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T op S'nc. c
(SLV!NT: DI:PVI.TMEZT - June 1955-Januarv 1960)
Onwrational Activ.ities (158-1960)
Denutv Chief of the A-eric-:tis Cononweialth Section
According to 1!OSENKO, the cventh Departrent vas reorgan-
ized in June 1959, and N;OSEl:O's section, which theretofore
had been concerned with operaticns against foreign tourists
from all countries, was split into t%:o new sections, one
concerned with tourists fron t e United States and the
Dritish Comcnwealth and the other :ith tourists from Europe,
Latin America, and all other cc'untries. NOSElitO claimed
that at that time he was promoted to the position of Deputy
Chief of the American-British Cor-onwealth Section, the
most important section of the Seventh Department.
In September 1958, he claired to have personally recruited
Gisella I;ARiIS. It was also iP 1958. he sad, that he super-
vised the sexual entrapment of although Seventh
Department Chief DU3AS made the actual a oach. eginning
in the spring of 1959 he said he directed his agents YEFREMOV
I and VOL::OV in a series of successful entrapre-ts-
and NOS::ITO stated that he also
used these homosexual agents in 1959 in compromisirg
American guides at the Soholniki Exhibit, and
Finally, NOSEN.o said, he rcnitor raina
representative of the
NOSENKO claimed that his operational success ultring 1959
earned him a commendation from the KG9 Chairman. [He has
since retracted all claims to any awards earned during his
KG1 service.] It was because of his position as Deputy
Chief of the American-British Co monw:ealth Section, I!OSE!KO
said, that he first became involved with Lee Harvey OS'IALD.
3OSENKO asserted that the-recruitment of agents among
foreign tourists was secondary to his department's principal
mission, the detection of Western intelligence officers and
agents among the increasing flow of tourists visiting the
Soviet Union. In line with that counterintelligence mission,
on General GRIBANOV's order in the fall of 1959, NOSENO
Document Number 159-497 1N 2
Oocument ~ FEB 197812
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