Agency: LBJ
Originator: DOS
To: BUNDY, MCGEORGE
Document date: 2/11/64
Document type: MEMORANDUM

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DATE: 02/11/1964

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

11 February 1964

MEMORANDUM FOR:

SUBJECT:

Mr. McGeorge Bundy

Yuri Ivanovich NOSENKO

1.

This memorandum refers to the State Department

release of 10 February on subject case and provides addi-

tional background as well as information on his current

status.

2.

As a KGB staff officer, NOSENKO is regularly

assigned to the Counterintelligence Directorate of the

KGB

in Moscow but was included in the Soviet delegation

to the Disarmament Conterence as part of a cover arrange-

ment which permitted him to carry out intelligence

and

security functions in Geneva on

behalf of the KGB.

NOSENKO also attended various sessions of the

Disarmament Conference

held in Geneva in 1962.

the course of these sessions NOSENKO sought contact with

officials of the U. S. Government, informed these officials

that he was affiliated

with the Soviet State Security ap-

paratus and volunteered

to aid the U. S. Government in

detecting Soviet subversive activity directed against the

U. S. Government.

During the course of his contact with

U. S. authorities NOSENKO stated that his cooperation with

the U. S. Government originated with his distaste and hatred

for the Soviet regime in general,

with his desire to obtain

revenge for the unjust death of his father, a senior official

in the Soviet shipbuilding industry, and with the general

admiration of the Americans with whom he had come in contact

within the Soviet Union.

4. In late January 1964, NOSENKO arrived in Geneva,

again masquerading

of the Soviet delegation

to the Disarmament Conference.

Subject secretly notified

his CIA contacts in the United States concerning his pres-

ence in Geneva

and arranged to meet with these contacts.

During

a series of meetings

NOSENKO provided information

including documents concerning Soviet State Security acti-

vities within the USSR and abroad and a detalled account

of the KGB operation against.U. S. Professor Barghoorn

which NOSENKO said he had personally supervised at the

direction of SEMICHASTNIY, the Chairman of the Committee

for State Security (KGB).

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5.

During these most recent meetings NOSENKO announced

his desire to leave the USSR permanently and seek his future

in the West.

He claimed his new work in the KGB (First

Deputy Chief of that department charged with the surveillance

and recruitment of American visitors to the USSR) was ex-

panding and that he would not be able to visit the West

with any frequency.

Accordingly, he prepared

a request for

political asylum in the United States.

He was taken to

Frankfurt, Germany where he is currently undergoing interro-

gation.

Plans are now

being made to remove him to the U. S.

6. It should be noted that CIA contact with Subject

has not been extensive

and that

we will require additional

thorough interrogation to establish Subject's bona fides.

It should also be noted that NOSENKO's duties were not con-

cerned with substantive aspects of the Disarmament Conference,

and he therefore is not expected to be able to shed much, if

any, light on that area of our interest.

The possibility that NOSENKO's defection was

signed

to wreck the conference was most carefully considered.

The decision to accept him was taken on the conviction that

the Soviets would not have chosen

such a vulnerable agent

(staff officer of the KGB) for this kind of move.

Thomas H. Karamessines

Acting Deputy Director

for Plans

FOR SEGRET

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