Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SULLIVAN
To: BELMONT
Document date: 1/6/65
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/9/2015

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-90153-10003

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

CR 65-68530-313

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: SULLIVAN

TO :

BELMONT

TITLE :

DATE:

01/06/1965

'PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

NOSENKO, OSWALD AND JFK

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/29/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

MEMO;

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IN THIS DOCUMENT. KP 4-6-98

FROM

Mr. W. C. Sulliti

STIED AND

EXTENDED BY /

SUBJECT:

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I Intelligence Agency (CIA) in January,

1964.

This Agency on conductin

an exhaustive analysis and interrogation of Nosenko is convinced that

he is "a plant" and not a genuine defector from the Soviets to the

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United States. CIA does make a substantial case to support this

conclusion.

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During the course of CIA's analysis, because of informationh

urnished by our own defector in place, FEDORA, which is quite similar

to some information furnished by Nosenko, it was inevitable that ther

question of FEDORA's own legitimacy would eventually come up. CIA

plans to ultimately presento its case to the White House concerning

SIFY

Nosenko, and,

therefore, it'is imperative to clarify from our

stand-

point our position that

the evidence we have indicates that FEDORA isC

a legitimate defector and not a plant sent to us by the Soviets. In

order to do this, it is necessary to relate FEDORA to information which

dead, and bot GUNSON and NICKNACK have returned to Soviet Russia.

Further, to show CIA convincingly that FEDORA, as far as we know, is

legitimate, we should also refer to NY 694 of our SOLO operation and

because FEDORA has furnished us information concerning meetings between

NY 694 and a Soviet who provides our informant NY 694 with

commanist Party, USA.

money for the

Judging from what CIA has"let drop," over a

period of years, it is already aware of the identity of NY 694, althougr

we have never officially advised CIA.

As a matter of fact, CIA would

"have to be a total failure as an intelligence agency not to have

identified NY 694,

sin view. of

information disseminated and trips which

NY 694 has made to Russia

PT

DECLASCI

Nosenko case of CIA will ultimately. go to the white

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

House, now is the

"time to clarify the issue on FEDORA on our own terms

HEREIN IS UNCTA/STALAD

rather

forced to do so later of on terms other than

Four-own®

adjudicating this

Further, this information is very material and important in

'serious national security case involving Nosenko.

The FBI should not be put in a position of withholding material acts

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Belmont

D.E. Moore

Mr®

Branigan

Mr.

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Mr.

Baumgardner

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