replied that DUBAS had spoken, to him but that’ he, io .GRIBANOV, "had -his own plans and-that was all". |.GRIBANOV.. " :told NOSENKO’ that he. thought NOSENKO could bring “fresh air” -°: "No one." Hé assumed responsibility for the’ Embassy security. ' file. from KOVSHUK.- Various case officers earlier -had been at ~ </ BAKHVALOV==but. never in connéction with the Amexican Embassy ~i-(Bastern Countries) Department. -.In February he identified ae name not recalled, who was Deputy Chief of the Fifth: ' Top Secret — o (ANERTCR EMBASSY SECTION January. 1960-January 1962). * “NOSENKO- therefore ‘asked DUBAS to try to retain’him.-- DUBAS © “later told NOSENKO that he had twice spoken to Second Chics ‘avail. -iIn- January 1960 the official orders transferring On the: “day NOSENKO reported - ‘to Vv. A. KLYPIN, Chief of “the American Department, to begin his new..job, he was. ‘told . sito the. American. Embassy Section's operations and. that he ls was’ to” pay. particular. attention: to operations against © ‘American code clerks, the . “number one  Farget". . ‘predecessor ‘ ‘as: ‘Deputy. Chiet. “ Askea on 17 ‘April. “1964 whom he. ‘had relieved upon ‘reporting. * £0r duty in “the American Embassy Section, NOSENKO replied: ~~. _, Yesponsible for Embassy ‘Security Officer Russell ‘LANGELLE , -: including ‘MALYUGIN, | then. KUSKOV.,, KOVSHUK, . ‘and KLYPIN; but» LANGELLE. had been. expelled from the. Soviet. ‘Union in. October . -1959 and his successor, John ABIDIAN,. Was. not. to arrive. ntil March 1960. a ee a fe on. several. occasions. ‘between: January. ‘and’ gune 1964: f soso “had referred. to.a KGB officer: named Mikhail. Fedorovich. -: .Section...Thus,-in January he first identified him.as. he “Colonel Mikhail. BAKHVALOV,. .the. Deputy: Chief of the Fifth. ““a V.A. ALEKSEYEV.as.the alias of a. Mikhail. Fedorovich, last” Department. | In: June, in ‘listing KGB officers who had received various awards for their service, NOSENKO included. - ‘the name of Mikhail. BAKHVALOV,. Deputy Chief of “an unremem— Bee! ~bered department" « of ‘the: Second. Chief Directorate. _ oo re a coc42s | “TS. No. 197124 “Top Secret ‘Copy 10
14-00000 - Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION ~ January 1960-January 1962) 1964 NOSENKO was asked to list the names of had either joined or departed the American from the time NOSENKO was transferred to tment in 1955 to his return to the American . n 1960. NOSENKO listed fourteen officers as having joined the section, and five who had been trans~ ferred out. In neither list did NOSENKO mention BAKHVALOV. On 18 June all officers who Embassy Section the Seventh Depar Embassy Section i A week ‘later, however, on 24 June 1964 NOSENKO stated that "in 1959 and possibly in 1958 Mikhail Fedorovich BAKHVALOV was the Deputy Chief of the American Embassy Section. I replaced him in his position in 1960 and he ~ went to the Fifth Department as Deputy Chief". In September 1964 NOSENKO asserted that BAKHVALOV, as Deputy Chief, [not the others he had identified earlier] had been LANGELLE's case officer. in 1965 NOSENKO first mentioned that BAKHVALOV, not KOVSHUK, had been responsible for maintaining d stated that BAKHVALOV had. the Embassy security file an shared with KOVSHUK responsibility for supervising code clerk operations. has never resolved contradictions KO's earlier accounts of what d from. whom when he entered gs belated assertions that Deputy. Chief. Interrogation -between NOSEN functions he assume . the Section, and hi - BAKHVALOV: was his predecessor as Comment: | e American Embassy Responsibilities ing. for, duty in th n with GRIBANOV, Shortly after report Section and following his short discussio NOSENKO said he met with American Department Chief KLYPIN and Embassy Section Chief KOVSHUK to discuss his responsi- pilities and functions in the section. Repeating what GRIBANOV had said, KLYPIN stressed that NOSENKO's most important single responsibility in the section would be supervision of all KGB operational activity against American military and State Department co de clerks stationed in Moscow. As for the other Americans at the Embassy, KLYPIN = 6001424 +S No. 197124 Copy ————
