“00000 SECRET Operational Memo #N-2 SUBJECT: NOSENKO, Yuri Ivanovich The following is a typed copy of a handwritten memorandum -furnished by Subject on 31 October 1967, following a request on •h i. 30 October 1967: I, NOSENKO, George, was born 30 October 1927 in the ci”
“to appoint me to this position and that he had spoken to GRIBANOV two or three times about it, but had been unable to get GRIBANOV to change his plans. I spoke to GRIBANOV myself about this matter once or twice. GRIBANOV did not tell me who had recommended me for this new positi”
“’W P‘ 67. (June 1962 1964 1965 April 1966 October 198% diploma, trans cript of grades, and other neces sary papers. (Note: Previously in 1964 NOSENKO stated that he graduated from the IIR, which at that time was a four- year course, in mid-1949 and "just loafe”
“Department in 1959, told me that GRIBANOV planned to appoint me to this position and that he had spoken to GRIBANOV two or three times about it, but had been unable to get GRIBANOV to change his plans. I spoke to GRIBANOV myself about this matter once or twice. GRIBANOV did n”
“14-00000 00FT • L. VlU. INTRODUCTION The following summary and analysis is not intended to be all inclusive, that is to contain a specific comment on all organi zational, operational, personality and case type information furnished by Yuriy Ivanovich NOSENKO. To att”
“position. Since I did not want to be placed in this position by GRIBANOV’s order against the wishes of FEDOSEYEV, I went to GRIBANOV and requested that I be transferred back to the Seventh Department, in any position. I had already spoken to [V.D.] CHELNOKOV, who was then Chi”
“1E3 3 1. I. INTRODUCTION This review presents the facts and observations which bear on the bona fidea of the Soviet defector Yuriy Ivanovich NOSENKO. The highlights of NOSEKO’s biography, as he has given it to CIA, are as follows: He was born 30 October 1927, the first son ”
“4-00000 9Art.cme ■ 7 Secret. ■ (Annex A) 24 February 1961 (continued) Comment: NOSENEO confirmed their identities as his wife and mother on the basis of physical descrip- t ions. On only one previous occasion have members of a defector's family called on a foreign e”
“Top Secret Exhibit 3 - Temporary Duty Authorization for Lt. Colonel Yuriy Ivanovich NOSENKO, 15-30 December 1963 0 . FRONT * PYegrtuear FrocghApcrazunonunit-Wis. sesonachocts Committee for State Security Under the Council of Ministers, USSR I^^irkentekerroscoo 1127 at em”
“14-00000 k SECHEI A. ’ Is NOSENKO identical to the person whom he claims to be? During interviews NOSENKO has furnished detailed information in regard to his family, his activities as a youth, the schools he attended, assoc iates of his father and mother, and his own a”
“Mheiucl-ce*vcereinovevarins) Department... Then he asked /A. M.7 GORBATENKO to come in. He was filling in for the Chief of the First Department... He took me to his office... Well, they decided to put me in the First /U. S. Embassy/ Section and called Yevgeniy KOZLOV, the Ch”
“Top Secret EXHIBIT 3 - Temporary Duty Authorization for Lt. Colonel Yuriy Ivanovich NOSENKO, 15-30 December 1963 REVERSE 1. KouanauponannA ne nosguee 3-gRessoro epoxa no soaspareann 83 xo- xasguponka ofasan npe, TABETS asancoswt Orser 06 mspaczoxonanumx B CESSE C koMaBBpo”
“Syeposeorse ifvemnemo And al-n. Top Secret 309896 (Annex A) CEEC. 099901250 ‘* t 96,0 Grass’ 04190090370 Jsatsstmssffiww February 1964 Nikolay ARTAMONOV, who detected from the Soviet Navy in the late 1950‘s, noted the publicity accompanying NOSENKO's defection. ”
“14-00000 SEVARY 1951 to early 1953 both in the Far East and the Baltic area is fully acceptable. It is not considered necessary to comment concerning all of the remarks in the previous summary regarding the claimed Naval RU service of NOSENKO as reflected on pages 49-59”
“14-00000 1 1951 to early 1953 both in the Far East and the Baltic area is fully acceptable. It is not considered necessary to comment concerning all of the remarks in the previous summary regarding the claimed Naval RU service of NOSENKO as reflected on pages 49-59 and ”
“4-00000 ^ B SEC.. A L .time are contained in a separate section of this summary, but it is ‘A considered that the recent interviews of NOSENKO satisfactorily sub stantiate his claimed service in Navy Intelligence during March 1951 to early 1953. Attached is a type”
“87. 31 January 1964: Yuriy Ivanovich GUK was reassigned from the KGB Second Chief Directorate "in something like 1952," >NOSENKO said, "exactly just about the time when I came from ha the GRU to the KGB. He was already gone by that time."* February 1964: After his defection on”
