FROM 835 PP STUDY DERYABIN ON NOSENKO.
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6!5.

B. Viers of Intellierce Feiscont:

1. Statement by DERiANI

z. Introjuction

Former KGB offiser Peter Sergeyevich DERYABIN has follored

closely the entire course of CIA's investigation of NOSAKU and

his information.

He took part in the interrogations of hosaNku

in April 196%, January-February 1965, and Ectober 1966 as an ob-

server and consuitant, and he personally questioned NOSENKO during

July and august igc5 concerning certair aspects of his personal

past and early kO3 career.

On the tasis of his direct, personal

krodledge of conditions within

the sourt. Unior. and of KGy

zation ard procedures prior to

his cofection in Frbruary 1954.

-supplemerted by continuing

De litar information irom a

variety of sources, DERYABIN is uf

that much. or anat

for distorted. Me ough DEral dee does able to offer,

NOSENKO has said azou: Himself and the win ts purposefully false

authorita-

tave comment on many aspects ot locro's story, the follering

scction ne this paver

is limited cohog tracks

sorcerning loSer-

KO's entry irto the KGB (ther. Nu)

and his Communist Farty affili-

ation, both of chich fall into the bariur when

¿ERYABIN

a KGB (then Mid) stafs officer.

DERYAild personally inceiro-

NOSENKO on thise topics in the sumer ci

JABIN MaS a personnel officer of the Kha (then HGB and IDi in

roscon, with lorg experience in Cormunist Party activities, at

the time Nostro claims to have enterra the Americar. Departmen:

of the KGy Second Chief Directorate,

¡e is parcicularly qualified

to comment on these aspects of lioseiko's story.

DERYAZIN,

as a Soviet Army officer. das graduated in 1945

fron the higher counterintelligene? schoo; of Stersh (counter-

intelligence with the Soviet Armed Forces.

worked in Naval Snersh in Moscow and in March 1947 began to work

in the MGB as a case officer in the Central Personnel Directorate.

shortly afterards, when his supcrior ras spopinted Deputy Chiuf

of the Chicf Guards Directorate

for fersornel, DERYAgili trans-

Ferred with him to the Guards Directurate.

He served as a Guards

Sirectorate persornel officer until May 1952, rising throuch the

ranks from case officer to the position of Chie!

of his responsibilities

was the upproval of personnel for service

in various units of the Guards Directorate, and he was also in

charge of supervising persornel

security matters concerning

one of the Directoräte's surveillance sub-sections.

After requesting a change from personnel to operational

duties, DERYABIN waS transferred ir May 1952 to the Austro-German

Department of the MGB Foreign Intelligence Directorate.

December 1952 he served as the Driputy Chief of a sub-section ir.

the Counterintelligence Selitor (desk) of the Austro-Gerian Depart-

ment.

He was then appointed Deputy thiet of the Intelligence

Sektor. of the same department,

a position he heir until March

1953.

From March until September 1953, DERYAPIN waS the Leputy

Chief of the section in MGB Headquarters which was responsible.

for the security of Soviets stationed in Austria and Germany•

In September 1953 he was transferred to Vienna, ¡here he became

Deputy Chief of the section in the tid legal Residency respons-

ible for the security of Soviets in Austria. He defected to

American authorities on 15 February 1954.

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until 1940, when

he tecame a cardid: to nonur of the Conturist

Party of the Soviet Union; he became i full Party member in

August 1941.

During i.15

Party career he held a number of responsi-

ble posts.

Before the war.

chen DERYARIN Nas a teacher in Alta!

Kray, he was the

secietary of a local forsonol unit and simultan-

eously served us a member of the Konsomol Flenut ir the reyon

where he lived.

From Octoler 1940 until Novenker 1941 he was

Secretary of the Komsomol Conmittee of the 107th Engineer Battalion

of the Red Army and fron June 1945 until April 1946 held the same

position in the Konsonol Committee of the Naval Smersh.

This was

the unit which had particiar responsiblity for courterintelli-

gerce work within the Naval GRU, which NUSEKO said he joined in

1951.

