“… of the defection invitation) he was in error." While the official record shows that KEYSERS did indeed report receipt of the defection letter to Colonel URBAN in the office of Colonel URBAN, it should be noted that this occurred less than one hour before KEYSERS left the Emb …”
“14-00000 of the letter and his departure from Moscow, it would nave been remarkable 1x the XGEnaa learned this in- formation in time to call off the airport a …”
“14-00000 KGB purpose in running the operation was to lure American Intelligence into meeting BELITSKIY inside the USSR. The previous summary stated that NOSENKO did not know when the BELITSKIY operation started (Brussels, Belgium, 1958), did not know the nature of the Bri”
“… SENKO has furnished information concerning this case, stating it was originally a Seventh Department case and that after the mailing of a letter by the individual in Minsk, the case was immediately taken over by the First Department. There is adequate reason to believe ARTEMOV on …”
“… GRU an extremely valuable CIA source from 1953 on, was, according to the papers, exposed to the KGB in January 1959 as a result of a letter mailing by George Payne WINTERS, Jr. WINTERS was a CIA employee under [Department of State cover assigned to the Embassy in Moscow. T …”
“… on in the papers that Petr S. POPOV was uncovered by the KGB as a result of KGB surveillance on George Payne WINTERS, Jr., who mailed a letter to POPOV in January 1959, this information should be considered as possibly information of a deceptive nature unless an adequate explan …”
“the letter to POPOV in January 1959 is not incompatible with the distinct possibility that the KGB had previously obtained infor mation from an F …”
“… suspicion of POPOV from a valuable agent would be very interested in attributing the exposure of POPOV to the fortuitous mailing of the letter to POPOV by WINTERS. The possibility should be considered that prior to the. retrieval by the KGB of the letter to POPOV there was only …”
“… f doubt fell on the name of Stalin. Soon after Stalin’s death in 1953 I read a certain document given me by my father. This was a secret letter of the Central Committee of the CPSU on the ’ case of the doctors ; ’ it was ’ not addressed to all communists but only to members and c …”
“had never done. They were simply forced to give the evidence which was needed by the investigators. The secret letters on the cult of Stalin and much that I heard inthe KGB about the reign of Stalin, all this left its mark and forced me to think deeply about the real truth ”
“… ed. These were then combined with photographs of SMITH to produce photomontages, copies of which were delivered to SMITH together with a letter inviting him to a meeting with the KGB. SMITH came. The KGB was represented at- the meeting by GRIBANOV, NOSENKO and one other officer. A …”
“Top Secret (FOUNDATION OF NOSENKO’S CLAIMS) When SMITH did not come to the next scheduled meeting with GRIBANOV, NOSENKO sought out the maid to find out what had happened. She reported that SMITH was in a state of desperate indecision; he had paced his room all night as i”
“14-00000 11 Top Secret (FOUNDATIONS OF NOSENKO'S CLAIMS) 0 which took place between 1953 and 1957, but he was not sure that the operation actually resulted in a successful recruit ment, as was alleged in the study.• Comment; Edward Ellis SMITH (a redhead). Embassy Sec”
“Primorskiy Kray" near Baltiysk. Comment: Primorskiy Kray is in the Far East, as NOSENKO's .interrogators pointed out to him at the time. NOSENKO subsequently claimed it was his earlier ; post, Sovetskaya Gavan', which was in Primorskiy Kray, a fact known to him from the way”
“MEARNS. D61 Her name, NOSENKO thought, was NOVIKOVA. She was an English-speaking university graduate but "hid her knowledge of English in order to overhear conversations or read. letters without taking them outside". Besides NOVIKOVA, NOSENKO named one other maid who was hi”
“• DX captain despite his lengthy service in the Army and infor- mation from concealed microphones indicated that he was often disparaged by the other Attaches. When MULE received letters from home, he threw them in the trash, and the maids turned these over to the KGB. From t”
“contacts. The American agents performed a variety of clan-- wee destine tasks including passive assessment of Soviet candidates for recruitment, propa- ganda activities, and infiltrating equipment, loading deaddrops, or mailing letters bearing 1 secret writing, all destined”
