YURIY IVANOVICH NOSENKO.
Originator: CIA
From: INTERROGATION RESEARCH DIVISION
To: CHIEF, SECURITY RESEARCH STAFF
Document date: 1968-08-12 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : CIA

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AGENCY FILE NUMBER

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DOCUMENT INFORMATION

AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA

FROM : INTERROGATION RESEARCH DIVISION

TITLE : YURIY IVANOVICH NOSENKO.

DATE: 08/12/1968

PAGES

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SUBJECTS : NOSENKO, Y.I.

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER

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SUBJECT

Chief, Security Research Staff.

: Interrogation Research Division

: Yuriy Ivanovich NOSINKO

12 August 1958

IRD A 672:21

IDENTIFYING DATA

Subject is a 40 year old former KGB Staffer who defected to the

U.s. in 1964 in Geneva.

ACKGROUND

Mr. Bruce L. Solie of the Security Research Staff has been de-

briefing and interrogating Subject since October 1967 in order to

resolve the issue whether Subject was a dispatched agent of the KGB.

He has conducted a vast amount of research and checking with sources

in as effort to establish the veracity of Subject's statements.

PURPOSE

The primary purpose of the polygraph test was to determine:

I. Whether Subject was a dispatched Agent of the KGB;

2. Whether Subject had intentionally given Mr. Solie

any false information.

PROCEDURE

Subject was given a polygraph examination on 2 August 1968 at

a salesite in the vicinity of Washington, D.C. The examination was

conducted in the English language.

Subject's comprehension and the

ability to express himself in English was completely adequaie for

purposes of polygraph testing. Subject was completely cooperative

in all respects. Subject displayed no evasiveness and appeared to

be completely frank whenever he was questioned or gave infomation

on a topic.

The following relevant questions were asked during the first test:

Is your true name Yuriy Ivanovich HOSENKO? Yes.

Were you born in the year 1927? Yes.

Besides the Americans, did you tell anyone else about your

intention to defect?

No.

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Did you ever tell anyone in the KGB about your contact with

American Intelligence? No.

Were you given instructions by the KGB to get in contact with

American Intelligence?

No.

Here you told by the KGB to defect in order to carry out an

Intelligence mission?

No.

The following relevant questions were asked during the second test:

Did the KGB actually send a communication for your recall to

the USSR on the day of your defection? No.

Were you acquainted with CHEREPANOV? Yes.

Did you actually travel to Gorkiy in November 1963 to hunt fos

CHEREPANOV?

Yes.

Are you deliberately withholding from us any information about

the

KGB recruitment.of Americans? No.

Does the KGB have METKA and NEPTUNE 80? Yes.

Were you the responsible Case Officer for John Abidian in 1960-ó1?

Yes.

Do you know the true name of ANDRIT Or SASHA? No.

Did you ever have tuberculosis? Yes.

The following relevant questions were asked un test three:

Did you serve in Navy Intelligence from 1951 to 1953?

Yes.

Was SHUBIN in the USSR during the period 1957 to 19592 Yes.

To the best of your knowledge, were you in the seventh

Department at this time? Yes.

Did you telephone the GRU about SHUBIN at this time?

Yes.

To the best of your knowledge, was POPOV compromised because

of the letter Mr. Winters mailed?

Yes.

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To the best of your linowledge, was PENKOVSKIY exposed to the

KGB because of the mass surveillance on the British Embassy?

Yes.

Was there any misleading information in the notes you brought

out from the Soviet Union? No.

Did you intentionally exaggerate your personal association wish

GRIBANOV?

No.

Are you hiding any adverse infornation about your background? No.

Subject's polygraph test reflected no significant responses indicative

of deception regarding the relevant questions asked. No further polygraph

tests were administered on this date because the examiner did not vant to

run the risk of fatigue setting in and thus possibly causing adrenalin

exhaustion.

