“parts: NOSENKO’s case officer responsibilities and the information he learned about ABIDIAN, NOSENKO’s knowledge of clandestine letter mailings by ABIDIAN, and NOSENKO’s statements on ABIDIAN and the Pushkin Street dead drop. (ii) Duties as Case Officer On 17 April 1964 …”
“… rmer, a "thief powder" applied to clothing, leaves a trace on anything with which it comes into contact; its use in detecting clandestine letter , mailings is described in greater detail below. NEPTUNE-80, *i a substance applied to a target's shoes,, leaves a trace on , the ground …”
“14.00000' 1 *3 - 223. that ABIDIAN had recruited real for an unspecifi intelligence mission in France shortly before left the Soviet Union in December 1900 and that the KC3‘s U.S. Embassy Section thereupon turn d the case over to the KGB First Chief Directorate.* - Tw”
“… , and his trips on which he saw his fiancee. ABIDI AN also reported that on 23 June 1960 GROMOKOVA attempted to persuade him to pass a a letter to departing personnel officer Mary GORINHA for for- warding to Jean LIEBERMAN, a former, student. When ABIDIAN refused, saying that this …”
“14-00000 NN >*>* ertXaXta RLV-SEYO*-*-*%/ woghil 2270 (1ii) ABIDIAN’s Letter Mailings During the 1962 meetings in Geneva, NOSENKO reported KGB knowledge of one type of operational task perferl by ABIDIAN in Moscow …”
“Zto your clothes/. A rag, even like a handkerchief. There is no smell. They put it in the pockets where you might put a letter, there 15 a special little machine at a station in Moscow.. All letters which are mailed in Moscow pass through this machine, under a fot …”
“Then ABIDIAN mailed one to still someone else. He mailed two or three letters. One letter was to the Baltic area. The same kind, that is we had planted this man on you. I think it was to Riga, to our double agent. And still, I …”
“… the Am- erican Department, the Active Line penetration."* NOSENKO has descr ibed in greater detail how ABIDIAN was detected mailing the letter to Odessa While discussing per- sonnel assigned to the American Department of the Second Chief Directorate, he said on 24 June 1964: "I f …”
“ABIDIAN mailed a letter to an agent in Odessa. This was a 'game ' Zigra - double agent operation.' The agent was ARK- HANGELSKIY ZKGB cryptonym/ I think, ASIDIAN …”
“… was also the only person known to CIA to have been a victim of radio- active Isotope tagging in connection with an operational task (not letter -mailing) which he had performed for CIA. There were no positive reactions for this agent's clothing in subsequent tests. DM ‘SY J' 2 8-0 …”
“… st box on the street and was checking it. Two or three times he was followed by this post rox but the sur- veillance never saw him mail a letter. Stili the KGB would remove the contents of the letter box and send it in. On the second or third time SUMIN found the letter he mailed w …”
“… and therefore no of her person had the possi bility of putting metka on his clothing. "I have said that ABIDIAN mailed an operational letter to the KG5 double agent ARKHANGELSKIY’, He mailed it at the mai Lbox on Tver skaya Yamskaya where he had gone several t lanes ear 1 ler. …”
“mailed this letter except that it was sometime in 1961.’* * In a CIA interview on 8 December 1964, ABIDIAN identified a photograph of Tatyana FEDOROVICH a …”
“… NOSENKO said, led to discovery of the first of these letters; also, it is possible that she was not employed by ABIDRAN at the time the letter to "ARKHANGELSKIY" was mailed. ABIDIAN’s third clandestine letter was mailed on 1 September 1961, appar- ently after FEDOROVICH came to w …”
“… dead drop site on the day NOSENKO said he did. The Pushkin Street dead drop site was proposed by PENKOV- SKIY himself in the August 1960 letter by which he initi ally contacted CIA. - The only known visits by Americans to this address and the only ones connected with its use as a …”
“… OSENKO said, and MARK had been suspected of being the GiE CIA Resident on, the basis of his behavior under KGB 32 7 surveillance and of his letter mailing.* NOSENKO did • MARK was a CIA cooptee while in Moscow, not a CIA officers, see Part II.B. . *- GD ^f^rr 8285 CLUSILt”
“CIA officer Russell LANGELLE in Moscow. Surveillance established the fact that he mailed operational letters and visited a possible dead drop site in Moscow (see Part V.E.3.d.). -George WINTERS: Known to be a CIA officer and was given special attention because of his operati”
