NODULE X7 OSWALD IN MINSK AND THE U2 DUMP: JANUARY ...

92-463
House 30, Apt. 8
Ul. Kola Miskneva (?)
Nel Norodovskvim
112 In (Institute) of Foreign Languages
20575 Sharapov
Minsk House
No. 4, Apt. 24
UL. Kalinina.
From (deleted) To: Chief Research Branch SRS: According to the diary on January 8,
1960 OSWALD was met by the Mayor of Minsk Shrapov, who welcomed him to the city.
The name SHARAPOV and the phone number 20575 were found on pages 45 and 81
of the address book, and the notation Comrade Sharapov 20525" was on a paper found
in OSWALD'S possession by New Orleans Police in 1963.
Traces:
1. Vasili Ivanovich Shrapov has been Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Minsk City Council since June 1954.
2. The 1963 Minsk Telephone Directory lists the following office under the
number 20575: The Receptionist of the Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the City Council of Worker's Deputies. Address: Karla
Marksa 12.
Minsk House No. 4, Apt. 24 UL. Kalinina was OSWALD'S address in
Minsk. Warren Commission presumed "Shrapov" and "Sharapov" were
identical. The CIA ran traces on Sharapov:
TO: Chief, Research Branch/SRS
FROM: M. D. Stevens
SUBJECT: LEE HARVEY OSWALD CASE (Address Book)
C. Sharapov could conceivably have referred to one of several persons by
that name in Security Indices:
(1) Lt. Col. Nikolai Georgeiyevich Sharapov, who is described as an
Russian Intelligence Service career officer, is an old time Chekist with
interrogation experience. In 1942 he was chief of a small counterespionage
section in the Second Directorate of the NKVD [the
predecessor to the KGB]. In 1942 he held the rank of Captain, and
sometime after February 1954 became the Chief of the Seventh Chief
Directorate Section of the MVD [the domestic counterpart of the KGB]. He
is said to have participated in the arrest of Beria. Nikolai Georgeiyevich