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[12]Methodology:
[14]1. . The portion of the 11 June 1962 tape in question
[16]was provided to two employees, both of whom are professional
[17]' transcribers and native Russian speakers. They were provided
[19]with the background of the difficulty, i.e, that previous
[20]transcriptions. of the tape “quoted Nosenko as saying that
[21]he had "also been in the States" and that he had used the
[22]alias Nikolayey “both in England and ‘uo vas' i.e., in the
[23]United States. .
[25]- 2. Mr. Kotlev and Mr. Berest Produced a transcription
[26]which contains no statement of Nosenko's: saying he had been
[27]in the United States. tn addition, their rendering of the
[28]sentence pertaining to Nosenko's use of the alias Nikolayev
[29]reads, with no equivocation, "both In England and tu Nast",
[30]i.e., “in the Soviet Union." .
[32]3. Independently, the same portion of tape was given
[33]yet another professional transcriber, a native Russian
[34]speaker. She was given no background whatsoever on the
[35]problem. Her transcript contained no statement of Nosenko's
[36]saying he had been in the United States. In addition, her
[37]rendering of the sentence pertaining to Nosenko's use of
[38]the alias Nikolavey reads unequivocally as “both in England
[39]and ‘u nas'", i.e., “in the Soviet Union."
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