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![handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch85785 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10226-10000 2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
1 April 196I
: .S[BJ C'i: Uiscussiun Wis `;8tatc I)partitmenlt
Officials on. tce iJoscnlo Case .
1. Mr. 1lel s avid Mr. ;urphy met with Ambassador
Th !o:p se, Mr. Thomas Ilughes, Mr. Itichard Iavrs and
Dlzr. .IJiii Guthrie at the Department to conry to -thcm
-ut cuac ltsious just ..arriv'cd at chat Noseii o is not
a ecntiie defector but storc probably au aent planted
on us by the KGB. Mr. llclIms described the basis for
our bcl ef and the ucans of ;rriving at it. Mr. !!elms
noted drat we had discussed the losenko case with the
arren Commission becausc they had received a report
irom ,the FBI based on the 1Pi 's intrrogatiw: 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 assasination
of PIresident Kennddy. Thc Commission was anxious to know
our reactiun and. we informecd then we were not sure of tho
*man's bona fides and therefore could not underwrite the
? .stcateirents he had made.
2. Ambassador Thompson. remarked that he had just
heard &rom 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 tsmntally unbalanced and
was trying to break up the !:enncdy-IKhrushchev. relation-
ship.
3. lIe also related the Krotkov case in the' United
Kingdoi to the Nosenko case, explaining the way in which
the Soviets could hope,. through accusations that former
Ambassador to Moscow Maurice le.Jcan was an agent, to
cover the numerous leaks of sensitive infornation
suffered by the French Government and reported to us by
the defector Golitsyn.
4. lIe then described bor State Depart.ent officials
the m;anncr in which Gribanov operates against the diplo-
matic colony. Mr. Il]lms rrc nt on to say that we had arrived
at a poInt with Nosenko where we believed we had to use
more cuerectic measures to arrive at the truth and determine
his missi.on. After we triad this we would probably wish](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.jfk/jfkarch85785&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)