CIA, PAVEL IVANOVICH FEDOSIMOV
RECORDS SEARCH
As you can see, the CIA have responded to a request from Clive for any and all images of Pavel Ivanovich Fedosimov.
They make it quite clear that they searched for all relevant documents amongst their files with a negative result, no images were found.
They make it quite clear that they searched for all relevant documents amongst their files with a negative result, no images were found.
We are therefore in a position where the UN, IAEA, FBI and CIA files have been searched with none of these organisations finding any photographs of Pavel Ivanovich Fedosimov.
This does not mean that we will stop searching and in fact, we contacted other agencies and sources and are awaiting their responses.
This does not mean that we will stop searching and in fact, we contacted other agencies and sources and are awaiting their responses.
But what does this mean? What we know for certain is that the man in our Pravda photograph was named as Pavel Fedosimov and, from Harry Gold's description, he matches the appearance of the man he met in the Earle Cinema in New York on December 26th 1946, he had introduced himself as 'Paul' according to the book ATOM SPIES referred to by Senator Cavanagh.
We also know that Pavel Fedosimov was an NKVD officer at the New York Rezidentura with the code name STEPAN.
We also know that Pavel Fedosimov was an NKVD officer at the New York Rezidentura with the code name STEPAN.
Pavel Ivanovich Fedosimov left the US on July 31st, 1948 on the SS Pobeda bound for Russia. Whilst a man of the same name turns up on numerous occasions through until 1959 at both UN and IAEA meetings, no photographs of him have appeared at any time.
The image I managed to find and now possess being the original hard copy photograph of Pavel and Novikov. It is noted that the FBI showed Harry Gold images of various people and he picked out a photo of Fedosimov in October 1950 this means that the FBI had photos at that time. We do not know how old those photographs were at the time and we do not know if they are of the same man as the man in our photograph.
This second photograph has been added on 4th December 2018, it is a close up of Pavel's teeth in particular:
Recently Clive found confirmation of the fact that it was common practice for Russian Intelligence operators to use false names and documentation as it was indeed for Russian diplomats. This is both a concern and possibly our opportunity to discover more.
The situation, therefore, is that we have no photographs, no confirmation and no way to prove that the man Pavel Ivanovich Fedosimov who turns up in post-1948 documentation was the same man as in our photo.
Will update this as more information comes to hand.
Will update this as more information comes to hand.
Just added this close up today, 4th December 2018. Using a new camera technique, I managed to get an improved close-up image. You can see the state of Pavel's teeth and the obvious issues he had.
ReplyDeleteThis new technique can be applied to other images which will happen in due course.