In the HiGh DEPYABIN was i member of the Party Committee of

the Personnel Section of

the juards Directorate and, after his

transfer, was eitcted Secretary of the Parry Mileau of the dustro-

German Department of the Foreign Intelligence Directorate.

He held

this post from January 1953 until his transfer to Austria 1a Sep-

tember 1953.

b. DERYASIN'S Conments

The following statements by DERYA!IN are based on his question-

ing of NOSENKO botween 26 July and 13 August 1965.

The questions

asked an the statements attricuted to NOSENKO (referred to as

Sucject)

hithoto! the joviet State Sceu-

rity Service did not become kevin

as the KGB until March 1954,

this term is used for convenience

sake, excopt where the specific

organization of the Mob or MiD 1s under discussion. DERYAGIN'S

comments follod:

"NOSENKO's Acceptance into State Security*

"Taking NOSENKO's own statements at face value,

it is highly

improbable that a person

nas descrived hinself to be

would be acceptable

for a position is a staff officer in State

Security. The following factors are important in this regard:

It was the policy of State Security to avoid hiring

the children of high goverr..ent officials.

D.

Until, STALIN's death ir. March 1953, KOBULOV, the

man who supposedly helped NOSEKO guin intrance irto the

service, had no influence inside the loB apparatus.

about 1948 until 9 or 10 March 1952, XOBULOV nad no office

inside the MGB or the MVD huildings.

in these years KOBULOV worked in Germany as Daputy Chief of

the GUSIMZ (Chief Directorate of joviet Properties Abroad) **

which was once directly under the Council of Ministers and

later under the Ministry of Forsign Trade.

The office was

located on Chkalova Street, near the Kurskiy Railroad

Station (three biocks from my former avartnert).

* See also Part V.B.

** WISMUT A.G. in Germany was subordinate to GUSINZ; for a

further discussion of KOBULOV's role in helping NOSENKO

join the NG3, see Part V.B.

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617.

c. It was physically impossible at the time for "CSEvio

to be recommended for and

accepted into State Sscurity, as he

has told us, all an one month,

March 1953.

lif one accepts

his earlier

version that he had his talk with KOBUlov in Jan-

uary or february, his ascount is similarly impossible because

KOBULOV was not then in State Gecurity.

It would normally

have taken a mich longer time, bit in addition to this it was

a period of reorganization and the personnel staff was rot

actively conducting their work it that time, aro permesent

stalf officers were not sure that they would

positions.

d. In Warch 1953 NOSE EO was lready twenty-five ard a

half years old and orly a merter of the fonsorol.

He had no

reconnendation for Party membelshin are could rot beconc a

menüar for i full icar cecause of his transier frot. one ser-

vice (GRU, to another.

1t is impossible that State security

would accept hin krowing in advance that on his birthday re

would be trenty-six yeurs old and vithout rither Komsonol or

Party membership. Even for the son of a Minister, the Secze-

tary of the Konsorol Committee of the kGs would have to talk

with the fersonnel Office and would not cive a recommendation

for his acceptance, especially for tre Interral Counterintel-

ligence (Securd chief) Directorate.

in the

case of a son

of

a Minister and one dho 18 recommendra by KOBULOV, the secre-

tary would request from NOSENKO i recormerdation for Party

membership from the merbers of the Cornunist Party where

NOSENKO used to work, in this case the GPU.

In this way the

secretary of

the Konsomol would be sure himself that NOSENKO

would become a candidate member of the Communist Party during

the next year.

"Horever, even accepting that despite these obstacles and

contradictions the KGB

would have accepted him,

ore must also

remember (according to NOSPNKO's own statements) that NOSEiKO'S

file contained the following negative points.*

They are serious

factors and certain of them alone would be enough to cause the

rejection; the totality makes it difticult to believe that at a

State Security organs anyone would take the

responsibility of accepting him:

Subject was already marrird and divorced before entry

into State Security.