Polygraph testing was resumed on 6 August 1968. The following

relevant questions were asked on test four:

Did you join the KGB in March 1953? Yes.

Were you a KGB officer from 1953 to 1964? Yes.

Were you a Deputy Chief of the Seventh Department? Yes.

ere you only a Captain at this time? Yes.

Were you an officer in the U.S. Embassy Section fron March

1953 to May 1955? Yes.

In 1958 and 1959 were you the Deputy Chief of the American-

British-Canadian Section in the Seventh Department? Yes.

From January 1960 to December 1961 were you the Deputy to the

Chief of the First Section of the First Department? Yes.

From January to July 1962 vere you the Chief of the First Section

of the Seventh Department? Yes.

Were you an officer in the First Section, First Department, SCD,

at the time of the Stalingrad operation against Benson, lule and

Stroud? Yes.

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The folloving relevant questions were asked on test five:

Since 1953 do you know of any other KGB recruitments in the

American Embassy besides ANDREY and HOWARD? No.

Did the KGB know about the notes you brought out? No.

Have you told us the complete truth about your KGB career? Yes.

Did you intentionally exaggerate your personal involvement in

cases in 1962 and 1964 in order to mislead us? No:

Did you intentionally give us any false operational.

information? No.

Did GRIBANOV offer you the position of Deputy Chiei of the

First Department?

Yes.

Was an order actually prepared promoting you to Deputy to the

Chief of the First Department?

Yes.

In early 1960 did GRIBANOV tell you that your primary responsibility

was to work against American Code Clerks? Yes.

Other than you mentioned, are you hiding any other reasons for

your defection? No.

Are you deliberately withholding any information on any foreigners

recruited by the KGB? No.

The following relevant questions were asked on test six:

Did you enter the KGB through the influence of General BOGDAN

KOBULOV? Yes.

Did you succeed BAKHVALOV as Deputy Chief of the First Section?

Yes.

Yes.

Did GRYAZNOV succeed you as Deputy Chief of the First Section?

Here the CHEREPANOY papers passed to the Americans with KGB

knowledge? No.

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Io your knowledge was there any misleading infomation in the

CHEREPANOV papers? No.

Did you ever personally meet GOLITSYN?

No.

Was there a cable sent to Geneva for you to assist ARTIMEV

in the BELITSKIY case? Yes.

Did you personally make an approach to KEYSERS at the Moscow

Airport? Yes.

The following relevant questions were asked on test seven:

Did you actually review the KGB file on OStALD? Yes.

Did LEE HARVEY OSTALD receive any KGB training or assignments?

No.

Were there any microphones installed in the Noith Wing of the

U.S. Embassy in Moscow?

No.

Was the review of microphone reports one of your duties in

1960-61?

Yes.

Are you withholding any information knoin to you concerning

KGB microphones or electronic activity against the U.S.

Embassy?

No.

Before your official transfer to the Seventh Department dia

you read the surveillance report on the visit of ABIDIAN

to PUSHKIN street? Yes.

Did you personally conduct a certain investigation of SHAKOV

in 1962 in Geneva? Yes.

Was the rank of Lieutenant Colonel on your travel document

to GORKIY only a mistake by KASHPEROV?

Yes.

The following relevant questions were asked on test eight:

While in the U.S. Embassy Section did you obtain a typewriter

for BORODIN for the preparation of a letter to Eduara Ellis

SMITH? Yes.

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Dia you read the official report of KOSOLAPOV on his contact.

with JENVER on a train from Helsinki to Moscow? Yes.

Are you intentionally withholding any infomation conceming

KGB knowledge of CIA personnel in Moscow? No.

Is there any possibility that the KGB would dispatch an officer

to defect to the Americans? No.

Subject's polygraph test of 6 August likewise reflected no

indications of deception.

CONCLUSION

Based solely on the overall analysis of Subject's polygranh

tests, it is the opinion of the undersigned that the subject has

been substantially truthful in answering the relevant questions

asked.

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