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Kisevalter helped Bagley interview Nosenko four times in 1962.[edit]
English-speaking Nosenko was interviewed five times altogether in 1962. Per his book, "Spy Wars," Russian-understanding Bagley interviewed him the first time, and then Kisevalter flew in two days later and he and Bagley interviewed Nosenko the four remaining times. Was Kisevalter Nash? (talk) 09:01, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It wasn't Golitsyn's claiming Nosenko was fake that led to Nosenko's incarceration.[edit]
Nosenko "walked-in" to the CIA in Geneva in late May, 1962. According to Bagley's book "Spy Wars," although Golitsyn and Nosenko had worked in completely different sections of the highly compartmentalized KGB, what Nosenko told Bagley and Kisevalter in 1962 strangely overlapped (and contradicted / deflected from) what Golitsyn had told his interviewers six months earlier. This caused Bagley and CIA Counterintelligence chief James Angleton to conclude that Nosenko was a false defector, sent to the CIA to discredit Golitsyn. When, in January 1964, Nosenko reappeared to the CIA in Geneva and said that he wanted to physically defect to the U.S., the CIA had to grant his wish because he claimed to have been the handler of President Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in the USSR. The fact that Nosenko was uncooperative during his early 1964 interviews in the U.S. (and eventually became unruly, e.g., punching out a bartender in Baltimore) led Soviet Russia Division chief David Murphy (who was convinced Nosenko was a false defector) and Bagley to have Nosenko incarcerated in April so he couldn't redefect to the USSR (and possibly claim that he'd been kidnapped by the CIA), and so they could attempt to "break" him through harsh (but not tortuous) interrogations. Was Kisevalter Nash? (talk) 10:51, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