He haû been married to General TELEGIN's daughter

and TELSSIN had been arrested by State Security and was in

jail the day that Subject entered State Security.

c.

NOSENKO said that there was a file on NOSENKO's

father in which compromising material was collested on

NOSENKO agreed that one piece of infor-

the fact that

sentence as a courter-revolutionary.

The social

status background in the life of Subject's

mother was nobility.

See

also

Part IV.B.

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c. The shooting incident in Leningrad Curing do=la

War Il and lis desertion fron the Naval Screal ir.

nould have played a very negative inle in any consideration

of his acceptance

State Securitv.

Subject never completed high school in the normal

fasnion.

Subject was a poor student at tre Institute of Irter-

national Relations.

h. It should be adied that the iGu dold definitely

know that: NosE:o was involved in an

ancomobile accident

in 1947 and was interrogated by the Militia (traffic court),

found guilty, and fired.

This would definitely play a

negative role in NoSEko's admission to

the KG.

i. NUSEKO rould never be allowed to enter the KGB having

recovered from luberculoyis.*

In fact, there was a rule

at that time that no person who ever had tucerculosis leven

twentyyears earlier) would lie pernitted to work in the KGB.

"In addition,

after acceptance, the fact that KoBtlOV was a

personal frierd of Subject's father,

as he has told us, would

have teen noted in the file and would have played a regative role

in permitting Subject to continue to work in State Security after

KOBULOV'S arrest in June 1953.

"I asked Subject how he answered some of the questions in the

anketa (entry questionaire), particularly the questions on his

former wife, her relatives, and on his mother's ancestry.**

then asked Subjest how it was, raking into account his mother's

her fatrer died in jail, the

the fact that

Subject's former father-ir-law (TELFCI) was still in jail,

the fact that Subject was present when Tetroit's apartment was

searched--that he had beer. accepted into the Kos, particularly

in 1953 during the confusion and changes after the death of StALIN.

Subiect ainitted that the question was logical, and said that he

could only assume that the enfluence

and influential position of his own father ortweighei these rega-

tive factors.

le also cited his GRU experience in this connectior.

"I then asked Subject how he had reported his second marriage

to the KGB.

He replied that before the marriage he had mentioned

* NOSTKO first mertioned having had tuberculosis during the June

1962 meetings, when he described it as a minor case but said he

was under out-patient treatment until 195e.

He next mentioned

his illness in

1966, describing how he sometimes coughed up a

"alass of blood" at a time. Although DERYABIN's questioning

covered this part of NOSENKO's life in detail, there was no

nention of tuberculosis in July and August 1965.

comment is based on the 1966 information but is

included here

for purposes of context.

**The anketa and DERYABIN's questioning on this subject are dis-

cussed further below.

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619.

1t DIieSlY tO GURBAIENKO, aru that he dee unultecially run a name

check on his prospective

'clean'i,

and triat afeer

the marriage he had fillei out enoche: albera: waich be inclused

all the required data on his vile and tre relatives.

kiter con-

siderable prompting, Subject said that to tid indicated thes she

and her parents had been in

iraice, but that he tar concealed the

fact that her grandmother had scer.

ir furman-occupied territory

during tre var.

(He admitted that the "eu would have learned this

1n a routine check, novever.)

I then reviewed for subject the

negative security

factors mentioned alove, adding the arrest of

KOBULOV, the fact that his ner

wife and her parents had been

abroad.

the fast that her grarcmother was in

german-occupied

the fact that Subject was ron over-ige for the komsorol

but not yet a Party member or candidate.

and the fact that Subject

rcacived a 15-day sertence for misuse of cover docunents anâ ta-

curring venereal disease, and asked

if he didn't think that his

personnel file had been reviered in

1954, and if so, what grounds

there could have been for retaining him in the isil.

that he thought that his file probably was revirved but that

again the influence of his father had save him.

Subject added

that another important factor was prorably his language qualifi-

cation and particularly his hicher caucation.

I pointed out to

Subject that if his second wife and hor parents had heen abroad

it was impossible that her name check could have bren negative.