14-00000 Top Secret | (AMERICAN EMBASSY sEcrrON:~ Janiaty 1960-Janary 1962) “© guggestea: a: “aivision of. labor. under which KOVSHUK would. be ‘|. responsible for. supervising operations against. State . © Department personnel and NOSENKO would supervise work. “. against the: “Army ». Air Force, and: Naval. Attaches. and theix .. assistants... -NOSENKO was also to be. custodian. of certain» _-), sensitive. files. “in: the section... oo <S NOSENKO has_ ‘signed z a protocol \ ‘which ‘Listed his ; principal - responsibilities daring 1960. and. (196k Xt reads. in? parti. “Dar ng “the: entire ‘period “in. the’ ‘First [american Embassy] ‘Section, . First. [American]. Department. ino 1961 my position was Deputy Chief of . . My responsibilities, were» ‘the following: en cae: Deputy. ‘to. the ‘Chief ‘Of ‘the First. «Section,. Nladislav. Mikhaylovich | ‘KOVSHUK, | and- Acting. Chief of Section. in, chis “absences. a Dmg ate. ‘supervisor ‘for. the’ opératiohal work against. American code clerks... 'In this capacity I. py GRYAZNOV, and Vadim KOSOLAPOV =~ aan ee “officer ‘for. American’ Bnbassy ‘Security - ry John ABIDIAN. oo.” For. about ‘the: first: “six months | of ‘i960, ‘super-. visor: of. the work. ‘against. “the * offices” of: the Army, Naval ,and- Air. attaches. 200 we co Before. 1965. NOSENKO never’ ‘claimed responsibility for supervising operations. against. service ov attache targets... In’ October:.1966 NOSENKO | -° for the first time claimed. he was personally =. Yesponsible for (as contrasted ‘to supervising). _ Operational’ activity against Naval. and Marine. officers of the office of the Naval’ Attache. CUCL 4O5 TS No. 197124- 7 Top Secret ‘Copy. 10... ..closely guided ‘the work ‘of: case” officers Gennadiy Sheba S
14-00000 H Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) ~I maintained the file on American Embassy security. ~I maintained the log books for the reports sent to the First [American Embassy] Section by the. Operational Technical Directorate, KGB, based on the information obtained from all: the microphones installed in the American Embassy. I read all the reports and gave the pertinent reports to the “appropriate case officers in the section... In my. absence this work was done by KOVSHUK or GRYAZNOV. _-During this period I-was the agent handler for agents 'SHMELEV',. "GRIGORIY', "PROKHOR', 'ARTUR' “and "SARDAR' © [VOLKOV, YEFREMOV, (PREISFREUND), UG (PRIPPEL| and [WEISS |respectively]. a 6 7 , "Phroughout this entire period I sat in Room-618 _ of. KGB Headquarters. at..-House Number 2, Dzherzhinskiy Square, Moscow. GRYAZNOV and KOSOLAPOV shared this . office with me throughout most of this period." Comment: NOSENKO's assertions with respect to each of these claimed functions are examined in some ., detail in the following pages. Deputy and Occasional Acting Chief of Section - Since his defection NOSENKO has maintained under repeated © interrogation that as general ‘deputy to KOVSHUK, with the responsibility of taking over in KOVSHUK's absence, he had _ access to and was obliged to keep current on all information relating to the section's activities. On this basis he has assured his questioners that the KCB was ‘completely " unsuccessful in its attempts to recruit Americans assigned to the Embassy in these two' years. NOSENKO has also said at various times that his access to section files and his association with section officers made it certain that: there were no such KGB successes even in the periods 156 G00L426 Top Secret Copy ____ TS No. 197124 318K
34-90000 Top Secret (RIERECRN ENDS SECTION - tprsary:2960-Sonuary: 1262) _ ~1955- 1960. and 1962- 1964, when he ‘was assigned in the Seventh Department. “His statements on this subject during February — 1965* were: ‘distilled. sin a _Protocél which NOSENKO signed on 20°: February #: i) : ne - _ “MAS: ‘the ‘only. Deputy | to the ‘Chief£ of the ‘American ‘Embassy. Section, First Department ,, Second Chief .. -Directorate,. KGB, Vladislav Mikhaylovich KOVSHUK., oe from January 1960 to January: 1962, one of my.. *  - functions’ was: to. serve as KOVSHUK's general deputy ‘and to..assume the rights: and. responsibilities of © Chief: ‘OE : the .Section during. KOVSHUK's absence. - In. order to: perform: this function. I-had the right and. the ‘obligation. of knowing the details about every — important: activity: of the section against the _- American: ‘Embassy. and its: personnel... . No. activity | of, thi nature: was withheld. from. mee” my "As: Deputy.’ chier of: the Section iL ‘know. definitely - lat’ no: U.S .* officials. serving ‘in: the: ‘Embassy: were. agents: ‘of : ‘the KGB or reporting. ‘unofficially. in any. way. tothe. KGB. during my service in: the Section:- There. were no: approaches. or recruitments made ‘by © the Section-during ‘the. period January 1960 to | January..1962:' against. personnel ‘of - the. American.- ee Embassy, . ‘including personnel of the: Attaches Sere (Army; “Navy; ‘and Air), the Départmént. of Agriculture and -USIA,:..including Marine guards, : Army: ser eants, ~ State. Department code clerks. except’ against, STORS— *s~ j BeaG) ena (REYSERS) both | unsuccessful Approaches. -’ SOG “There: were no. approaches” or. veeruitments: made! against. any. employees of .the United States. Govern-. oe ment .who- were. assigned to. the. American. Embassy. on... - temporary. duty. during. this. period. : ‘I have read and. de stood this: report. and Sertity. Ait: “as } correct." eseer pe RR a 18) ‘No. 197124 ° Top Secret | oS os . 7 “Copy 10
