John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 sartec taut ats teat ap $i AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10256-10330 RECORD_ SERIES: NY AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR SEE TITLE ' DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC, NY TO: TITLE: CR 105-172079-SUB A-247 DATE: 05/24/1983 PAGES: 2 SUBJECT: KGB, ASSOC, LHO DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Secret NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: — 05/12/1998 UPDATE DATE: (2/14/2001 STATUS Redact ~ RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1)(B) JFK Act 6 (1)(C) COMMENTS: DoclId: 32191896 Page 1
“Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC ?i07 Hote). _DATE: 11-14-2017 ; Le ne PN 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 "traitor" in the eyes of the KGB 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 _following NOSENKO's defection tg do a damage assessment. As an aside, source noted thatf(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 Ss Directorate|@) ‘ Source has no knowledge concerning any nnection between the NOSENKO defection in 1964 and LEE HARYEY OSWALD.'s assassination of President JOHN F. NNEDY“UN "LOS PASS to give his opinion on the ome "speculajtion that NOSENKO defected under the directi of the KGB ¥o convince the US that the KGB had nothing tofdo with OSWALD's actions, source did not believe that to be the case. Infsource's opinion, NOSENKO's defection and all the inform&tion he furnished about the SCD would have been too great a pric to pay "to save one man.' Source does not believe that (‘the KGB would risk C89 "blowing an illegal" by tasking the illegal 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 tions, if they ever occurred, certai ended/ after OLEG LYALIN's defection in England in 1971 7) G) COMMENT : § In 1969 ATBLAST illegal} was, in fact, ordered. by the KGB to 969 [0 a to frerify ox. [ O's presence at a Washington, D.C. apartmght complex. fariast zh s not, hgwever, given NOSENKO's name but only a physical ription. () SECRET _ DoclId: 327191896 Page 2?
r Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 Ws¢ 2107 Hote). (DATE: 11-14-2017 oe Tone CO oatl SECRET MAY 24 1493 SUBJECT: LEE HARV. OSWALD CHARACTER: (epwoop) Is THE [copE NAME JASSIGNED TOA, kes CSI 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 4 S$ DIRECTORATE, HIS LAST POST BEING HEAD OF LINE N IN TEHRAN, | IRAN.| HE WAS. RECRUITED BY THE(KGB WHILE STUDYING PERSIANC.S } (WITH ENGLISH AS HIS SECOND LANGUAGE) AT THE MOSCOW SCHOOL | OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES.) HIS ENTIRE(KGBJCAREER HAS BEEN 5,3 DEVOTED TO/TRANIAN MATTERS RELATED. TO LINE N,\AND HE HAD © $J BEEN ASSIGNED TO THE/S DIRECTORATE (ILLEGALS) AT THE "CENTER") C3} PREVIOUS TO(HIS POSTING IN TEHRAN VG CLASSIFICATION: SECRET WFO BUREAU : ‘NEW YORK iff34-14546 |G) 1 -(405-340770. KS) ~~) - [105-172079 sus aS) Ll = 105-32555 = 1s = 1105-38431 1- 62-109060 L- 89-75 ALY, INFORMATION CONTAINED OTHERWISE SECRET ‘ ”y SERIALIZED iLED Lolth evs b@ SL pe alhs 2s iS (@ a4 DoclId: 327191896 Page 3