INTERVIEW WITH HENRY HURT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404610017-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: September 8, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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The Today Show
WRC TV
NBC Network
September 8, 1981 7:00 AM CITY Washington, DC
Interview with Henry Hurt
TOM BROKAW: A real spy story in the October issue of
Reader's Digest. Henry Hurt, who's the roving editor for the
Digest, has a book coming out called "Shadrin (?), the Spy Who
Never Came Back." And as part of that book, we hear the story
of Yuri Nosenko, who defected in 1964 from the Soviet Union,
from the KGB, calling himself a colonel, who came to this country
and said that he wanted to sell I us some information.
Why was it so important to get Nosenko into the United
HENRY HURT: Presumably, their greatest interest was
in convincing us that the KGB had had no interest in Lee Harvey
Oswald when Oswald spent three years in the Soviet Union. And
Nosenko brought us just that message. And, in fact, it was a
message we were anxious to hear.
BROKAW: The fact is, his story never really checked
out, and the CIA put him through very severe questioning. He was
in solitary confinement for a period of time.
HURT: For years.
BROKAW: And yet he's on our payroll now.
HURT: Well, that's right. That's right. When finally
Nosenko was given -- when we -set him loose in 1968, the idea was
he would go out and be resettled into American life and would
pose no threat. Then in bbout '73,' he was brought back, made a
consultant by the CIA, and continues there to this day, even
though a couple of years ago the House Assassinations Committee
concluded that he had lied about Lee Harvey Oswald.
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