v9.1 HW 53310 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : “RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : JFK Assassination System Date: 8/26/20] Identification Form Agency Information LBJ 177-10001-10076 NSF, COUNTRY FILE, USSR, NOSENKO DEFECTION, 2/64, BOX 229 Document Information DOS BUNDY, MCGEORGE 02/11/1964 2 [Restricted] MEMORANDUM Top Secret Withhold 06/06/1995 Released under the John Kennedy WSsassination Records ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#:iNW 533510 Date: 6-14-2017 DOC. #13, CIA, E.O. 12356, Sec. 1.3(a)(4) Docld: 322762916 Page 1
HW 53310 (— ( FRU eD f . . a} i CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 11 February 1964 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. McGeorge Bundy SUBJECT: Yuri Ivanovich NOSENKO 1. This memorandum refers to the State Department release of 10 February on subject case and provides addi- tional background as well as information on his current status. 2. As a KGB staff officer, NOSENKO is regularly assigned to the Counterintelligence Directorate of the KGB in Moscow but was included in the Soviet delegation to the Disarmament Conference as part of a cover arrange- ment which permitted him to carry out intelligence and security functions in Geneva on behalf of the KGB. 3. NOSENKO also attended various sessions of the Disarmament Conference held in Geneva in 1962, During _ the course of these sessions NOSENKO sought contact with officials of the U. S. Government, informed these officials that he was affiliated with the Soviet State Security ap- paratus and volunteered to aid the U. S. Government in detecting Soviet subversive activity directed against the U. S. Government. During the course of his contact with U. S. authorities NOSENKO stated that his cooperation with the U. S. Government originated with his distaste and hatred for the Soviet regime in general, with his desire to obtain revenge for the unjust death of his father, a senior official in the Soviet shipbuilding industry, and with the general admiration of the Americans with whom he had come in contact within the Soviet Union, 4, In late January 1964, NOSENKO arrived in Geneva, again masquerading as a member of the Soviet delegation to the Disarmament Conference. Subject secretly notified his CIA contacts in the United States concerning his pres- ence in Geneva and arranged to meet with these contacts. During a series of meetings NOSENKO provided information including documents concerning Soviet State Security acti- vities within the USSR and abroad and a detailed account of the KGB operation against.U. S. Professor Barghoorn which NOSENKO said he had personally supervised at the direction of SEMICHASTNIY, the Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB). Docld: 322782916 Page 2? ~
HW 53310 5. During these most recent meetings NOSENKO announced his desire to leave the USSR permanently and seek his future in the West. He claimed his new work in the KGB (First Deputy Chief of that department charged with the surveillance and recruitment of American visitors to the USSR) was ex- panding and that he would not be able to visit the West with any frequency. Accordingly, he prepared a request for political asylum in the United States. He was taken to Frankfurt, Germany where he is currently undergoing interro- gation. Plans are now being made to remove him to the U. S. 6. It should be noted that CIA contact with Subject has not been extensive and that we will require additional thorough interrogation to establish Subject's bona fides. It should also be noted that NOSENKO's duties were not con- cerned with substantive aspects of the Disarmament Conference, and he therefore is not expected to be able to shed much, if any, light on that area of our interest. 7. The possibility that NOSENKO's defection was de- Signed to wreck the conference was most carefully considered. The decision to accept him was taken on the conviction that the Soviets would not have chosen such a vulnerable agent (staff officer of the KGB) for this kind of move. — Thomas H. Karamessines Acting Deputy Director for Plans Docld: 322782916 Page 3