(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT, KGB- JANUARY 1962-JANUARY 1964)-SUMMARY
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(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT, KGB- JANUARY 1962-JANUARY

1964) - SUMMARY

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Top Secret

(SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - January 1962-January 1964)

Operational Activities - July 1962-January 1964: Summary

To substantiate his claims to having served as Deputy

Chief of the Seventh Department during this period, NOSENKO

describes KGB involvement in the recruitment of SVENCHANSKIY,

the

investigations

of SLESINGER, OSHALD,

and of former KGB officer CHEREPANOV,

his discovery that SHUBIN was a GRU agent, and his assignment

to Geneva.

Even if NOSENKO learned of the operations as

he described and they were as he described (there are substan-

tial reasons why they might have been conducted by KGB

elements other than the Seventh Department), they are atypical

with respect to NOSENKO's own description of Seventh Depart-

ment operations.

They do not accurately characterize,

as

NOSENKO claims, KGB counterintelligence operations against

tourists, and thus do not substantiate his Seventh Department

service.

NOSENKO's explanations for his assignment to

Geneva in 1964

are no more plausible than for his earlier

assignment there in 1962.

NOSENKO has asserted that he was

not a lieutenant colonel as the temporary duty authorization

indicated, but a captain, a rank incongruous with a Deputy

Chief of Department and one from which he presumably would

have been promoted as he assumed the senior KGB positions

which he claimed to have held.

Lastly, his credibility is

diminished by his assertion that he invented the recall

telegram (nevertheless

apparently confirmed by SCOTCH) to

prompt immediate CIA acceptance of his defection.

KGB Counterintelligence Operations

Among American

Tourists

1962-1963

Because of his position as a Deputy Chief,

then First

Deputy Chief of the Seventh Department, NOSENKO claimed

awareness of what the KGB posture was with respect to

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