“the Department of Agriculture. When HORBALY first arrived in Moscow he openly discussed the fact that he had come to the Embassy from CIA. While in Moscow he had no connection with or knowledge of CIA clandestine activities. WASHENKO was similarly detached from overt employme”
“the delega- tion and developed several "confidential contacts" firing the trip, which turned out to be entirely uneventful and, for NOSENKO, somewhat long and dull, ile explained that .hee would not have accepted the assignment had he known how long the trip was to be, and t”
“… ant to know about how to work against the Ameri can Legation. He said he wanted me to tell them everything about how to work, right from letter ‘A.’" NOSENKO was then intro- duced to the Chief KGB adviser in Sofia, Mikhail YEGOROV, and to the Chief of the MVR’s American Department …”
“by the Bulgarian civil police while walking on the street with LUNT. After leaving Bulgaria in November 1960, LUNT received two letters from ALEKSIEV and prior to his next visit, on 25 April 1961, LUNT wrote ALEKSIEV saying he would be returning. ew SECRET”
“there, I have a good agent apparatus, i.e., I have beautiful girls... and I have young pederasts, homosexuals. In partic ular, I have one special pair ZVOLKOV and YEFREMOV/ - I'm afraid that they are known to you and the English... Here is what happened. He gave me a signature. ”
“NOSENKO next mentioned his approach to JOHN SON on 17 April 1964. Although not immediately recalling JOHNSON’s name, he eventually remembered that "it was something like JOHNSON, JOHNSTON, or something that starts with a ‘J’" and that he was a Baptist from the California coas”
“to be done" to stop him from writing letters and making anti-Soviet statements on his return to the United States. At about the same time there was some sign that JOHNSON was a homosexual, and it was decided . to entrap him on this basis. The sole reason was to halt JOHNSON’”
“foreigner who wrote uncomplimentary letters and articles about the USSR. He replied: "They don't jump on everyone, and not everyone writes this way. And not everything that is written this way gets into their hands. In this case there was a coincidence. There was something we”
“… e 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 (i.e., the fact …”
“TAE vyale yonoraney 293. a few minutes, the police chief remarked that it was in his power to dismiss the whole affair, provided JOHNSON would do him a favor. The favor turned out to be a signed commitment that he would not speak ill of the Soviet Union when he returned ”
“315. at the White House late that night in a secret letter from KIIRUSHCHEV. At a farewell party for BOLSHAKOV in December 1962, Presidential Press Secretary Pierre SALINGER asked BOLSHAKOV who w …”
“… HRUSHCHEV stated, on the morning of 27 October 1962 (Moscow time). As previously indicated, however, KHRUSHCHEV’s secret and conciliatory letter to the President was received at the White House on the night of 26 October 1962.. .. TOP SEGHET”
“Second Chief Directorate personnel whom the letter writer had named. Among these names was (fnu) NOSENKO, and GOLITSYN indicated he had previously reported on him; CIA records, however, sh …”
“… iled account of an incident which GOLITSYN himself had previously reported to CIA: GOLITSYN and KASHCHEYEV in 1951 or 1952 had written a letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party proposing a reorganization and redirection of First Chief Directorate intelligence activi …”
“14-00000 TOP SECRET C 635. Do you have a pre-arranged signal for establishing contact with Soviet Intelligence? No. (No reaction) Do you have a concrete I plan to return to the Soviet Union sometime in the future? No. (Reaction) Are you performing a special mission for ”
“message letter of 18 September 1959*** sensitive KGB surveillance of U.S. none source Embassy officer KGB surveillance of LANGELLE 4 January 1959 GOL …”
“time had been in Moscow since August 1958, had been de tected in operational letter-mailing, and had been associating with KGB officers, etc. Neither this i n 439949 lensto ce. taenooonova TOP SECRET . 1 ____ 1”
