“14-00000 DEFECTORS - NOSENKO TAB TITLE DATE 1 Report on: Yurily Ivanovich Nosenko, Soviet 2 Apr 64 Attachments: 1. Memo for Record from David E. Murphy, Subject: 2 Apr 64 Discussion with Deputy Attorney General on Nosenko Case 2. Memo for Director of Security from Lawre”
“14-00000 1 DEFECTORS - NOSENKO TAB TITLE DATE 1 Report on: Yurily Ivanovich Nosenko, Soviet 2 Apr 64 Attachments: 1. Mere for Record from David E. Murphy, Subject: 2 Apr 64 Discussion with Deputy Attorney General on Nosenko Case 2. Memo for Director of Security from L”
“TOP SECRET 114 1 Mr. Devine. Did you see them? 2 Mr. Nosenko. Yes, in the State Department, in presence 3 of American diplomats, I have seen for five, say seven 4 minutes, Consul from Soviet Embassy and interpreter, another 5 diplomat. 6 Mr. Devine. What did they want wi”
“provided that 3 the significance that Yuri Nosenko’s a Mr. Nosenko would remain in the custody of the Agency unless it vestigation of President Kennedy’s as-. was determined whether Mr. Nosenko should be deported or turned out to be a bona fide defector, if W whether he should”
“14-00000 Gr"; 12/6l oLb.Ll 10::1.75 MEMORANDUM FOR: General Counsel SUBJECT i Nosenko Attached is a report from the Office of Security concerning the aware- ness of other Federal authorities (USIB, State, FBI, and I&NS), We have been advised by A DD/O that Nosenko ”
“14-00000 % CET1 375-0128 Jubaul 1317 1.75 MEMORANDUM FOR: General Counsel SUBJECT t Nosenko Attached is a report from the Office of Security concerning the aware. ness of other Federal authorities (USIB, State, FBI, and I&NS). We have been advised by A DD/O that ”
“gation, but up, to last night not 1 -charging "provocativeactivi- such threat had actually been 6 ty’onby unspecified Western made, according to word reach- • agents. Up to then Tsarapkin mhadrbeen saying both private- ing Washington.lt-tt 1 * ---ly fand publicly, that the N”
“the Soviet Union. I want to assure the Covornnent of S -CAAlFtnCHkn:N=ewe3NXrW m lee the United States of America that 1 will devote all ny strength and knowledge to the Government and people of the United States of America. /s/ Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko 4 February 1964 ”
“went in another direction. 21 Mr. Devine. Have you been contacted or in touch with 22 anyone from the Soviet Embassy here in Washignton? 23 Mr. Nosenko. Only in 1964, the Soviet Embassy in 24 Washington demanded to see me after defection.; 23 HW 50955 DocId:32277209 Pag”
“)4-00000 o REQUEST I, Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko, request the Government of the United States of America to grant me political asylw in the United States of America. This decision has been taken by me as the result of considering this question 5.& 1 over the course of se”
“le of Deputy Chief, SB Division, be followed in this draft. Following are detailed comments: NOSENKO Testimony of 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 r”
“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”
“14-00000 $ ‘t©: 0 9 0 00 EL S SWISS Elie 10 7 6 58 T e VS 2 3. 29 th 1 9 ‘Nosenko Again Voices Desire. For Asylumab By Chalmers 9 M-Roberts c Smn-i Seat Raportewa, Y Soviet secret, polices des. fector. Yuri I. Nosenko is: in the United States where- he- was- ”
“41 TOP SECRET 100 y Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 advise that you send It to the Army. .And I might add, the man who wrote that memorandum was to the Burt Turner I mentioned who was one of the competent FBI analysts. So it was in limbo. And we stated that "X". was the pen”
“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”
“14-00000 J R 60 SECRET 1 conduct. There were at the time very legitimate reasons to believe that full and total release of Nosenko would be an abrogation by the Agency of its legal responsibility. To gainsay that decision in retrospect is, we believe, an error. In sum,”
“last, night: of the defection on !cer, a security man operating, as is the Soviet: practice, in Ithe i Soviet radio- orwin. the an tightfcompartment. That though word of mouth - press.......... $ Pros# would mean he would have reports had spread ■. through, juseful and p”
“ent. It wou ld assist this Commission if a c opy of the co ntents of the fi le as of November 22, 19 63, would be made available. not reflected in the file, we are also interested in knowing what dissemination, if any, was made to other Federal agencies, of items added to the fil”
“l agencies, of items added to the file after October 9, 1963 and prior to November 22." 6 March 1964 Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans, dated 6 March 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel. If "The Commission has recently received a report from the Federal”
“, the Feder al B ureau of Investigation, and the N avy Department. It would ass ist this Commissi on if a copy of the contents of 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, wa”
“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”
“14-00000 1. Dr. Charles Bohrer recommends (subject to Howard Osborne's concurrence) that the two following defectors be added to the Brezhnev visit watch list: a, Anatoliy GOLITZYN (AELADLE). Delusions of grandeur; expected much more from the U.S. Government than he in fac”
“s, dated 6 March 1964, from J. Lee RANK IN, General Counsel. If "The Comm ission has recently receiv ed a report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation covering an interview that took place between representatives of the Bureau and the recent Soviet defector, Yuri Ivanovich NOS”