He admitted it was illogical, but insisted that this was so.

"NOSENKO'S Knowledue of KS3e 1953-54

"Entry Date Into KGB: NCSENKO was reminded that he had

pre-

viously giver. varying dates for his entry on dury in the KCo.

He

replird that he did not renember tre oract date, but he was sure

that it was in the middle of Sarch 1053 - porhaps 13 or 15 March

give no explanatior. for

shy he previously claimed to have aurered the KeB in

in fact it would to very cural for a kge officer to

forget his exact entry-on-duty date to the very day because it

is used to compute length

of service and must be entered

on vari-

ous forns from time to time.

"merial Desicnation of the intelliccuch and Counterintelil-

gence Directorates ir 1953:

Asked in describe what directorates

existed in the MVD while BAKiYA was Minister (March-Jure 1953).

NOSENKO named the First Chief Directerate (FCD) ard the Second

Chief Directorate (SCD) which he said were the intelligence ano

counterintelligence directorates respectively.

sure, NOSERO said he was positive,

end that the only charge that

took place was that later, under KRUGLOV, for a few months only,

the FCD became the

NOSENKO stuck to this

even when told he was wrong; he did not say he did not know or

did not rementer, perhaps realizing that he could not claim not

to remember what directorate he served in.

( Actually, the change

in numerical designationg

was instituted by BERIYA right after

STALIN'S death in March 1953 and persisted until the KGB was

organized ir. March 1954.

Thus, NOSENiO does not know what the

correct designation of his own directorate was at the time that

he allegedly entered on duty with Soviet State Security and for

the entire first year of his alleged service there.

* NOSENKO on other occasions has given various reasons why he

told CiA that he joined the KuB in 1952. See Part V.B.

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"SUD Leadershipe 1953-54: isred in marn the chiefs un tis

directorates and separate departmerts of the iD under EaRliA

and KAUGLOV, NOSINKO naned rine cut of id. in ver urabic to rate

the Crief of the Irtoliidence

Directorite, sayior that hu rura-

bered only swamouslY ipousand das chirt artie 1955). acke?

to nae KRUGLOV's deputies, dosed nanca only ROMASHKOY ana

SEROV.

and was ignorant of

such prominent diputies as LUNSV and

SHATALIN.

Iold that a

secretary of the Central Connittee of the

CPSU ras one of KRUGLOy's deputies at this tiro (SPArALl), lus-

ENKO flatly donied that this nas possile.

"Organization of hot:

NuSeks did not krow dhen the KiGL was

organized (karch 1954).

He said that it was in early 1955 or

late 1954.

told that he was a year off and asked to think it

Over, NOSINKD insisted that he was right.

"Processing Procedures for imployee wizL KGE:

NOSENKO 'S

story ahout how he wis processed for employment with the KGB ir.

1953 is irconsistent with the procedures used it that time.

does rot know many of the things inet he

should know about cr.-

trance procedures; he is wrony about

many of the things that he

claims to remenber.

The disparities are so great that they can-

not be explained (as NOSEiKO

attempts to do) by the claim that

KOEtLOV's recommendation resulted in à simplified entrance pro-

cedure for NOSEiKO.

"The most important document filled cut by prospective en-

ployees of Soviet State Security is a detailed personal history

questionnaire, called in Russian inketa spetsalnogo reenacheniya

sotrucnika KGB.

inas exhaustive questionnaire is 16 pages long,

and filling it out is an experience that onc is not likely to

forget.

A backgrouna

investigation

is run on the basis of this

questionnaire, which itself becone:

y permanert and promirent

feature of the employee's personnel file.

NOSENKO renenbers

filling out a questionnaire, but does not know its designation.

He asserts that it was only 4-6 pages

He asserts that he

filled it out at home, and submitted it in

two copics shortly

before entering on duty.

Actually, this questionnaire was re-

quired in one copy only.

and was never permitted to re taken

since it was a classified document (even when not filled

"NOSENKO insists that he did

not have to take a indical exan-

ination prior to entering the kos.

