“14-00000’ brgnnw VIII. NOSENKO’S BONA FIDES: ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSIONS 6427 A. Introduction 642 B. Evaluation of Production 643 1. Introduction 643 2. KGB Organization, Personalities, Methods 644 3. Operational Leads 645 a. Introduction 646 b. Operations Involving”
“2% * 1 |7 317. The Examination of the Bona Fides h— of a KGB Defector Yuriy I. NOSENKO 1 February 1968 0001267 TS No. 197124 Copy 10 Top Secret”
“1 4-00000 104-10210-10020 edwk. 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 TOP SECRET 1. Attached are the following pages of the Top Secret study entitled, the Examination of the Bona Fides of a KGB Defector - Yuriy I. NOSENKO, date”
“;104-10210-10021. w 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992U the '$ 5*% t ■ TOP SECRET w oAbar444a0 nie-ts. 1 1. Attached is Annex A of the Top Secret study entitled. The Examination of the Bona Tides of a KGB eft. Def”
“13-00000 % .TOP SECRET 1. Attached is Annex A of the Top Secret study entitled. The Examination of the Bona Fides of a KGB Defector - Yuriy I. NOSENKO dated February 1968 (copy 10). Copy 10 of this study had been forwarded to you earlier for your review. 2. Certain por”
“13-00000 Tor SHOR 1. Attached are the following pages of the Top Secret study entitled, The Examination of the Bona Fides of a KGB Defector - Yuriy I. NOSENKO, dated February 1968 (copy 10). Copy 10 of this study had been forwarded to you earlier for your- review. 2. W”
“e l. 4 Jilt , TO : Chief, Security Research Staff 12 August 1968 stetie 2RG4 : Interrogation Research Division SUBJECT : Yuriy Ivanovich NOSENKO IRD#67491 is s-ensoremonoameewrenserassoammesfilimem IDENTIFYING DATA Subject is a 40 year old former KGB Staffer who d”
“14-00000 . vl AP / .0 Chief, Security Research Staff 12 August 1968 FROM Interrogation Research Division SUBJECT : Yuriy Ivanovich NOSENKO IRD# 67491 IDENTIFYING DATA Subject is a 40 year old former KGB Staffer who defected to the U.S. in 1964 in Geneva. BACKGROUND ”
“14-00000 (: ■ D0 fT ScLhE available information, the remaining work will materially affect the conclusions drawn in this summary. The polygraph interview of NOSENKO was initiated on 2 August and concluded on 6 August 1968. Approximately sixty questions of a pertinent”
“ROM Interrogation Research Division : SUBJECT : Yuriy Ivanovich NOSENKO IRD # 67491 IDENTIFYING DATA Subject is a 40 year old former KGB Staffer who defected to the U.S. in 1964 in Geneva. BACKGROUND Mr. Bruce L. Solie of the Security Research Staff has been de- briefing and inte”
“TOP SECRET J 1. Attached is copy number 10 of the February 1968 CIA study entitled ’’The Examination of the Bona Fides of a KGB Defector - Yuriy I. Nosenko." 2. Please note that the CIA finds this study to be inaccurate in many important details and to contain the result”
“1 4-00000 meowrassvesmey-ewevexmemoe-eooseorotrr-treirssadidroomoeonasiaosonsesonraesotinreteroweoaueeotd-vesssancereenacveomlUmoE oLbRA available information, the remaining work will materially affect the conclusions drawn in this summary. The polygraph interview of NOS”
“OUT OLUREI 39 1 Mr. Klein. Do you have any recollection of, being asked 2 these questions and giving the answers that you just read to us? 3 Mr. Nosenko. Sir, I told you, and I will tell, I do not 4 remember their questions, and I do not remember my answers; but 5 I tried ”
“19 AAAGA_____ , 104-10534-10173 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 !- SECRET 1. Attached is Annex A - Statements of Soviet Officials About NOSENKO which is part of the summary entitled, Conclusions and Comments in the Case of”
“14-00000 inclusion support his statement that he had expanded the original request from BOBKOV so that he would have some "pieces of information to give CIA." (b) Notes by NOSENKO on other cases which he learned of during the 1962 - 1963 period. Certain of the notes wer”
“o voluntarily underwent a polygraph examination. The results of this examination indicated deception 5 SECRET NW 65990 Docld:32393018 Page 6 SECRET on a number of critical points indicating that he was sent by the KGB to perform one or more missions which also involved his penetr”
“FD-36 (Rev. 10-29-63) FBI Date: . 4/7/64 7 0 U $00 IC C/D-V Trans TtAthenfto Now ing in-rAW ft DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR, (Type in plain text or code) the brackets (Priority) cKPept5-26-98 dun IN THIS DOCUMENT Ex CI Via MATETEECIA INFORMATION -103 ies__ _ EXL-- - 27.”
