“passed unclassified information through her to the KGB for many months. as NOSENKO clearly ascribed the SMITH operation to the period when NOSENKO was in the American Embassy Section, in 1953-1955. SMITH s state I ment that he reported the blackmail attempt to the Ambass”
“… of five, years' duration but he failed an examination which delayed his graduation for three months. 29wewiro-ds Comment: See p.367 for report that NOSENKO joined the KGB upon graduation from the Institute in 1947. The duration of the Institute course and the date of NOSENKO’s c …”
“those latter topics prompted amended state ments with respect to his RU service. The extent of the still-unreconciled discrepancies and contradictions in NOSENKO’s various accounts is best perceived in comparison of his statements made in 1962, 1964, 1965 and 1966. NOSENKO'”
“care for his RU assignment, invited him to consider joining the KGB. ,9 NOSENKO's Information-1964 Prior to NOSENKO's graduation he had been tentatively assigned by the Institute's military commission to the RU, and on the instructions of the Institute's "secret unit", he ”
“Top Secret |(PRE-KGB BIOGRAPHY) In spring 1951 NOSENKO was promoted to the rank of , lieutenant. At the end of 1951 NOSENKO was assigned as an "apprentice" in the Agent-Intelligence Section near ,f Sovetskaya Gavan', an assignment which involved subchaser delivery and picku”
“Top Secret (PRE-KGB BIOGRAPHY) to join Naval Intelligence. After passing all of his examinations, in the fall of 1950 NOSENKO received orders calling him to active duty. Offered a choice of assignments. assignments, NOSENKO chose the Far East "to prove that he was now ready to”
“Top Secret (PRE-KGB BIOGRAPHY) he reported to the Naval Ministry and was told to return for reassignment at the end of his leave. NOSENKO was on leave in May and June 1952, and he remained "at the disposal of the Naval Ministry". [According to his 1962 and 1966 versions, he was”
“reference to delayed graduation caused by his having< to take a state examination a second time.] For the next nine months, until March 1951, NOSENKO awaited being called to RU service. [In earlier versions, NOSENKO claims he entered the RU. in 1949 or 1950.]; On 12 March 19”
“Top Secret (PRE-KGB BIOGRAPHY) active Naval service and assigned to the RU. With neither training nor indoctrination he was assigned initially to the Far East for nine months or three years; there he participated in agents’ operational training, or reports work. In the latter c”
“Top Secret (KGB ENTRY) in the Naval RU and of his date of graduation from the Institute, of International Relations). To the extent to which he has been consistent at all, he has cited March 1953 as the time of his entry to the KGB. Date of Entry NOSENKO at his first meetin”
“Chief Directo rate". Comment: GOLITSYN had reported that GUK was transferred out of the Second Chief Directorate in January 1952. 62 0001332 TS No. 197124 Top Secret Copy -----”
“Personnel Department and that I didn't want to return to the Baltic." NOSENKO said that KOBULOV offered to call the KGB Personnel Office and have them "look NOSENKO over", and NOSENKO assented, after which he twice NOSENKO over" visited the Personnel Office where he filed com”
“Top Secret 1 (KGB ENTRY) 1 Comment : Twice, following Stalin's death in March 1953 and again following Beriya's arrest in June 1953, all KGB identity documents were temporarily recalled for revalidation." On both occasions 1 new stamps were placed on the document, lacking”
“Department; in June 1956 in — connection with his participation in and award for the BURGI06 case; and after August 1956 when the death of his father .% :. forced him to pull himself together.) Operations Against American Correspondents NOSENKO exempted himself from reporting ”
“Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION ca. 1953-June 1955) develop.' NOSENKO has described some of these agents in general terms, but for all but a few he recalled neither - their names nor personalia concerning them. -noon 0616) 06 06 O 06 06 062 . KGB Files on SHAPIRO, G”
“… , what might be suspicious in his behavior, whom he is contacting, etc". He then reported to KOZLOV and would sometimes prepare a written report of his conversations with the agents. Asked to describe these meetings, NOSENKO replied: "Let us take the same case of SHAPIRO, I would …”
“begin his report. Of course, if he spots anything suspicious he calls immediately, and I would see him the next morning. Otherwise, I would tell him at t …”