“1 4-00000 Top Secret (FOUNDATIONS OF NOSENKO’S CLAIMS) I entered the Komsomol completely without thinking about it. The time came, the right age, and I Ont became a Komsomol member like all the others. It was different in regards to the Party: I joined the Party in- 1”
“Top Secret (FOUNDATIONS OF NOSENKO’S CLAIMS) Up to 1953, over the course of my entire life--at school, in the Institute, at work, at home in the family-—it was always pounded into my head that Stalin was a great genius, that he was good, keen, etc., and the thought never oc”
“f NW 65990 DocId:32375547 Page 10 SECRET stre am thes in vénk lát arta δνόφων 104-10211-10004 SEC RE T -7- CHAPTER II Biographical Data: 1927-1962 Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko was born 30 October 1927 in Nikolayev, Ukrainian SSR, son of Ivan Isidorovich Nosenko and Tamara Georgiyevna ”
“,*PP‘pR"?"7 51. June 1962 1964 1965 April 1966 October 1966 and returned to Moscow the next day by train. (May) Enrolled in Enrolled in the "In October 1941 Went to Chelya Moscow Special Moscow Special Naval my mother and I binsk from Moscow in Naval School, but School ”
“identified no ranking officers in either the Baltic or Far East intelli gence staffs. Some thirty GRU officers he did identify, by his own admission, NOSENKO knew not from his Naval RU service, but through social acquaintance, later, in Moscow, or through his visits to Geneva. ”
“14-00000 SEC. - time are contained in a separate section of this summary, but it is considered that the recent interviews of NOSENKO satisfactorily sub stantiate his claimed service in Navy Intelligence during March 1951 to early 1953. Attached is a typed copy of a h”
“14-00000 SECRET A. Is NOSENKO identical to the person whom he claims to be? During interviews NOSENKO has furnished detailed information in regard to his family, his activities as a youth, the schools he attended, assoc- iates of his father and mother, and his own assoc”
“14-00000 701. (Reported to the (BI The general consensus among KGB employees on 22 June 190) afshal weoraeARais that in the future the KGB will re feeling sharply the effects of NOSENKO’s es cape to American Intelligence. NOSENKO is con sidered to be vastly more importan”
“% Committee for State Security NOTATIONS OF PRESENCE IN PLACES Under the Council of Ministers: OF TEMPORARY DUTY USSR IS December 1963' "Arrived in city of Gor'kiy 16 December 1963" Issued to: Lieutenant Colonel "Arrived in city jof Shakhun’ye 17 XII 1963 NOSENKO,- Did not”
“13-00000 '1 Top Secret i (Annex A) 1 ***** 8 vorimit February 1964 Nikolay ARTAMONOV, who defected from the Soviet Navy in \ the late 1950's, noted the publicity accompanying NOSENKO’s defection. He volunteered to CIA that he attended a naval preparatory school wit”
“have handled NOSENKO agree, on the other hand, that he has an excel- lent memory, although perhaps a peculiar one: NOSENKO did not always recall most easily those events which had occurred most recently, or those incidents which were most closely related to him. He was able, for ”
“mentioned NOSENKO in debriefings during the years 1962 and 1963, nor commented on his name on the two occasions when it was shown to him. although he had numerous opportunities to mention him in connection with the • names of CHURANOV, FASRCIEYEV. and CUK. .• The relationsh”
“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 ”
“than either GOLITSYN or DERYABIN. This opinion appears to be based on several factors: First, NOSENKO worked against personnel stationed at the American Embassy in Moscow and with his help agents were developed among these Americans. Second, it is.. .assumed by KGB personnel”
“14-00000 nomwenW TOP SECRET * 617. c. It was physically impossible at the time.for NOSENKO to be recommended for and accepted into State Security, as he has told us, all in one month, March 1953. (If one accepts his earlier version that he had his talk with KOBULOV in ”
“13-00000 * 1 Top Secret (Annex A) 27 March 1964 According to a sensitive source- (from various unnamed KGB officers oo certain There seems to e unanimous opinion among sets KGB chiefs oflil that NOSENKO,,. could do the KGB a tre- mendpus amount of harm. NOSENKO in hi”
“he received nothing from 1953 until 1956, when he - received, a commendation and one month's pay for the recruit- Oment of BURGI [see p.115 ]by order of the KGB Chairman Serov. WGRIBANOV informed him of the commendation, NOSENKO said, and NOSENKO saw his name on the list of rec”
