“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”
“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 ”
“: 1927-1962 Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko was born 30 October 1927 in Nikolayev, Ukrainian SS R, son of Iv an Isidorovich Nosenko and Tamara Georgiyevna Markovskaya. His father was born in 1902 and died on 2 August 1956. At the time of his death, the senior Nosen ko was Minister of Shi”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“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”
“’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”
“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-”
“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”
“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”
“age 11 SECRET -7- CHAPTER II Biographical Data: 1927-1962 Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko was born 30 Octobe r 1927 in Nikolayev, Ukrainian SSR, son of Ivan Isidorovich Nosenko and Tamara Georgiyevna Markovskaya. His father was born in 1902 and died on 2 August 1956. At the time of his d”
“interrogation to clarify this important point. Among the points covered so far are the followings a. Identity: NOSENKO was questioned extensively on the polygraph concerning his identity. In one series of tests, for example, he was asked whether Minister of Shipbuilding Ivan NOSE”
“,*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 ”
“(! ages 274-278). After he had com pleted arrangements for his passport and had submitted his true name to the U.S. Embassy for a visa, the Soviets were informed by U.S. authorities that the delegation could not then be accepted in the United States. At about the same time,”
“NW 65990 Docld:32404871 Page 11 SECRET -7- CHA PTER II Biographical Data: 1927-1962 Yur iy 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 1902 and died on 2 August ”
“Top Secret 1 CHAPTER III PRE-KGB BIOGRAPHY 1 NOSENKO’s biography from birth to entry into the KGB is 3 relevant to his bona fides insofar as it is material to establishing his true identity, his general veracity, and his eventual eligibility for KGB service, Below are su”
“1 4-00000 774. 2. NOSENKO‘% Background and Career Date of Information Source A Information Reported by 10 February 1964 (Re- NOSENKO was affiliated with the KGB for approxi- ported to/ the FBI on Y.9 mately 16 years, since about 1947, and was an 12 February 1964) employee ”
““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”
“interrogation to clarify this important point. Among the points covered so far are the followings 08 a. Identity: NCSEIKO was questioned extensively on the polygraph concerning his identity. In one series of tests, for example, he was asked whether.. Minister of Shipbuilding Ivan”
“eg (PRE-KGB BIOGRAPHY) that: NOSENKO completed the Tenth Class at the Leningrad Ship building Tekhnikum in June 1945, and he successfully passed... the necessary examinations to qualify him for entrance to I the Moscow Institute of International Relations that summer. ”
“operations, has placed her in NOSENKO’s milieu, and the KGB officers who figured in her reporting are (with two exceptions) personalities who have previously been identified as KGB officers only by NOSEXKO. 2. NOSENKO's Eackground and Career ownilymsuak has claimed no first”
“13-00000 I Top Secret (PRE-KGB BIOGRAPHY) Comment: (Continued) After NOSENKO’s defection was publicized, Soviet Naval defector ARTAMONOV volunteered to CIA that he had known the son of the Minister NOSENKO in the naval school in Leningrad from 1944 to 1946. NOSENKO c”
“14-00000 fl .F.cerpf- froti .------------ Meeting---------- .• -— -1 2 with*Nosenko No.---------------- ------- ------ — Real No. !, *' June 1962 (The quality of the tape in very poor.) Translated from Russian by P. D.. (N. talks about surveillance of Soviet personnel”
“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”
“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”
“recalled that he enrolled in the Moscow special naval school in the summer of 1941, immediately after the Germans attacked the Soviet Union, and was evacuated with the entire school from Moscow to Kuybyshev in September to begin studies in the seventh grade. (An article in th”
“79. C. Personal Affairs Since Entering the KGB 1. Family Life The Soviet internal passport which NOSENKO carried to Geneva in 1964 confirms his claim that he married Lyudmila KOZHEVNIKOVA on 27 June 1953. (They married approximately six months after he says he first met her at”
“125 r a -. Top Secret (Annex A) 10 February 1964 (continued) According to a sensitive source % ■ or-A-m-taciSEX569-r--1----W16 eviwali trees.| ***** wisifty. NOSENKO was affiliated with the KGB for approximately sixteen years, since about 1947, end was an employee of ”
“alleged entry into the KGB. The first column in the table contains statements which NOSENKO made during the June 1962 meetings in Geneva; these were taken from the transcripts of the meetings and, for the most part, are in NOSENKO’s own words. The column headed "1964," derive”