“… e retracted the claim, NOSEIKO received the first of % ,a series of KGB awards for. operational performance because 06of the BURGI case—a letter of commendation, Within a month of this operation, NOSENKO said, he was promoted from the rank of lieutenant to captain.9 0001385 115 …”
“… and KOZLOV received letters of commendation and bonuses of one month’s pay by order of SEROV, Chairman of the KGB; PETRENKO was given a letter of commendation and half a month’s salary; and even RASTYKAITE, the housekeeper, got a commendation. In 1964 NOSENKO reported for the fir …”
“… after he returned to the United States. In September 1959, according to arrangements made at the time of his recruitment, he received a letter signed "George PETERSON" telling him to be at a rendezvous point in New York. By the time he received the letter, however, the date of t …”
“Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) operations. Nevertheless, based on his research for this study as well as on his general and supervisory, responsi- Abilities in the Seventh Department, NOSENKO asserted that he could accurately describe KGB. counter”
“… merican tourist was observed performing a clandestine task, NOSENKO said, was one whose name he recalled as McGUIRE, and who mailed a 06 letter in Minsk in 1959. NOSENKO said he never knew what 06 KGB operational activity led to the discovery of McGUIRE's clandestine letter maili …”
“… ntly referring to Edward 06 McGOWAN, a CIA tourist agent who was in fact detected by the KGB while clandestinely mailing an operational letter in Minsk, but in August 1958. C6 . There was a| Robert Alan McGUIRE who visited the Soviet Union during NOSENKO’s Seventh Department se …”
“Union, a letter offering him asylum in the USSR was sent to the American. NOSENKO himself followed up the letter by personally repeating the KGB offer to …”
“… 06 have preferred to attempt to recruit KEYSERS, but it learned that he was to be withdrawn from the Soviet Union. The KGB then sent a letter to KEYSERS, at his room in America House, pointing out the trouble he was in, and offering him asylum 06 in the USSR.b KEYSERS did not r …”
“… d in the terminal building found occasion to approach KEYSERS D6/ alone. NOSENKO asked if KEYSERS had thought about the offer D6. in the letter, but KEYSERS did not respond and immediately OX reported the approach-to the officer escorting him.: : In the 1965 interrogations NOSENKO …”
“… ophones, from which the KGB would have learned, contrary to NOSENKO’s assertion, 06 that KEYSERS did report the receipt of the defection letter to his”
“… er Russell LANGELLE, ABIDIAN was coopted by CIA to perform 0*26 a number of operational tasks, including govowp/e performing clandestine letter mailings to CIA * agents inside the Soviet Union and servicing deaddrop emergency communications from CIA . . source GRU Colonel O.V. PEN …”
“… OSENKO mentioned ABIDIAN in several instances, identifying him as the Embassy Security Officer and as "a CIA officer" and describing his letter-mailing activities. His knowledge of ABIDIAN was attributed to his claimed position of Deputy Chief of the Embassy Section. After recont …”
“Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION January 1960-January 1962) was generally reduced in order to allow increased coverage of British targets in connection with the PENKOVSKIY case. As the responsible case officer, NOSENKO directed the surveillance of ABIDIAN and evaluated”
“All. AMemm Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) -All other agents and operational contacts of the section were to be instructed to report every detail about ABIDIAN (see below).. : -Surveillance teams were to be instructed to check all places”
“… ng badly" as ABIDJAN'S case officer, he said, because he had had to , concentrate on supervising the work against code clerks. ABIDIAN's Letter Mailings During the 1962 meetings with NOSENKO in Geneva, he reported KGB knowledge of ABIDIAN's mailing of at least three clandestine l …”
“… s applied an odorless substance (metka) to clothing pockets, and traces of the substance rubbed off on any thing it contacted, such as a letter. All the letters mailed in Moscow were passed through a machine which identified letters bearing tracing of metka, he said, and this was. …”
“Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION January 1960-January 1962) Comment : NOSENKO's information is substantially correct, that no letters were mailed for one and a half years after LANGELLE’s expulsion, and that ABIDIAN mailed two or three letters, including ones to the Ba”
