00:00The CIA built a prison cell for one man, not to charge him, not to try him, just to break
00:05him.
00:06In 1964, a Soviet KGB officer named Yuri Nosenko walked into the CIA and defected.
00:13He brought a message. The Soviets had looked at Lee Harvey Oswald while he lived in Russia,
00:18decided he was unstable and useless, and left him alone. The KGB had nothing to do with Kennedy's
00:24assassination. It was exactly what James Angleton did not want to hear. Angleton ran CIA
00:29counterintelligence. And in his mind, information this convenient could only mean one thing.
00:35Nosenko was a plant, a Soviet trick, a lie dressed up as a gift. So the CIA built a windowless
00:41concrete
00:42cell and locked Nosenko inside it for over three years. Isolation, sensory deprivation,
00:48psychological destruction, everything short of killing him. He never changed his story,
00:53not once, because it was the truth. The CIA didn't uncover a conspiracy.
00:59They became one, and Nosenko survived to prove it.
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