The VENONA Documents, April 1943
These are the scanned-in images of the VENONA documents which have been
declassified up to this point that are from the month of April 1943.
Quick Index:
- File checks and study of possible agent recruit CARTER. (Release Four)
- Information about minefields off Estonia and Finland. (Release Four)
- Covername FORBES reports about a task assigned to U.S. Army & Navy. (Release Four)
- Lend-lease discussion. (Release Four)
- KENT reports about U.S. Naval SIGINT Hq. on Nebraska Ave. in Washington. (Release Four)
- A Soviet ship has run aground off Alaska. (Release Four)
- Budgetary matters. (Release Four)
- Concerns about family members back in USSR. (Release Four)
- Information in newspaper articles. Information obtained in conversations. (Release Four)
- Two Soviet ships sinking off West Coast of U.S. (Release Four)
- Discussion of minesweepers. (Release Four)
- U.S. Director of Naval Intelligence gave a dinner to honor Soviet Meteorologists. (Release Four)
- A Soviet sailor got drunk; another deserted in Philadelphia. (Release Four)
- The two Soviet ships off West Coast in hopeless condition. One person drowned. (Release Four)
- Request to repeat a message. (Release Four)
- Lend - Lease. (Release Four)
- Admin., family, and operational matters. (Release Four)
- Office administrative matters. (Release Four)
- Lend - Lease. (Release Four)
- A U.S. naval officer is going to Soviet Union on liaison duty. (Release Four)
- Discussion of Soviet ships including six Liberty ships U.S. gave to Soviets. (Release Four)
- A courier pass. (Release Four)
- Discussion of ships and their machinery. (Release Four)
- The reserved nature of MOLChANOV. (1943) (Release Five)
- Include LAVRENOV for an award (1943). (Release Five)
- A new office and living quarters for Naval GRU staff. (Release Four)
- The Illegal SALLY (here AUSTRALIAN WOMAN) & other operational matters. (Release Four)
- Family matters & courier procedures. (Release Four)
- Mention of covername THORNTON (professor M.V. Malyshev). (Release Four)
- Same message. (Release Four)
- Travel plans. (Release Four)
- Cargo to be loaded in Portland. (Release Four)
- A report on the military situation. (Release Four)
- Courier activities. (Release Four)
- A Naval GRU source has returned to Soviet Union. (Release Four)
- Same as previous message. (Release Four)
- OK for expenditure for friendship. (Release Four)
- Discussion of Dutch Harbor, Alaska and the Soviet submarines. Naval GRU may ask the NEIGHBORS (GRU or KGB) for some personnel assistance. The work of Naval GRU officer KENT. (Release Four)
- A long counterintelligence report relating to the Soviet naval group in Florida. Concern about the work of U.S. Naval & military Intelligence. Complaints about Commander Erdman, U. S. Navy. (Release Four)
- Reference to a cipher page. (Release Four)
- Passing along a report from the New York Times about Swedish naval disasters. (Release Four)
- Various U.S. Naval manuals being sent by courier to Moscow. Investigation by Naval GRU of a Russian born official at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. (Release Four)
- Discussion of the dispatch of U.S. forces to the Alentians. (Release Four)
- A message to be repeated. (Release Four)
- Correction: Inquiry about . . . and ANDRE (1943) (Release Five)
- Top Secret and other materials sent off by courier. The work of covername MAXWELL (Jack Fahy). (Release Four)
- Ship movements. (Release Four)
- Soviet crews arriving in U.S. to limit their answers to U.S. questioning. (Release Four)
- Increase tonnage to the Persian Gulf (1943). (Release Five)
- Information about poison gas. (Release Four)
- Lend - Lease matter. (Release Four)
- Budgetary matters. (Release Four)
- GRU personnel matters (Release Four)
- Washington asks Headquarters to discuss requirements with a Soviet Naval officer TDY to Moscow. (Release Four)
- Soviet trawler crews. (Release Four)
- Resumption of convoys. (Release Four)
- A report about agent MAXWELL (Jack Fahy) being called before House UnAmerican Activities Committee. (Release Four)
- Cipher matters. (Release Four)
- Discussion of reporting procedures; discussion of a cipher error. (Release Four)
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