“… t and therefore no other person had the possibility of putting metka on his clothing. . "I have said that ABIDIAN mailed an operational letter to the KGB double agent 'ARKHANGELSKIY ' (in Odessa). He mailed it at the mailbox on Tverskaya Yamskaya where he had gone several times e …”
“NOSENKO claimed resulted in , ’ the interception of the letter ABIDIAN mailed 1 1 April 1961, and probably was not yet employed by ABIDIAN even at the time the letter to "ARKHANGELSKIY" was mailed on …”
“… anuary 1962) Told that FEDOROVICH could not have been applying metka regularly to ABIDIAN’s clothing at the time of the "ARKHANGELSKIY" letter mailing, NOSENKO insisted that no one but FEDOROVICH had access to ABIDIAN’s apartment, that he himself briefed her on the use of metka, …”
“… cept that he replaced No David MARK, who had been regarded as "Resident' because of .his behavior under surveillance and of his clandestine letter F mailing .As KLOSSON’scase officer was MIKHAYLOV. NOSENKO recalled the names of none of the KGB agents working nd specifically against KLO …”
“NOSENKO never int read KLOSSON’s file. 06 06 Comment: KLOSSON was not a CIA officer and had no connection with CIA in Moscow. John ABIDIAN ABIDIAN was considered to be a CIA officer on the basis of his conduct as a Department of State security officer during Premier Khru”
“—pale Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) Comment : ABIDIAN was a State Department officer coopted by CIA Although not a CIA staff employee, he was for all intents the CIA "Resident" in Moscow from February 1960 until November 1961, 0. St”
“Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY: SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) everywhere it went, to different plants, and to meet repre sentatives of the so-called Institute of Agrarian Reform to discuss how to increase production. NOSENKO's cover assignment was deputy chief of the d”
“… was expected of lerka him and was told that "they want to know about how to work' aaainst the American Legation, everything, right from‘ letter ’A'". NOSENKO was introduced to the Chief KGB advisor in Sofia, Mikhail YEGOROV, and to the Chief of the RMVR’s American Department, afte …”
“after his return to Moscow in June he claimed he recruited Horst BRAUNS 06 Entrapment of ^.E. JOHNSON 06 NOSENKO’s Information NOSENKO first referred to @oHNSON] in Geneva in 1962, when he described how YEFREMOV and VOLKOV in January 1962 had been used in the homosexual ent”
“important information and he lived too far from the • KGB Legal Residencies in the United States for convenient con- $.-tact. • 06 Several days later KGB surveillance observed JOHNSON ; : % mailing some letters in Moscow. When read by the KGB they were found to be "so bitter,”
“)4-00000 Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - January 1962-January 1964) 06 Information JOHNSON’s ----- —--- f** According to a statement given to the FBI, prior to his 06 Moscow visit to the USSR JOHNSON had written a church authority, in requesting permission to preach ”
“14-00000 Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - January 1962-January 1964) Comment; From their modus operandi the "doctor from Riga" is undoubtedly VOLKOV and the "student" YEFREMOV. NOSENKO frequently used the opera tional pseudonym Yuriy Ivanovich NIKOLAYEV and was called ”
“… - Comment: BIENSTOCK was employed as an interpreter with a Bolshoi troupe touring the United States when she was asked by CIA to pass a letter to the ballerina, a letter destined for the bal lerina's brother in the USSR. BIENSTOCK re-N fused, and the letter was delivered by oth …”
“involvement.) •BIENSTOCK also admitted having contact in the United States through secret writing with KGB officers, until the letters ceased at KGB in itiative in late 1962 or early 1963. 0001545 274 TS No. 197124 6IBR Top Secret Copy”
“… the Second Chief Directorate arrest him "when he obtains materials which are of interest to American Intelligence." This was to be sent in letter form to Semichastnyy over GRIBANOV’s signature; the letter was not to indicate how BARGHOORN was to receive the materials. (That the eviden …”
“… fairs may have made this decision to assign OSWALD to Minsk. The Seventh Department updated his file, and it was sent, along with a cover letter pre pared by KRUPNOV, to the local KGB organization in Minsk. KRUPNOV’s letter summarized the case and specifically in structed local …”