Cryptonym: LWNOSTALGIC

104-10014-10069: DEBRIEFING REPORT: YURIY NOSENKO

3/15/90, Raw Report No. 100, Debriefer: FBI; Subject: Yuriy Nosenko; Source: FLASH RUN (aka IJDECANTER) - "Yuriy Nosenko spent much of his career in the Sixth Department of the KGB's Second Chief Directorate (SCD), which was responsible for tourists. He spent only a short time of his career in the First Department, SCD, which was responsible for American officials at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow... According to the Source, Nosenko was not sent to the United States to be a false defector. Source said that it is against KGB policy to send an intelligence officer as a false defector. Also, the KGB would never have selected him for such a mission because his father is a high-level Party official. Source doubts that Nosenko ever saw Oswald's file. According to the Source, Nosenko was not higher than a captain or major when he defected to the United States. The Source believes that Nosenko may have tried to show himself more valuable to the CIA than he really was. At the time of his defection, Nosenko was mixing in high circles of Moscow golden youth. The Source believes he defected for material gain."

104-10014-10070: TAPE TRANSCRIPT OF OCTOBER 91 MEETING (DEBRIEFING)

1991: A Soviet national is being interviewed, and the interviewer says in an apparent reference to Yuri Nosenko that "he came to the West and one of the things that he said that was most important at the time that Lee Harvey Oswald was not recruited by the KGB during his years in the Soviet Union." The Soviet replies, "That's right. He was viewed as a Soviet agent, but..."