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

A. Nobody will go to speak to a person who is not normal. The KGB is
frightened.
Q. What do you mean, frightened? That is the job of the KGB.
A. I don't mean frightened that way. The KGB is frightened because to talk
to somebody like this, to get involved with him, will result in a big
headache
Q. Didn't anybody ever sit down with this man and get his full biographic
data? Ask him to write his life history, every place he ever lived, worked,
everything he has done. If he was in the military service, when, what,
where, everything?
A. Never. Nobody did.
Q. I can't believe it...This man could have spent five years of his life
working for American intelligence. Maybe all the time he was in the
Marines he was working with intelligence. And the KGB wouldn't know
about it?
A. It wasn't done. He was never spoken to by any KGB officer in Moscow
or Minsk.
The HSCA asked Yuri Nosenko: “Would the Soviet Union be interested in someone who
was in the military and worked with radar equipment?"
A. It depends. If he was a corporal, private, no big interest. If he was an
officer maybe they be interested.
Q. The fact that he worked with the equipment wouldn't be enough; they
would want to know what his rank was?
A. No sir, it is not enough because they had sources.
Q. And in 1959 would the Soviet Union have been interested in someone
who served as a radar operator on an air base where the U-2's took off
and landed?
A. Yes, sir, it would be very interested.
Q. Is it your testimony that LEE HARVEY OSWALD, who had been a
radar operator, and had worked on base from where the U-2 took off and
landed, that he wasn't even interesting enough for the KGB to speak to
him, to find out if he knew any of this information?