“… EMOV, seeking out American homosexuals, accidentally 06 met MERTENS in Moscow and reported their suspicions to 0 NOSENKO. NOSENKO wrote a report of this, contact and requested authority to take compromising photographs in preparation for a recruitment approach, and”
“Top Secret 1 (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT June 1955-January 1960) 06 MERTENS when he visited Lvov and Minsk before leaving the USSR. NOSENKO said that he had used the name "George" with 06 MERTENS, but he could not recall what last name he had given him. When he related the case in”
“. Top Secret L F la t (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT June 1955-January 1960) NOSENKOwas responsible for arranging the compromise , was present when- the photographs were taken, and he has described the occasion in detail • (There was much complaining among the photographic technici”
“organization, and NOSENKO did not know whether WILLERFORD was approached subsequently. 06 0G Comment: WILLERFORD was interviewed by the FBI in July 1964 and "advised emphatically that-he had never been compromised by anyone nor did he feel that he ever could be compromised”
“… that he might again be reassigned to Moscow in December 1963 as the American Express Company representativ &(NOSENKO said he later read a report that FRIPPEL had been W, 0.29 06 assigned elsewhere, and it was therefore unlikely that his agent would return to Moscow. This report w …”
“4-0CC00 Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) - 06 06_ latter, the Soviet told ROBERTS, was FRIPPEL, whom the KGB suspected of being an American intelligence agent. [NOSENKO reported ROBERTS’ recruitment but has never indicated awareness of other KGB ”
“… other means . NOSENKO stated that later, when he trans ferred to the American Embassy Section, he took 06 his agent FRIPPEL with him to report on acquain- tances among the Embassy employees. NOSENKO and 06 FRIPPEL) agree that, with one exception (when FRIPPEL was queried regardi …”
“foreign intelligence services during the period 1955. through 1958. NOSENKO said he assembled this material from the Seventh Department's annual reports of the years 1955-1958, supplemented by information he obtained from discussions with knowledgeable Seventh Department cas”
“gather such information, the section’s officers employed large numbers of agents and informants among the indigenous employee's of the Embassy, Soviet citizens moving in Embassy social circles, and third-country nationals with American contacts. The officers also benefitted ”
“… SENKO were issued. . On the day NOSENKO reported to V.A. KLYPIN, Chief of the American Department, to begin his new job, he was told. to report to GRIBANOV's office. NOSENKO expressed his misgivings about the change of assignment to GRIBANOV. GRIBANOV replied that DUBAS had spoken …”
“contradictions between NOSENKO's earlier accounts of what functions he assumed from whom when he entered the Section, and his belated assertions that BAKHVALOV was his predecessor as Deputy Chief. Responsibilities Shortly after reporting for duty in the American Embassy S”
“00000 I Top Secret 1 (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION January 1960-January 1962) -I maintained the file on American Embassy security. -I maintained the log books for the reports sent to the First [American Embassy] Section by the Operational Technical Directorate, KGB, based”
“Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) 1955-1960 and 1962-1964, when he was assigned in the Seventh Department. His statements on this subject during February 1965 were distilled in a protocol which NOSENKO signed on 20 February: "As the only Deputy ”
“… ted States Govern ment who were assigned to the American Embassy on temporary duty during this period. I have read and ,understood this report and certify it as correct." 6001427 157 TS No. 197124 21BR Top Secret Copy —10”
“that the only specific responsibility of KOVSHUK's which he handled in the Chief's absence was reporting to the Chief of the First Department about all correspondence going out of the Embassy Section. NOSENKO stated he met none of KOVSHUK's agents during his absences, nor co”
“their questions as required.: If he cbuld: not answer their questions,NOSENKO stated, or if the problem was not within his authority, NOSENKO discussed the matter with KOVSHUK. If it was necessary, NOSENKO claimed he thereafter would discuss the matter with American Departme”