“13-00000 ’ 10/0'9/97 THU 15:01 FAI 202 724 0457 ARRB £1006 3 Reel 45. Folder 13 This folder contains one document. The document is a ten page extract from the 835 page study "The Case of Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko” written by Peter Bagley of the Soviet Branch (DC/SB) in 1967”
“13-00000 2 Reel 45. Folder 13 This folder contains one document. The document is a ten page extract from the 835 page study “The Case of Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko” by Peter Bagley. . It records Peter Deryabin’s conclusions on Nosenko’s bona fides. Deryabin does not believe ”
“B Division, be followed in this draft. Following are detailed comments: Testimony of Nosenko NOSENKO Circled Page 3, lines 14 and 17, depending on how one counts. KGB agents should read KGB officers. Circled Page 4, lines 3 through 20. Suggest the following rewrite: There were tw”
“• € SECRET. : 9 CCT 1983 .ER 69-5003/1 : Mr. Raymond F. Farrell * . , Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization.{,: Department of Justice l m Washington, D. C.lxolioit-gm. : Dear Mr. Farrells): SUBJECT; Yuriy Ivanovich NOSENKO Pursuant to the authority granted”
“13-00000 SECRET SUBJECT: Discussions with the Center for the Study of Intelligence on the Release of Material Relating to Yuriy Nosenko2 — Extensive personal details on US citizens the KGB assessed and pitched (approximately 100 cases) and on Americans Moscow Station us”
“of the material to CIA and returned to the Soviet Union without the KGB ever at a later date becoming aware that the material was actually missing. The latter statement even includes the travel document which authorized the trip of NOSENKO to Gorkiy in December 1963. 00011”
“what they were told, how to approach to me, 20 how to treat me. They have come with made opinion, before 21 whatever I will say yes or no. That is why I consider it 22 is all unlawful documents in the period of interrogations, done 03j by anyone in CIA. up until the end o”
“13-00000/09/97 THU 15:00 FAA zuz 724 V407 AKKE 61000 2 NBR Folder Summaries Each folder also contains an HSCA signature sheet. At least one member of the HSCA reviewed all but the last of the folders listed below. Reel 45, Folder 3 During July and August 1965, Peter Der”
“14-00000 SEBRET SP-1687 18 JUL 1969 Mr. Raymond F. Farrell €Commissioner of Immigration aoi-d and Naturalization “Department of Justice Washington D C Attention: Mr. Frank E. Bartos Dear Sir: SUBJECT: Yuriy Ivanovich NOSSENKO - Reference is made to previous corr”
“he did have to particularly close relations with the responsible case officer. It would not be valid to argue that a source of one lead should have told him of others, or that he should have had mere close friends in the KGB. Thus on all applicable criteria, the NOSENKO leads”
“13-00000 FAX Red'd Today 10/31/97 Re NoseNKO SECRET VO At LE 28 October 1997 2000 SUBJECT: Disclosure of Information on Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko NB 1. The Board intends to declassify and release for public consumption, approximately 2400 pages of counterintelligence st”
“EYES ONLY 25 October 1966 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence SUBJECT: Yuriy I. NOSENKO 1. The attached memorandum describes the techniques used and the results obtained in the first phase of the present interrogation of NOSENKO. The most significant item to emerge f”
“T 000 eul F0Dt7 oLuREI 24 1 for quite a big period of time, quite a few years, interrogated, 2iby hours, and in different types of conditions, including 3 hostile conditions. 4 Mr. Klein. That was by the CIA? : Mr. Nosenko. Where they asked questions in such form' 6 ”
“was a bona fide defector, based upon an assessment of the totality of information furnished by him. 9. What was the FBI's position from 1964 to 1968 on the question of whether Nosenko is bonafide (sic)?" NW 65924 Docld:32370072 Page 8 6 House Select Committee on Assassinations U.”
