“: 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 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 ”
“’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”
“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 ”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“,*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 ”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
““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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“>BryB* €97 YR* rof course, I would go there the same year. I’d go there, and .: : they would look at me and say: ‘llow come this man--his name is. NOSENKO, and yet he is very similar to the one described by astord.‘ That was why it was decided I "have to go again under the na”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“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”
“officers awarded the Order of the Red Star in 1962; and in the same year he received a medal for completing ten years of "irreproachable service."* Thus, according to NOSENKO, his defection ended a promising Career marked by promotions, responsible positions, extensive travel”
“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 ”
“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 ”
“% 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”
“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 ”
“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 ”
“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”
“00000 : Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - January 1962-January 1964) Chief of the American-British Commonwealth Section (January - July 1962) As Chief of the American-British Commonwealth Section NOSENKO said he was responsible for planning and coordinating all KGB activ”
“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”
“(! 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,”
“Top Secret (SEVENTH DEPARTMENT - June 1955-January 1960) went back to England, they would tell who they were with [report their contacts in the USSR]. They would probably question BIRSE especially, as one 06 who used to work in intelligence... BIRSE would O say: 'There was”
“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”
“Ivanovich Nosenko was born 30 October 1927 in Nikolayev, Uk rainian SSR, son of Ivan Isidorovich Nos en ko 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 membe”
“****** 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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”