This is not possible.

an examination was a routine and mandatory part of the processing.

I carnot think of any instance in which it would be waived.**

*DERYABIN's Views are basca on NOSENKO's statements ir. August

In his criginal biographical statement (1962), NOSENKO

said that no arketa was required.

He implied

most recent statement

by DERYABIN. This

in April 1966, after being quest tones

statement is given in Part V.E.

**See remarks above concerning NOSENKO's alleged treatment for

tuberculosis from 1952 to 1958.

TUt SECRET

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621.

"HOStio's descriprior si the secrecy astonent that te

on duty mith the ken is corpletels unlike

the agrechunt that was in use at that time let stafe employes.

•It may be significant that Mostio's description ne the secrecy

agreement he recalls siguing resennles the serrecy agreements

"NOSENKO irsists that he diù not fill out iny other forms.

suestiornaires,

papers when entering the keh.

Actually, there

were a number of other routine forms that nad to te filled out by

applicarts ard new employees.

"Incation of ROFINKO's office: NUSE KO says that all his

entry processing

was handied by & persurrel officer named

KO and his staff.

He asserts that POZHENko's office, whish tos-

EliKO visited several times in early 1953, was located on the 5th

flour, 8th entry, Building No. 12,

Szerzhinakiy Street.

In fact,

neither ROZHENKO

nor any officers or units of

the Personnel De-

partment were located in the Bch ertry.

They were all (including

RUSHENKO) located on the oth and 7th floors of the lth entry os

Building lio. 12.*

"Rank Pay:

hoked about his salary when he first started to

work ir the

KGB, NOSENKO said he got a basic salary of 1700 rubles

as a case officer, 500 rubles

for his rank of lieutenant, plus

secrecy, language, ard longevity pay:

Iin insisted that this was

correct, even when told that KS3

officers were ro longer being

paid for rank in March 1953, and said that although he remembersa

that there das che year--i954-nher they were not paid for rank.

he was sure that when

he first onurred or. duty he received this

pay.

Salary for rank

was taken away from State Security officers

in September 1952 ard was not restored until April 1354.

"Promotion to Senior Lieutenant: In giving the chronology

of his promotion to various military raris, NOSENKO claimed to

have keen promoted to senior lieutenant in April 1953, shortly

after joinirg the kGB.

Told tha: this was impossible, and that

no one in the KGB was promoted at this time, NOSENKO replied that

he couldn't say about anyone else but he was sure that he had re-

ceived his promotion at that time.

In fact, this is impossible:

all promotions in the KGB were frozen fron

the time BERIYA took

over as minister (March 1953) until late 1953.

"Visitor': Fass Procedures:

In talking about his first visit

to the KGB to prosess for employment, NOSEKo was unable to re-

call the procedures employed by the KGB Pass Office in issuing

visitor's passes.

Specifically, he maintained that the name of

the interviewer was not indicated on the päss.

In fact, the

name of the interviewer did appear on the pass and the inter-

viener had full responsibility for the visitor while he was on

Nhile it is understandable that NOSENKO might

have forgotten the details involved if he had only visited there

a fer times more than ten years ago,

if he worked at KGB Head-

quarters for over ten years as a

staff officer and particularly

as a supervisor he would have frequent occasion to admit visitors,

and thus should know visitor's pass procedures quite well.

**OSTRO has since said that he spoke to ro personnel officers

prior to acceptance by the iGs or afterwards, thereby indicatig

that his statements to DERYABIN were untrue.

See Part V.B.

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622.

"Unescorted Entry into l'GE huilding with Visitor'= Rass:

describing

his flist day at hork,

nosaird sair

that he"ent foca

the Pass Office, where he obtaned a visjtoris pass, to :he str.

entry of the icilding lio. à, where his pass tas cheched by tha

guards, ard then went unescorted to rositov's office on the third

Challerged on this point, he said he was sure tiat it ras

possible to enter nithout an escort.

