“… on the train to Warsaw. -06- Fun DL- MORONEand BEGGSdeparted Moscow on 12 November 1960. It is not known when KOSOLAPOV left Moscow for Helsinki, but he was on the 16 November 1960 train manifest as departing Helsinki for Moscow. NOSENKO departed Moscow on 15 November 1960 for Cu …”
“… he First Department. Another of the cases involved the contact of ARTEMOV withja CIA officer who was under Department of State cover in Helsinki, Finland, 08,24,14-1 and visited the USSR on a tourist visa. Such an individual would under no circumstances be considered a true touri …”
“… o are repeatedly referred to in this review. They include the following: - Anatoliy Mikhailovich GOLITSYN, a KGB officer who defected in Helsinki to U.S. authorities on 15 December 1961. sensitive source 5 sensitive source TOP SECRET as”
“… ce. He replied "no" to both questions.... ** This document was transmitted from KGB Headquarters in Moscow to the KGB Legal Residency in Helsinki on 7 April 1961. In content it is similar to the general description of the docu- .ment which NOSENKO said he himself wrote, NOSENKO said …”
“… Department .in connection with counterintelli arlenment as a First Chief Directorate counterantellignnen, —- plained to GRYAZNO/ officer in Helsinki. GOLITSYN had com- that the KGB had no U.S. assets in Helsinki mkathe times CIA he >* quoted GRYAZNOV as replying: who* went on to explai …”
“handling an agent, a code .Embassy in Moscow, who was about to be transferred, perhaps to Helsinki; he told GOLITSYN that the KGB had received r.D *4 * shformation from this American code clerk and classified him tis a "real agent." NOSEN …”
“… pociri net tode proposed that operational measuresbe undertaken ne ifeily in Halaint: operational possibilities be studied,1 in tha 181 Helsinki, .1 through which most of the code clerks passed on their ntly to Moscow. y Finally, according to NOSENKO, none of the opor 4 against …”
“179. (c) Information from PREISFREUND CIA initially interviewed PREISFREUND on 8 July 1965 in Helsinki. (NOSENKO himself had suggested that PREISFREUND would confirm his story of the STORSBERG case.) During this first meeting with him, PREISF …”
“… going to the USSR after all. Reliable information shows, however, that he did go to the Sov ! iet Union several days later, returning to Helsinki on 24 July 1965. Et TOP tvt :, 1 s6*”
“… TOP SECRET 132. (d) Information from GOLITSYN GOLITSYN, who had served the KGB most recently as a counter intelligence officer in Helsinki during I960 and 1961, reported separately two possibly related leads to operations against Am erican personnel assigned to the United St …”
“… 62, while discussing the KGB agent PREISFREUND. GOLITSYN said that he first met PREISFREUND when the latter went to the Soviet Embassy in Helsinki in connection with an application for travel to the USSR. On several”
“later occasions, GOLITSYN said, the two men had drinks together in Helsinki cafes. According to GOLITSYN, PREISFREUND had been used in the recruit ment in Moscow of at least one American who "could have been a c …”
“… December 1960."** GOLITSYN: related that he had visited the American Department to request permission to use PREISFREUND operationally in Helsinki. This request was refused with the see, he (PREI SFREUND) helped us in one recruit explanation: "You see. ment now, and it is necessary …”
“… **GOLITSYN‘s passport and travel records held by CIA confirm that GOLITSYN travelled only twice to the Soviet Union after his arrival in. Helsinki on 20 July 1960. The first of these trips , was on 19 January 1961, when he f lew directly from Helsinki to Moscow; he returned to Helsin …”
“appears to have spent all or most of this period in Leningrad. A Finnish national, whom GOLITSYN had been developing in Helsinki, has reported that he met with GOLITSYN in Leningrad on a daily basis from 10 through 13 April 1961. Moreover, GOLITSYN has never mention …”
“… y KOSOLAPOV on Code Clerk Cases (a) Introduction According to NOSENKO, the U.S. Embassy Section officer KOSOLAPOV travelled only once to Helsinki, and KOSOLAPOV at: that time succeeded in his mission of accompanying —together with a KGB female agent—a suspected American code clerk, …”
“single TDY to Finland, in early 1960, travel records show that KOSOLA POV (under a different identity) went to Helsinki in both the spring and fall of 1960. Travel records on the second Helsinki TDY by KOSOLAPOV, on which NOSENKO has not reported, are borne …”
