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j , I i . I I 1 I I I ! I I I ~ ! ! of material on Nosenko that was produced as a result of the House Subcommittee on Assassinations. I imagine you have thousands of words about Nosenko. Hathaway: Millions. Ne lms : And so it isn't necessary for me to go on here and repeat what I have already said under oath and what I believe and so forth about the Nosenko case. But you are asking me about a difficult decision. In that case, to my mind, the difficult decision was when I had to decide to end the interrogation of Nosenko, to t resettle him on the American landscape, and just take our chances as to what he represented, whether he really was still working for the Soviets or whether he wasn't still working for the Soviets. I did not, in making that decision, intentionally make a judgment about the man's bona fides. I simply had on my hands a situation which had become intolerable--his incarceration down at "the Farm" and these various other things--that this case simply had to be cleaned up regardless of what his bona fides were, so I moved to clean it up. But I didn't like having to do it. I didn't like the sort of messiness that was involved in our not being able to decide distinctly that he was one thing or the other, at least in our best judgment. Therefore, I found this a difficult decision, and the things that went along with it--the amount of money we had to give him to get him 9