“Mrllits: 778...... CAN 1** 10 February 1964 (Re- Because of his long tenure in the KGB, NOSENKO ported to the FBI on would have a great deal of important informa- 112 February 1964) tion which he could impart to intelligence agencies of ther countries. Certainly, he X ”
“5/2/78 RDET Bi oClAP—Y 11110527 B. 30 OCT. 27, IN NIKOLAYEV, UKRAINE DEFECTED 4 FEB. 64 FATHER: IVAN SIDOROVICH NOSENKO PROMINENT SOV. SHIPBUILDING ENG BECAME SOV. MINISTER OF SHIPBUILDING IN Moscow ATTENDED NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOLS ATEND OF WAR. ENTERED INSTITUTE OF INTER-”
“with him.") When asked where a par ticular conversation took place, he rarely located it in his own office (‘I was in KOVSHUK’s office when KCSLCV called him about the trip" or "I was in KLYPIN’s office and he was talking to KOVSHUK").. At the other extreme from being imper”
“Top Secret (FOUNDATIONS OF NOSENKO’S CLAIMS) successes, when in fact they didn’t exist, the figures about how the USSR had passed the USA in the production of butter and milk, when in the stores they were available only infrequently. The endless promises of a etter life w”
“posted to Germany with the Chief Directorate of Soviet Properties Abroad, then directly subordinate not to the MVD but to the Council of Ministers and latterly to the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Until he returned from Germany in March 1953 to assume the position of Beriya's ”
“ream t hes in vénk lát arta δνόφων 104-1 0211-10 00 4 SECRET -7- CHAP TER II Biographi cal Data: 192 7-1962 Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko was born 30 October 1927 in Nikolayev, Ukrainian SSR, son of Ivan Isidorovich Nosenko and Tamara Georgiyevna Markovskaya. His father was born in 190”
“1 4-00000 SECAel v 6. .... - enjoyed considerable authority and trust despite personal short- comings, and whose defection, 'the greatest loss ever suffered by Soviet Intelligence’, paralyzed the work of KGB 'Legal Residency, and justified the formulation of plans to ”
“1 4-00000 JLvdC. J ., * /E is . The previous summary also stated that despite his claimed active commissioned service in the Navy, NOSENKO knew nothing of Soviet Navy tradition, doctrines, or organization of procedures. It should be noted that there is a considerable”
“14-00000 SECRET F. NOSENKO's claims, that in 1962 he was Chief of the American-British Commonwealth Section and was thereafter a Deputy Chief of the Seventh Department, are not credible. (Previous conclusion) The conclusion of this summary is that NOSENKO was Chief ”
““WTyr, 50. June 1962 1964. 1965 April 1966 October 1966 • 1935-1937; became di rector of Baltic Shipyard in 1938.] I "In 1938 my NOSENKO's father In 1938 the elder "In 1938 my father was assigned was appointed First NOSENKO was named father was summoned to Moscow as Deputy”
“Cans . Top Secret (Annex A) 29 duly 1964 (continued)1 Headquarters sometime in the past, but subsequently NOSENKO and COLUBEV were given different assignments within the KGB and thereafter did not associate with one another in the I course of their daily activites. 6 ”
“Directorate, and authorized "Lieutenant Colonel Yuriy Ivanovich NOSENKO to visit the local KGB organiza tion in Gorkiy Oblast on official business between 15 and 30 December 1963." It bore official stamps of arrival and departure in December 1963, as attested by officials in”
“14-00000 732. the Pushkin Street dead drop, i.e., until late March 1962, and by his insistence that he had returned to the Tourist Department by the time GOLITSYN defected; he placed this on 15 January 1962 and refused to believe the correct date of 1 15 December 1961. D”
“77. June 1962 -964 1965 April 1966 • October 1966 in January. Well ary. At the end SENKO and KOBULOV : lin with the WISMUTH I came on leave to of January, at the y. This was the r* discussed -NOS ENKO’ s. 4company, Moscow. I was end of my vacation dissatisfaction, first time”
“t" in the lexicon of this study. If SECRET NW 65990 Docld:32404871 Page 11 SECRET -7- CHAPTER II Bio graphical Data: 1927-1962 Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko was born 30 October 1927 in Nikolayev, Ukrainian SSR, son of Ivan Isidorovich Nosenko and Tamara Georgiyevna Markovskaya. His fat”
“purpose he risked keeping a highly € sensitive document in a safe he shared with two subordinates (GRYAZNOV and KOSOALPOV), and keeping it even after he left the Embassy Section for the Seventh Department. NOSENKO has never plausibly explained the circumstances which , promp”