“h a s is Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - ca. 1953-June 1955) EASNED KOZLOV accompanied NOSENKO to meetings with the various agents surrounding the correspondents. "At first he was teaching me. Then he would go in cases when something interesting would begin to de”
“… d a part-time cleaning girl. NOSENKO classified two other of his agents as "neutral", in that they did not have specific targets on whom to report. The first of these was. the director of MOSGRAN, a”
“Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - ca. 1953-June 1955) Information was also received according to NOSENKO from the network of Soviet chauffeurs, cooks, language instructors, and other agents in the Embassy; permanent and roving surveillance patrols outside the Embassy; fixe”
“e.emadt. L .ik n tll Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION -' ca. 1953-June 1955) went. R o b e rs o n s Comment: (Continued). with transportation facilities, and with the geographic regions to which the Service Attaches travelled. Approval of Service Attache travel itin”
“he said on 10 April 1964 that he received the files in the beginning of 1954. He had earlier said that he worked on the corres- pondents "only, about six months". If the date of March 1953, which he most often gave for his entry into the KGB, is correct, this would place the”
“… Attaches being the microphones in their of fices .? Newly added to the network while NOSENKO held this, position was a maid inserted to report on Army Attache. 06 Earl L. MICKELSON and his successor, Fillmore K.”
“Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION ca. 1953-June 1955) Of the KGB agents among the chauffeurs, NOSENKO named Nikolay SHNYRYEV, who was used by various attaches, "He reported where they went, what they said, whether they took notes or photographs, whether they had unusual”
“Colonel MICKELSON through 06 in Captains MULE and STROUD to Chief Warrant A Co. Officer CARDELL. -—0 06 06 MICKELSON 06 KOSENKO correctly identified Earl L__MICKELSON as a no „colonel and the Army Attache in Moscow during 1954 and 1955. PANKRATOV was the case officer or”
“Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION ca. 1953-June 1955) NOSENKO said that the KGB learned nothing interesting about 06 MICKELSON from concealed microphones, telephone taps, or surveillance, and that no operational approach or recruit ment was attempted. There was, in fact”
“the same maid who reported .earlier on MICKELSON. Besides being told to attempt to over- hear MEARNS’ conversations, NOVIKOVA was instructed to search his clothing and to copy any notes she might find, but she never overheard or found anything of interest to . the KGB. NOSEN”
“-I Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - ca. 1953-June 1955) w 580065 RICHARDS 06 /NOSENKO correctly identified Ira B. RICHARDS as a_ 5 )lieutenant colonel who served as an Assistant Army Attache) D in Moscow. The one agent reporting on RICHARDS whom NOSENKOj could name ”
“… hich had been accumulated from a number of sources and incidents. “For example, FELCHLIN had been caught taking some photo- graphs and a report, had been written; along with other Ksimilar indications of FELCHLIN's activities and reports of Magents in contact with FELCHLIN, the re …”
“FELCHLIN said that SHNYRYEV 06 drove primarily for the Army Attache himself, but sometimes drove for the Assistant Army Attaches, and he remembered that SHNYRYEV was not well, suffered from war wounds, and had continuing chest or lung trouble. Asked whether SHNYRYEV had any”
“*7 1 Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - ca. 1953-June 1955) fl 06 / and BORODIN entered the room to await MULE’s return. When 06 MULE started to enter the room, he caught sight of BORODIN E and tried to back out, but NOSENKO and KOVSHUK closed the door from the hall an”
“office. SIEGAL left after about 20 minutes, haying warned MULE not to report the incident. MULE identified-06 06 SIEGAL/BORODIN by photograph, but was unable to identify NOSENKO.. % KGB lack of interest in recrui …”
“1 4-00000 a % Top Secret EKS. (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - ca. 1953-June 1955) kaeva. Additional Reporting PES. Knowledge of another KGB operation involving Americans was said by NOSENKO to stem from his 1953-1955 service in the American Embassy Section, against CIA”
