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

In 1976 John L. Hart was brought out of retirement to conduct a study of the Yuri
Nosenko case. Hart testified before the HSCA in 1978. That year, Leonard McCoy,
AC/CI, released this statement:
Yuri Nosenko was probably the most valuable source of counterintelligence
information that the U.S. Government has ever had....He
identified some 2,000 KGB officers and 300 Soviets who were acting as
KGB agents. He provided information on 238 Americans in whom the KGB
had displayed some interest, including many who had been recruited. For
example, one of his identifications led to the trial, and a sentence of 25
years, for U.S. Army Sergeant Robert Lee Johnson. Nosenko also
provided information on some 200 foreign nationals in 36 countries in
whom the KGB had taken an active interest...the British were able, on the
basis of Nosenko's information, to identify William John Vassall, a high
official of the British Admiralty, as a KGB agent, and sentence him to 18
years.
Gerald Posner was granted an interview with Yuri Nosenko. Yuri Nosenko explained
that his appearance in Geneva in January 1964 was arbitrary: "Disarmament
negotiations were postponed twice in 1963. 'If there had been a meeting as scheduled
in the Spring of 1963, I would have defected then...'"
Many other defectors said Yuri Nosenko was bona fide including, Fedora, who worked
in the Soviet Union's Mission to the United Nations. Gerald Posner listed nine other
similar defectors who believed Yuri Nosenko was authentic, but failed to state how they
knew this, and where they made their statements. Additionally, questions have been
raised regarding some of these men:
(1) Yuri Loginov (1961). Yuri Loginov was a KGBnik who went to the
American Embassy, Helsinki, in 1961 and offered to act as an agent-inplace.
He did so for six years, undetected by the Soviets. In 1967 he was
arrested by the South Africans for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union.
ANGLETON betrayed him because his case officer, Richard Kovitch, was
suspected of being a mole, due to ambiguous information supplied by
Anatoliy Golitsyn. Yuri Loginov was sent back to the Soviet Union in a spy
trade. His fate there remains unclear.
(2) Igor Kochnov (1966).
(3) Obscure Soviet trade delegate Oleg Lyalin, 34, who defected to Britain
early September 1971. He was 27 years old when he had knowledge of
Yuri Nosenko. As a result of his defection, 90 Soviet delegates were
PNGed from London. Oleg Lyalin revealed the Soviet's intent to sabotage
military installations. He was a double-agent for six months before he
defected. Oleg Lyalin was a bona fide defector - he blew too many other
agents cover not to be so.