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![handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch35865 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10014-10064
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* OPERATOR :1 LI ZZ BADGE: DATE 14 SEP 93
* OFFICE : PHONE: TIME : 15:24
* ROOM : PRINTER: 1019 PAGE : 001
* REQUESTER: HM877
* DSN: L111]21162 DOC DATE: 20 NOV 91 iHF#:L
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STAFF
ACTION: SE/USSR/10-3 (752) INFO: C/ORMS, DOMOS, LIMITO, OPO, SEDORECORO.
FILE, 000-2, SE/RR-3 (9/W)
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91 6320813 ASR PAGE 001 IN 6320813
TOR: 201455Z NOV 91 21162
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S E C R E T 201454Z NOV 91 STAFF
CITE I 121162
TO: INFO DIRECTOR.
FOR: LIMIT SE/USSR/IO INFO SE/RR
SLUGS: WNINTEL GTDANCER
SUBJECT: KGB OFFICIAL NIKONOV
REF: NONE
TEXT:
1. ACTION REQUIRED: NONE.
2. DURING THE WEEK OF 3-9 NOVEMBER 1991,1
[, HAD SEVERAL DISCUSSIONS IN MOSCOW WITH SLAVA
((NIKONOVYYYWHO IS A LONGTIME FRI?ND AND NOW DEPUTY TO KGB
DIRECTOR ((BAKATIN)) . HAS KNOWN NIKONOV WELL
SINCE 1976. HE CURRENTLY iS=
UNTIL 22 DECEMBER 1991. SEE
PARA 7 FOR 110 ON' AS
BEFRIENDEQ D] WHO WAS DINNER GUEST ATI
HOME ON 10 NOVEMBER AND PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING INFO ON NIKONOV
AND HIS NEW KGB JOB.
3. NIKONOV IS THE GRANDSON OF FORMER SOVIET FOREIGN
MINISTER VY FSIAV MOLOTOV.
AT STATE
V WAS REGARDED AS EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT AND
GAVE THE IMPR SSION THAT HE WAS AN IDEOLOGICAL
HARDLINER. BELIEVED THAT HE WAS LIKELY TO BE A
RISING STAR INTHE50VIET SYSTEM AND RECOMMENDED HIM FOR AN
IREX-SPONSORED VISIT TO THE U.S. AS EXPECTED, NIKONOV'S VIEWS
AND RHETORIC MODERATED VERY VISIBLY AFTER HIS FIRST DIRECT
EXPOSURE TO ?HE U.S. HE HAS HAD AT LEAST ONE ADDITIONAL
IREX-SPONSORED TRIP TO THE U.S. AND HAS SPENT PERIODS OF TIME
AS A PERSONAL GUEST AT THE HOME OF
4. NIKONOV CAME TO WORK IN HIS POSITION AT THE KGB AS A
RESULT OF BEING A CLOSE FRIEND OF BAKATIN. DURING THE AUGUST
1991 COUP ATTEMPT NIKONOV SAID THAT HE REFUSED TO FOLLOW HIS
BOSS'S ORDER TO ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECLARED STATE OF
EMERGENCY. FE WAS DISMISSED BY HIS BOSS (NFl) FROM THIS
POSITION AND CALLED BAKATIN TO SEEK ADVICE. BAKATIN SAID HE
WAS ALSO OPPOSING THE COUP AND WOULD LOOK OUT FOR NIKONOV ONCE
ORDER WAS RESTORED. SOON AFTER THE COUP BAKATIN CALLED HIM TO
ASK THAT HE ASSIST WITH RESTRUCTURING THE KGB. AFTER IT WAS
AGREED THAT NIKONOV COULD DECLINE TO ACCEPT TWO-STAR MILITARY
KGB RANK AND WORK IN THE JOB FOR AN EQUIVALENT CIVILIAN
COMPENSATION PACKAGE, HE CAME TO THE KGB AS BAKATIN'S DEPUTY.
NIKONOV SAID HIS FRIENDS WERE DELIGHTED THAT HE HAD DECLINED
THE KGB COMMISSION.
S. NIKONOV'S FIRST ASSIGNMENT FROM BAKATIN WAS MAKING
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE 7_ RELATIONSHIP WHICH HAS NOW
COME INTO BEING. IN PREPARATION FOR ONE POSSIBLE QUESTION
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