SOVIETS SAY U.S. AGENTS TRIED TO KIDNAP DIPLOMAT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600350041-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: April 14, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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McCloskey added that John ~ neva, Switzerland, Soviet For, '
By David Wise
Guthrie deputy eMef 'of mis- ti cign Minister Andrei A. Gro-
lion of 'the US. Embassy in .l my ?o verbally protested to U.S.
WASHINGTON A mys
t 'e r y - shrouded international , jinift
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cloak-and-dagger case surfaced cepting the note from the For- ~. Defection Case
partially Wednesday with a for cign Ministry that by doing so, Nossenko; ostensibly atlached~
Awl charge by the Soviet the United States was "not ac-. to the Soviet disarmament dele=i
Union that American .intelli-: cepting any of the charges." gation, disappeared fropt his,
gence agents tried to.. kidnap It was 'learned that the So-' hotel room on Feb. 4. Four
the first secretary of the Soviet viet note, which was, not made days later, the Russians went'
Embassy in Tokyo. public either in Moscow 'or to the Swiss police and reported,
The Soviet news agency Tass ? . Washingtom, . claims that U.S. ? hint missing. On Feb.' 10, the,
said in a dispatch from Mos- intelligence agents roughed up United States announced he had
cow that a Soviet protest note Pokrovsky.According to one defected.`
alleged that "American intelli- report, it charges the 'alleged Shortly' afterward, the Rus-
gence agencies" had attempted episode took place in a hotel slang were allowed to interview!,
to snatch a diplomat identified 'room. The note gives details-of N o s s e n k o in Washington,!.
i? as Georgi Pokrovsky. the supposed kidnap attempt. -,vhcre he was being kept under''
A Qualification Pokrovsky, in a telephone in- wraps by the Central Intelli-
State Department spokesman tcrview with a newsman from gence Agency.. 7irr-tt inter-
Robert J. McCloskey con- his apartment near the Soviet views-there. were ? two-Nos-I
firmed that the Soviet protest' Embassy in Tokyo, said: "I i senko reportedly told the Rus-
note had been received an d would not like to speak about siarr diplomats that he bad'de-
aid it was "under study here." this matter. You can get de- fccted voluntarily.
fails from Japaliese Sul ce obi 'More Thai; Once'
Japanese aulhorii cs' I rss,jn.i*eporting the alleged'
Police Reply JI kidn tp ntiempt. on Pokrovsky,s?
said U. iptLlligence "has al
A spokesman for, the Tokyo) ready resorted more than once-S
police said: "We don't know; to such rude provocations."
anything about such an Im' If so, the Russians have, too.
cidcnt. This is the first tin~c tn .Ironically, Pokrovsky arrived
hear. such report," ' in the United States in 1948,
Pokrovsky was an attache a( the year that ill rs. Oksana Ko-
the'Sbvie(Embassy in Washing scnkina leaped out of the third-)
ton from 1943 to 1953. . . floor window.of the Soviet;
Officials here could not Consulate in a dramatic escape;,
readily recall a case in' which from the. Russians. She charged;
the Soviets formally charged in she had been kidnaped by the',
a note that U.S. agents had kid-'!Russians from Recd Farm, Val-
naped a ranking Soviet diplo-:!ley Cottage, N.Y. M.A. Kosen
mat. kina tutored the Children of So-;"_1
However; in February, 1964, 'L' t diplomats
after Puri T. 'Nossenko, an of-j"'""'
ficial of the -KGB, the Soviet'
secret ' servi5,o,-defected,at, Ge-
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