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104-10226-10000 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (04/01/1964)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch77653 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10226-10000 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 1 April 196.1- SUBJ C'i: Discussiun wi is 8tatc I)0partmenjt Officials on. the Nioscnlo Case . 1. Mr. ielms anid Mr. I-urphy met with Ambassador Th emps;a, Mr. Tfhoas Ilughcs, Mr. Hichard Iavrs and Dlr. .IiiiJ Guthrie at the Department to convoy to -them utW cueac lusious just .arrived at that Noseiiko is not a geciiine defector but more probably an aoent planted on us by the KGB. Mr. llcIms described the basis for our bol of and the mcans of arrivin- at it. Mr. lelms noted that wc had discussed the Nuscnko case with the arren Commission because they had received a report from the FBI based on the 1:i.'s intcrrogatiun of Nosenko which pertained to the Oswald case. The report made a strong case for the position that the Soviet Government had nothing whatsoever to do'with'Oswald's assassination of IPresident Kennedy. Thc Commission was anxious to know our reactiun and. we informecd then we were not sure of the man's bona fides and therefore could not underwrite the ? .ststeents he had made. 2. Ambassador Thompson. remarked that he had just heard from Isaac Don Levine and that the latter intended to write a book on the Oswald case in which he hoped to make the point that.Oswald was mentally unbalanced and was trying to break up the Nenncdy-Khrushchev. relation- ship. 3. lIe also related the Krotkov case in the United Kingdoa to the Nosenko case, explaining the way in which the Soviets could hope,. through accusations that former Ambassador to Moscow Maurice De.Jcan was an agent, to cover the numerous leaks of sensitive information suffered by the French Government and reported to us by the defector Golitsyn. 4. WIe then described for State Department officials the manner in which Gribanov operates against the diplo- matic colony. Mr. lichis wnat on to say that we had arrived at a point with Nosenko where we believed we had to use more cnergectic measures to arrive at the truth and determine his mission. After we tried this we would probably wish

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