“14-00000 64 SECnal Little or no value in assessing the bona fides or non-bona fides of NOSENKO. An expose of his youthful indiscretions, of which he has admitted a number, is of no import in a discussion of whether NOSENKO 1 was or was not dispatched by the KGB. Obtaini”
“13-00000 % Top Secret (PRE-KGB BIOGRAPHY) Baku), where he finished the Eighth Class in spring, 1943. In a second version [more probable since entry to the Moscow Special Naval School required prior completion of the Seventh Class] NOSENKO said that when the war broke ou”
“13-00000 Top Secret (Annex A) ( 10 February 1964 (continued) According to a sensitive source 0119001801 X thebirit) NOSENKO was affiliated with the KGB for approximately sixteen years, since about 1947 , and was an employee of the Second Chief Directorate in Moscow. H”
“14-00000 to be prepared in early 1955 which necessitated a decision as to whether he would be fired from the KGB or transferred to some other component. . The influence of his family is quite apparent in the above since his father was advised of his difficulties in 1954 b”
“****** ToAV 8. TDY’s to London (1957 and 1958). NOSENKO reported that his first off 1 travel outside ■ the Soviet Union occurred in the fall of / mien he was selected to accompany a group of athletes had been invited to visit London. As he explained on % April 1964, it is ne”
“and the family moved to Moscow, where NOSENKO completed the Sixth Class in June 1941 just as the war broke out. NOSENKO has given two versions of his whereabouts for the next two years. In one, he said that on the outbreak of hostilities he was enrolled in the Moscow Special”
“13-00000 (PRE-KGB BIOGRAPHY) A sensitive source two _ dinot has quoted/KGB officers respectively, as stating NOSENKO joined the KGB in 1947 or 1949. The significance of NOSENKO's RU service is the fact that he claims it launched his intelligence career and served as th”
“source - A said she heard from her KGB friend V. G. SVIRIN that NOSENKO’s father was a Minister or a General of Ukrainian origin and that his mother was Jewish and "was always involved in some blackmarketeering. II She also said that she heard NOSENKO was a "civilian;" not a”
“14-00000 to be prepared in early 1955 which necessitated a decision as to whether he would be fired from the KGB or transferred to some other component. The influence of his family is quite apparent in the above since ■ his father was advised of his difficulties in 1954 b”
“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”
“show my eagerness, to prove myself. I also asked the Party Organization of the Second Chief Directorate for some ’public service' (obshchest- venniy) assignments. I collected newspapers." For a year, NOSENKO "made good" by running errands and performing other such tasks, unt”
“and so forth." 3, Affiliation with Communist Party Organs NOSENKO said that his formal participation in Communist Party activities began in late 1943 or early 1944 when he joined the Komsomol at the Naval Preparatory School in Baku. This step was a casual one, and he has sa”
“Ivanovich Nosenko was born 30 October 1927 in Nikolayev, Ukrainian SSR, son of Ivan Isidorovich Nose nko and Tamara Georgiyevna Markovskaya. His father was born in 1902 and died on 2 August 1956. At the time of his death, the senior Nosenko was Minister of Shipbuilding, a member ”
“13-00000 Top Secret (Annex A) 3 Winter 1965-1966 (continued) 9 Source’s Comment: allegation is the single report % from any source describing NOSENKO as ther than a KGB officer. 5 <6^ B a C state the 6 March 1966 According to a sensitive source, Wuiew (from u”
“promoted to the rank of lieutenant while stationed in the Soviet Far East. C. Remarks The notes above on NOSENKO’s career do not treat most of the changes of story, contradictions, corrections, or inaccuracies in NOSENKO’s accounts: Variations of dates may be attributable to”
“those latter topics prompted amended state ments with respect to his RU service. The extent of the still-unreconciled discrepancies and contradictions in NOSENKO’s various accounts is best perceived in comparison of his statements made in 1962, 1964, 1965 and 1966. NOSENKO'”
“0 TOP SECRET /1 States in 1963 and 1964 under the sponsorship of the Council - on Student Travel of the YMCA East-West Committee. NOSENKO selected the photograph of VLADIMIR GRIGORYEVICH STRUKOV which - he said was familiar and he thought he was a young officer who "pract”
“school returned to Leningrad in the autumn of 1944. On several occasions during 1964 and 1965, NOSENKO described how he and his classmates spent October and November 1944 working in the woods near Leningrad before beginning their tenth grade studies late in the year; he omitt”
“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. ”
“the individual’s former unit; NOSENKO’s acceptance by the KGB Komsomol without referring the matter to his Komsomol unit in the Baltic "is impossible".. In the fall of 1953 NOSENKO claims he was elected ; secretary of the Second Chief Directorate Komsomol organi- zation. H”