U.S. FEARS SOVIET ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP OR KILL NOSSENKO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100020021-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 1998
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: March 2, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Now that a ran1.'ing staff member of Ruv-
sia's secret ? police has asked political asylum
in this country, U. S. intelligence authorities
fear that Soviet security police in the United
States may be under orders to kidnap or kill
Red defector Yuri 1. Nossenko.
By NICOLAS RIVERO
Yuri Ivanovich Nossenkoa member of
the Soviet delegation to the Geneva disar-
mament conference who defected and re-
quested U.S. asylum last month, seems to
be far more important than a regular KGB
(Soviet Russia's State Security Committee
or secret police) member assigned to spy
on his own disarmament mission, or on the
Western delegation, or on both.
Nossenko is now in the United States
under the "protective custody" of the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency and is perhaps the
best protected man in this country today.
It is feared by U.S. Intelligence officials
that Soviet counter-espionage agents are
under orders to kidnap Nossenko if possi-
ble and to kill him, if not. If they should
succeed in killing him, it would not be the
first time they have murdered a Soviet de-
fector in the United States in order to pro-
tect their network of more than 1,000 mili-
tary, scientific and industrial spies in this
country. ' This figure. is based on an esti-
mate made recently by FBI director J. Ed-
gar Hoover, who in turn based his esti-
mate on reports made by previous defectors.
In 1941, Gen. Walter Krivitsky, a former
Red Army Intelligence chief whose break
with Stalin in 1937 and subsequent revela-
tions had caused word-wide sensation, was
found murdered in a Washington hotel. .
Another case of KGB's special murder
unit operations in the United States was
the strange "accident" on a U.S. turnpike
MIM Iayhanen, a former KGB liteuten-
In the spring of 1957 Col. Hayhanen
was ordered back to Moscow from a for-
eign assignment. He suspected he would
be liquidated on his return home. Instead
of flying to the Soviet Union he went to
Paris, where he contacted the American
Embassy and asked for asylum.
Rushed to the United States, Hayhanen
became a counter-espionage agent for the
CIA. He located -in New York the' studio
of Russian master spy Rudolph Ivano'vich
Abel who was the most important Soviet
spy caught in- the United States to date.
Abel was running a photographer's studio
in Brooklyn under the alias of Emil R. Gold-
fus. It was in that studio that Abel proc-
essed secret documents 'by photographing
them and reducing the papers to the size of
a pin head-a process called micro-spotting.
The importance that Moscow attached to
his work may be judged by the fact that he
IRATE BOSS of defector Yuri Nossenko is
understandably upset over recent events.
Semyon K. Tsarapkin, head of the Soviet
delegation to the Geneva disarmament con-
ference, charged that Switzerland permitted
"foreign agents" to engineer the disappear-
ance of Nossenko. Nossenko is under wraps
in political asylum in Washington.
as exchanged for the American U-2 pilot,,
rancis Gary Powers.
U.S. officials have refused to release de-;
ails of the Nossenko defection. He was
escribed as a ranking staff member of the
GB. But the circumstances of his disap-
earance were left vague. American offi-
ials also declined to say how high up Mr.
ossenko was in the KGB apparatus and;
by he defected. i
All these facts may never be published.'
I t ften defectors to the West from the Soviet
pion are- thoughtful people who are fed.
p with the dreary processes of the police
ate.
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