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 Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10006-10148 HQ 62-109060-2ND NR 8236X Document Information FBI HQ 05/24/1983 2 JFK, ASSA, LHO, KGB PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret IB; 1C Redact 05/12/1998 INDEFINITE Date: 4/9/2018
Released under .the John F. Kennedy, Asgassinatigqn Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107. Hote). _, PATE: 11-14-2017 a 5 ‘~ C _ SEC RE? | SUBJECT IYURTY I. wosenxo |(-2) CHARACTER: [Fez - R (5) CT ‘SECRET MAY 24 1993 (REDWoopD IS THE Gove name x ASSIGNED TO[A KGB LINE N OFFICER WHO HE WAS BORN 3/28/47 FECTED TO THE WEST IN JUNE, 198 ) HE WAS A(KGB MAJOR IN THE ILLEGALS DIRECTORATE, HIS LAST POST BEING HEAD OF LINE N IN TEHRAN, I (WITH ENGLISH AS HIS OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES BEEN ASSIGNED TO THE(S PREVIOUS TO(HIS POSTING IN TEHRAN a eT Kanne CLASSIFICATION: WFO . L cL: (fae 14546 a 4 ee 1 -[i0s-172079 sup _a}S) L = 134- 5437. 1 -|65 = 63530 )~ 1 - 105-5721 1-105-82555 [105~30431 [6 ) E02-109000 1 {89-75 yi 05-75832 1fo5-2634 109060 - Ff) Og NOT RECORDED ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED ~ 136 MUN 13 1983 HEREIN [5 uncLAaSStrrED EXCEPT —§-BORE TO WHESE SHOWN OTHERWISE, ——— ‘ i Claseified-by G-3— so ., CLASSIFIED BY: Stee Sib fee — he . REASON: 415 (ed ) aime DECLASSIFY ON: X_G@) (6 4 , : 69 L040 0 ~ poGaQautshl 4.1983 ed ) HE WAS RECRUITED BY THE{KGB WHILE STUDYING PERSIAN COND LANGUAGE) | ) HIS ENTIRE (KG DEVOTED TO(TRANIAN MATTERS RELATED’ TO LINE Bee ILLEGALS) AT THE "CENTER"}®) T THE MOSCOW SCHOOL ~ AREER HAS BEEN “) AND HE HAD S248 enati' pied oF 6 NINES TH Oe ae ORDA OD ts eh reene  —ter4¢ app ee
Released under the John F. Kennedy. Assassination. Records. Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 SECRET ae jdilsgetono Yu) SECRET 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 Ya) in the eyes of the KGB sa as far as-source is aware. Ad) - . 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. fr: an aside, source noted that{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 fs) ™~ 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. 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 \ bout the SCD wo have been too great a price to pay "to eave one man. Sila) Source does not believe that{the KGB would risk "blowing an illegal" by tasking the illegal oo attest 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, certajnly endedfafter OLEG LYALIN's:defection in England in 19715) COMMENT: — G) In 1969, [the ATLAST illegal]was, in fact, ordered by the KGB to attempt to verify NOSENKO's ge at a Washington, D.C. apartment complex. [ATLAST 2 not, wever, given NOSENKO's name but only a a escription. Gee) “hatte 3/17/58 ALD INFORMATION CONTATNED me. | CLASSIFIED BY: oi Gee. HEREIN I$ UNCLASSIFIED EXCEPT vad Ww OTHERWISE. jg" Pikee’ y . REASON: 1.5 WHERE SHOWN OTHERWI v ft Herenry DECLASSIFY ON: Ble) Docld: 32115307 Page 3 Ss E CRET a