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

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300540006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 2, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON
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U.S. Feats Soviet
Attempt to Kidnap
Now that a rani.iug staff member of Rus-
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 I. Nossenko.
Yuri Ivanovich Nossenko, a member o
he Soviet delegation to the Geneva disar
ament conference who defected and re
uested U.S. asylum last month, seems t
ovict Russia's State Security Committee
r secret police) member assigned to spl
n his own disarmament mission, or on th
Western delegation, or on both.
Nossenko is now in the United States
nder the "protective custody" of the Con-
al Intelligence Agency and is perhaps the
est protected man in this country today.
It is feared by U.S. Intelligence officials
at Soviet counter-espionage agents are
nder orders to kidnap Nossenko if possi-
le and to kill him, if not. If they should
cceed in killing him, it would not be the
rst time they have murdered a Soviet de-
ctor in the United States in order to pro-
t ct their network of more than 1,000 mili-
t try, soientific and industrial spies in this
country. '.This figure is based on an esti-
ate made recently by FBI director J. Ed-
r Hoover, who in turn . based his esti-
ate on reports made by previous defectors.
In 1941, Gen. Walter Krivitsky, a former
ed Army Intelligence chief whose ' break
ith Stalin in 1937 and subsequent revela-
t ns had caused word-wide sensation, was
fund murdered in a Washington hotel.
Another case of KGB's special murder
u lit operations in the United States was
tlie strange "accident" on a U.S. turnpike
o Reino Hayhanen, a former KGB liteuten-
be liquidated on his return home. Instead
of flying to the Soviet Union he went tc
Paris, where he contacted the America
Embassy and asked for asylum.
Rushed to the United States, Hayhane
became a counter-espionage agent for the
CIA. He located in New York the' studi
of Russian master spy Rudolph Ivanovic
Abet who was the most important Sovie
spy caught in the United States to date
Abel was running a photographer's studic
in Brooklyn under the alias of Emil R. Gold-
fus. It was in that studio that Abel pros
essed secret documents 'by photographin
them and reducing the papers to the size o
a pin head-a process called micro-spotting
The importance that Moscow attached t
his work may be judged by the fact that h
RATE BOSS of defector Yuri Nossenko is
derstandably upset over recent events.
emyon K. Tsarapkin, head of the Soviet
elegation to the Geneva disarmament con-
erence, charged that Switzerland permitted
nce of Nossenko. Nossenko is under wraps
n political asylum -in Washington. .
as exchanged for the American U-2 pilot,
KGB. But the circumstances of his disap-
pearance were left vague. . American offi-
cials also declined to say how high up Mr.
Nossenko was in the KGB apparatus and
by he defected. I
U.S. officials have refused to release de-:
ils of the Nossenko defection. He was
All these facts may never be published.'
ften defectors to the West from the Soviet;
Union are- thoughtful people who are fed,
p with the dreary processes of the police
tate.
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