When putative KGB
Major,
Lt. Col., Captain Yuri Nosenko recontacted CIA officer's Tennent H. Bagley and (probable KGB "mole") George Kisevalter in Geneva in late January 1964, he delivered the message he'd been sent to deliver: "I was Oswald's case officer in the USSR, and I therefore know for a fact that the KGB had absolutely nothing to do with the abnormal dude during the two-and-one-half years he lived about half-a-mile from a KGB school in Minsk."
Although the CIA already believed Nosenko to be a false defector (due to the fact that what he had told Bagley and Kisevalter in June 1962 so overlapped and so contradicted what another recent defector, KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn, was telling James Angleton about possible KGB penetrations of the CIA, the FBI, and the intelligence services of our NATO allies even though Nosenko claimed to have worked in a different part of the highly compartmentalized KGB than Golitsyn), it had no choice but to allow him to physically defect to the U.S. when he told Bagley and Kisevalter that he had just received a "return to KGB headquarters immediately!" telegram (later disproved by the NSA).
In the U.S., Nosenko was given three polygraph exams over four years: one in April of 1964 (fail), one in October of 1966 (fail), and the final one (pass) in August 1968.
World-renowned polygraph expert Richard O. Arther was brought in by the HSCA to analyze the polygraph exams Nosenko had been given, and he determined that the 1966 one was the most reliable. FWIW, the 1968 polygraph was, according to Arthur, "horrible." (It was the creation of probable KGB "mole," IMHO, Bruce Leonard Solie).
A CIA document from 10/24/66 lists thirty-five "important" questions that Nosenko was asked during the 18 October 1966 polygraph exam, how he answered them, and whether or not he "reacted" to them.
It's interesting to note that Nosenko "reacted" or answered strangely to nearly half of them.
Here they are:
1) Did you receive special instructions about what to tell the Americans about the Oswald case? Answer: No. (Reaction)
2) Are you glad that President Kennedy was killed? Answer: No. (Reaction)
3) Did you see a photograph of Oswald in 1963? Answer: Yes. (Reaction)
4) Was Marina Prusakova an agent of the KGB before her marriage to Oswald? Answer: No. (Reaction)
5) Did you personally meet Marina Prusakova? Answer: No. (Reaction)
6) Did you hear of the Oswald case prior to President Kennedy's assassination? Answer: Yes. (Reaction)
7) Was the Oswald case that you say you read the full-and-official KGB case on Oswald? Answer: Yes. (Reaction)
8 ) Did you hear of the Oswald case only after President Kennedy's death? (Reaction)
Examiner's note: Instead of the usual “Yes” or” No” answer, Nosenko answered, “before and after.” When the question was repeated, he again answered “before and after.” Only when the question was asked a third time on the subsequent test did he answer “No,” and he had a reaction to that. The subject reacted when he answered “before and after” and when he answered “No.”
9) Did Oswald return to the United states in 1961? Answer: Yes. (No reaction)
Examiner's note: The subject’s [no] reaction to this question was inconsistent with when he answered “Yes,” hence the “No reaction” notation. However, it is noteworthy that the subject did not attempt to correct the date of Oswald's departure to the US. Oswald returned to the US in June 1962, not in 1961.
10) Is your contact with the Oswald case part of your legend (your cover story)? Answer: No. (Reaction)
11) Did you really take part in the Oswald case in 1959? Answer: Yes. (Reaction)
12) Did you personally order Rastrusin in 1959 to collect material on Oswald? Answer: Yes. (Reaction)
13) Did you personally talk on the V. Ch. with Minsk about the Oswald case in 1963? Answer: Yes. (Reaction)
14) Were you instructed on the Oswald case by one of the KGB operational officers? Answer: No. (Reaction)
15) Do you know definitely that Oswald was not of operational interest to the KGB? Answer: Yes. (Reaction)
16) Did you receive special instructions from the KGB about what to tell the Americans about Oswald? Answer: No. (Reaction)
Examiner's Conclusion On the basis of an analysis of polygraph charts obtained during the subject’s polygraph interrogation and testing during the 18 October 1966 session, it is the undersigned opinion that:
A. Subject was not personally or actually involved in the Oswald case from 1959 to 1961 while Oswald was in the Soviet Union.
B. Subject heard of Oswald only after Kennedy’s assassination, however he was not an active participant in 1963 as he indicates but was probably briefed on the case by a KGB officer.
C. Subject received special instructions from the KGB about the Oswald case and what to tell American authorities about it.
(Signed) Nicholas P. Stoiaken
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