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

Tennent Bagley stated that Yuri Nosenko's information had all been previously
compromised, citing the case of William John Vassall, an exposed KGB agent in the
British Admiralty. Yuri Nosenko:
The KGB has now (1962) an agent in a high government position in
London who provides most valuable information, some from NATO
intelligence service conferences. The agent was recruited in Moscow in
1956 or 1957 on the basis of a homosexual compromise. After leaving
Moscow he became an assistant to the Minister, or something like that, in
the Admiralty. Yuri Nosenko learned of the agent's existence, not his
identity. Anatoliy Golitsyn had earlier provided a lead to a KGB agent who
was the source of Admiralty documents which Anatoliy Golitsyn had
reviewed in KGB Headquarters. On the basis of that lead, British security
authorities on June 11, 1962, passed to CIA a list of 20 suspects,
including William John Vassall.
The Chief of Soviet Research, Counter-Intelligence, commented:
Yuri Nosenko is a KGB plant and may be publicly exposed as such
sometime. The Agency's greatest contribution to the resolution of the
questions at hand would be to break Yuri Nosenko and get the full story of
how and why he was told to tell the story he did about OSWALD. [CIA
FOIA 02911 7.28.64]
Tennent Bagley described himself as the principal opponent of Yuri Nosenko. The CIA
produced "some penciled jotting...left carelessly in a highly secret file folder" in Tennent
Bagley's handwriting which suggested "liquidation, drugging, or confinement in mental
institutions" as means of breaking Yuri Nosenko. Tennent Bagley: "The fact that
'liquidation' was included revealed that they [the notes] were theoretical."
In a lengthy, top secret report released in 1994, [CIA TS No. 197124] Tennent Bagley
stated:
Yuri Nosenko did not serve in the Naval RU in any of the capacities or at
the places and times he claimed. Yuri Nosenko did not enter the KGB in
the manner or at the time he claimed. Yuri Nosenko did not serve in the
American Embassy Section throughout the 1953 to 1955 period as he
claimed. During the period 1955 to 1960 he was neither a senior case
officer in, nor Deputy Chief of, the Seventh Department, American/British
Commonwealth Section. Yuri Nosenko was neither Deputy Chief of the
American Embassy Section, nor a senior officer or supervisor in the
Section during the period 1961 to 1962. The contradictions in Yuri
Nosenko's accounts of his life and KGB service are so extensive as to
make his claims as a whole unacceptable. Given the conclusion that
Nosenko is not a bona fide defector, it is necessary to attempt to
determine his true motives for contacting American Intelligence and for