“other Federal agencies, of items added to the file after October 9, 1963 and prior to November 22." 6 March 1964 Le tter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans, dated 6 March 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Cou nsel. If "The Co mmission has recently received a report f”
“nowing what dissemination, if any, was made to other Federal agencies, of items added t o the file a fter October 9, 1963 and prior to November 22." 6 March 1964 Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for P la ns, dated 6 March 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel. If ”
“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”
“President Kennedy, the consequences to the United the agency in early February 1973. and I *States of America and, indeed, to the world, would have been onnections with it since, staggering. Thus, it became a matter of the utmost importance to ing his defection in 1964 and upo”
“of Investigation, and the Navy Department. It would assist this Commission if a copy of the contents of 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 other Federal ag”
“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”
“ed 6 March 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel. If "The Commission has recently received a rep or t from the Federal Bureau of Investigation covering an interview that took place between representatives of the Bureau and the recent Soviet defecto r, Yuri Ivanovich NOSENKO. ”
“name) on parole under the provisions of Section 212 (d) (5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. 3 SECRET NW 65990 Docld:32393018 Page 4 SECRET On 13 February, representatives of the Swiss and Soviet Embassies in Washington advised the State Department that they desired interv”
“has renounced his Soviet citizenship. Third Country: Although we believed it likely that Nosenko would accede to deportation to a third country, 14 SECRET i ■ r.”
“THIS FOR HIMSELF NOW, AND IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME. 3. ON 29 NOVEMBER, SOVIET FIRST SECRETARY VITALIY.NOVIKOV STATED THAT SOVIETS DO NOT EXPECT IMMEDIATE CHANGE IN US FOREIGN .POLICY BECAUSE WITH ONLY ONE YEAR BEFORE ELECTIONS JOHNSON AS NON-ELECTED PRESIDENT IS NOT LIKELY TO C”
“informed of the problems about Nosenko's bona fides. 8 SECRET NW 65990 Docld:32393018 Page 9 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 fides and our fears that h”
“other Federal agencies, of items added to the file after October 9, 1963 and prior to November 22." 6 March 1964 Letter to Mr. Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans, dated 6 March 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel. If "The Commission has recently received a report from”
“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”
“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”
“14-00000 TAB TITLE DATE Memo for Headquarters from John 0. Noble, Jr., 1 Jul 64 Subject: LESNIK, George M. (Emergency Instructions Regarding Custody Of) with Attachment: Emergency Instructions (2) 6. Memo for the Record from John M. Maury, 5 Aug 69 Subject: Briefing of Ke”
“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”
“, 1963 and prior to November 22 ." 6 March 1 964 Letter to Mr . Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for P lans, dated 6 March 1964, from J. Lee RANKIN, General Counsel. If "The Commission has recently received a report fr om the Federal Bureau of Investigation covering an inte rview t”
“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”
“14-00000 SECEET The Secretary of State, Ambassador Thompson, and other senior officials in the Department of State were informed of our reservations about Nosenko’s bona fides and our fears that he might be a dispatched KGB agent. In discussions about the possibility of N”
“14-00000 fori • A SECRET conduct. There were at the time very legitimate reasons to believe that full and total release of Nosenko would be an abrogation by the Agency of its legal responsibility. To gainsay that decision in retrospect is, we believe, an error. In sum, ”
“resettlement may not always be predictable or wise from the point of view of his own security. We are hopeful that Nosenko is sensible enough to realize that undue publicity caused by any rash action on his part could lead to unpleasant, perhaps even dangerous consequences,”
“has renounced his Soviet citizenship. Third Country: Although we believed it likely that Nosenko would accede to deportation to a third country, 14 SECRET”
“14-00000 Ad SECRET there is certainly no country in the free world on which we could conceivably have unloaded Nosenko without first inform ing them of his true status. Even if we considered this a desirable objective, it seemed certain that the Department of State woul”
“14-00000 TAB TITLE DATE Memo for Headquarters from John D. Noble, Jr., 1 Jul 64 Subject: LESNIK, George M. (Emergency Instructions Regarding Custody Of) with Attachment: Emergency Instructions (2) 6. Memo for the Record from John M. Maury, 5 Aug 69 Subject: Briefing of Ke”
“• € 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”
“ew that took place between representatives of the Bureau and the recent Soviet defec tor, Yuri Ivano vich NOSENKO. : "It appears to us that NOSENKO's defection, whether or not it is authentic, is of very great interest to the Commission. I would like to set up a conference early ”
“aspect of it the man was not telling the truth, that your question, which is the initial arrival and lack of debriefing. There is no wn to be untrue and that, therefore, made indication here that the GRU was advised, which in the case of a defector, or his behavior and his sta”