“the American Department) he had approximately twelve. The substance of MOSENKO’s descrip- tion of his agents is as follows: Larissa SOBOROVA • An Inturist English-language interpreter, SOBOROVA was one of the first agents recruited in 1955 by NOSENKO within Inturist. She reporte”
“Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) Comment: CIA records refer only to one Alexander ROGOV who in 1960 was a senior official at the main Inturist office in the Hotel National in Moscow. Nataliya SHULGINA SHULGINA was an Inturist interpreter recruited b”
“as foreign languages. When NOSENKO became her.case officer she was working as an interpreter at the Russian Permanent Exhibit in Moscow, She continued this job until about 1960, when she became an instructor in the Greek language at the Institute of International Relations. ”
“… interpreter with a small delegation visiting GARST’s farm in the United States, and was used by the KGB Legal Residency in Washington to report observations made enroute and while there. RYTOVA was married to a captain or major who works in a military office in Moscow, She had one …”
“… cessor, Michael JELISAVCIC.O NOSENKO took DANKO over from Seventh Department case officer I.A. KONSTANTINOV in 1955-1957. She was used to report on JELISAVCIC. 06 Comment: DANKO was an Inturist guide in 1956, 1958 and (1959, and she was working for the American A Express Company …”
“Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955—January 1960) When NOSENKO moved from the Seventh Department to the Second Chief Directorate's American Department in January 1960, he took VOLKOV and YEFREMOV with him. They were never used against targets in the American Embassy”
“of KGB agents, and their reports were placed in an informal file maintained by NOSENKO. NOSENKO could not recall how many such agents there may have been, their names, or what they might have reported concerning O BURGI. 06 (BURGI had an Inturist interpreter but NOSENKO did n”
“… : June 1955-January 1960) ., As the result of NOSENKO’s special request, the compromising photographs were ready by the following day. A report of the compromise and a request for permission to attempt recruitment were then submitted to NOSENKO's superiors. The request came back …”
“City took place the second or third 06 time BURGI appeared, and a KGB officer of , the New York Legal Residency continued to meet with him until the revolution in Hungary in late [October] 1956, when BURGI refused to colla 06 borate further . NOSENKO later heard from someone”
“visit to Moscow, but when NOSENKO attempted to renew contact upon GEHRCKENS’ return (: to the Soviet Union in 1958, the latter refused to see him. 06 Comment: GEHRCKENS was interviewed by CIA on 19 July - .... 1965, and, while generally uncooperative,* 'described a "mild a”
“Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) 06 offered to arrange the sale and took SUNDAR to a dingy section of Moscow. As they arrived before a small house, 06NOSENKO asked SUNDAR to give him the things to be sold. At this moment a KGB officer posing as a mil”
“apprehended immediately afterwards. SUNDAR has not been 06 interviewed on the basis of NOSENKO’s infor mation. Travel to London (1957-1958) NOSENKO reported that his first official travel outside the Soviet Union was in 1957 when he was selected to accompany a group of ”
“Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) went back to England, they would tell who they were with [report their contacts in the USSR]. They would probably question BIRSE especially, as one 06 who used to work in intelligence... BIRSE would O …”
“14-00000 Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT June 1955-January 1960) Comment : (Continued): _.061_ L 08,10 Associate Pastor of the Peoples Church in Chicago, stated that he had visited the Soviet Union in 1956, 1958, and 1963. He confirmed NOSENKO's information in detail exc”
“14-00000 Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) 06 Comment: DREW reported the approach in 1959, describing a four-hour interrogation by "SERGEYEV’ in MeT-yets Leningrad and generally confirming NOSENKO’s ,account of the operation. Re-interviewed by th”
“Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT June 1955-January 1960) Q6 Comment: WILBY reported the approach to British authori- H ties] in 1959, saying that he was "brought up before SERGEYEV (an operational alias some times used by NOSENKO). He has not been re-interviewed since NOS”
“should report to him." [In this passage NOSENKO was referring to himself, although he has always claimed he was Deputy Chief of the section.] 5/BR 132 …”