A telling "No"

From the 19-21 October 1966 CIA polygraph examination of Yuri Nosenko:

Question 50C: Are you deliberately hiding from us information known to you about Kisevalter?

Answer: No. (Reaction)


My comments:

It’s interesting to note that in 1964, Russia-born George Kisevalter supported false defector Nosenko’s memory against Tennent H. Bagley’s regarding whether or not he had told them in Geneva in June 1962 that his KGB crew, “hoping to catch another Popov,” had spotted American Embassy Security Officer John Abidian as he was setting up GRU Lt. Col. Oleg Penkovsky’s dead drop in a Pushkin Street apartment building lobby in late December 1960. Nosenko and Kisevalter said he had; Bagley claimed the only thing Nosenko had told them about Abidian was that his crew had monitored him closely for a couple of months but all they found was a pair of girl’s panties in his bedroom.

Bagley tells us in his 2007 book, Spy Wars, that Penkovsky had set the dead drop up before he was recruited by the CIA and MI6 in London in April 1961, and that the only time Abidian had been in physical contact with it was in late December 1961, in response to two close-together voiceless phone calls which appeared to be from Penkovsky.

It’s interesting to note that Kisevalter had told Penkovsky in Paris in October to make two close-together voiceless phone calls to the Davison residence in case he needed the CIA to immediately empty his dead drop.

It’s also interesting to note that CIA Spymaster, former CIA analyst Clarence Ashley’s folksy biography of his friend and business partner, Kisevalter, contradicts everything Bagley wrote in his 2007 book, Spy Wars, about the Yuri Nosenko false-defector case.

You can read all about it for free by googling “spy wars” and “archive” simultaneously.