“… otoco 1, whicn KO read aurfa signed, corroborating its accu- racy. This protocol reads: "I do not knew about this trip of KOSOLAPOV’S to Helsinki in November 1960. I do not know that he accompanied a code clerk back to Moscow at that time. “I was KOSOLAPOV’ s direct supervisor from …”
“… ords show that he transitted Amsterdam on a direct flight to Cuba from Moscow on 15 November 1960, three days after KOSOLAPOV arrived in Helsinki. NOSENKO was then asked if he would have learned of the trip in any case, whether or not he was in Moscow, and he stated that he would ha …”
“… d the kharakteristika [official form} on KOSOLAPOV for this TOY and gave it to the Personnel Office. Question: Whose idea was it for this Helsinki operation against JENNER? TOP SECRET”
“Question: What other cables or letters’ were sent to or re ceived from the Helsinki Rezidentura [Legal Resi dency of the KGB] concerning this operation, KOSOLAPOV's trip? NOSENKO: Only this cable, nothing else. KOSOLAPOV …”
“… s? NOSENKO: They didn't tell us. Question: Well, wasn't there some sign, some hint as to what was so important? NCSENKO: Code clerks in Helsinki would be more important for them; this -is the work of the FCD. Question: How did KOSOLAPOV know how to find JENNER, to recog nize him …”
“… estion: Were GRYAZNOV and KOSOLAPSV your subordinates during this period? NOSENKO: Yes. Question: How many times did KOSOLAPOV travel to Helsinki in order to travel to Moscow on the train with Ameri can code clerks? NOSENKO: I know of one. Question: When was that? Which one? NOS …”
“… ion: Was the operation successful? s NOSENKO: No it wasn't successful. But it was interesting. It was the first try to send an officer to Helsinki. Question: When did it happen? NOSENKO: First part of 1960. I think approximately 15 March or April. Question: Other than the trip to m …”
“… terrupts) Vadim Viktorovich. Question; Anything else you want to say about the name? NOSENKO; KOSOLAPOV. Question: Concerning his travel to Helsinki by train in March of 1960 under cover of Vneshtorg, does that mean anything to you? NOSENKO; I was telling you that there was trip when h …”
“… y/archivist, but he wasn't working as a code clerk. He was working with mail. Question: Well, according to official records he arrived in Helsinki by train from.Moscow. NOSENKO; Yes. Question; On the 31st of March 1960. NOSENKO; Yes. Question: And he went to meet JENNER, to come back o …”
“14-00000 4 wrsrxc*pc>= **Clystr 194. Questions It’s 1960. He made a trip in 1960, in March, to Helsinki by train using this name, KOLOSOV, and us ing this cover, Vneshtorg, and we also have a report from official Finnish sources that he lef …”
“… in. Questions They weren't even on the same train. NOSENKO: Here, please, they were going in one train. Question: KOSOLAPOV remained in Helsinki. NOSENKO: (interrupts) KOSOLAPOV in one even carriage, in one even carriage with Paul JENNER. Then... Question: (interrupts) How do you …”
“… know. I don't know. Maybe this is a mistake of Finnish officials. I don’t know, but he was on the same train and he was return ing from Helsinki with Paul JENNER. The same train, The %* carriage. The remaining information on KOSOLAPOV’s TDY in early 1960 comes from other sources: …”
“… an code clerks were KGB agents or informants.) - CIA investigations showed that I. Ye. SERGEYEV, a KGB officer and the Soviet Consul in Helsinki, contacted the police chief there on 31 March 1960 to ask his assist ance in locating an American named Paul F. JENNER who”
“was due to arrive in Helsinki the day before.*** SERGEYEV explained that he had some "business" with JENNER, but he * KOSOLAPOV was 32 years of age at the time. ** …”
“… show that JENNER arrived in Hel sinki en route to Moscow on 30 March 1960 and departed by train the following day. KOSOLAPOV arrived in Helsinki the same day that JENNER left, 31 March 1960, and remained there until 2 April 1960 when he too departed for Moscow by train. The Finnis …”
“sinki until July 1960, i.e., after KOSOLAPOV's first trip to Helsinki, under the KOLOSOV alias. He has reported that at "about the end of 1960, about November or possibly by the begin ning of 1961," the KGB …”
“… ough the window before depart ure. Question: In the compartment? The train compartment? GOLITSYN: Yes, and then this other person visited Helsinki from KOSOLAPOV's division [the U.S. Embassy Section, Ameri- can Department, Second Chief Directorate].**** Question: When was this? GOLI …”