14-00000 TREY 28 TT Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) In the two years of NOSENKO's service in the section there were a total of.over three months when he said KOVSHUK was ill or on leave. NOSENKO recalled that he was Acting Chief during KOVSHUK's two 30-day leave periods in 1960 and 1961, although he did not remember precisely in which months. He also served as Acting Chief for about a month in the summer of 1960 when KOVSHUK was in the KGB hospital with . heart trouble and for a week or two some time in 1961, again when KOVSHUK was ill. .He recalled that KOVSHUK was also absent for several days in connection with preparations for President Eisenhower's planned visit to the Soviet Union in» 1960. -, As Acting Chief in KOVSHUK's absence, NOSENKO stated that~ -he was responsible for supervising the administrative work and operational activity of the entire section and, in particular, for assuming KOVSHUK's work in directing | Operations against diplomatic personnel’ assigned to the American Embassy. NOSENKO could recall no operational decisions that he made as acting chief, nor any specific or unusual occurrences during these times. NOSENKO said that the only specific responsibility-of KOVSHUK's which he handled in the Chief's absencé was repotting to the Chief of the First. Department about all correspondence going out of the Embassy Section. _.NOSENKO stated he met none of KOVSHUK's agents during his absences, nor could he remember any of them except GLAZUNOV . [whom NOSENKO said in April 1964 was his own agent and later said was. "KOVSHUK's and FEDYANIN's"] and the American correspondent STEVENS |[about whom NOSENKO had reported in “connection with his activities in 1953-55]. According to NOSENKO, KOVSHDK had personal contact, under Ministry of Foreign Affairs cover, with "some" American Q Embassy officers, but. the only such Embassy officer he could identify was WINTERS, and he knew of no details about KOVSHUK's relations with him. , , 158 | - 8 6904428 ) 6K oo. TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy
- , Top Secret ae " {AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION = January 1960-January 1962)°~ 4) Comment: -NOSENKO ‘knows: aeither that _ oe a. WAS. identified: formally by the “Embassy. to the oy Soviet Government to be a ‘CIA employee, nor- “ that KOVSHUK (who was aware of this fact), owas. jin personal | ‘contact wit Is "General. ‘Supervisory Duties “lat In. interrogations ‘of January 1965 NOSENKO was questioned - ‘: in considerable detail . about his supervisory duties as -- Deputy Chief of the Embassy. Section...He didn't know what major duties occupied most of his time, nor which were. the | most: important:)..He stated that | “everything” was. importante “His subordinates were GRYAZHOV. and. KOSOLAPOV (responsible’. = . for code ‘clerk. operations). [Vladimir] DEMKIN assisted py. ~ [Yevgeniy] ‘GROMAKOVSKIY. (residents of America. House) , ” “= (N.A.) ‘GAVRILENKO. (Air Attaches personnel and-the aircrews, of the. Ambassador's ‘aircraft), [I-Ya.1. ‘KURILENKO (Army 9° oe » Attache: personnel) , , and. [Victor] BELOGLAZOV ‘(Naval | Attache one personnel) . _Excépt for "little: questions". which the . =... me oe officers. decided, for. themselves, NOSENKO said he directed 9° °°". ~~. their. ‘activities, discussed-with them various aspects of | on wt their work, and:: responded. to" their. questions. as Peguireds: ey If-he ‘Gould’ not answer’ their.questions, NOSENKO stated, OK if the problem: was not. “within his ‘authority, NOSENKO | po discussed: .the. matter. with: KOVSHUK. - If it was necessary, ©. NOSENKO claimed he | ‘thereafter: would ‘aiscuss . the. matter with’ American Department” Chief: KLYPIN. or his successor, (s- M. a with Second - ‘Chief: ; FEDOSEYEV, and on some = ‘occasions,’ Directorate Chief: GRIBANOV. i. ° ~ NOSENKO. stated™ ‘He: accompanied | his: subordinates to" “some - fie@tings with -their.agents,' not- because he didn't trust . a “them, but to hear for himself what the agent was reporting. . He cited as hypothetical. examples occasions. when DEMKIN _ : might relay reports ‘from:Ella UMANETS. or Inga VARLAMOVA ~ mS . “(agents working against America House residents), reports —.' - which “NOSENKO would want to.hear for: himself, personally. . oF -. NOSENKO would not’ estimate to his interrogators: what percen- me . te , tage of Embassy. Section’ “agents he met inthis fashion. Me | : | 008429 159 © ne: os ce “1s. No. 197124" Jop Secret § =... co 10.
