COMMENTS ON THE NOSENKO DRAFT.
Originator: CIA
From: S. D. BRECKINRIDGE
To: BLAKEY, ROBERT G
Document date: 1979-03-19 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY

: CIA

RECORD NUMBER: 104-10149-10026

RECORD SERIES

: JFK

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

80T01357A

DOCUMENT

INFORMATION

AGENCY ORIGINATOR

.: CIA

FROM

:S. D. BRECKINRIDGE

TO

: BLAKEY, ROBERT G

TITLE

COMMENTS ON THE NOSENKO DRAFT.

DATE

03/19/1979

PAGES

: 4

SUBJECTS

: NOSENKO

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER

CLASSIFICATION : CONFIDENTIAL

RESTRICTIONS :

CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETION:

DATE OF 'LAST REVIEW : 09/13/97

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505

OLC 79-0113/n

19 March 1979

EIG

REGOR COPY

HISCA

Office of Legislative Counsel

Mr. G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

Select Committee on Assassinations

House of Representatives

Washington, D.C.

20515

Dear Bob:

Herewith are comments on the Nosenko draft.

In conmencing, it should be noted that Tennent Bagley remains

under cover, retired abroad. We are obliged to honor that cover,

which he has not moved to have modified. To expose his true

status as a former CIA employee could have reparcussions in his

present situation that we must accept as significant. When he

was here in November 1978, he was advised of steps necessary

to remove his cover, in the everit he decided to go overt in this

matter; he took no steps to alter his cover status.

It remains

classified. We therefore request that the example set in the

Hart testimony, of referring to Mr. Bagley by the title of Deputy

Chief, SB Division, be followed in this draft.

Following are detailed comments:

NOSENKO

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Testimony of Nosenko

s".

Circled Page 3, lines 14 ard 17, depending on how one counts.

KGB agents should read KGB officers.

Circled Page 4, lines 3 through 20. Suggest the following

rewrite:

There were two factors, however, that limited the value

of the information supplied to the Committee by these

ex-KGB officers: 1) neither had been assigned to the

same KGB Directorate as Nosenko, and 2) one of them had

information about the KGB that was outdated.

Circled Page 6. Nosenko's actual testimony, last response. Suggest

changing word "defectionist" to "defector.

Page 6, line 6. Delete "woman in Utah" and insert "individual."

Page 6, lines 20 and 21. Delete "and even was a co-op from CIA."

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18PARRE

Page 32, line 12. Delete cryptonym AEDONOR.

Page 32, lines 20 and 24-25. Delete narre

• "Thomas A. Ryan"

and

substitute

"James Michaels."

Page 33, lines 1-3. Delete "Thoras A. Ryan" and insert "Janes C.

Michaels" and "James Michaels" respectively.

Page 37, line 8. Delete name "Ryan" and substitute nane "Michaels."

Page 38, line 23. Delete name "Deryabin" and substitute

"y."

Page 43, Lines 8, 14, 16, 21, and 22. Name should be "Fedoseyev."

Page 48, line 24. Delete name "Ryan" and substitute name "Michaels."

Page 51, line 5. Delete "Camp Perry" and insert "U.s. Government

property outside the Washington area."

Third page of statement made by Nosenko to HSCA 8/7/78, last

paragraph. Suggest placing month "October" in brackets after "November" to

reflect correct date (we realize Mr. Nosenko gave this date, but it is

incorrect).

solie festimony

Page 56, line 17. Statement should read, "The transcript will

reflect I asked him to prepare it in his on words on a previous day,

a day or two before."

Page 58, line 9. "Assuming" not "assing."

Page 59, Line 23. Delete "Uh-uh" and substitute "yes."

Page 66, line 20. Delete conna and "by 'down there" and substitute

"and by SR."

Page 69, line ll. Even though Mr. Klein undoubtedly used the word

"agents", the word "officers" should be there.

Nurphy Testimony

Introduction. Date on line 4 is wrong; should be 1964-67.

Pages numbered 4 and 5j lines 24-25 and line 5, respectively.

Solie not Soley.

Page 20, line 22. Change "propose" to "expose.

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Michaels Testirony

Deposition of Ton Ryan (Michaels).

Throughout this deposition,

the name "Nichael" is used. The fornally registered alias was

"Janes C. Michaels" with a final "s."

Page 5, line 7. Delete "Polish" and substitute "East European."

Section #6 Entitled "Letters of CIA of 9/1/78 and FBĩ of 1/8/79"

Second page of response to Question #3, second paragraph. "In 1976

Nosenko was paid $10,000...." Date should be changed to 1978. Our error.

Bagley Testimony

Page 7, line 32 of Bagley's prepared statement and page 25, line 16

of his testimony. Substitute "allied service" for "French intelligence."

Typewritten Report

Page 52, line 5. Change "CIA Staff" to "CI Staff."

Page 71, line 25 and Page 72, line 1. Delete "or the Soviet

military intelligence." This indicates targetting priorities.

Page 97, lines 14 ana 20. Suggest insert (sic) after "agents."

Page 99, line 23. The existence of a Station in Switzerland

is clearly indicated. Suggest put in brackets [in West Europel.

Page 110, line 13 and 19.

suggest deletion of "American/American"'s."

Page 122, line 17. "A" on Angleton.

....m..

Page 127, lines 18 and 19. Delete "several other Soviet intelligence

people who were in touch with us in one way or another."

Page 134, line 18. Suggest brackets after "five years" with dates

1962-67 inserted since Mr. Bagley had no control of Nosenko case after

October 1967.

Otherwise it may appear that Mr. Fithian was referring

to the years 1964-69.

Page 138, line 12. Change "our foreign liaison agents" to read

"foreign liaison officials.:

Page 138, line 13, Change "nin" to "them.

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I understand from your conversation with Rodger that you would

welcome a letter from the Agency, on this section of the report,.

for inclusion with it in the final report. Could we have more

details?

It is understood that this is the last paper we will see that has

not already been reviewed.

As you know, we are ready to follow up

in a meeting with you on the substantive comments already provided

you.

Very truly yours,.

S. D./ Breckinridge

bill

Principal/Coordinator, HSCA

Distribution:

Orig - Adse

1 - SA/DDCI

1 - Rininger, OGC

1 - Sullivan, OS

- Sednaoui, DC/CI

1 - Holmes

1 - OLC/Subj

1 - OLC/Chrono

OLC/SDB/ksn (19 Mar 79)

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