SOVIET AGENTS SEEK NOSSENKO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100020022-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 1998
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: February 17, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 17. ovie security
pullue agents o wort un ercover as lembers of the
Communist bloc diplomatic missions to this capital
and. the UN are searching for the late t defector, Yuri
1. Nossenko, who was more than a K B staff officer
when he took a taxi out of Geneva a d simply drove
across the French border. Nossenko as a "Control
Commission" member assigned to ri e herd on the
''.USSR delegation to the disarmamen conference. He
had special orders to. prevent any of them from de-
fecting to the West.
The. Soviet's triggermen are under rders to kidnap
.? Nossenko if possible and to kill him, if n t.. If' they should'
task was to infiltrate U.S. security agencies handling codes.
Not too long ago Hayhanen was kille in a mysterious and crytography, The FBI nabbed him in the act of attempt
auto crash on a U.S. turnpike which intelli ence sources be- . ing to bribe a young American. The Rusian was ordered out of
lieve was the work of the KGB itself, ,'the country, Others took his place.
The Soviet State Security Police specia murder unit op- No one knows who tipped the FBI but we do know that
crates like the Mafia-and sometimes hires nderworld thugs. Soviet defectors have contacted Mr. Hoover: over the years.
The killing of a defector is a warning to others not to The KGB wants,to dry up the stream of defectors. They'll kill
quit and talk. Otherwise it night :be 4iifft it to keep their if necessary. Tl}at'a ?why they're looking for-Yuri Nossenko.,
yiLui, rianc,a nary rowers. ue~ense secrets. one such KGB agent, camouflaged as a
AIYS'I"ERIOTJS DEATII member of the U.M. Secretariat, was Vadim A. Kirilyuk. His
succeed in destroying the former KGB of cer, it would not
be the first time they have murdered an rstwhile comrade
in the U.S. in an effort to protect their net ork of more than
1,000 military, scientific and Industrial spi in this country.
This figure is based, on an estimate mad recently by FBI
drector J. Edgard Hoover, who in turn sed his estimate
on reports made by previous defectors.
Typical of the daring Soviet counte espionage police
operations inside the U.S. is the strange "accident" which
befell tcino Hayhanen, a former KGB I utenant colonel.
Tack in the Spring of 1957 Colonel IIayh nen was ordered
back to Moscow from a foreign assignin t. He suspected
he would be liquidated on his return ho , Instead of fly-
ing to Russia he went to Paris, walked 1 to tie U.S. Em-
bassy and asked for asylum.
Hayhanen was 'rushed to the U.S. In ew York he lo-
cated the studio of Russian master spy dolph Ivanovich
Abe]. It was in that studio that Abel proc sed secret docu-
ments by photographing them and redue g the papers to
the size of pin heads-a process called, mi ro-spotting.
Abel did not know Hayhanen had def ted and worked
with him until he was arrested by the I in the Hotel
Latham. The defector's i:estimony at a d amatic trial cot
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large number of agents in line In such nations as the U.S.
Fully 80 per cent of Soviet bloc diplomats and their depend-
ents are trained for espionage and have special assignments
in our countl'y.
J. Edgar Hoover reported recently that, as of Nov. 1,-1953,
there were 484 Soviet officials stationed in diplomatic mis-
sions in the U.S., many of who are not diplomats but pro-
fessionally trained engineers and scientists. They had with
them 515 dependents, a great number of whom Mr. Hoover
regarded as potential espionage agents.
But this is hardly the full accounting. Soviet spying is
coordinated with the intelligence systems of satellite nations.
FBI investigations disclose that Soviet bloc army, navy and
air attaches of Eastern European embassies meet regularly
In New York and Washington under Soviet direction.
POTENTIAL, INCREASED
This almost doubles the Soviet intelligence potental for
there are 407 satellite diplomatic personnel and their 540
dependents, -
Furthermore, since 1924 the Russians have. ben spying,
on our secret industrial defense production system from a
base inside a Soviet commercial agency called the Amtorg.
Trading Corp. It is located on the 19th floor of a New York
skyscraper at 355 Lexington ave. Last October, one of its
so-called chauffeurs using the name of Igo Ivanov was
arrested by the FBI and charged with participation in a plot
to steal the secrets of our military global electronic. cotmnuni-
cations systesm.
..Based on our investigations," Mr. Hoover wrote in 4
recent publication, "we know that' Amtorg, staffed by Soviet
intelligence agents, Is a seedbed of espionage. Prior to diplo-
matic rcognition of the Soviet Union in 1933 and the opening
of the Soviet Embasy, it served as the chief base of Russian.
spy operations in the U.S."
There are other KGB assignments in the U.S. One of
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