14-00000 Tep Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) In addition to supervising his subordinates's direction of agents, NOSENKO Said he personally managed PREISFREUND!/)¢ ("PROKHOR") and{WETss] ("SARDAR") . awe Ob | Supervisor of All Code Clerk Operations NOSENKO said that, upon assuming responsibility for superviséng operations against American code clerks, he found a very “difficult Situation". Prior to the assignment of KOSOLAPOV to the American Embassy Section in late 1959, all operations against code clerks had been handled by MALYUGIN, but during MALYUGIN's two years of effort there. had been no operational approaches and no Successes. When NOSENKO took over there were no active developmental. operations against code clerks under way, he stated, and the only agents or operational contacts being used against ‘them were poorly educated maids and waitresses none of whom had accomplished anything of importance. No non-Soviet citizen agents were being used in Operations against code- room personnel. - - OY ‘From this’ point .on,.NOSENKO; KOSOLAPOV, and GRYAZNOV: shared the same KGB Headquarters office, There, all KGB files on American code clerks as well as the files on all agents available for work against them, were stored in one large safe accessible to all three officers. NOSENKO supervised all of the section's. work along these lines, and no provo- cations, compromises, recruitment attempts, or recruitments could have been planned or carried out without his prior . knowledge and agreement when he was in Moscow. If NOSENKO was absent on a trip, -he would have been told about any such -activity upon his return. -NOSENKO said that he carefully directed the work of GRYAZNOV and KOSOLAPOV during these two years, discussing their cases with them, taking part in operational planning, and approving or disapproving all Operational measures, 160 | alee TS No. 197124 6001430 a Top Secret. Copy
_ Top Secret. (aan: Eneasey SECTION ~ January 1960-January 1962). ce “when. NOSENKO: took ‘over ‘responsibility for operations’ against. code clerks, lie ‘réad files on targets and agents,~ “discussed the’ situation with. MALYUGIN,: DEMKIN (the American Embassy Section case officer responsible for the residents -. of America. House) ,~ ‘GRYAZNOV, and_ RROSOLAPOV, and reported -. his findings and recommendations to his’ superiors, KOVSIUK » and KLYPIN. . Several changes were made as a result, * NOSENKO © asserted. In introducing a new program for the work of _.the section,. NOSENKO suggested the use of third-country_ nationals (neither American nor Soviet citizens) for agent | work against code clerks; in line with this. suggestion, he i: _ personally recruited’ a {Syriana military officer, Samih “WwBrSS):06,0 -(see-p. 181), and directéd him against the America House. “after his first: few visits, [WEISS)-was specifically targetted 1) G08 > against} military codeclerk ‘Matthew -ZUJUS]. Another such 0% 06 . vagent directly . handled. by. .NOSENKO ‘wascthe[ Finnish” -business* = 08; D6 «. \ oman ‘Johan. -PREISFREUND|, who figured in the case of the ‘ape ) (Military codé clerk JaméS STORSBERG].(see p.166). © NOSENKO “also. ‘suggested. initiating, activity “against code clerks prior eg” their arrival in the USSR and specifically proposed that | ~ .. Operational measures: be undertaken or that operational — .. -). possibilities. be studied in ‘Helsinki, the city through which | most of the: American, code. clerks. ‘Passed, on their way ‘to. “Moscow. 4 ae 3, Questioned. later on individual cases, ‘NOSENKO ‘“, Ketracted-his assertion. that he read and’. .. studied: all'the files on individual American: _ code clerks, stating instead that he did not. .. Study any. although. he "may. have. skimmed some". ' He‘ insisted, however, that in any - ‘event he | .=.read all the current incoming information on * code “clerks. received | from microphones ,. agents. “.. and ‘the like, and routed the reports to the ‘yy ease: officer. concerned. coutaat 61% ae BR “Ts. No. 197124 . ' Copy — NO Top Secret
