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A fact from Yuri Nosenko appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 March 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the former KGB agent Yuri Nosenko was incarcerated for five years by the CIA including 1,277 days of interrogation, because the American agents did not believe he had truly defected?

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This page is full of errors and I have removed some of them:

In the book SPY HANDLER by Cherkashin, the author states that Nosenko really was a defector and that the CIA mishandled him badly.

Removed: References to Angleton as responsible for hostile interrogation: This was the responsibility of the soviet-russia (SR) division and is claim that I now make supported by autobiography of Richard Helms (2002), Tennent Bagley (2007) and HSCA testimonies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.138.134.129 (talk) 06:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your reply is so poorly written as to be unintelligible, imho.

Per Bagley, it was the Chief of the Soviet Russia Division, David Murphy, who decided to incarcerate Nosenko and to interrogate him harshly. Angleton, Bagley, Murphy and, to some extent, Helms were all convinced early on that Nosenko was a false defector. Angleton wanted to "play" him like a prize trout, not incarcerate him, but the others felt the CIA didn't have enough time to do that. Kisevalter Was Nash (talk) 08:34, 17 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(I was referring to an anonymous replier whose "removed reply" I no longer see.) Kisevalter Was Nash (talk) 08:37, 17 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bad intro

The intro doesn't give proper context. What are the "Family Jewels"... what claims did he make...? The reader has no idea what the situation is. Must be rewritten. Malick78 (talk) 11:14, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Movie citation

I suspect that this is the movie that folks are discussing in this article: [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092277/ Yuri Nosenko, KGB] This is an IMDB reference to a made for TV movie from 1986 described as the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West at the height of the Cold War in 1962. JoseNazario 19:17 7 September 2008 (US EDT) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.40.197.82 (talk) 23:08, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP article needed on Bagley

I don't have time to do so at present, but somebody should create at least a stub and preferably an article about Tennent H. "Pete" Bagley, who played a central role in this story and is a noted author and intelligence figure in his own right. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.50.7.179 (talk) 23:06, 21 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm new here and I intend to do that as soon as I learn the procedures and protocols. In the meantime, people can read his 2007 book "Spy Wars" and his follow-up 2014 PDF "Ghosts of the Spy Wars" for free on the Internet by simply googling those titles and adding the word "archives" to the two separate searches.

Kisevalter Was Nash (talk) 17:58, 17 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Second paragraph of intro presents Bagley contention as fact

In Bagley's book Spymaster, he claims that Nosenko was really a fake defector. This is presented in the introduction as though it were a fact, even though he is pretty much alone in thinking this, and had been grinding that particular ax for the last 50 years of his life. The discussion should be moved out of the intro and put under "Concerns that Nosenko was a double agent." It should also be toned done and made clear what Bagley says and what is known. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:BC80:E199:E53D:1270:552F:8EF0 (talk) 05:36, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved the paragraph as you have suggested. As for the rest, you are welcome to edit the article yourself. - Location (talk) 05:58, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If one were not to automatically distrust Bagley, and to read his books "Spy Wars" and "Spymaster" (and his 2014 PDF "Ghosts of the Spy Wars") carefully, one would realize that Nosenko really was a false defector. Several other people in CIA (and to a lesser extent, the FBI) agreed with Bagley on this.

Question: Where can I read the moved paragraph now?

Kisevalter Was Nash (talk) 17:21, 17 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Problems with use of Mitrokhin material

The article cites The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West for a number of claims. This is a paperback edition of The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. I have therefore replaced this reference with the more easily available Sword and the Shield, published by Basic Books.

Erroneous claims in the book attributed to Andrews and Mitrokhin include the following:

"Golitsyn provided information about many key Soviet agents of major significance for the KGB including Kim Philby, Donald Duart Maclean, Guy Burgess, John Vassall, Aleksandr Kopatzky and others."

Andrews and Mitrokhin only claim that Golitsyn provided information about Kopatzky (some of which was in error), not about any of the others.

"In November 1962, KGB head Vladimir Semichastny approved a plan for assassination of Golitsyn and other "particularly dangerous traitors" including Igor Gouzenko, Nikolay Khokhlov, and Bogdan Stashinsky all of them by now verified moles, but not for Nosenko."

According to Andrews and Mitrokhin (p. 367), this plan was formulated in 1962, two years before Nosenko defected; naturally he was not targeted for murder at that time.

Since neither of these claims is correct, I have removed both Rgr09 (talk) 14:43, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nosenko relatives

A paragraph on Nosenko's relatives was added to the article a couple of years ago by an ip user who claimed to be a related to the family. Unfortunately, there were no sources supplied for the paragraph. While I am sure the user wrote in good faith, Wikipedia's rule is WP:NOR (no original research), which means unsourced information has to be removed. If there are any reliable sources for the information, please feel free to re-add the section with the appropriate citations. Rgr09 (talk) 23:20, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Treatment during interrogation

None of the allegations of mistreatment of Nosenko during his detention were sourced in the article (excepting one in Posner's book). I have removed the unsourced claims, but there should be a section discussing these somewhere in the article. I will add this after straightening out some of the very confused chronology in the article. Rgr09 (talk) 04:32, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why has the author not sourced something?

Why has the author refused to source his or her statement that FBI's controversial agent "Fedora" was a Russian by the name of Victor Mechislavich Lesovski? Edward J. Epstein never claimed that, but by juxtaposing the above unsourced statement next to a reference to Epstein, the author appears to be showing his or her poor research skills, or is perhaps hoping that the casual reader will believe that Epstein had. It's been common knowledge for about 45 years now that "Fedora" was KGB officer Aleksei Isiodorovich Kulak! Was Kisevalter Nash? (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 20:34, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Now that I've substantially cleaned up the article, . . .

. . . would somebody please remove the "This article has multiple issues" banner at the top? Thanks. Was Kisevalter Nash? (talk) 21:10, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What invisible text does the "[Dead Link]" notice refer to?

What does the "[Dead Link]" notice in the middle of the Defection section refer to? A citation to some text that was posted by the original author and which I've since deleted? How can I delete that irritating and now-useless notice? Thanks. Was Kisevalter Nash? (talk) 22:49, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]