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ACTION: CE/R/XO (952) INFO: C/ORMS, CE/R/IO, CEDORECORD, CIC/NR, CTC/IFC,

CTC/TA, CTCARCHIVE, LA/MCGMXB, LIMITO, MDSX, NR/CEG, NR/EX, ODPD, FILE,

C/CTC, C/LA, CIC/EA, CIC/LA, CTC/CENR, CTC/TRG, CTC/TRGBRB, CTC/TRGPSB,

DC/LA, EA/ICOG, EA/ICOGIOB (13/W)

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CITE FR NEW YORK 81563

TO: DIRECTOR INFO NC NEW YORK.

FOR: LIMIT CE/R/XO INFO CE/R/IO, C/CE/CIC, NR/CEG, LA/MBOG,

EA/ ICOG, CIC/LA, CIC/EA

SLUGS : WNINTEL GTDANCER

SUBJECT: OLEG M. NECHIPORENKO

REF: FR NEW YORK 81555 93 4634425

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1. ACTION REQUESTED: TRACES ON SUBJECT.

2.

SUMMARY: ON 18 NOVEMBER, NOPIGGIN PROVIDED FOLLOWING

INFORMATION ON RETIRED KGB COLONEL, OLEG M. ( (NECHIPORENKO) ), OF

*<LEE HARVEY OSWALD>FAME, WHO WAS IN THE U.S. TO PROMOTE HIS BOOK,

* "PASSPORT TO<ASSASSINATION."> SUBJECT FLEW TO HOUSTON ON

*18 NOVEMBER TO PARTICIPATE IN A SYMPOSIUM ON THE<KENNEDY>

*<ASSASSINATION>AND HOPES TO RETURN TO NEW YORK NEXT WEEK.

SUBJECT WILL BE PAID FOR HIS BOOK ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT INCOME

EXCEED EXPENSES (INCLUDING HIS CURRENT TRIP).

HE IS GOING

THROUGH A PERIOD OF LONELINESS, AND COULD BE APPROACHED UNDER

APPROPRIATE (WRITER/ AUTHOR/ACADEMIC). COMMERCIAL COVER.

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SUMMARY.

DURING THE WEEK OF 8 NOVEMBER, NQP WAS OFFERED A

ONE-TIME INTERPRETING JOB BY A COLLEAGUE WHO COULD NOT ACCEPT

THE ASSIGNMENT.

ON 16 NOVEMBER, NPQ ACCOMPANIED SUBJECT AS

INTERPRETER TO A FILMING WITH A PROMINENT AMERICAN T.V. NEWS

PERSONALITY. THE ROOM WAS FILLED WITH PRINT AND MEDIA

JOURNALISTS AND THE NEWS PERSONALITY MADE A POINT OF STRESSING

THAT HIS NETWORK HAS DEVELOPED EXCEPTIONAL

EXPERTISE ON THE

* <KENNEDY ASSASSINATION>AND IS DOING A MUCH BETTER JOB THAN THE

FBI OR CIA.

DURING A 3 1/2 HOUR INTERVIEW, SUBJECT WENT INTO AN

EXCRUCIATINGLY DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF HIS

OSWALD:

WHO STOOD WHERE, WHO WORE WHAT, ETC AND EQUALLY

DETAILED ANSWERS TO SUBSEQUENT QUESTIONS.

SUBJECT RESPONDED TO

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MOST QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH, BUT WAS OCCASIONALLY CONFUSED BY AN

UNEXPECTED QUESTION AND WAS FORCED TO RELY ON NQP. • FOLLOWING

THE TAPING, NOP INVITED SUBJECT (AT FBI REQUEST)

FOR COFFEE AND

LATER TO DINNER AT HIS HOME.

BOTH WERE GRATEFULLY ACCEPTED AS

SUBJECT, WHOSE HOTEL WAS PAID BY THE PUBLISHER, HAD NO WALKING

AROUND MONEY. THE DINNER SUBSEQUENTLY DID NOT

TAKE PLACE SINCE

SUBJECT COULD NOT RESOLVE A SCHEDULING CONFLICT WHICH HAD HIM

PARTICIPATING IN AN INTERVIEW AT THE SAME TIME.

4.

SUBJECT ENJOYED HIS CIRCA 10 YEARS IN MEXICO AND CUBA.

HE CHEERFULLY LAMENTED THAT THE REZIDENTURA IN MEXICO HAD TO USE

COMMERCIAL PHONE LINES TO TALK TO THEIR CUBAN COUNTERPARTS:

"THE CIA KNEW EVERYTHING WE DID." FOLLOWING HIS EXPULSION FROM

MEXICO CITY IN 1971, SUBJECT WAS ASSIGNED TO THE ANALYSIS

DIVISION OF THE FIRST CHIEF DIRECTORATE FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND

MADE SEVERAL TRIPS TO CUBA AND NICARAGUA.

RETURN TO MEXICO AGAIN WHEN THE THEN MEXICAN PRESIDENT STATED

. PRIVATELY DURING A STATE VISIT TO MOSCOW THAT SUBJECT AND

APPARENTLY OTHERS WHO WERE EXPELLED WITH HIM COULD RETURN

ANYTIME:

5. FOR APPROXIMATELY SEVEN YEARS, CIRCA 1975-1982, SUBJECT

WAS ASSIGNED TO VIETNAMESE AFFAIRS.