14-00000 have known about it. _The code clerk had already provided the KGB with some infor- Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) GOLITSYN's Information About KGR Operations Against Embassy Code Clerks in 1960-1961 . The most significant collateral information about KGB Operations against American code clerks in this period, with which to compare NOSENKO's assertions [on this topic], is that provided by GOLITSYN after his defection in 1961. GOLITSYN identified KOSOLAPOV and GRYAZNOV by name and from photograph as being two veteran KGB officers, personally - known to him, who were in 1960 “working against code clerks in the American Embassy in Moscow." With respect to the priority attached to the recruitment of American code clerks in 1960, GOLITSYN commented in 1961 that: "The task of strengthening of work against Americans had been a standing requirement, both in the past.and most particularly fin 1960]. This work was particularly intensified after the appointment of SHELEPIN.to the KGB... In 1960, it was “recommended in the KGB to intensify the work against the Americans at the Embassy in Moscow, and against American . colonies in other, countries... This question of intensifying work against the Americans was up before the Collegium of the KGB. Thereafter there was a directive from SHELEPIN regarding the intensification of work against the American cipher~-clerks."- -— | - GOLITSYN said that NOSENKO was not assigned to the Embassy Section in 1960-1961, since if he had been GOLITSYN would — Preparing for his assignment to Helsinki, GOLITSYN. in the spring of 1960 visited the Embassy Section and learned | from GRYAZNOV. that the latter had as an agent an Fmbassy code clerk who was scheduled to be transferred to Helsinki. Ia aaeAbs ett mation and he was considered by the KGB to be a “real" agent. GOLITSYN was told by GRYAZNOV that, if the code clerk's transfer materialized, GOLITSYN might have him in Helsinki as his agent. | GI01432 ne? 14d | TS No. 197124 - | Top Secret — Copy ss
-. Top Secret. o (AMERICAN: eee: Sacer - January 1960-January 1962 M toe GOLTTSyN also. ‘learned from GRYAZHOV in spring. of: 1960 that the latter. had developed - an operation against an | -: .. Embassy: mi ditary code: clerk in which the KGB was. "99 per a cent. sure" ; that, the target would. be recruited, ae ‘GRYAZNOV informed’ GOLITSYN “in April | or May: 1960. that ‘an’ American’ employee‘ of the’ Embassy. in. Moscow, possibly:a code clerk, was either recruited or. prepared for recruitment on » the basis. of . homosexual compromise’ beginning in 1959: and - concluding. in 1960. The KGB had photographed the American _in various homosexual - acts - but. SHELEPIN, who had just become ~ Chairman of the KGB, at the time was - stressing ideological - .. Yather ‘than- blackmail: recruitments. -SHELEPIN said that the . . homosexual ‘blackmail was in-this ‘instance “too dirty", and... - the KGB should find another basis for. recruitment... ‘SHELEPIN /. ~did not. exclude future use of. the 7 Photographs. \ which: the KGB would hold in reserves.) ; fe, i 2 : while’ on-a” temporary. assignment to Helsinki: in, ‘November © 1960, V. V.. _KOSOLAPOV: told GOLITSYN “that he had come. “to | - Helsinki ‘in ordér. to accompany : an‘ Embassy code clerk back : _.to Moscow on the -train..- KOSOLAPOV planned to strike_ up an a _. acquaintance with: the ‘code - clerk. which he could continue Cals ‘to develop in Moscow.:.. In” ‘September | 1961 a friend of Jn >.» KOSOLAPOV, also visited Helsinki. on: ‘temporary duty». GOLITSYN . tried to get him: to. talk-about : KOSOLAPOV' s November train: , Operation,” but -KOSOLAPOV's: friend would not: discuss ‘the - - ¢asé. - GOLITSYN. reasoned that’. there’ would be no reluctance. "i. “to discuss,.the case if it had been ‘unsuccessful, and that.. _-..' therefore KOSOLAPOV must have been ‘successful | ‘in. . developing” pon he code : clerk. on: the. ‘train. :Or% afterwards < ve ; - used ani: ‘the - “successful recruithent of. "an American employee OF the: Embassy. ° a yee an te oo 163 fh - TS No. 197124 “Top Secret | Copy - 10
14-00000 Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) Comment: Two of GOLITSYN's leads may refer to [STORSBERG | () © % OL and{GARLAND] (see below). The other leads, more than one of which may refer to the same individual, have not resulted in an identifica-. tion of any code clerk target of the KGB. Operations Against Military Code Clerks Comment: According to official U.S. Government records, Service Attaches of the Embassy in Moscow as Of 1960 shared a Single cryptographic center “and a single military code clerk (except when “two code clerks overlapped during periods of turnover). The military code clerk was respon-~ sible for enciphering and deciphering the . traffic of all three military services. In’ practice, at least one other member of the ‘Service Attaches' offices. in Moscow held a. cryptographic clearance:and was trained to replace the- regular military code clerk when the_latter was absent. ; - (James STORSBERG was the only military code 06,05 clerk Jassigned to the Moscow Embassy from a , February 1960 to September 1961, when his he successor, [Matthew ZUJUS|, arrived. [STORSBERG] U6 himself. arrived in Moscow in January 1960 and departed in November 1961. Ue, During the period of (STORSBERG' s tour in Moscow, back-up cryptographic dutes were per- vf formed by the (Military Communications Officer, ()f 0% CWO-2 HURLEY) |HURLEY| performed these duties O6 on a number of Occasions, including the night of the KGB approach to [STORSBERG] and he could 6G be loosely termed a code clerk. (Although . NOSENKO has distinguished between (STORSBERG' UG function as "military code clerk" and(HURLEY|'s O6 duties as "military code machine mechanic”, he considered both to be within the general category 164 6001434 isa 1S No. 197124 Top Secret Copy ———
