CI INFORMATION REPORT: ANATOLIY MIKHAYLOVICH GOLITSYN.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 07/24/1972
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SUBJECT:

Anatolly Mikhaylovich GOLITSYN (201-294855)

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SOURCE:

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at this time, since the source is still undergoing

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COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

SBSR - 547

24 July 1972

COUNTRY: USSR/United Kingdom

SUBJECT: Anatoliy Mikhaylovich GOLITSYN

DOI : 1971 or as specified

SOURCE : A staff officer of Department l (Sabotagforeigas:

sination, etc.) of the KGB First Chief

Directorate who defected on 3 September 1971 while

serving at the Soviet Embassy in

the

United Kingdom.

The information is considered generally reliable

within the limits of

the source's knowledgeability,

pending completion of debriefing and subsequent

final

evaluation of the source and the total product.

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The attached Information comes directly fros the

official British

service which

is handling the source.

Since

debriefing has not yet been completed,

there may be further

information clarifying, amending,. or adding to

the present

report.

Any such

information received will be disseminated

in the present series.

Recipients of this report are encouraged to contact

the originator regarding evaluation of the material or submis-

sion of requirements.

source knew of GOLITSYN only by this name, but the

companion with whom Source defected also knew of GOLITSYN as

SLIMOV ll She had heard more about him when she visited her

• but further

details

have not as yet been

received from the official British

servicel

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Ansioliy Milhagiorich GOLlISYN

Dorn 25.8.1926.

Defected in Finland 15.12.1961.

COLITSIN defeited during source's period of service witi

the K.G.8.

Source

heard

about him fron various a

.G.B. officers

but never met him.

cen told in londen c

Hild retrade dy both onstantin i source cotone da or att

nay lovich douse a ne r-ante offence

there, and Sergey Mik-,

"Ine K.G.B. officer responsible

whose job

in Finland source described as

2 of something",

clashed violently with his Resident in

of official and private letters to

Moscow asking

or the Resident. be transferred.

Headquarters

refused to agree this, and when he visited Moscow

threatened that if he failed to get.

the Resident he

would be in danger. of losing his joo.

too much for

GOLITSYN,

defected.

source added that this reason for

GOLITSYN's defection was convincing,

and that he had never

heard any rumour that it was not genuine.

Source gave the

following information about the measures

taken by the K.G.6. as

the result of GOLITSYN's defection:

(a) He had been sentenced to death; this was stated in

article in

"The Chekist" which

appeared some time after

The X.G.B. would try to kill him as soon as they

could find

(b Within six weeks of GOLUBEV's arrival in London on

12.6.71. he told source-that he had received a telegram.

from Headquarters

ordering him to concentrate on obtaining

information about GOLITSYN, (to whom

the K.G.B. had given

the abusive nickname

UROD), because according

information GOLITSIN had visited England several times.

had noir established "the place of residence"

they had no approach to him.

Moscow required detailed

information about where he was living, his habits and

activities.

the wording of this telegram source

not resident in Enrland, and

that the object of this order. was to remind GOLUBEY of a

standing instruction

that the highest priority was to be

given to obtaining information about him.

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