“14-00000 / SECRET r 2 9 CT ke) ER 69-5003/1/ Mr. Raymond F. Farrell. Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization - Department of Justice 1 Washington, D. C.125 Dear Mr. Farrell:3 SUBJECT: Yurly Ivanovich NOSENKO Pursuant to the authority granted under Section 7”
“13-00000 : DEC 12 ‘92 09:47PM P.2 MEMORANDUM CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR September 22, 1998 ' RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT To: Laura Denk Executive Director co: i Bob Skwirot CIA Team Leader From: Michelle Combs Michelle Combs Asso”
“20535 January 8, 1979 HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA) This responds in full to a December 18, 1978, letter to the Attorney General signed by G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director, HSCA, which asked that the FBI declassify, in ”
“14-00000 SECGET aspects of our handling Nosenko with them. After a long meeting with Sullivan and other FBI representatives to review Nosenko’s case on 1 April 1964, the FBI interposed no objec tions to our proposal to restrict Nosenko’s movements and - commence hostile ”
“of the Nosenko case. Several thousand man-hours have been expended in inter- viewing Nosenko and analyzing his information. While there were those somewhat removed from the case who accepted his bona fides, a contrary view was registered by the following: the Chief of the ”
“Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Navy Department. It would as sist this Commission if a copy of the contents o f the file as of November 22, 1963, would be made available. not reflected in the file, we are also interested in knowing what dissemination, if any, was made to”
“section? Did you 22 specifically ask to be in that section? 23 Mr. Nosenko. No, it wasn't accurate, it wasn't right. 24 Arrangement was done in work form. I was working after finishing 25 Institute in GRU, Navy Intelligence, and being in 1952 New Year, NW 50955 DocId: 32”
“SECRET.SENSITIVE Deputy Chief of the Soviet Division, even though he was the first contact of Nosenko’s in the field; and his chief as- sociates in the Division. In favor of Nosenko’s bona tides have been the Office of Security and certain other members of the Soviet Divisio”
“Deryabin which covers Nosenko’s career as a KGB officer and KGB buildings, personalities, and procedures. Reel 45. Folder 21 This folder contains an 85 page verbatim transcript of an interrogation session by Peter Deryabin which covers Nosenko’s experiences in and knowledge”
“14-00000 SECRET The Secretary of State, Ambassador Thompson, and other senior officials in the Department of State were informed of our reservations about Nosenko’s bona Tides and our fears that he might be a dispatched KGB agent. In discussions about the possibility of N”
“14-00000 SECRET I on a number of critical points indicating that he was sent by the KGB to perform one r more missions which also involved his penetration of the Agency and its operations. It was decided, therefore, that the physical circumstances of Nosenko’s stay in th”
“14-00000 SEONEF $69 CCT 1969 ER-69-50.03/1 : z* rei **$. . NAY 26b Mr. Raymond FAFarrell. Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization c Departmentof. Justice So Washington, D. C.M L. ifg. Dear Mr. Farrell: SUBJECT: Yurly Ivanovich NOSENKO Pursuant to the authority”
“Nosenko. Well, I do not know exactly, but you see, 22 there were some defections before. The family didn't suffer like 3 it was, let's say, in '40s and maybe up to death of Stalin. 24 Mr. Devine. Were those KGB defections? 95 Mr. Nosenko. Even from KGB. NW 50955 DocId: 3”
“ry confinement under what the Rockefeller : Commission termed "extremely spartan living conditions." •. Eventually Nosenko was judged to be a bona fide defector. He has proven to be the source of a wide range of information on many hundreds of KGB officers, and KGB operations abr”
“Soviet Division (C/SR) David Murphy to the Deputy Director of Plans (DD/P) Richard Helms on plans to debrief Nosenko based on C/SR’s belief that Nosenko is a Soviet plant. Reel 45. Folder 8A and B Folder 8A contains the 263 page “Conclusions and Comments in the Case of Yuri”
“comments: Testimony of Nosenko NOSENKO Page 1, lines 15 and 18. KGB agents should read KGB officers. Page 2, lines 3 through 20. Deryabin and Golitsyn are identified here for all intents and purposes (except by name). Suggest the following rewrite: : : There were factors, however”
“itably we 22276 2 IMPORT CL BY 13/90 SECRET NW 65924 Docld:32401070 Page 6 SECRET U.S.or its allies. . The recent book about Oswald, Legend, by Epstein, has dramatized Nosenko's defection, repeating the early doubts about him and leaving the strong implication that he is still to”
“cld:32393018 Page 10 9. SECRET ( JFK ASS ASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENC Y INFORMATION D ate: 03/04/05 AGENCY: CIA RECORD NUMBER: 104-10418-10019 RECORD SERIES : JFK AGENCY FILE NUMBER: RUSS HOLMES WORK FILE DOCUMENT INFORMATION AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM: TO : TITL”
“everything,.even many 22 others, and a number of things were absolutely incoherent. 3 i Mr. Klein. This hostile interrogation that you have been 24 referring to, when did it begin?: 95 Mr. Nosenko. Arrested [me 4th of April, 1964, started 852180 et DAY 4a 2b ten g NH 5”