. Top Secret — (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) Comments (Continued). Of: “military ‘code clerks" “NOSENKQ - reported ae “that there was no KGB ‘operation: against © : Joe - og tuuneeyy) Additionally, {HURLEY} performed repair 06 o> work -on the cryptographic: machines: and- directed. - certain other ‘sensitive activities at the . . Jy," Embassy D¢fHURLEY's:. tour in Moscow began shortly  _ “oQ6 before (STORSBERG|' sy ‘in December 1959, and he. | ~ up (served. there until - June | or July. 1962. , 0 ~ Phe. only other person performing: official | - ‘functions in.the military code room during the -°1960-61 period was (James | KEYSERS, who ring the. _ din Moscow.on 22. Decémber 1960: and was assigned © “.to-the office of the Air Force Medical Officér.: As a concurrent sécondary assignment, (KEYSERS 06 ‘worked as‘a:clerk-typist in the. office of . the: ‘Air Attache:.:” From’ February © until mid-April” ‘1961,.as a collateral duty,[/KEYSERS|worked 106 the joint military code room where he was in... = training. to serve as ‘back~up - cryptographer. coe He was relieved of “this duty in April 1961 for ~ reasons of low. aptitude and lack:of interést;° - | “in June 1961 ‘he was removed: from: Moscow because of reported) homosexual activities. 7 , Seat ‘The significance of :the’ following: cases, particularly: that of (STORSBERG, is the see 206 ste which: collateral. information corroborates = or contradicts ‘NOSENKO's claims to have™ ‘been — * Deputy. Chief of the American: Embassy. Section, to have: ‘supervised . all. KGB’ operations. against: Embassy code clerks, and to have certain know—" a ‘ledge that no Americans inthe’ Embassy’ were. ©) 7 evs, recruited between. “ANDREY" | (Dayle: SMITH)’ in o 1953, sand NOSENKO" Ss” ‘defection: ain: 11964. : 6064436 165 mL Z RR —TS"No. 197124. Top Secret oe Copy 210:
14-00000 oe a, Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) ~ Attempted Recruitment of] storsaerg \O° ee NOSENKO's Information-1962 NOSENKO first alluded to a KGB attempt to recruit an - | unnamed American military code clerk during his initial meeting with CIA in-1962. - He was describing a new technique | (which he later claimed to be-his own idea) introduced in the 1960-1961 period to overcome the reluctance of Americans ‘in poscow to develop friendships with Soviet citizens, Beginning in'1960 the KGB instructed "third-national” agents | (Germans, Frenchmen; ‘and-Finns,; for example) to visit the. American Club on ‘Kropotkinskaya Naberezhnaya to cultivate American enlisted men living there. (GOLITSYN learned of one such agent of NOSENKO and the KGB concluded that GOLITSYN had reported the KGB practise to the Americans, because . foreigners no longer were permitted to enter ‘the America 7. - House billets freely for dances, movies, and the like at i | the club there.) NOSENKO had recruited the agent known to _GOLITSYN in-order. to develop an American military code - Recruiting a Military code clerk: from the Embassy was the American Embassy Section's “number one ‘assignment", and for a year NOSENKO was involved in an operation against such a _ target almost to the ‘exclusion ofall‘other ‘duties, The wo case was considered to be the "number one" case, and KGB - . Chairman SHELEPIN as well as Second Chief Directorate Chief _-GRIBANOV impatiently inquired as to its progress. The target was an American /Army sergeant|with about 20 years’ service . who, the KGB lea¥ned, wanted to retire and take a. position , — - [as a code clerk] with the State Department. For ‘the purpose Of of developing the target, NOSENKO recruited a foreigner who » oo visited the USSR frequently. The "third-national" agent was - cece ane, ‘placed in contact with the American, and they had several drinking bouts together. After about two months, NOSENKO instructed his agent to take the American to the agent's hotel room and introduce him there to a KGB female agent. - | BBR 166 C001436 . | | TS No. 197124 | | Top Secret Copy
