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

WFO believes that SAMMY is a bona fide defector and that his isolation
and detention re based on erroneous conclusions and unsound grounds
and are incompatible with the American system of justice.
Yuri Nosenko was freed in April 1969. He was put on the CIA payroll as an independent
contractor.
YURI NOSENKO'S HSCA TESTIMONY
In 1979 the HSCA questioned Yuri Nosenko about why the Soviets allowed OSWALD to
remain in Russia. He said two psychiatrists determined he was insane, and if they tried
to deport him he might commit suicide: "Simply a mentally unstable person, they didn't
want to go it on any such action." Yuri Nosenko declared that, although extensive KGB
resources were devoted to physical and technical surveillance of OSWALD, the KGB
never interviewed him.
In 1964 Yuri Nosenko had supplied different information to the FBI: OSWALD was put
under
…passive observation to make sure he was not an American intelligence
agent temporarily dormant...in view of instructions from KGB, Moscow, no
active interest in OSWALD could be taken in Minsk without obtaining prior
approval from KGB, Moscow. No such approval was ever requested or
granted and based on his experience, he opined that the only OSWALD
coverage during his stay in Minsk consisted of periodic checks at his place
of employment, inquiry of neighbors and review of his mail.
Yuri Nosenko explained: "Well I told them there was work done against OSWALD; it
was ordered, passive work, it's called passive. Whenever it's ordered not to make an
approachment, not to make a contact, not to make a recruitment, this is passive."
THE YURI NOSENKO INCUBUS
When ANGLETON was deposed in HUNT v. WEBERMAN in 1979, he stated:
Well, I will simply say that during my tenure the [Nosenko] case had never
been resolved...and, Mr. Helms, in his testimony before the assassination
committee recently, had words to the effect that the problems of Nosenko
were still an incubus that hung over our heads...I have never in a, as a
matter of policy and as a matter of professional judgement, come to any
conclusion other than the case was unresolved. That was the official
position and I can speak to my tenure. That was the official position of the
former Deputy Director of Operations, i.e., the Clandestine Services,
Thomas Karamessines. It was reflected in the FBI disseminations of his
reports to the effect that they were from a defector whose bona fides had
not been resolved...There were many speculations that the so-called