Editing Tscherim Soobzokov (section)

==Relationships with the CIA and FBI==
The CIA first took note of Soobzokov in 1949, and engaged him to provide intelligence and recruit assets in Jordan in December 1950, under the code name "NOSTRIL."<ref name="Nostril">{{citation |title=CIA Memorandum |url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/0001492338 |date=1974-06-01}}</ref> Soobzokov proved to be "a failure of an agent," only managing to provide his handlers with 2 potential recruits. Agency reports "indicate[d] that he [Soobzokov] is a rather unscrupulous individual." By the middle of 1952, Soobzokov was unemployed.<ref name="Albanese" />{{rp|151–156}}

The CIA decided to re-engage Soobzokov in 1953, as part of the AEDEPOT program.<ref name="Albanese" />{{rp|158}} During a polygraph examination in 1953, a CIA official noted that Soobzokov had "consistent and pronounced reactions to all questions regarding war crimes." Soobzokov continued recruitment operations for the CIA in Jordan until 1955.<ref name="Albanese" />{{rp|158}}

In 1957, Soobzokov resumed working for the CIA as part of project AEACRE in the REDSOX program.<ref name="Albanese" />{{rp|160}} The Agency sent Soobzokov to [[Beirut]] on an assignment to recruit Russian exiles willing to return to the Soviet Union as undercover agents. The assignment was cut short after the Agency learned that Soobzokov was openly flaunting his CIA affiliation and running a scheme promising to use his connections to help refugees emigrate to America.<ref name="NND" />{{rp|53–54}}

Soobzokov had falsely told the CIA that he had attended a Soviet military academy, a claim he later recanted when the Agency decided to send him to a bomb-making course in [[Fort Meade]], Maryland in 1958.<ref name="NND"/>{{rp|55}} Finally, after a 1959 debriefing, a CIA examiner concluded that Soobzokov was an "incorrigible fabricator," after which the Agency cancelled his operational approval.<ref name="CIA13" />{{rp|4}}<ref name="breitman" />{{rp|2}}

In the 1970s, Soobzokov acted as the president of the Committee for Liberation of North Caucasia in U.S.A.<ref name="SettlersRemorse" />{{rp|1039}} (incorporated as a non-profit in 1965<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nycompanyregistry.com/companies/committee-for-liberation-of-north-caucasiain-usainc/ |website=NY Company Directory |title=COMMITTEE FOR LIBERATION OF NORTH CAUCASIA, IN NEW JERSEY U . S . A . , INC}}</ref>) and Committee for Liberation of North Caucasia, in New Jersey U.S.A. (incorporated as a non-profit in 1971<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bizapedia.com/nj/committee-for-liberation-of-north-caucasia-in-new-jersey-usa-inc.html |website=Bizapedia |title=COMMITTEE FOR LIBERATION OF NORTH CAUCASIA,IN U.S.A.,INC. }}</ref>), which were likely CIA-funded anti-Soviet front groups similar to the [[American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia]].<ref>{{cite conference |url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001492344.pdf |last=Tscherim |first=Soobzokov |date=July 1975 |conference=Captive Nations Week |title=Committee for Liberation of North Caucasia in New Jersey |publisher=CIA archive}}</ref>

In August 1958, Soobzokov became an FBI informant, spying on the immigrant community in Paterson.<ref name="breitman" />{{rp|2}}<ref name="NND" />{{rp|110–111}}