SOVIET AGENTS SEEK NOSSENKO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400380018-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: February 17, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Fully 80 per cent of Soviet bloc diplomats and their depend-
ents are trained for espionage and have special assignments
in our country.
J. Edgar Hoover reported recently that, as of Nov. 1,1963,
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 nation.
FBI Investigations disclose that Soviet bloc, army, navy and
Nossenko If possible and to kill him, if not., If, they should' air attaches of Eastern European embassies meet regularly
succeed in destroying the former KGB officer, it would not in New York and Washington under Soviet direction.
police agents who work undercover as members of the
Communist bloc diplomatic missions to this capital
and the UN are searching for the latest defector, Yuri
I. Nossenko, who was more than a KGB staff officer
when he took a taxi out of Geneva and simply drove
across the French border. Nossenko was a "Control
Commission" member assigned to ride herd on the
,,USSR delegation to the disarmament conference. He
had special orders to prevent any of them from de-
fecting to the West.
The, Soviet's triggermen are under orders to kidnap
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quit and talk. Otherwise A:zalght:be 411fficult to keep their Ii necessary. T at'a,why-they're looking for Yuri Nossenko.~
be the first time they have murdered an erstwhile comrade
in the U.S. in an effort to protect their network of more than
1.000 military, scientific and industrial spies in this country.
This figure is based on an estimate made recently by FBI
drector J. Edgard Hoover.. who in turn based his estimate
on reports made by previous defectors.
Typical of the daring Soviet counter-espionage police
operations inside the U.S. is the strange "accident" which
befell tcino Hayhanen, a former {GB lieutenant colonel.
Back in the Spring of 1957 Colonel Iayhanen was ordered
back to 'Moscow from a foreign assignment. He suspected
he would be liquidated on his return home. Instead of fly-
ing to Russia he went to Paris, walked Into tte U.S. Em-
bassy and asked for asylum. .
Hayhanen was rushed to the U.S. In New York he to-'
cated the studio of Russian master spy Rudolph Ivanovich
Abel. It was in that studio that Abel processed secret docu-
ments by photographing them and reducing the papers to
the size of pin heads--a process called micro-spotting.
Abel did not know Hayhanen had defected and worked
with him until he was arrested by the FBI in the Hotel
Latham. The defector's testimony at a dramatic trial got
Abel a 30-year sentence. Later Abel was exchanged for U-2
pilot Francis Gary Powers.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH
Not too long ago Hayhanen was killed In a mysterious
auto crash on a U.S. turnpike which intelligence sources be-
lieve was the work of the KGB itself.
The Soviet State Security Police special murder unit op-
erates like the Mafia-and sometimes hires underworld thugs.
The killing of a defector is a warning to others not to
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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 communi-
cations systesm.
"...Based on our investigations," Mr. Hoover wrote in s,
recent publication, "we know that' Amtorg, staffed by Soviet,
intelligence agents, is a seedbed of espionage. Prior to diplo-
matic reognition 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
,these is a directive to recruit young Amricans, plant them in
sensitive U.S. government agencies and thus siphon off
.defense 'secrets. One such I:GB ' agent, camouflaged as a
member of the U.M. Secretariat, was Vadim A. Kirilyuk. His
task was to infiltrate U.S. security agencies handling codes.
.and crytography. The FBI nabbed him in the act of attempt-
ing to bribe a young American. The Rusian was ordered out of
the country. Others took his place.
No one knows who tipped the FBI but we do know that
Soviet defectors have contacted Mr. Hoover. over the years.
The KGB wants to dry up the stream of defectors
They'll kill
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