“… OLITSYN: Yes. Question: Which one? KOSCLAFOV? GOLITSYN: No, n°* This American "The Finnish raiiroad manif the p > ^ s travelling from Helsinki to Moscow on 16 :: 19:0, ZOZCLA9OV was one of eight Soviets aboard the tra ; John OPLAND was the only American. CARLA! , it OWN arrived i …”
“… s travels and acquaintances while stationed in Mos- .cow. , - App-X. .. 7- In the context of discussion of KOLOSOV/KOSOLAPOV’s travels to Helsinki, NOSENKO’s interrogator pointed out on 26 October 1966 that CIA was aware of a second trip there which NOSENKO had not reported. The foll …”
“… r KOLOSOV, KOLOSOV was the name he used.■ NOSENKO: Yes? Question: We found there was one American on that train with KOLOSOV going from Helsinki to Moscow. NOSENKO: Yes? And his name? If it is not secret, if you can say, of course? Question: One of your targets, an American code c …”
“Question: GOLITSYN told us that KOSOLAPOV was travelling to Helsinki to meet a code clerk in November 1960. You understand what I’m telling you? KOSENKO: Yes, I understand. And KOSOLAPOV must tell him about …”
“… e must. And KOSOLAPOV must speak with him. Question: KOSOLAPOV spoke with GOLITSYN, and KOSOLAPOV rode with this American code clerk from Helsinki on the train back to Moscow. But GOLITSYN was not in Hel- sinki when JENNER was there. It wasn't JENNER. KOSENKO: With Paul JENNER I know …”
“… Embassy Sec tion of the American Department on a number of occasions in the spring of 1960 as part of his preparation for assignment to Helsinki in July of that year; he has also said that he returned on temporary assignment to Moscow and again con sulted with U.S. Embassy Section …”
“… date of ABIDIAN’s visit to the Pushkin Street dead drop, KOSO- LAPOV's travel separate from JENNER, and KOSOLAPOV's November 1960 trip to Helsinki. It seemed at all times that he accepted that CIA knew more than he did on topics including conditions in the USSR and cases and people f …”
“… f or planned recruitment approach to a U.S. Embassy employee (possibly a code clerk) prior to April/May 1960, and a KGB officer's trip to Helsinki to accompany an Embassy code clerk travelling by train to Moscow. (There is documentary evi- dence to support the accuracy of GOLITSYN’S …”
“… ngth in Part VIII.B.6.) KOSOLAPOV, NOSENKO’S direct sub Travel records show that KOSO ordinate, made but one TDY to LAPOV was twice in Helsinki Helsinki in the 1960-1961 period; during 1960, in March-April NOSENKO would have known about if and again in November. (Pages not approv …”
“… type of infor- mation is the reporting on KGB operations by GOLITSYN who, from contacts with U.S. Embassy Section officers in Moscow and Helsinki, was able to provide several leads to what he said were recruited American code clerks. GOLITSYN’s infor- mation thereby directly contrad …”
“leads.* Another of GOLITSYN’s leads, that concerning an operational trip by KOSOLAPOV to Helsinki in order to estab lish contact with a code clerk, is confirmed by documentary evidence that KOSOLAPOV did in fact travel on the Helsinki …”
“… 0, at a time NOSENKO was on leave, had requested permission ofi to use a U.S. Embassy Section agent, a Finn, in his own opera tions in Helsinki. During his discussions in the American ipprigieatt *** Department, GOLITSYN learned that this Finnish agent was being used in operatio …”
“… GRYAZNOV. GOLITSYN, as NOSENKO reported, didvisit the American Department, did request permission to use PREISFREUND opera- tionally in Helsinki, and did report this to CIA in late 1961 following his defection. GOIITSYN also reported that, in denying his request, KOVSHUK told him t …”
“… O’s plan to send a KGB officer to Hel sinki in order to strike up an acquaintance with a code clerk entering the Soviet Union aboard the Helsinki-Moscow train. The first (and last) time this was attempted, NO- SENKO related, was in March 1960, when the KGB learned that JENNER, list …”
“… icer at the U.S. Embassy upon his arrival that he had been contacted by two Soviet students from Vyborg, a young man and a roman, on the Helsinki-Moscow train. He also reported having been given a telephone number by the girl and later reported having been recontacted by her at the …”
“… nts were exactly as he described them. (iii) The GARLAND Case I. . GOLITSYN told CIA after his defection that while he was stationed in Helsinki, probably in November—not March —1960, KOSOLAPOV travelled to Finland under alias and commercial cover in order to make the acquaintance …”