- - .. Fop Secret. |. (AMERICAN ‘EMBASSY SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) “Although the’ girl and the American were intimate, no photo- | . ‘graphs were taken, nor were photographs taken the next time. _/..the agent provided the American with a girl. On the third... | =) such occasion, ‘however, the KGB technicians. did obtain Cee oe . -ineriminating photographs: The «foreign agent also involved... /) the American’ in:an illicit currency transaction in which. - the American contributed $300 as hisshare to. finance the” me “.. purchase. and ‘subsequent ‘sale’ of ‘some jewels. . The American». ““ was allowed to believe that he earned a $5,000 profit: the _. Money was,actually: furnished ‘by the KGB. a ss After’a year's development, GRIBANOV. decided that ae: | recruitment should be attempted, through ‘another foreigner. — _. The original foreign agent was.:withdrawn from ‘the. operation, anda KGB: officer, ‘Nikolay Semenovich SKVORTSOV,. was. fps ' introduced to the American: inthe. guise ‘of ‘wealthy French aaa businessman “Marcel. MICHAUD"... SKVORTSOV/MICHAUD met. and ~... ~ drank: with the American several ‘times, “even at America ~ |. ” _ House". It was SKVORTSOV's estimate that. the American was. _ Nery careful, but that he might be susceptible to recruitment , while drunk. “After meeting ‘with the American at the club in. i America.House one evening,’ SKVORTSOV telephoned him.and oo. | invited him to SKVORTSOV's ‘hotel “room ‘to-meet “two Dutch 80 0 girls". When he “arrived, ‘SKVORTSOV.explained: that ‘the girls a . had refused to: come, but that he could ‘call another girl for... .. the American. "The ‘girl [identified by"NOSENKO in 1964. aS: oo Inga. VARLAHOVA] ‘was KGB* agent ‘of*GRYAZNOV's ‘who was used “'0 0 for such ‘operations, ‘and she “and ‘the ‘American ‘were. intimate’... > in -SKVORTSOV's ‘hotel ‘room. Th« an ‘adjacent: room were GRIBANOV,.. . NOSENKO,' .KOVSHUK, .and‘ another KGB:officer.~ In another’ oo. , adjacent room were technicians of the Operational Technical. _ Pixectorate,-who taped the ‘American's “conversations. hen a the American left SKVORTSOV's room’ at ‘two o'clock’ inthe 900 morning,;: he was. "very tipsy". NOSENKO and another officer Op “intercepted him in the: hallway) es¢orted. him into the adjacent. “room, and locked the door. “NOSENKO himself solicited the “ American's: collaboration with the KGB in exchange for’ .; notes)" and the promise’ of «additional ‘sums. When the American © '.. refused,-the KGB: officers. disclosed. their ‘knowledge of his’ > ~ pian to transfer to the State Department. ‘They threatened. — “;to inform, the Embassy- that’ he.had collaborated with the KGB," ~ an. which casehe would get neither. the cash nor the job with oo “Top Secret Copy 10°
14-00000 Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY. SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) the State Department. The American was adamant in his , | refusal, although he was held in ‘the hotel room all night long. At about six o'clock 'in-the morning the KGB officers | received a telephoned report that the Embassy Marine guard had called America House to advise that the American. was needed at the Embassy because an enciphered telegram had arrived. The American was then released, The KGB “knew" that the American did not report the recruitment attempt, Using that circumstance ‘for blackmail rather than the incriminating photographs, the KGB planned another attempt to recruit ‘him if he ever returned abroad. When the non-Soviet agent used in the first year of developing the American target had come to the attention of GOLITSYN, GOLITSYN visited the Embassy Section to'see if he could use him in First Chief Directorate operations abroad. NOSENKO was on leave at the time, but GOLITSYN talked with another Embassy Section officer. GOLITSYN was told "Don't _, touch him, he's ours". [The relevance of this incident is. discussed below.] . NOSENKO's Information-1964 _ At the second 'meeting with CIA in Geneva in 1964, NOSENKO identified the American military code clerk as {"Jim" 0) . STORSBERG. The foreign agent NOSENKO recruited™for the ~ case was (Johannes PREISFREUND?(KGB cryptonym "PROKHOR"), a Finn i! In repeating the substance of his 1962 account of the KGB recruitment attempt, NOSENKO emphasized his personal. _xole in directing both [PREISFREUND] and the KGB officer SKVORTSOV/MICHAUD. GRIBANOV and KOVSHUK, not NOSENKO, actually made the recruitment attempt. NOSENKO was not present; he waited utside the room with GRYAZNOV. Neither did NOSENKO recruit Q' (j, (PREISFREUND). The latter was recruited by KOVSHUK "who needed credit for the recruitment" although NOSENKO had initially cultivated thef Finn. !// Under KOVSHUK's orders, NOSENKO served as(PREISFREUND' case officer, although KOVSHUK accompanied him to operational meetings with the agent. oo ee TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy
