Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 05/24/1983
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

•. AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10067-10274

RECORD_SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-82555-2ND NR 5762

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 05/24/1983

PAGES: 2

SUBJECT: LHO, POST-RP, ASSOC, DEFECTION TO RUSSIA

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

05/12/1998

Redact

UPDATE DATE:

06/08/2001

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

JFK Act 6 (1)(C)

COMMENTS:

DocId: 32282614 Page 1

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107 Hotey.

DATE: 11-14-2017

SPERET

SECHEI

20197

NAY 24 1983

m9803 PANtE

CADE

OS AMBIENS

• SUBJECT YURIY I. NOSENKO

CHARACTER:

FCI - R

'ee Harvey Oswald

REDWOOD

IS THE (CODE NAME ASSIGNED TO A KGE

LINE N OFFICER

WHO DEFECTED TO THE WEST IN JUNE, 1982.

HE WAS BORN 3/28/475) HE WAS A RGB MAJOR IN THE ILLEGALS

DIRECTORATE, HIS LAST POST BEING HEAD OF LINE N IN TEHRAN,

IRAN.S) HE WAS RECRUITED BY THE KGB WHILE STUDYING PERSIAN

DEVOTED TO ERANIAN MATTERS RELATED TO LINE NAND HE HAD

BEEN ASSIGNED TO THES DIRECTORATE (ILLEGALS) AT THE "CENTER"()

PREVIOUS TO HIS POSTING IN TEHRANT

CLASSIFICATION:

SECRET

WFO

134-14546 (s

1- 134-5437

1-

BUREAU

1 - 505-340770 3

1-65 ÷ 05530

C-105-52555

1-62-109060

55-158327

NEW YORK

1 - 105-172079 SUB

1 - 105-65721

1- 105-35431

1-89-75

1-65-2634013

705-82991

NOT RECORDED

136

JUN 1 3 1983

WAS TATORMATION CONTAINEDD

HEREIN ISQNICEASSIGIED EXCEPTE

WIERE SHOWN OTHERWISE!

(I7K)

#24/09p0 3111/98

CLASSIFIED BY: 5668 SLO/GEL

REASON: 1.5 (c,d)

DECLASSIFY ON: X (U)(6)

141983

ade

SECRET

classified by G-3

Declassified on DADR

/SECRET

2NDNR 5762

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

Hote).

DATE: 17-14-2017

SECRET

8/19/92

9803

SECRET

YURI I. NOSENKO

05 RMB/GCL 2

On 1/17/83, source was queried concerning any

knowledge he might have of the NOSENKO matter.

He advised

that "officially" the KGB never discusses defectors and

generally all one would hear would be rumor and gossip.

NOSENKO is considered a "tr

as far as source is aware..

IFK

U)

The source assumed

that NOSENKO told western

intelligence everything concerning Second Chief Directorate

(SCD) activities in Moscow and further assumes that, as is

custom, a "special Commission" of the SCD was convened

following NOSENKO's defection to do a damage assessment.

As an aside, source noted that his defection would be

"examined" by members of the k Directorate of the First

S Directorate

Chiet Directorate and by menbers of the 9th Department of the

Source has no knowledge concerning any connection

between the NOSENKO defection in 1964 and LEE HARVEY OSWALD'S

assassination of President JOHN F. KENNEDY in 1963. Asked

to give his opinion on the merits of some speculation that

NOSENKO defected under the direction of the KGB. to convince

the US that the KGB had nothing to do with OSWALD's actions,

source did not believe that to be the case.

In source's

opinion, NOSENKO's defection and all the information he furnished

about the SCD

would have been too great a price to pay "to

save one man.

Source does not believe that the KGB would risk

'blowing an illegal" by tasking the illegal to attempt t

Locate a defector such as NOSENKO in the westS) Likewise

source has never heard that the KGB killed or attempted to kill

a defector.

such actions,

COMMENT:

TO LOES. The ATLAST legal was, in tact, ardered

oy the KGB to attempt to verify NOSENKO's presence at c

Nashington, D.C. apartment complex. ATLAST Was not, however,

given NOSENKO's name but only a physical description,

N'T TORNATTOWCONTAINED.

HERET IS UNCTASEIFIED EXCERFY

WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE,

CLASSIFIED BY: 5668 SUO/Ga

REASON: 1.5 / cd

DECLASSIFY ON: X (X6)

1/19/98

SECRET

SECRET

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