AGENCY: “RECORD NUMBER: RECORD _ SERIES: AGENCY FILE NUMBER: ~MEMedy Assassination Records Collection A ERIK? arte) Les " AGENCY INFORMATION FBI 124-10006-10149 HQ 62-109060-3RD NR 8236X DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: HO TO: TITLE: DATE: 05/24/1983 PAGES: 2 SUBJECT: JFK, ASSA, LHO, KGB DOCUMENT TYPE: ORIGINAL Secret NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: 05/12/1998 UPDATE_DATE: STATUS  Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1)(B) | JFK Act 6 (1)(C) COMMENTS: DoclIda: 32115307 Page 1 PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT 11/16/2000
Released under the John F. Kennedy, Assassinatign Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107. Hote PATE: 11-14-2017 ao a a ee ws sceer (FORT MAY 24 1993 | SUBJECTIYURIY I. wosenxo |(D CHARACTER: )Fez - R (5) (REDWooD ts THE Gove naméf kssIGNED TOfA KGB _ LINE N OFFICER WHO DEFECTED TO THE WEST IN JUNE, 198 HE WAS BORN 3/28/47) HE WAS A(KGB MAJOR IN THE ILLEGALS DIREGIORATE , HIS LAST POST BEING HEAD OF LINE N IN: TEHRAN, HE WAS RECRUITED BY THE[KGB WHILE STUDYING PERSIAN _ (WITH ENGLISH AS HIS SECOND LANGUAGE) AT THE MOSCOW SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES)” HIS ENTIRE (KGBPCAREE HAS BEEN DEVOTED TO(TRANIAN MATTERS RELATED TO LINE NO AND HE HAD ~ BEEN ASSIGNED TO THE(S DIRECTORATE, (ILLEGALS) AT THE "CENTER "}S) PREVIOUS TO(HIS POSTING IN TEHRAN JS) CLASSIFICATION:  SECRET_ An fo er Ksanod Cex. — - Assassinat ii oe _ we " sedead oe . NEW YORK - | + [isa-1asae (6) i 1 -fibs- 21077 1 -[105-172079 sus _a}S) Lo- 134~+ 5437 1 -|65 = 63530 J | 1 + 105-057e21 1-105-32555 “ i- [u05-30u31 [S ) To2-109000 Lf39~ a? 6) Erie) Beall 2. jogned- | NOT RECORDED ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED - x36 MUN 1 © HS HERETN [5 UNCLASSTFTED EXCEPT —§-E-€-f8 ET WHESE SHOWN o Se, os a set edge nla Deciaseitied-on-GA58 ° . GES ., CLASSIFIED BY: Stee SLd feer. — - REASON: 1.5 (¢ ) . Ae forsee _DECLASSIFY ON: XC) - . ‘SECRET naar WR eae ro Ge Qadri 4.1983 |
Released under the John F. Kennedy. Assassination. Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). PATE: 11-14-2017 SECRET |b af wo its . YURIS.E.¢$NOSENKO &) es fe. On 1/17/83, source was queried concerning any knowledge he might have of the NOSENKO matter. He advised that "officially" the KGB never discusses defectors and generally all one would hear would be rumor and gossip. NOSENKO is considered a 2 Ya1) in the eyes of the KGB gant Sa as far as-source is aware. AL). . The source assumed that NOSENKO told western intelligence everything concerning Second Chief Directorate (SCD) activities in Moscow and further assumes that, as is custom, a "special Commission" of the SCD was convened Ollowing NOSENKO's defection to do a damage assessment. fis an aside, source noted thatf{his defection: would be examined" by members of the K Directorate of the First Chief Directorgte and by members of the 9th Department of the S Directorate f/8) Source has no knowledge concerning any connection a between the NOSENKO defection in 1964 and LEE HARVEY OSWALD's , assassination of President JOHN F. KENNEDY in 1963. Asked . to. give his opinion on the merits of some speculation that | NOSENKO defected under: the direction of the KGB to convince . the US that the KGB had nothing to do with OSWALD's actions, ‘ source did not believe that to be the case. In source's | Opinion, NOSENKO's defection and all the information he furnished \ about the SCD wo have been too great a price to pay "to eave one man. "Yay Source does not believe thatfthe KGB would risk "blowing an illegal" by tasking the illegal to. attempt to locate a defector such as NOSENKO in the west] Likewise, source has never heard that the KGB killed or attempted to kill a defector. Such actions, if they ever occurred, certainly ended{after OLEG LYALIN's:defection in England in 19716) COMMENT: — | G) In 1969, [the ATLAST illegal]was, in fact, ordered by the KGB to attempt to verify NOSENKO's pr. gence at a Washington, D.C. apartment complex. [ATLASTI@ s not, however, escription. given NOSENKO's name but only a physical . | 3/17/58 ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED oe CLASSIFIED BY: S668 Sep/@ee- . S$ UNCLASSIFIED EXCEPT Rpg, Pea e aman oreeRWTSE. Cis .° REASON: 15 (ad ) at 'SreR FT DECLASSIFY ON: X_G2(e) " , 2 WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE. ije a “¢ Docld: 32115307 Page 3 S E CRET a—
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