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

December 1960. Evidence existed that the KGB had false information planted on him
before his defection, then spooked him into defecting. Michael Goleniewski
remembered having been told by a KGBnik that Stafan Bandera, an anti-Soviet
Ukrainian nationalist living in Munich, had been murdered on the night of October 15,
1959, by the man with whom he was having supper, German intelligence service (BND)
agent Heinz Danko Herre. The CIA later learned Heinz Danko Herre was innocent:
The Legal Attaché in Bonn in June 1962, reviewed information furnished
to the Germans by Bogdan Stashinsky, which indicated that he was
recruited by the KGB in 1952...in 1958 he was told that because he had
proved himself, he would be given an important mission against Ukrainian
émigré groups in the West. This mission turned out to be the
assassination of Dr. Lev Rebet and Stafan Bandera, émigré leaders in
Munich. He murdered Lev Rebet in 1958 and Stafan Bandera in 1959...by
spaying poison in his victim's face which made death appear to be from a
heart attack." [FBI 62-109090-NR 1.24.64 Sullivan to Branigan]
The Soviets had deliberately planted the Heinz Danko Herre story on Michael
Goleniewski to make trouble between the CIA and BND. Michael Goleniewski was told
that Henry Kissinger had been recruited by the Soviets in the aftermath of World War II.
No evidence of this has surfaced to date. Edward Petty:
The Soviets had details of the Goleniewski case as it was going on. They
therefore had a clear-cut penetration. A penetration of that level had also
to know the Nosenko case. Ergo, if you accept that hypothesis, then they
knew about Nosenko. The key is that Nosenko himself was quite genuine.
Nosenko was in the Second Chief Directorate and handled OSWALD
material in the normal course of events. So he was perfectly willing to tell
what he knew. The material was true as far as the Second Chief
Directorate was concerned. If you accept the evidence from Nosenko
himself that he personally is genuine, that does not mean that he is
genuine as far as an unwitting control is concerned. ANGLETON was
doing exactly what they wanted to happen.
The second part of the Nosenko affair dealt with KGB penetration of CIA
and the Golitsyn case. Golitsyn had predicted Nosenko's appearance and
that he would try to discredit his bona fides as a defector. ANGLETON
was always saying the Nosenko was going to destroy Golitsyn's leads and
therefore he would destroy Golitsyn. Nosenko was a pawn in whatever
play was going on involving ANGLETON and Golitsyn.
When they ultimately gave him polygraph tests that were not rigged,
Nosenko came out perfectly all right. The Soviets let him out. He didn't
know he was playing their role. What they did to make him run, I don't
know. That's the reason they never broke him.