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KGB (Committee for State Security)

Russia · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

6Records
1963–1969Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1963

Yuri Nosenko1963

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Kennedy, affirming that he had personally handled a review of the case of Lee Harvey Oswald, who had lived in the Soviet Union prior to the Kennedy assassination, the issue was critical because KGB involvement with Oswald might suggest Soviet involvement in the Kennedy assassination a prospect that could have

Yuri Nosenko1963

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Nosenko also stated that the KGB had never questioned Oswald about information he might have gained as a U.S. Marine, including work as an aviation electronics operator at Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Japan.

Yuri Nosenko1963

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Nosenko claimed that he could provide important negative information about the assassination of President John F.

Yuri Nosenko1963

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Nosenko insisted that after interviewing Oswald it was decided that he was not intelligent enough and also "too mentally unstable," a "nut," and therefore unsuitable for intelligence work.

Yuri Nosenko1963

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

propelled the Cold War into a nuclear war

1969

Yuri Nosenko1 March 1969

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Nosenko is formally acknowledged to be a genuine defector, and released, with financial compensation from the CIA

Names involved

Yuri Nosenko

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