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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion & Debate => JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate => Topic started by: Tom Graves on December 22, 2025, 11:09:26 PM
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Background:
KGB Major I mean Lt. Col. I mean Captain Yuri Nosenko was a false-defector-in-place in Geneva in June 1962, and a false (or perhaps rogue) physical defector to the U.S. in February 1964 who claimed to have read Oswald's KGB file three or four times in Moscow and therefore -- to J. Edgar Hoover's great relief -- knew for a FACT that the world-class humanitarian organization had had absolutely nothing to do with the "abnormal" former Marine sharpshooter and U-2 radar operator during the two-and-one-half years he lived half-a-mile from a KGB school in Minsk!!!
The following is what Steve M.'s beloved The Sword and the Shield by probable mole Christopher Andrew and (former KGB archivist!!!) Vasily Mitrokhin had to say about poor, poor, misunderstood-and-tortured(!!!) Nosenko and another false defector by the name of Aleksandr Cherepanov (who had been a KGB provocateur in Yugoslavia* five years earlier).
Though the CIA was not responsible for Cherepanov’s betrayal*, it was shortly to make another, even more serious error. In February 1964 Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko, a KGB officer serving on the Soviet disarmament delegation in Geneva, who had begun working for the Agency in June 1962 [as a “don’t contact me in Moscow” defector-in-place who contradicted everything recent true defector Anatoliy Golitsyn had told the CIA, even though Nosenko and Golitsyn worked in different parts of the highly compartmentalized KGB], defected to the United States. Nosenko’s CIA debriefers, however, wrongly concluded that he was a KGB plant.[57] Unaware of the CIA’s horrendous misjudgment, the Centre regarded Nosenko’s defection as a serious setback. Its damage assessment began with the usual character assassination, claiming that Nosenko, had been infected — like Golitsyn — with the “virus of careerism:” Nosenko, who lusted for power, did not hide his ambitions and obtained a high position. The leadership of Department 1 at Headquarters will not forget Nosenko’s hysterical reaction when he was informed of their plans to promote him from deputy chief to chief of section. “The chief of the directorate has promised that I will replace the head of the department,” he shouted shamelessly. The characteristics of careerism were evident in many curious facets of his life. When he became the deputy chief of another department, Nosenko was ashamed of his rank as a KGB captain [he told Bagley in June 1962 that he was a Major, he showed Bagley and (probable mole) Kisevalter in late January 1964 a travel document -- signed by his boss, General Gribanov, that he was a Lieutenant Colonel and eventually “confessed” to his interrogators that he was a Captain], which was below that normally associated with his position. He would return unsigned any documents with “Captain” on them and would only sign documents on which his perceptive subordinates had not indicated his rank.[58]
https://ia904501.us.archive.org/10/items/TheSwordAndTheShield-TheMitrokhinArchiveAndTheSecretHistoryOfTheKGB/The%20Sword%20and%20the%20Shield%20-%20The%20Mitrokhin%20Archive%20and%20the%20Secret%20History%20of%20the%20KGB.pdf
My comments:
*In early November 1963, "former" KGB officer Aleksandr Cherepanov gave a bundle of old KGB documents to the American Embassy in Moscow, half of which redundantly reinforced the idea that GRU Lt. Col. Pyotr Popov had been uncovered in late 1959 due to poor CIA tradecraft and superior KGB surveillance rather than betrayal by a mole (can you say Bruce Leonard Solie and Edward Ellis Smith?) in early 1957. The American Charge d’ Affairs, suspecting a provocation, had the documents returned to the Soviets the next day – ergo “the betrayal” – but not before the CIA Chief of Station, Paul Garbler, had the presence of mind to photograph them.
Was Cherepanov a true defector? I don't think so. "Under diplomatic cover in Yugoslavia in 1958, Cherepanov had led a British intelligence officer to think he was contemplating defection and might cooperate secretly. His behavior finally persuaded the British that he was provoking them on behalf of the KGB and they backed off — whereupon Cherepanov abruptly disappeared from the scene" -- Tennent H. Bagley in his book, Spy Wars.
Was Aleksei Kulak (J. Edgar Hoover’s shielded-from-CIA FEDORA) truly spying for the Bureau's NYC field office? I don't think so. In early 1964, Kulak “confirmed” that Nosenko had recently become a Lieutenant Colonel and that Nosenko had received a "Return to Moscow Immediately" telegram in Geneva in February 1964 but later was forced to retract both statements when Nosenko confessed to his interrogators that he’d lied.
FWIW, Nosenko had originally told Bagley in Geneva in June 1962 that he was a major.