COMMENTS ON THE NOSENKO DRAFT.
Originator: CIA
From: S. D. BRECKINRIDGE
To: BLAKEY, ROBERT G
Document date: 2000-01-01 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

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RECORD NUMBER : 104-10149-10035

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FROM

:S. D. BRECKINRIDGE

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: BLAKEY, ROBERT G

TITLE

COMMENTS ON THE NOSENKO DRAFT.

DATE

01/01/1900

PAGES

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SUBJECTS

: KGB

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER

CLASSTFICATION: CONFEDENTIAL

RESTRICTIONS

CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW

COMMENTS

: 09/13/97

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Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 SC 2107 Note).

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CONRDENTIAL

THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505

Office of Legislative Counsel

OLC 79-0113/n

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 araft.

In commencing, 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 repercussions 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 event 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

Testimony of Nosenko

Page 1, lines 15 and 18. KGB agents should read KGB officers.

Page 2, lines 3 through 20. Deryabin and Golitsyn are identified

here for all intents and purposes (except by name). Suggest the following

rewrite:

There were factors, however, that limited the valué

of the infornation supplied to the Cormittee 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information about the KGB that was outdated.

"'Introduction, Page 3.

Change the first sentence of the last para-

graph to read "The first individuals interviewea by the Committee

were two former KGB officers."

Page 3, line' 13. Change "agents" to "officers."

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"REATAL

Page 4, line 8. Delete "American" in front of CIA.

Page 4, line 11. Delete "Anerica's" in front of FBI.

Page 4 of 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."

Page 32, line 12. Delete cryptonym ABDONOR.

Page 32, lines 14 and 15. Delete "Thomas A. Ryan" and insert

"James C. Michaels."

Page 32, lines 20 and 24-25. Delete name "Thomas A. Ryan" and

substitute "James Michaels."

Page 32, line 22. Delete SR/CI/KGB.

Page 33, lines 1-3. Delete "Thomas A. Ryan" and insert "James C.

Michaels" and "James Michaels" respectively.

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

• "Michaels."

Page 38, line 23. Delete name "Deryabin" ana substitute "w."

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.

Page 51. Deposition of Tom Ryan (Michaels). Throughout this

:, deposition, the name "Michael" is used. The formally registered alias

was. "James C. Michaels" with

a final "s." "ti

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CONFIDENTIAL

Solie Testinony

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

reflect I asked him to prepare it in his own 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 comma and "by down there" and substitute

"and by SR."

Page 69, line 11. Even though Mr. Klein undoubtedly used the word

"agents"

', the word "officers" should be there.

Murphy Testimony

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

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

Solie not Soley.

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

Michaels Testimony

Page 5, line 7. Delete "Polish" and substitute "Bloc."

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

Nocene a age of response to que dould be changed to 1978.

"In 1976

On Question #3 of CIA Response to HSCA Interrogatory

In fourth paragraph change "In 1976" to "In 1978 Nosenko" etc....

Bagley Testimony

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

Of, his testinony. Mention of penetration of most sensitive level and heart

of French Intelligence. Defer to DO on disclosure of this information.

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ONAIDENTIAL

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In his letter to the HSCA and in his oral testimony, Bagley

mentioned CIA's possession of a Secret KGB document concerning

disinformation.

This document was received many years ago from

an East European intelligence officer defector. Therefore, we

cannot make a strong case for deleting reference to it, although

we wish that Bagley had not mentioned it.

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?

Very truly yours,

S. D. Breckinridge

Principal Coordinator, HSCA

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