BASED ON THIS EXPERIENCE HE

DISAGREED COMPLETELY WITH THE ALLEGATIONS BY KGB GENERAL

( (KALUGIN)) THAT AMERICANS POWS WERE HELD IN RUSSIA.

TO SUBJECT, KALUGIN IS PARANOID AND TRULY BELIEVES HIS OWN

CLAIMS. SUBJECT SAID THE KGB OBTAINED THICK FILES ON POWS FROM

THE VIETNAMESE WHICH THE KGB THOUGHT SERVE AS THE BASIS FOR AN

EXCHANGE OF SENSITIVE (NFI) EQUIPMENT THAT THE VIETNAMESE

WANTED. AFTER REVIEWING THE FILES, HOWEVER, IT BECAME APPARENT

THAT THE FILES WERE USELESS, BECAUSE THERE SEEMED LITTLE

OPPORTUNITY TO RECRUIT A POW AS AN FI SOURCE.

CONTINUING,

SUBJECT SUPPORTED HIS COMPLAINT ABOUT THE USELESSNESS OF THE

FILES BY COMPLAINING THAT THE VIETNAMESE NEVER INFORMED THE KGB

ABOUT THEIR OPERATIONS OR CONTACTS IN SOUTH VIETNAM:

SUPPLIED THEM WITH EVERYTHING, INTEL, MATERIAL, WEAPONS, AND

THEY WOULDN'T TELL US ANYTHING."

CIRCA 1985, AS VIETNAM FADED AS AN ISSUE, SUBJECT GOT A

JOB AS AN INSTRUCTOR AT THE KGB SCHOOL, AKA THE RED BANNER

INSTITUTE OR ANDROPOV INSTITUTE. THIS ASSIGNMENT WAS REGARDED

AS PLUSH DUTY BECAUSE THE COLONELS COULD RELAX. AND ENJOY THE

BENEFITS OF THEIR RANK IN EXCHANGE FOR TELLING WAR STORIES ABOUT

GREAT OPERATIONS THEY RAN.

IN 1991, SUBJECT REACHED MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE OF

SINCE THEN, HE HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH AN " INTERNATIONAL

COUNTER-TERRORIST TRAINING INSTITUTE" IN MOSCOW THAT IS STAFFED

WITH OTHER OLD COLD WARRIORS AND WRITING HIS BOOK. ON THE

OCCASION OF THE VISIT OF THE LEAD SENATOR ON POW/MIA ISSUES TO

MOSCOW, SUBJECT'S KGB SUPERIORS TOLD HIM TO SPEAK FREELY WITH

THE SENATOR.

8.

UNDER FBI DIRECTION, NOP TRIED TO ELICIT UPDATED CI INFO

BY SPECULATING OUT LOUD THAT "YOUR GUYS PROBABLY DON'T HAVE

ANYTHING TO DO HERE" AND WAS TOLD, "YOU'RE BASICALLY RIGHT.

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THEY. DO MORE BASIC INFORMATION GATHERING LIKE THE INSTITUTES. "

NQP (AND THE BUREAU WERE SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT SUBJECT KNEW

NO ONE AT THE RUSSIAN MISSION IN NEW YORK.

NQP USED SUBJECT'S

PENURY AND DEARTH OF PLANS TO INVITE HIM HOME FOR DINNER THE

FOLLOWING EVENING.

SUBJECT WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THE EVENING,

NOTING THAT NOT ONLY DID HE KNOW NONE, HE WAS HESITANT TO LEAVE

HIS HOTEL ROOM (WHICH HE DESPISED) AT NIGHT.

AS IT DEVELOPED,

HOWEVER, SUBJECT'S PUBLISHER ARRANGED HIS SOLITARY INTERVIEW FOR

THE SAME TIME.

LED SUBJECT TO

CANCEL. SUBJECT HOPES TO VISIT NEW YORK ON

HIS RETURN TRIP AND

WILL CALL NQP IF HE DOES.

9. SUBJECT DOES NOT KNOW IF HE WILL RECEIVE ANY. INCOME FROM

THE BOOK.

HE WILL BE PAID ONLY AFTER ALL THE EXPENSES OF

PUBLISHING AND PROMOTION ARE PAID.

NQP OBSERVED THAT SUBJECT IS

LONELY, AND COULD BE APPROACHED SECURELY UNDER AN APPROPRIATE

COMMERCIAL GUISE, SUCH AS THAT OF A WRITER. WHETHER HIS CURRENT

ACCESS WOULD JUSTIFY THE EFFORT HAS YET TO BE DETERMINED.

STATION WOULD PROPOSE THAT SUBJECT COULD BE AN INTERESTING

SPEAKER FOR THE ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS.

ACCORDING TO HIS CARD, WHICH APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN

PRINTED IN ONE OF THE LOCAL $5 FOR 50 CARDS MACHINES, SUBJECT'S

CURRENT ADDRESS IS:

26/2-269, UL. AK. KAPITSA

117647 MOSCOW

TEL:

(095) 429-54-17

FAX:

(095) 939-83-67.

HIS TITLE IS "COLONEL KGB (RETIRED) INTELLIGENCE AND

COUNTERINTELLIGENCE EXPERT"

11.

FILE: HOS: ASSIGN/ADVISE. DECL OADR DRV HUM 4-82.

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