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FOR: LIMIT SE/USSR/IO INFO SEARR

SLUGS: WNINTEL GTDANCER

SUBJECT: KGB OFFICIAL NIKONOV

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1. ACTION REQUIRED: NONE.

"i (SMITH)).

DURING THE WEEK OF 3-9 NOVEMBER 1991.

SEVERAL DISCUSSIONS

( (NIKONOV)) ,

WHO IS A LONGTIME FRIZND AND NOW DEPUTY TO KGB

THE PROFESSOR HAS KNOWN NIKONOV WELL

CURRENTLY IS INSTRUCTING ON A FULBRIGHT GRANT

AT ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY UNTIL 22 DECEMBER 1991.

DCO8 STEVEN R.

WHO WAS DINNER GUEST AT HEIBERG'S

HOME ON 10 NOVEMBER AND PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING INFO ON NIKONOV

AND HIS NEW KGB JOB.

NIKONOV IS THE GRANDSON OF FORMER

SOVIET FOREIGN

MINISTER VYACHESLAV MOLOTOV.

PROFESSOR TAUGHT NIKONOV

1976 AT MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY WHILE A FULBRIGHT

PROFESSOR.

NIKONOV WAS REGARDED AS EXTREMELY

INTELLIGENT AND

CAPABLE BUT GAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT HE WAS

AN IDEOLOGICAL

THE PROFESSOR BELIEVED THAT HE WAS LIKELY

RISING STAR IN THE

SOVIET SYSTEM AND RECOMMENDEO HIM FOR AN

IREX-SPONSORED VISIT TO THE U.S.

AS EXPECTED,

NIKONOV'S

ND RHETORIC MODERATED VERY VISIBLY AFTER HIS FIRST DIRECT

EXPOSURE TO ?HE U.S.

HE HAS HAD AT LEAST

ADDITIONAL

IREX-SPONSORED TRIP TO THE U.S.

AND HAS SPENT

AS A PERSONAL GUEST AT THE HOME OF THE U.S. PROFESSOR

RESULT OF BENNG

NIKONOV CAME TO WORK IN HIS POSITION AT THE KGB AS A

A CLOSE FRIEND OF BAKATIN.

1991 COUP ATTEMPT NIKONOV SAID THAT HE REFUSED TO FOLLOW HIS

BOSS'S ORDER TO ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECLARED STATE OF

HE WAS DISMISSEO BY HIS BOSS

(NFI) FROM THIS

POSITION AND CALLEO BAKATIN TO SEEK ADVICE.

BAKATIN SAID HE

COUP AND WOULD LOOK OUT FOR NIKONOV ONCE

ORDER WAS RESTORED.

SOON AFTER THE COUP BAKATIN CALLED

ASK THAT HE ASSIST WITH RESTRUCTURING THE KGB.

AGREED THAT NIKONOV COULD DECLINE TO ACCEPT TWO-STAR MILITARY

KGB RANK AND WORK IN THE JOB FOR AN EQUIVALENT CIVILIAN

COMPENSATION PACKAGE,

HE CAME TO THE KGB AS BAKATIN'S

NIKONOV SAID HIS FRIENDS WERE DELIGHTED THAT HE HAD DECLINED

THE KGB COMMISSION.

NIKONOV'S FIRST ASSIGNMENT FROM BAKATIN WAS MAKING

ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE KGB-CIA LIAISON RELATIONSHIP WHICH

HAS NOW

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WHICH MIGHT BE RA!SEO.

NIKONOV PERSONALLY REV'EWED MGS FILES TO

REVIEWED •IVE THICK VOLUMES OF FILES

NIKONOV IS

CONFIDENT THAT OSWALD WAS AT NO

TIME AN AGENT CONTROLLEO BY THE

FROM THE GESCRIPTION OF

THAT ANYONE COULD

BUT NOTED THAT THE KBG

WATCHEO HIM CLOSE:Y

AND CONSTANTLY WHILE HE WAS IN

STORMY RELATIONSHIP WITH

OSWALD WAS A POCR SHOT WHEN HE TRIEO TARGET

IN PREPARATION FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF A LIAISON

RELATIONGMIP WITH THE SWEDISH INTELLIGENCE SERVICE,

PERSONALLY PERFORMED AN

FOR BAKATIN INTO THE FATE

RAOUL i (WALLENGERG)) .

TUN INTO THE FATRESSURS

FROM THE SWEDISH SIDE TO HAVE

A DEFINITIVE ANSWER ON THIS

MATTER BECAUSE OF THE CONTINUING IMPORTANCE OF THE WALLENBERG

NIKONOV WAS AMAZED TO

BEEN ABLE TO PREVIOUSLY ESTABLISH WHETHER WALLENBERS MAD

AND UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES.

HE WAS ABLE TO FINO PARTIAL

EVIDENCE FROM FOURTEEN DIFFERENT

BUT FOUND NO CONCLUSIVE PROOF,

THAT WALLENBERG WAS

EXECUTEO LATE IN 1947.

THERE WERE INCICATIONS THAT WALLENBERI

SUSPECTEO OF HAVING CONTASTS

WITH OTHERS WHO WERE

OF PROVIDING FALSE

IDENTITY DOCUMENTS TO OTHERS

BEYOND JEWS SAVEO FROM THE HOLOCAUST.

AMONG THESE WERE

WAR CRIMINALS WHO WERE ALLOWED

THERE WAS NO PROCF

OF WALLENBERG'S GUILT IN ANY OF THESE CHARGES.

FULBRIGHT PROFESSOR WHO IS NIXONOV'S FORMER PROFESSOR

NAME: E.B.

008: C.1920

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLANE,

FULBRIGHT PROFESSOR

PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY.

USSR: TWO PREVIOUS FULBRIGHT

ASSIGNMENTS IN MOSCOW AND SEVERAL

IN PRE AND GERMANY: HOSTS

FORMER STUDENTS FROM USSR AND PRE ON U.S. VISITS

THERE ARE NO BASE TRACES ON SMITH

HE SERVED IN THE

MILITARY AND IS VERY WELL

GOVERNMENT.

DISPOSED TOWARDS THE U.S.

HE VOLUNTEERED

INFO ON NIKONOV AND OTHER USSR,

ANO GERMAN CONTACTS TO HEIBERG AND CAN PROVIDE CONSIDERABLE

AND ASSESSMENT INFO ON THEM.

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