“activity of the CIA officer LANGELLE, covering the compromise of POPOV. The document says in part: "In January 1959 a letter with secret writing mailed by a co-worker of the Embassy of the USA in Moscow, WINTERS, was intercepted and was addressed to a Soviet cit …”
“electronic equipment. which was seized in Stalingrad while VAN LAETHEM was still in Moscow.) d. Additional Reporting His information on two other operations involving Americans was said by NOSENKO to stem from his 1953-1955 service in the U.S. Embassy Section. One was the rec”
“which had been sent to SMITH. This occurred in 1954 or 1955, NOSENKO said, and in support of the recruitment approach, he handled the surveillance phone-watch. SMITH admitted to U.S. authorities having received four letters from the KGB between 2 and 5 June 1956 (a year after NOS”
“… n he retracted the claim, NOSENKO received the first of a series of KGB awards for opera tional performance because of the BUR.GI case—a letter of com- mendation. Within a month of this operation, NOSENYO said, he Cache n • was promoted from the rank of lieutenant to captain, his …”
“was in large part based, as subsequent analysis has shown, upon the above-mentioned reports submitted to the KGB by George BLAKE. (iil) Tourist Agents NOSENKO asserted that the KGB detected no agents among American tourists during the years 1958 or 1959, and that no tourist”
“… ficial he ever approached.) In February 1965 NOSENKO said that the KGB believed that KEYSERS did not report the receipt of the defection letter and that there was no indication that he had from microphones or telephone coverage of the U.S. Embassy. In fact, KEYSERS reported the le …”
“instituted, NOSENKO said, "in the hope that he might lead the KGB to another PCPOV." ABIDIAN was detected, NOSENKO continued, in three letter-mailings —all to agents already under KGB control. He was seen to enter a suspected dead drop site on Pushkin Street, the significance of …”
“… d very little lire left for ABIDIAN (see above concerning code clerks). In 1962 NOSENEC correctly described all of t e three clandestine letter mailings carried out by ARIDLAN in Mos- cos at CIA request (Pages 226-230). He also provide ac- curate information on CIA letter-mailings …”
“… wever, it appears That FEDOROVICH did not begin working as ABIDIAN’s maid until some time in July 1961, whereas ABIDIAN mailed his first letter in Moscow on 1 April 1961 and his second letter on 2 July 1961. ABIDIAN’s third letter was mailed on 1 Septem ber 1961, after FEDOROVICH …”
“… ore concluded that the signal came from the KGB. The Pushkin Street dead drop site was proposed by PENKOVSKIY himself in the August 1960 letter through which he initially contacted CIA. There is no record that a "tourist or delegation nouber" visited this address. The only known …”
“operations, In both cases, the victim of the provocation has verified NOSENKO’s presence. The third case, the rear uitment approach to BRAUNS, was unsuccessful. Additionally, NOSENKO supervised the homo- sexual compromise of KCTEN, who was closely tied in witha aiwet GLEes-Y”
“44-00000 735. place in the summer of 1962, a fact he recalled distinctly be cause he wore no overcoat. lt was only when confronted with official U.S. records that NOSENKO agreed in early 1965 that the approach was in January and recalled that it was made immediately after”
“… identified themselves to the double agent; (b) NOSENKO was able to report, with almost com plete accuracy, that CIA ceased clandestine letter- mailings inside the Soviet Union for over a year after the arrest of Russell LANGELLE in late 1959; (c) He identified several Americans …”
“operational activi ties of John ABIDIAN, WINTERS) mailing of a letter to POPOV, the homosexuality of two diplomatic officers, etc; and (e) He knew certain details of the story of Alek sandr CHEREPANOV whi …”
“… n In Geneva, Switzerland was publicised, includ- ing his KGB afilliat on. Woe: Si hear: (Ll news he imiedi- ately recalled the June 1962 "letter" from Sziterlant and linked NOSENKO to 11; he thereupon stated that se recalled NOSENKO as a member of the Second Chief vrrectorste worki …”
“… e in the U.S. Embassy Section of the American Department in 1960-1961 are concerned. More over, In 1962 GOLITSYN concluded that the KGB "letter-writer" (actually NOJENKO) was under KGB control in submitting infor-1 mation to American Intelligence. At issue,”