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

Yuri Nosenko was born in the USSR in 1927, to Bolshevik parents. His father would
become Nikita Khrushchev's Minister of Shipbuilding. Yuri Nosenko was a dedicated
Communist. At age 18 he entered the International Relations Institute in Moscow. Upon
graduation in 1951, he claimed he joined Soviet Naval Intelligence. By 1953 he was a
KGB agent. On June 5, 1962, while serving as a KGB Security Officer in Geneva, Yuri
Nosenko approached the CIA for money and agreed to act as an agent-in-place. The
CIA:
A current review of [Nosenko's] statements and remarks during his five
contacts in 1962 indicate that his many errors, exaggerations, and actual
lies were quite likely typical of a braggadocio element in the personality of
Nosenko...Nosenko, during his five contacts in Geneva, made many
statements which, in retrospect, were impossible and the investigation of
which could only have raised certain questions concerning Nosenko:
(A) Nosenko claimed he personally was with Oleg M. Gribanov, Chief of
SCD, during the recruitment pitch to (deleted). This was a lie and an
interview with (deleted) with display of photograph would have disclosed
that Nosenko did not participate.
(B) Nosenko was involved in the recruitment approach to Russell
Langelle. This was a lie and Langelle was available for interview.
(C) Nosenko said he recruited (deleted) in Bulgaria. Actually Nosenko
never met (deleted)."
NOSENKO VERSUS GOLITSYN
The CIA went on to list four other examples of Nosenko's lies, then stated: "In
1962 to 1963 a number of similarities were noted between information
furnished by Nosenko and information which had been furnished by Anatoliy
Golitsyn prior to June 1962. These similarities were quite striking and gave
rise to certain suspicions of Nosenko because he provided information which
the KGB already considered compromised as a result of the defection of
Anatoliy Golitsyn. Certain of the similarities at the time could only be
explained in terms of Nosenko being a dispatched agent. (A) Both furnished information
in regard to (deleted)." The CIA supplied four more examples of KGB operations
compromised by Anatoliy Golitsyn and mentioned by Nosenko. One of these dealt with
the audio operations against the American Embassy. Anatoliy Golitsyn had previously
supplied the CIA with this information.