“[ Top Secret ^1 %,1 (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) : When NOSENKO took over responsibility for operations against code clerks, he read files on targets and agents, discussed the situation with. MALYUGIN, DEMKIN (the American Embassy Section case offi”
“initiating activity against code clerks prior to their arrival in the USSR and specifically proposed that operational measures be undertaken or that operational possibilities he studied in Helsinki, the city through which< most of the American code clerks passed on their way ”
“Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION - January 1960-January 1962) Comment: (Continued) of "military code clerks". NOSENKO reported that there was no KGB operation against O[HURLEY) Additionally, HURLEY performed repair 06 work on the cryptographic machines and directed ce”
“14-00000 Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION January 1960-January 1962) Attempted Recruitment of) STORSBERC 706 ----------------£---------- -------------------------------------- --------- ( --------------------------- - NOSENKO’s Information-1962 NOSENKO first " allud”
“… efusal, although he was held in the hotel room all night long. At about six o'clock in the morning the KGB officers received a telephoned report that the Embassy Marine guard had called America House to advise that the American was needed at the Embassy because an enciphered telegr …”
“… ess declined 5 because he was suspected, particularly by his fellow Finn of having some relationship with the KGB.a 5 11 1/ Comment: A report of the Finnish security service advised CIA in December 1960 that PREISFREUND 06 MNl"is a Soviet agent who calls at the America Club in …”
“recruitment attempt was thereupon terminated, unsuccessfully. NOSENKO "could not remember"if : he had ever read the KGB file on STORSBERG. [In describing KGB practice, NOSENKO consistently equated custody of a case file with being the responsible case officer.] He had no in”
“… s departure.) L.STORSBERG reported that the approach was in October 1961. See below.] DL 1’ s Information —STORSBERG STORSBERG did not report the KGB recruitment approach until the NOSENKO lead prompted his being interviewed by the FBI on 14 September 1964. His reasons, he said, …”
“First Chief Directorate counterintelligence officer in Helsinki until his defection in December 1961, reported that he had met in Helsinki on several occasions in 1960 [a Finn by the name of PREISFREUND whom he wished to use operationally. In December 1960 708,06 4 [GOLITS”
“Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION January 1960-January 1962) NOSENKO’s Information KEYSERS was STORSBERG’s replacement as military code clerk, and the KGB "sensed at once" that he was a homo sexual, and the case preoccupied NOSENKO the exclusion of everything else. NO”
“Army Attache .NOSENKO sped to the airport and 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 esc”
“… been monitored by the same KGB microphones, 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”
“Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION -January 1960-January I962) 'Comment: (Continued) — 06 with the case could regard KEYSERS as STORSBERG’s :Vo 06 replacement KEYSERS arrived in Moscow almost a year before STORSBERG’s departure, and was 0 assigned to the Air Attache of”
“… occurred every week or two, depending on WEISS' availability 6 When they met the day following WEISS' meetings with ZUJUS, O% WEISS would report such things as which Americans were 6o drinking 6 heavily”
“and who at America House was involved with. which girls from foreign embassies. Although WEISS visited Oh ,1 America House once or twice a month., and drank there with JO zujus, he reported little of interest. 06 The KGB learned "something" about ZUJUS' family in the United S”
“… chives. 06 ZujUS" Information .During a routine debriefing by U.S. Army authorities in 0 1963, ZUJUS confirmed an Embassy Security Office report that in the summer of 1962 ZUJUS]had been intimate with an O - Austrian woman, "Li111an" (last name unknown), who had. visited Ameri ca …”
“… OV was gone for about a week and he travelled both ways by train. NOSENKO read KOSOLAPOV’s otchet (official account) of his trip, and the report of the female agent, "SOLISTKA". According to those reports, KOSOLAPOV became acquainted on the train with JENNER as planned, as did "SOLIS …”
