Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: — FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10240-10234 RECORD _ SERIES: NY AGENCY FILE _ NUMBER:  105-38431-1387 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: 05/24/1983 PAGES: 2 SUBJECT: SEE FBI 105-82555-1ST NR 5762 DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Secret NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: — 05/12/1998 UPDATE DATE: 02/14/2001 STATUS Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1)(B) JFK Act 6 (1)(C) COMMENTS: DoclId: 321845274 Page 1
Releagzed’ under the John F. Kennedy Assassination. Records Coljection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). path: 11- 14- 2017 : SECRET GAY £4 1983 SUBJECT: LEE HARVEY OSWALD CHARACTER: FCI - R (REDWooD IS THE (CODE nau) AssTGNED TO (A 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 DIRECTORATE, HIS LAST POST BEING HEAD OF LINE N IN TEHRAN, TRANY*/ HE WAS RECRUITED BY THE(KGB WHILE STUDYING PERSIAN (WITH ENGLISH AS HIS SECOND LANGUAGE) THE MOSCOW SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES” HIS ENTIRE(KG ER HAS BEEN DEVOTED TO ({RANIAN MATTERS RELATED TO'LINE M@'AND HE HAD BEEN ASSIGNED TO THE(S DIRECTORATE (ILLEGALS) AT THE "CENTER" }G) PREVIOUS TO(HIS POSTING IN TEHRAN.V/S CLASSIFICATION: SECRET WFO BUREAU NEW YORK 1fi34-14546]G ) 1 -(f0s-340770 KS) x. - (195-172079 sus es) 2 = 1405-52555 ~ 105-33431 1- 62-109000 L- 89-75 SECRET i SEARCHED - INDEXED Classified by G-3 | sewiatize JB @ peo : * CLASSIFIED ny: See 8 Seo/eee Deciassified on QADE AY 2% 1983 » RERSON: ‘ (¢ oa ic NEW YO! » RECLASSIFY ON: X_ Glee eleord FeITNEW VOR | FE? % 3/1/98 DoclId: 3271845274 Page 2?
Released under. the. John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 - M SECRET - . . May 24 1993 SUBJECT:YURIY I. NOSENKO CHARACTER: FCI - R G) , 0 () (REDWooD] Is THE (CODE NAME)ASSIGNED TO[A KGB LINE N OFFICER WHO DEFECTED TO THE WEST IN JUNE, 1982. HE WAS BORN 3/28/47-> HE WAS A(KGB MAJOR IN THE ILLEGALS DIRECTORATE, HIS LAST POST BEING HEAD OF LINE N IN TEHRAN, | TRAN.|G/HE WAS RECRUITED BY THE(RKGB WHILE STUDYING PERSIAN (WITH ENGLISH AS HIS SECOND LANGUAGE) AT THE MOSCOW SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES} HIS ENTIRE [KGBPCAREER. HAS BEEN DEVOTED TO(IRANIAN MATTERS RELATED. TO LINE N}AND HE HAD BEEN ASSIGNED ‘TO THE(S DIRECTORATE (ILLEGALS) AT THE “CENTER*{S) PREVIOUS TO(HIS POSTING IN TEHRAN” 3) CLASSIFICATION: SECRET WFO BUREAU NEW YORK | 1+ (aa-14546 (S$) 1 - 105-340770_\S) 1 - (105-172079 SUB als ) Lo = 134- 5437 . 1-65 = 63530 1 - 105-65721 1-105-82555 & 1105-38431 1-62-109000 1-89-75 l- [e5~75032" KS) . 1 65-2340 ]@ : 5 . otawer eter MoS 3493) - 7 SEARCHED INDEXED | SEAIALIZE FILED | | (s Ff) ¥bage= Hobe ered | MAY 23 1983 “CLASSIFIED BY: S668 Sto /oce FSI-NEW YorK REASON: i5 (ae 4a DEGLASSIRY ON; 0006] Docld:
‘Released under: the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 > - >» & \Y Narn ¢ SECRET YURI I. NOSENKO 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 "trgitor" in the eyes of the KGB as far as source is aware. Oh.) The source assumed that NOSENKO told western intelligence everything concerning Second Chief Directorate (SCD) activities in Moscow and further assumes that, as is custom, a "special. Commission" of the SCD was convened following NOSENKO's defection tg do a damage assessment. S an aside, source noted that (his defection would be "examined" by members of the K Directorate of the First Chief Directorate and by members of the 9th Department of the s Directorate "}(§) Source has no knowledge concerning any connection between the NOSENKO defection in 1964 and LEE HARVEY OSWALD's assassination of President JOHN F. KENNEDY in 1963. Aske 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 yould have been too great a price to pay "to Save one man. '{4é) “ , Source does not believe that [Ehe KGB would risk “blowing an illegal" by tasking the ill@gal t attempt to locate a defector such as NOSENKO in the west Likewise, source has never heard that the KGB killed or attempted to kill a defector. Such actions; if they ever occurred, certainly endedfafter OLEG LYALIN's defection in England in 1971S) COMMENT: ‘> In 1969, (the ATLAST illegaljfwas, in fact, ordered by the KGB to attempt to verify NOSENKO's ence ata Washington, D.C. apartment complex. [ATLAS s not, hgwever, given NOSENKO's name but only a physical description. ) Ga) toile ante LASSIFIED BY:_Sb68 Spo/acy" < REASON: 1.5 (ed) = tDECLASSIFY ON: X_G)/g) | Docld:321645274 Page 4 SECRET