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Methodology:

1.

was provided to ino employees, both

transcribers and native Russian speakers.

with the hackground of the

difficulty,

i.c., that previous

transcriptions. of the tape quoted Nosenko as saying that

he had "also boon in the states" and that he had used the

alias Nikolaver "both in lingland and lu vas' i.c., in

the

United States.

2. Mi. Koalor and Mr. Berest produced i trinscription

which

contains no statemont of Nosenko's saying he had been

in the United States.

In addition, their rendering of the

sentence pertaining to Nosenko's use of the alias

Nikolaycv

with no equivocation

reads, in the Soviet Union": "both

in lingland and 'u nas"",

i.c..

3.

Independently, the same portion of tape was given

yet another professional transcriber,

a native Russian

speaker. She was given no hackground whatsoever on the

problem.

Her transcript contained no statement

of Nosenko's

saying he had been

in the United States.

audition, her

rendering of the sentence pertaining to Nosenko's use of

the alias Nikolayer reads unequivocally

as "both in England

and 'u nas'", i.e.,

"in the Soviet Union."

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