“Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote}. DATE: 11-14-2017 - JFK Assassination System ' Date: 6/9/2015 , Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: 124-10365-10011 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 65-68530-91 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: BRANIGAN TO: SULLIVAN TITLE: DATE: 03/04/1964 “PAGES: 5 SUBJECTS : NOSENKO RE OSWALD DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 3 CURRENT STATUS: —Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 10/16/1998 x OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE k COMMENTS : MEMO v9.1 | Docld: 32318816 Page 1
“2107 Hote} i r Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 use Mer i ‘ OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 3 5010-106 , ‘ fo . MAY 1962 EDITION ‘ ‘ “ “GSA GEM. 2h. NO. 27 »  - UNITED STATES Gt..x3RNMENT Memorandum TO Dey | W. Cc. Sullivan." wre 3/4/64¥ ™ 1 Belmont if ’ m4 1 ~- DeLoach \f W. A. Branigan , es 1 7 Sullivan Perens, -_ Gees th © f YURI IVANOVICH NOSENKC,! SY: ESPIONAGE - RUSSIA - a Sell & Mig Wore ™ Fh . Lgcangrenteg Tm CEA sass lee wt : a7 This memérandum summarizes the results of intévview aN 2 Pie i Nosenko by Bureau Agents during the week of 2/24-28/64 ; X SSE NEE Yuri Nosenko is the Soviet intelligence agent who 1 Shea i es /EXECIA in Geneva, Switzerland, 2/5/64. CIA furnished us with Shook! “es aQgormation concerning its intervie “of the subject. On 2/24 Bas ze ARgents began interviewing Nosenko. (He furnished considerable ' “em 2 sptormation concerning recruitments and recruitment attempts SoS gpinst United States citizens and United States Government en ‘the USSR. He stated that the Soviet intelligence Service. not infiltrated the FET. Most of the csady in our 1123 en] § furnished is”substantiated by facts already in our files./ro:% ,Lee Harvey Oswald, Nosenko said the KGB. considered him to Be iN a} junstable.. When toid that he could not stay in the Soviet Uni. attempted suicide by cutting his wrists and was rushed to a nN? 3S Through the Red Cross or Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), SSR ‘was permitted to stay in Minsk, Russia. Nosenko next heard a ‘ he visited tne Soviet Embassy, Mexico City, and MFA made inquQy sy the KGB and was told that he was of no value. Nosenko last. Qswald in connection with the assassination of President Ken: . yiccording to Nosenko, Marina Oswald was not. a KGB agent. Sh ; 2 3 q@ considered particularly intelligent and had been dropped fro: > 2 xy Komsomol (young communist group) for nonpayment of dues*JNoU____ ee furnished information which indicates Anatole Kotloby, subject of a ae | jcurrent investigation is identical with a KGB agent. He also furnisned ‘information. that a former governess of the c il LES esq) ef AMODiCHO K Ambassador in Moscow and now a teacher 4 \ y 7 recruited by the B,on the basis of he seduction by - tudents it Hh DH Ts SEnpE fle Ere | oof A-has stated it believes Nosenk ‘is ad was A Baeerg: 5 Wak 25 i964 [CY eption agent C4 ‘; i MAR, 23798 to disrupt American intelligence work, We"G"not actept: . this analysis as necessarily correct. We are interviewing Nosenko = with an open mind and are checking out tne information which ne furn After this has been done; it is beliéved ‘an.-intelligent evaluation ¢ be made of ‘his worth. Details of the highlights of the information ( “4 fyrnishdd gpko during the week of, 2/24-28/64 are attapged a Lc ; Ccmald nigermabron urn shee f - ZA Doclda: 32318816 Page ? eo ishes*. * f
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[Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 Sc Fro? Hote} > | RATE:, 11-14-2017 y nn . . aha . 7 Sy, cn ’ 4 4 . ty . x 2 °c . 4 b~ : . Memo W. A. Branigan to W. C. Sulliw Re: YURI IVANOVICH NOSENKO G) 65-68530 & ry Te? sedRer a 3. Johanna Ross. Johanna Ross is: an American citizen who went to Russia as a governess for the children-of the American Ambassador. Nosenko stated that she is promiscuous and was seduced by two African students and was then compromised by the KGB. Our files show that Ross is the holder of a current United St PSS passport and investigation of her background has been instituted Gs ty) 4 4, Information concerning various American citizens who have been compromised in the USSR_and recruitment attempts made against them has been given by Nosenko. [ He referred to the attempt to recruit Robert James Barrett, American medical student who was an interpreter at the United States Plastics Exhibition in Russia in 1959. No - [isso tn"t attempt was made in 1959; however, when he returned to } ~ Russia in 1961, he was recruited on the basis of the compromise effected: during his 1959 trip. Barrett is now an informant of the Bureau. In addition, Nosenko told of recruitment operations against employees of the American Embassy, such as James E. Keyzers, Joseph Marone, Matthew . Zujus, Edwin Smith, James Storsberg, Peter Binder and Walter Mule, all of which we had previously knowns 7 u) ; 5. Kintormation about attempts/ to recruit newspapermen stationed in Moscow has ben given by Nosenko, (He said an Associated iCud Press representative in Moscow had been recruited. At this time tHere py ave three representatives and we have opened cases to attempt to | ae oe a a ee eee — - > ca ae identify the one who has been recruited. osenko told of the recruitment | ‘of Sam Jaffe, . American Broadcasting Co ny correspondent in Moscow. | We have interviewed Jaffe_and he gave us this information prior to his recent return to Woséow. [Nosenko also claims that Thomas Whitney had furnished nonessential information to the KGB in Moscow but refused to do so on his return to the United States. He also said that Eddy Giimore | of the Associated Press was a recruitment target and that Francis Stevens | of United States News and World Report was compromised. We knew of the compromise action against Stevens since he had told us about it and we [arse knew that ‘Whitney and Gilmore, both married to Soviet citizens, were targets G> (uy AB ! 4 { 6. “Nosenko also gave information concerning individual ‘travelers to Russia, who had been recruited and individual case files. have been opened on them, {' g Rep S bop WG, | Docld: 32318816 Page 4