“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“;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”
“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 ”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“systematic debriefing was commenced, and Nosenko was 4 SECRET NW 65990 Docld:32393018 Page 5 SECRET made available to representatives of the FBI for debriefing on matters affecting their responsibilities. Although allowed out for evening and week-end excursions, Nosenko was at al”
“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”
“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 ”
“• € 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”
“1 4-00000 SECSET to have the time to analyze and resolve this case, and to plan and execute appropriate countermeasures, it was essential that we attempt to keep the KGB from learning of our awareness of Nosenko’s true status. Consequently, detailed knowledge of the depth”
“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”
“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.”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“14-00000 QrOn-7 1-9-1255/25 dte DRAFT:JMM - 19 June 1969 SUBJECT: Briefing of Key Congressional Contacts on the Nosenko.Case The following paragraphs are proposed as guidance for briefing key congressional contacts on the history and status of the Yuriy Ivanovich Nosen”
“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 ”
“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”
“I PYT Co m Investigations. We concluded that it had been established beyond reasonable doubt that Nosenko was a KGB agent who established contact with CIA, subsequently defected on KGB instructions, and that he came to the United States on a deception mission. The implic”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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 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”
“Beginning in April 1964, hundreds of hours were devoted to interrogations of Nosenko (in which he willingly cooperated) and a great deal of time was spent on exhaustive collateral 6 SECRET”
“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. ”
“13-00000 24 statement of some employee or something. He was designated by the present Direc tor to come' here and present the ' story because' he was ' supposed to be the most . familiar with it since he had reviewed it for the CIA. c 4.He stated in substance, Mr. Nosenko ”
“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 : 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”
“14-00000 Q865-7 ezunt/ 1-9-1235/20 5 I.23 GAY DRAFT:JMM - 19 June 1969 SUBJECT: Briefing of Key Congressional Contacts on the Nosenxo.Case / The following paragraphs are proposed as guidance for briefing key congressional contacts on the history and status of the Yu”
“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”
“, 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”
“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”
“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”
“IOP SECRET 126 1 says the patient apparently: understands the questions asked 2 in Russian. So you knew he spoke Russian at that time. And yet 3 that was one of your criteria. 4 Mr:Nosenkol Well, sir -+ %27T, LD 5 Mr. Sawyer. Something else I am a little curious about. ”
“scandal. More importantly, lie was in a position to communi cate with the KGB since physical control could not be absolute. On 4 April 1964, Nosenko voluntarily underwent a polygraph examination. The results of this examination indicated deception S SECRET”
“14-00000 SECRET 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 in”
“14-00000 . A fly he would be targotted for "executive action" if the Soviets should discover his whereabouts: With the passage ot time, thin latter factor is considered to be sufficiently diminished to justify a phased normalization of Nosenko’s situation--this despite t”
“7 SECRET SP-1687 18 JUL 1369 ' Mr. Raymond F. Farrell Commissioner of Immigration .- and Naturalization 0 Department of Justice. - Washington, D.C.-Asg-n T Attention: Mr. Frank E. Bartos Dear Sir: SUBJECT: Yuriy Ivanovich NOSSENKO „A .1 .? Reference Is made to pre”
“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”