“… pril on a train carrying no Americans. Repeating the substance of the KGB operation and citing his recollection from reading KOSOLAPOV's report of the trip, NOSENKO insisted that KOSOLAPOV travelled on the same train with JENNER, and that the Finnish manifests must be in error. J …”
“Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION January 1960-January 1962) Information From Other Sources I. Ye. SERGEYEV, a KGB officer and the Soviet Consul in Helsinki, contacted the chief of the Helsinki police on 31 March 1960 to ask his assistance in locating an American Oenam”
“14-00000 Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION January 1960-January 1962) 06 Development of John GARLAND The GARLAND case is of particular significance to judging the validity of NOSENKO's claim to complete know ledge of all KGB operations against American code clerks. ”
“his own statement, took the train on 16. November .1960 from Helsinki to Moscow,to assume the duties as supervisor of the State Department code room in the Embassy. 08 e GOLITSYN’s Information GOLITSYN, whowas not posted to Helsinki until July 1960, reported that "about the”
“Top Secret AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION January 1960-January 1962) Svetlana IVANOVA, a maid or waitress at America House reported to DEMKIN, her case officer, everything she saw or heard concerning MORONEO6KOSOLAPOV visited her several times with DEMKIN to discuss MORONEO and ”
“never met her but instructed 06 PREISFREUND (see the STORSBERG case) to take her to America House and leave her on her own. Hanna went several times to America House in 1961, but NOSENKO can recall nothing that she may have reported on MORONE.M The second East German girl was”
“coverage. 06 NOSENKO did not recall when MORONE and BEGGS left Moscow. The Polish agent did, however, succeed in making MORONE"s acquaintance, and the technician from the Operational Direc torate reported back to NOSENKO the day after the train reached Warsaw. The technici”
“Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION January 1960-January 1962) Comment: (Continued) report and had seen "the film strips" after his return from Cuba. NOSENKO, it will be noted, had said earlier that there was no photographic co …”
“earlier occasion the girl told him that she had 0 an uncle in Moscow. MORONE has denied being approached or recruited by Soviet Intelligence o Information From Other Sources A sensitive Polish source reported in 1961 that on 8 November 1960 a Polish female, an experienced En”
“Top Secret (AMERICAN EMBASSY SECTION January 1960-January 1962) 06 and stayed at the Peking Hotel, Further compromising photographs were taken of her and/MORONEJon this trip. The female agent travelled to Moscow a third time and on 12 and 13 February 1961 more photographs ”
“practice to purchase rubles illegally from CECCHI. One report states that CECCHI asked a Marine guard to deliver blackmarket rubles to MORONE in th 06 State Department code room, (a restricted area t …”
“maid during visits to her apartment. 06 ZWANG’s maid has been identified as a KGB agent. Various Americans stationed in Moscow have reported that ZWANG was active in currency 06 speculation and blackmarketeering with the Egyptian and KOSOLAPOV’s agent, CECCHI. ILIBR 200 ”
“derogatory information regarding him. Comment: (GAFFEY],arrived in Moscow in September 1961 A fellow resident of America House, [Fred KADERA, reported during a State Department 06 security interview that GAFFEY had told him 0b that he had been intimate with a girl at a /”
“… ANOVA in America House. He described GAFFEY as the heaviest 06 drinker in America House and said that occasion- 06 ally GAFFEY could not report to work due to his drinking. In describing the KGB approach made to him in early 1963, BINDER (see p.405) 06 quoted his interrogator as …”
“… n as the section had on ABIDIAN. Included was ABIDIAN’s visa application, the negative results of checks of KGB Headquarters files, and a report prepared by the American Department of the First Chief Directorate. According to that report, which was based on correspondence from the …”
“… es in 1959; from ABIDIAN’s behavior at that time, the Legal Residencies concluded he was an intelligence officer, probably with CIA. That report and the fact that ABIDJAN was replacing the known CIA officer Russell LANGELLE as Security . Officer, made ABIDIAN one of the most import …”
“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”