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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404610019-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: September 4, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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LOS ANGELES TINS
4 siBER 1981
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Fedora, once considered a rellable?doubie- agent by the--.. --
Fedora, to the Soviet Union in 1959.
FBI; iiow is thought by thebureauc.to have been work- Hoover. said that if Nosenko -was.-believed, Oswald
irg fcr Moscow all along the Reader's Digest said:-"'; .. `;`'-would be viewed as a "lone nut" by the Warren Co m--
Is-r-ts October issue the magazine-says,Fedora was an '-'-L mission,'which was preparing its. report on Keninedy'a
iurpottan t source of corroboration for the story given by assassination: That would take the FBI= off the hook for
KGBrdefector Igor-Nosenkowhei t-theCIA.was inpesti- -Oswald'sbeing at large in Dallas in 1963 when the Pres-
gating whether Nosepka.wassincere or a Soviet plant l ; = 'ident was shot, the magazine said.
Intaddition, information from Fedora was accepted.at ;Sever years later, in the Pentagon papers case; Fedo-
the;?White House and was used in. the, Pen tagons: Papers - ra fed, the FBI information- that the- Soviet Emba'ssy.in
case, the Washington Post said : Thursday-.in- a-: story::` .Washington had been,: given a. complete set of the
basedirrpart'on the Readerls Digest article-Themaga-6- -.government documents; the Washington Post said_-.
zineiarttcle was-adapted from a book to be published in The. papers were a secret history of .American in-
November. "Shadrin-The Spy Who Never Came Bacl4' :volvement in Vietnam that the Nixon- Administration
by Henry Hurt. tried to prevent the New York-Times from publishing.:
The Post.also;said-one. reason.PresidentRichardM _ The-Post said this information from. Fedora helped
Nixon tried tokeep a lid on the-Water gate investigation ~::prompE'the' -White House to form-the 'plumbers"unit,
may have beer' to-keep Fedora's cover as a U.S; agent. which committed burglaries in the name of national se-
from being blown. curity. It said-Nixon later feared that Fedora would be
The Reader's-Digest"artcicle said- the FBl.last -year compromised if Watergate investigators uncovered ac
reached the "electrifying conclusion that Fedora was-&-1-T7 tivities of`theplumbers..
Soviet agent.' But-the CIA, it said, still publicly accepts;l
Nosenko, pays him:S50,000 a?yearas-..a;considtant.and'
permits him contactwith secret . operatives.-.a =.s
When he defected:in 1964. Nosenko: was subjected to;.,
years of interrogatiorrand captivity.- during which the
CIA leaned toward the-beliefthathewas a Soviet plant,"_;
the magazine said. However, doubters-*ereisucceeded'
in the CIA byothers who believe in Nosenko,it said. -:;
When around the same-time Fedora, a United Nations
diplomat, offered-to work. for the United States and cot;
roborated Nosenko's. story, the FBI embraced Nosenko
because FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wanted. Nosenko
to be accepted, the article said.
Hoover's interest, it said was in Nosenko's contention
than'e' KGB, the Soviet inteiligenceagenc --never.had -
any interest in.thelateLeeHarvey Oswald; the accuseda
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