74-0000 we 7 (AMERICAN EMBASSY. SECTION ~ January 1960-January 1962) 9 ~ _GREISPREUND was ‘used. in no- ‘KGB operation other. than in the development - of GTORSBERGO, His’ usefulness declined ~~ ° “because he was suspected, ‘particularly by: his feliow(Finng) [| os of. having. some relationship, with the KGB. oe Comment: A ‘report of ‘the security. ervice. oy advised CIA’ in ‘December’ 1960 that/P peteencoNs] 0s. - 2 "is 'a-Soviet agent. who- calls at. the America ~ "Club “in, Moscow. and develops Americans in an. attempt 1 to penetrate. ‘Western circles". after, GOLITSYN", s “defection” Lin December. 1961] ‘NOSENKO- (who oo: had by then: *ransferred: back tothe “Seventh : Department) ‘and KOVSHUK concluded’ that (PREISFREUND)thereby - had been’ ident i= 05. fied as a KGB* agent ‘to. American” Intelligence; - and that: oe ob PREISFREUND) should : not -be-used: again’ against American 9° - Embassy: personnel.-.NOSENKO - was” told .to‘use the {Finn} inde 5 ca -- Seventh. Department: ‘operations, but he was. unsuitable ‘since wo “he: Knew "w ony(Einnish[and Russians oO 3 a mf ize NOSENKO'! S. Information- 1965. Sgn! ‘the “Febru Ey-March. 1968 interrogations“ NOSENKO * woe ‘provided: ‘some additions as well. ‘as’ further amendments ‘toes, what’ he“had’ rélated earlier ‘about { STORSBERG. (/.GRYAZNOV wrote = . the. initial. operational’ plan;. which NOSENKO -read and: ~. Ss for.a detailed study of /STORSBERG)- Ob. sis :on which -to’ make ‘an- operas. cat - approved s-. ‘The - plan. called ,and the creation. (of. ‘some - ba ., tional... approach. The case. developed. Slowly in: 1960. - From Fook “gt ‘female. clerk. named ‘YAZHINSKAYA sand other: employees: in the: alee ish. _Embass Syl. (PRE [SFREUND obtained ° background’ information 04 “ 0 STORSBERG}- ‘who sometimes Visited thé “Sauna in’ the Finnish. oy ~cGmbassy 'P REISFREUND \was directed’ to visit America House ~ oe ~irr order to strike up an- acquaintance - inre/Stonsonngy and.” n _. when’ he was successful, ‘he managed to lure STORSBERG}to. hishG hotel room, where the KGB obtained -incrimi iting photographs. Ob oft STORSBERG) andthe. female agent Inga. VARLAMOVA. ‘\STORSBERG] 06 LEE as S_ rooms many times at. different. hotels © 1 in Moscow, ‘but~the KGB. took” incriminating photographs ‘on 169 7 oo er » GObL439 | ; ah TS No. 197124 © Top. Secret Copy 10
Co | Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION ~- January 1960-January 1962) — ob 06 only two occasions, (PREISFREUND] introduced (STORSBERG| to SKVORTSOV, and when ¢t ey had become acquaintéd, SKVORTSOV 04 invited (STORSBERG] to his room'at the Leningrad Hotel ona number of occasions, but (STORSBERG]alwa S refused. On one 06 evening in the middle of 1961, however, STORSBERG| accepted (6 SKVORTSOV's invitation in-the belief that he would meet hon-Soviet girlS. NOSENKO was in the hotel and he had | made arrangements with the KGB Operational Technical 8) et ct g 8) cr While NOSENKO waited outside the room, GRIBANOV attempted Ob to recruit (STORSBERG}on ideological rounds; his proposal was translated by KOVSHUKOG STORSBERG), ‘however, must have given SKVORTSOV's hotel ‘room telephone number to’ someone at the American Embassy; because while GRIBANOV was talking to him someone called SKVORTSOV's room looking for the American, When this happened; either GRYAZNOV or NOSENKO knocked on the door and a vised KOVSHUK that the Embassy was searching for [STORSBERGI!, The recruitment attempt was thereupon terminated, successfully. . NOSENKO “could not remember" if he had ever read the KGB file on See RG US lin describing KGB practice, NOSENKO consistently equated custody of a case file with being the responsible case officer.] He had no interest in “earlier ae _» xeporting", although he had read current Materials concerning . OO{STORSBERG) As they came into the Embassy Section, © ‘Comment: | NOSENKO at that time in 1965 was then confronted cripts in which he claimed ‘to have run. the Operation, to have been deeply: involved in it, and to have personally Spoken ‘to (STORSBERG] ()/ during the recruitment attempt. NOSENKO interrupted the réading of the transcript, Calling it "nonsense", ‘He said he was drunk at all the 1962. meetings in Geneva and was nervous in the presence of CIA officers. fe 1ii6h se oe - TS No. 197124 we | Top Secret Copy headin he