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104-10014-10064 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/20/1991)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch70124 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10014-10064 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992


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                 *   OPERATOR                  BADGE:                      DATE   : 14 SEP 93   it
                 *   OFFICE                    PHONE:                      TIME     I5:24       it
                 *   ROOM     :                 PRINTER:                   PAGE   : 001
                 *   REQUESTER: HM877
                 *   DSN:|    21162        DOC DATE: 20 NOV 91    'HF#:





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                 ACTION: SE/USSR/10-3 (752) INFO: C/ORMS, DOMOS, LIMITO, ODPO, SEDORECORO,
                 FILE, 000-2, SE/RR-3 (91W)
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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               21162

                 TO:   D     INFO DIRECTOR.
                 FOR:  LIMIT SE/USSR/10 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,
                                 HAD SEVERAL DISCUSSIONS IN MOSCOW WITH SLAVA
                  (NIKONOV),   HO IS A LONGTIME FRI?ND AND NOW DEPUTY TO KGB
                  DIRECTOR ((BAKATIN)).               HAS KNOWN NIKONOV WELL

                                                  UNTIL  22 DECEMBER 1991.   LEE
                 PA RA 7 FOR BI I                                         HAS
                 BEFRIENDED                WHO WAS DINNER GUEST AT
                 HOME ON 10 NOVEMBER AND PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING INFO ON NIKONOV
                 AND HIS NEW KGB JOB.

                     3.  NIKONOV IS THE GRANDS    F FORMER SOVIET FOREIGN
                 MINISTER VY       V MOL TnV.
                        AT         STATE
                                   V WAS REGARDED AS EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT AND
                 CAPABLE                   SSION THAT HE WAS AN IDEOLOGICAL
                 HARDLINER.                BELIEVED THAT HE WAS LIKELY TO BE A
                 RISING STAR IN THE 50E 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.  PE WAS  DISMISSED BY HIS BOSS (NFI) 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 1T 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                 RELATIONSHIP WHICH HAS NOW
                 COME INTO BEING.  IN PREPARATION FOR ONE POSSIBLE QUESTION



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