In fact, it was accolniely

incossible to go inrough ery entry

of Hurlding No. 2 without

escort if you did not have a uroperly stampe: kOS (MO) ldentati

documert (see belúa).

"KOD Identitz Bacaonte MOstini: war asked to describe tl:

identity cocumert

le incented when he firer entered are

Fe ras thea askea 1i there das anything unusual in connee-

tion with this document at that time.

lie: replied that he kren of

nothirg unusual.

tie was then reminded that afzer STALi's death

ard again after

¡ERIT'S arrest it was recesaty to have special

stanps placed in the identity documores to validate them.

out the right stamp it was impossitie to enter the KGB sailaing.

NOSEIKO was ignorant of this and was reble to recall aiything

about it despite a number

of hints ina leading questiors.

ally, curing the period of upheaval folionire SIALIN's death

again after BERIX's arrest, all Kob idently documents were ten-

porarily witadrawn in order to have special valication stamps

placed ir them, and it was literally impossible to get in the

NGs tuildings if one did not have the right stamp.

This was the

subject of numerous aneccotes at the tine ard is hard to believe

that ar officer it.o

served in the KGB at the time could have fur-

gotten it completely.

"Gastronom:

isked to describe the sign in front of the KGe

NOSENKO said that he did not remember any sign lthere was

one in 1953) but mentioned that there das

a Gastronom

isted when the Castronom das opened, he

said firmly that it was already there nten he started to norx

in the kGB.

In fact, this Gastronct was definitely not there as

It ras opened sonetite between 1955 and 1957. as Mosco

dircciories shor.

The KiSs Club is

entry No. 1 of Buildirg

Dzerzhinskiy Square,

ard tossino would have had to

it every day he

sent to work.

"Chief Directerate of Militia:

Asked where the Chief Direc-

torate of Militia of the USSR was

located in 1953-54, NOSENKO

replied that he did not krow, and knew only that later it was

located on Ulitsa Ogareva.

Actually, in 1953-54 it was located

next to the main XGo building at Dzerzhinskiy No. 2.

officer in the counterintelligence

directorate would have fre-

quent occasion to deal with the Chief Directorate of Militia.

Kot. (committee of IrEgrmation):

Asked where the Intelli-

gence Directorate of the siD was locatea in 1953, MOsaiko replira

that it was scattered between Dzerzhinskiy No. 2, the agricultural

Exhibition, the K.I. buildiro.

and Kiselniy Pereulok.

a confused

and incorrect answer.

Asked for clarification, NOS-

ENKO said that he had never visited either the K.I. or the First

Chief Directorate building at the Agricultural Exhibition.

NOSENKO seems to be unaware that the K.I. has not existed since

1951, ard that the K.I. building and the building at the igri-

cultural Exhibition were one and the same place.

THERET

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Second chief Directorain, Nde

"NOSEIKO claimed to have become a member at the korisonol

Organization (i/U) of the ko: when he onsered or duty in March

1953, to have been elecied as secretary if konaurol organization

of the second thief Directorate in the fill of 1953, and to have

served in trat capacity until the fall or 195, wien he was re-

moved because he used operational-alias documerts in obtaining

treatment for a venereal disease he had incurred.

He clains to

tiave

been excluded from the kensonol, without prejudice, when fc

attaired his 27th birchday in Patober 1954.

"Asted to descrit how he transfurra: from i!r komsonol Organ-

izatior of the daval Intolligerer Lost in the Baltic to the Kom-

Somol Orgenization of the Kos,

NOSEt give an ertirely incorrect

description of this proccuure.

hoth as regards deregistration from

the: K/D in the Baltic, and registration with the klu in the KGB.

He stated that he nas issurd a new lonsomol registration card by

the KGB k/0,

withcut reference

to the previous 1/0 in the Baltic;

this is impossible.

"NOSENKO gave an incorrect account of how a kid secretary is

elected, stating that he was elected at a meeti:; of the ko.

fact, the K/O meetirig can only select the K/O comittee, which will

convere separately to elect the Secretary.

