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

Nosenko states that when OSWALD appeared at the Soviet Embassy in
Mexico City, the First Chief Directorate of the KGB at Moscow was
advised of his interest in returning to Russia and the First Directorate
consulted the Second Directorate. This could only have occurred in late
September or early in October 1963, but then Nosenko says following the
assassination no file on OSWALD could be located at the KGB center in
Moscow. This seems unlikley. [NARA FBI 124-10169-10063]
YURI NOSENKO'S IMPRISONMENT
ANGLETON knew for a fact that no matter how you cut it, Nosenko was not for real.
The CIA kept Yuri Nosenko locked up for five years under prison-like circumstances. He
was tortured and deprived of basic human necessities. Helms commented: "One of the
first problems we had with him in the United States was he liked to drink and carouse.
One of the reasons to hold him in confinement was to get him away from booze..." Yuri
Nosenko undertook numerous polygraph tests. One of these tests, according to Helms,
"was designed as sort of a psychological trick on Nosenko to indicate that he wasn't
telling the truth." He was administered LSD.
Some in the Bureau were convinced Yuri Nosenko was real:
The FBI perceived Nosenko's statements about OSWALD, depending
upon a subsequent, definitive resolution of Nosenko's bona fides, to be the
most authoritative information available, indicative of a lack of Soviet
Governmental involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy.
The FBI found no substantial basis to conclude that Nosenko was not a
bona fide defector...
YURI NOSENKO'S REHABILITATION
In 1967 Bruce Solie, of the CIA's Office of Security, wrote a critique of a lengthy report
Tennent Bagley had prepared on Yuri Nosenko. Bruce Solie determined that Yuri
Nosenko had not been dispatched. During the tenure of the HSCA, Bruce Solie, Chief of
the Security Analysis Group, supplied the Committee with many of its documents.
In 1968 the FBI issued a Top-Secret Nosenko Report.
It is noted that a brief chronology of events is set forth in the preface to the
WFO paper. It is indicated therein that Sammy is considered by CIA as a
part of a large scale KGB deceptive operation. In addition to those
comments, it is noted that a paper prepared in December 1964 by CIA as
an agenda for proposed CIA-FBI conference, concluded that Nosenko
was dispatched by the KGB in March 1962, as one part of a broad
provocation effort conceived as early as 1959 and set in motion in the