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104-10082-10038 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (3/19/1979)

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                                   THE DIRECTOR OF  CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE             Us R O

                                             WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505


              Office of Legislative Counsel
                                                        19 March 1979
                Mr. G. Robert  Blakey
                Chief Counsel  and Director
                Select Committee  on Assassinations
                House of Representatives
                Washington,  D.C.   20515

                Dear Bob:

                    Herewith  are comments on the Nosenko draft.

                    In  commencing, it should be noted that Tennent Bagley remains
                under  cover, retired abroad.  We are obliged to honor that cover,
                which he has  not moved to have modified.  To expose his true
                status  as a former CIA employee could have repercussions in his
                present  situation that we must accept as significant.  When he
                was here  in November 1978, he was advised of steps necessary
                to remove  his cover, in the event he decided to go overt in this
                matter; he  took no steps to alter his cover status.  It remains
                classified.   We therefore request that the example set in the
                Hart  testimony, of referring to Mr. Bagley by the title of Deputy
                Chief, SB Division,  be followed in this draft.

                    Following  are detailed comments:

                                               NOSENKO

                ,Testimony of Nosenko

                    Circled Page  3, lines 14 and 17, depending on how one counts.
                KGB agents  should read KGB officers.

                    Circled Page  4, lines 3 through 20.  Suggest the following  '
                rewrite:

                        There  were two factors, however, that limited the value
                        of  the information supplied to the Committee by these
                        ex-KGB  officers:  1) neither had been assigned to the
                        same  KGB Directorate as Nosenko, and 2) one of them had
                        information  about the KGB that was outdated.

                    Circled Page  6.  Nosenko's actual testimony, last response.  Suggest
                changing word  defectionist to defector.

                    Page  6, line 6.  Delete woman in Utah and insert individual.

                    Page  6, lines 20 and 21.  Delete and even was a co-op from CIA.

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