Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HQ
Document date: 05/24/1983
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the IphD F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (41 USC 2107

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IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

"RECORD_NUMBER:

124-10006-10149

RECORD_ SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE_NUMBER: 62-109060-3RD NR 8236X

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

HO

TO:

TITLE:

DATE: 05/24/1983

PAGES: 2

SUBJECT: JFK, ASSA, LHO, KGB

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

05/12/1998

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

11/16/2000

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

JFK Act 6 (1)(C)

COMMENTS:

DocId: 32115307 Page 1

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Released under the John F. Kennedy, Assassinatiqn Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107.

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SECRET

SECRET

MAY 24 1983

SUBJECT FURIY I. NOSENKO](*

CHARACTER:

FCI - R 1(5)

9883 SHA

classily on: wAt

LINE N OFFICER

REDWOOD IS THE (CODE NAME ASSIGNED TO LA RGB

HE WAS ARGB MAJOR IN THE ILLEGALS

DIRECTORATE, HIS LAST POST BEING HEAD OF LINE N IN TEHRAN,

IRANS) HE WAS RECRUITED BY THE KGB WHILE STUDYING PERSIAN

WITH ENGLISH AS HIS SECOND LANGUAGE

AT ThE MOSCOW SCHOOL

F ORIENTAL LANGUAGES) HIS ENTIRE KGBPCAREER HAS BEEI

DEVOTED TO IRANIAN MATTERS RELATED TO LINE

BEEN ASSIGNED TO THEIS DIRECTORATE

PREVIOUS TO HIS POSTING IN TEHRAN. S

(ILLEGALS) AT THE "CENTER'(S)

CLASSIFICATION:

WFO

+ 234-14546(5)

-134--5437

JohnE

Kennedy

- Assassination of

Président

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Released

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under the John F. Kennedy. Assassination Records, Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107

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8/19/92

vec assity on: OADA

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.

VOSENKO 1s considered a

as far as-source is aware."SYW" in the eyes of the KGB

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

following NOSENKO's defection to do a damage assessment.

cher see our enote man 1%.

the First

Chief Directorate and by members of the 9th Department of the

S Directoratels

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

about the SCD would have been too great a price to pay

save one man."

«L)

"to

Source does not believe that the KGB would risk

attempt to

source has never heard that the KGB killed or attempted to kill

a defector.

such actions; if they ever occurred, certainly

ended after OLEG LYALIN's defection in England in 1971S

COMMENT:

I do, The oVer VerT vas, in fact, ardered

by the KGB to attempt to verify NOSENKO's presence at a

Washington, D.C. apartment complex.

ATLAST was not,

given NOSENKO's name but only a physical description

however,

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED EXCEPT

WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE.

(574) 4124196

3/17/98

CLASSIFIED BY: 5668 S1D/GCL

REASON: 1.5

(ed)

DECLASSIFY ON: X' 02(6)

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination. Records Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107

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Classifed ty

Declassif on:

SECREI

SECRET

MAY 24 1983

744t-776)

SUBJECT: LEE HARVEY OSWALD

John F. Kerinedy -

CHARACTER:

LECI - Ply Assassination of President

REDWOOD T'S THE CODE NAME ASSIGNED TO A XGB

LINE N OFFICER

LE WAS BORN 3/28/470 PECTED TO THE WEST IN JUNE, 1982

HE WAS A KGB MAJOR IN THE ILLEGALS

DIRECTORATE, HIS LAST POST BEING HEAD OF LINE N IN TEHRAN

IRAN,) HE WAS RECRUITED BY THE KGB WHILE STUDYING PERSIA

WITH ENGLISH AS HIS SECOND LANGUAGE) AT THE MOSCOW SCHOO

F ORIENTAL LANGUAGES! HIS ENTIRE (KGBPCAREER HAS BEE

DEVOTED TO IRANIAN MATTERS RELATED TO LINEN, AND HE HAD

BEEN ASSIGNED TO THE S DIRECTORATE

(ILLEGALS) AT THE "CENTER"J(3)

PREVIOUS TO GETS POSTING IN TERRAN 5)

CLASSIFICATION:

SECRET:

WFO

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