"HOSENKO could nut descrive the duties of a 1/0 secretary in a

specific marner.

"NOSENKO did not know who was the secretary of the overall KGB

к/0.

secretary of the sid i/d rould

be directly subordinate

to him ard would deal wich him frequently.

"NOSEIKO was unable to describe his dcalings with the KGB K/C

or the identities or resporsibilities of

the people with whom he

dealt there.

"NOSENKO insisted that in 1953-54, the maximum age for a Kem-

somol member was 27.

1n actual fact, the maximin age was 26 (it

was raised later).

This point is important, bott because NOSEt

should krow exactly if he had served as

a k/0 secretary, and also

because it refutes his story that he has excluded from the Kon-

somol for over-age in 1954.

"ROSENKO maintained that al; the members of his k/O paid dues

in the arount of 2 percent. of treir monthly salaries.

This 1s

Incorrect, as monthly Komsomol cues were calculated on a slidinc

determined by wage group: at that time, Komsomol menbers

earning up to 500 rubles

monthly paid 0.5 percent: those earning

500 to 1500 rubles paid 1 percent, and those

earning over 1500

rubles paid 1.5 percent.

The k/O secretary collects the dues.

and must know the right

not know whether or not a Komsomol Congress

took place while he was k/O secretary, saying that they took

place every year.

In actual fast, the 12th Komsomol Congress

which convened in March 1954 was the first since 1949; at this

12th Congress a numier of changes were made in the Komsomol Rules

(Ustav) •

As secretary of a K/0 NOSEiKO would have been involved

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In a good deal of preparatory work fir this Corpsess, which wag

event ir the life

could rot be forgotten."

of every consonel worker as the tire, and.

hithough LIDYARIN's direct kaorleuge of the KGa croed in 1954.

his more receni examinition bi repurt froseites sources:

regard to what NOSENKO has said about

res procedures, DENYABIN

stated: "Asked to describe how he conducted name checks on a

Soviet citizen and on a new arrival to the American Embassy 1n

1953-54, NOSEiKO gave a superficial descripizon of how such

checks were done.

However, he resisted every attempt to get him

to Jescribe this

process in derail, and he made several blunders

which show that he never

actually ran such a check himself.

he did not know

where the records of all Soviet citizens

Who have been tried are kept,

and he attempted to improvise in

ansver (completely wrong) that they would check with the Militia

ROSENKO correctly said that Archives were located

on Kirov Street, but he was completoly unable to stretch

limited knowledge to provide a descriptior. of now these various

repositories were actually checkad.

NOSEiKO was also asked to

describe in detail how he ran such a check on a Soviet citizen

in the 1956-59 period.

Here again he was ir difficulty and re-

tie did not even know the everyday term Spets-

provetka, which means a check for clearance.

particularly interesting that he did rot feel able to

dispute my

challenges of his information, even though he urdoust-

caly knows

that I do not have first-nars koriedye of procedures

in this period.

I ever tested this on one accasion ly askirg

NOSENKO zhe difference ketween the lst

frets Otdel (Special

Department - kol caris ana files) and the Operati:no-Uchetziy

Otdel (Operational Reports Department

-the functional name for

the Ist Special Lepartment).

tie answersi that the ist Special

Departrert holds the files

on Soviet criminal cases while the

Operational Reports department is for priitical and espionage

It seems he invented this answer

tion, it is wrong that political and security curds are separte

criminal ones in the lal Special irpartment.

in my time and must still be combined in one card file.

"NOSENKO states that he knows nothing about the files of

the First Chief Directorate.

It is unbelievable that in ten

years of service in the Second Chief Directorate NOSEIKO never

a First Chief Directorate file; how else would ne be able

to check information on foreigners, especially on merican ain-

pessy personnel?

The first stage in such a check is an inquiry

: the First Chief Directorate

and a check of any files they

may have on the subject.

According to his

own account, NOSENKO

should have been doing this type of thing the whole

of his ten

years of service, without regard to wiether he was

assigned to

the Anerican Department or the Ipurist Department."

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