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Defection of Nosenko

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

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1964

James Jesus Angleton1964

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Angleton was also responsible for the incarceration of Yuri Nosenko, a Soviet defector who arrived in the U.S. with the seemingly unwelcome news that the KGB had had no interest in Oswald during his tenure in the Soviet Union. Angleton and other Counterintelligence officers were convinced that Nosenko was a

James Jesus Angleton1964

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

but did not use his information in its publications

James Jesus Angleton1964

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

false defector sent by the KGB on a mission. Nosenko is locked in a small room and interrogated for more than three years, while a battle raged within the CIA over his bona fides. Because this issue was unresolved during the Warren Commission's tenure, the Commission received reports about him

Names involved

James Jesus Angleton

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