The VENONA Documents, August 1944
These are the scanned-in images of the VENONA documents which have been declassified up to this point that are from the month of August 1944.
Quick Index:
- Distinguished Poles in US inclined to Soviet positions. (Release Three)
- Measures for visas & transit visas for Fishers to Mexico. (Release Three)
- D. Maclean reports on Occupation Plans of Germany. (Release Three)
- 3rd Reissue: "SPIRIDONOV" unwilling to discuss political subjects with "LADO"; reference to "ARTEM" (1944). (Release Five)
- 8th Reissue: Establishment of contact with "FIGARO" (1944). (Release Five)
- Reissue: Bits and pieces of partial recovery of many messages. (Release Five)
- Senior KGB officers returning to Soviet Union - they left Portland 24 July. (Release Four)
- Reference to Soviet naval officer Nikolaj J. Redin. (Release Four)
- Reference to a meeting in August 1944. (Release Five)
- Correction (Release Five)
- Reissue: Need "ARTUR's" reports on political situation in Argentina, Chile and Brazil; password for "ALEXANDR"; and nomination of a probationer to be an agent (1944). (Release Five)
- Get "KARLOS" address in Spain from "ARTUR" and "ALEKSANDR" (1944). (Release Five)
- Laurence Duggan reported new head of UNRA. (Release Three)
- Message concerning underground cooperation with Soviets. (Release Three)
- Long Reports of KGB conversation with Harry Dexter White. (Release Three)
- Conversation with Harry Dexter White. (Release Three)
- Request for Compassionate Transfer back to USSR. (Release Three)
- Poles in Mexico. (Release Four)
- Reissue: Queries about "010", "NERON", German agent network (1944). (Release Five)
- Personnel Matters. (Release Three)
- Report of US Experiment with 8-Ton Bombs at Wright Field. (Release Three)
- Profesor Oscar Lange and Soviet interaction with PNC. (Release Three)
- Disposition of US Bases in Azores. (Release Three)
- KGB Officers' Duties Realignment Following transfers home (Release Three)
- Request delay in completion recall of language training. (Release Three)
- Reference to new duties for "EFIM". (Release Five)
- 2nd Reissue: Inquiry about a meeting with "FIGARO"; query about "SPIRIDONOV" (1944). (Release Five)
- Personnel and Pay Matters. (Release Three)
- Reissue: Assistance for "KASHTEJN'S Kinswoman (1944) (Release Five)
- 3rd Reissue: Reference to Rapides Kosta, alias "NIKOS" (1944) (Release Five)
- Code Matters. (Release Three)
- Report on the Trotskyites in Mexico. (Release Three)
- Report on Soviet defector Kravchenko (GNAT). (Release Three)
- Agent handling matters and Macleans transmission. (Release Three)
- Covername COWBOY's departure for Africa. (Release Four)
- "ANTON" visited in prison by "KLIM" (Release Five)
- Jet engine spec report and Bell travels to Soviet Union. (Release Three)
- Details on experimental jet engine. (Release Three)
- On preventing sailor defections in Port of San Francisco. (Release Three)
- Pay matters and correspondence tracking. (Release Three)
- Meeting scenarios re: covername COWBOY. (Release Four)
- Second Reissue- Details of source "YuN" (Release 6)
- Report from "KhOChEV" on German-Finnish Relations (Release Five)
- 2nd Reissue: Refernce to "CHARRO" (1944). (Release Five)
- Personnel Security concerns with Garrulons Courier. (Release Three)
- Investigation of Explosion near Soviet ship in NYC. (Release Three)
- Transfers home. (Release Three)
- Meeting with "KRUM" (1944) (Release Five)
- Plans to exfiltrate illegal for another Soviet Int. Org. (Release Three)
- Reference to "LOCK" and "ONELL" (Release Five)
- "106" unable to answer Moscow enquiry (1944) (Release Five)
- Reissue: Receipt of funds for "LEONID" and "VALENTIN" (1944) (Release Five)
- Reissue: Instructions to be given to "SPIRIDONOV" (1944) (Release Five)
- "KIRILL's" sending telegrams to the Center without the Resident's consent is incorrect (1944). (Release Five)
- Proposal to study shipping operations in NYC. (Release Three)
- Security measures guarding cargoes on wharves & ships. (Release Three)
- Addresses of 2 new conspirative apartments found by ECHO (Release Three)
- Communication and other Administrivia. (Release Three)
- Recommendations for returned KGB officers (Release Three)
- Report of Cordell Hall's, Sec. of State, informal views. (Release Three)
- Reference to biographical sketch of a Spanish official. (Release Four)
- 2nd Reissue: Discontinuance of liaison with "LOCK" and "ONELL" (1944) (Release Five)
- 3rd Reissue: "BURGAS" and references to GASANOV (1944) (Release Five)
- Reissue: "BURGAS" to be used to trace "SIRUS" (1944) (Release Five)
- Views of Romanians in US regarding USSR. (Release Three)
- KGB agent MARS - Proposed visit to France. (Release Three)
- Reported Delays in Telegram reciept and book unavailable. (Release Three)
- A long report about the unsatisfactory work and behavior of the KGB chief in Mexico City. The report is for PETROV (probably Beria). (Release Four)
- More problems with crewmen of Soviet merchant fleet. (Release Four)
- HARRIMAN reports on the International Security Organization. (Release Five)
- About communications between the Pittsburgh Chamber of commerce and Stalingrad town council through Moscow. (Release Five)
- Awaiting return of Joseph Katz. (Release Three)
- Concerns r.e. "MARGARITA's" hostility toward USSR system. (Release Three)
- The acquisition of an "educational establishment". (Release Four)
- Request to clarify duties after departure of Zubilin. (Release Three)
- Personnel Matters. (Release Three)
- Plans for meeting between "YuN" and "DAR" (Release 6)
- Pilferage from Cargoes being loaded in NYC. (Release Three)
- Source reports FBI suspicious of Kravchenko's activities. (Release Three)
- Administrative relating to a Die production workshop. (Release Three)
- Request to extend 4 students stay for extended assessment (Release Three)
- Request approval of ship loading inspector to surveill stevedoor. (Release Three)
- Personnel Matters. (Release Three)
- Transferred clerk to aid ALBERT in processing materials. (Release Three)
- "DAR" explains lack of contact with Moscow. (Release Three)
- The GNOME affair (the person who murdered Trotsky). (Release Four)
- Diplomatic reporting. (Release Three)
- The failure of ALBERT to reply to the "Office". (Release Three)
- Mention of covername PRIVATE. (Release Four)
- References to "ROM" and compromise of "CROAT" (1944), (Release Five)
- Agent under surveillance and security measures. (Release Three)
- Recommend to consider employee of the Italian War Office. (Release Three)
- Disloyal Soviet sailors being watched. (Release Four)
- A list of KGB informants on Soviet merchant vessels bound for U. S. ports. (Release Four)
- Proposals for further employment of "KRUM" (1944) (Release Five)
- Bits and pieces of partially solved messages. (Release Five)
- "OSCAR" (1944). (Release Five)
- Reaction to REST's departure for Great Britain (Release One)
- Recommend FRIEND for position in future Polish govt. (Release Three)
- CBS Employee facilitating Soviet Courier Activities. (Release Three)
- Soviets plan to increase trading cooperation with workforce. (Release Three)
- Moscow Center complains about the porr work of the KGB in the U. S. in dealing with the merchant sailor desertion problem. Center says that its 500 shipboard informants are not being used properly. (Release Four)
- The KGB officer responsible for merchant fleet security in U. S. has lost his "personal documents". (Release Four)
- Notification of impending arrival in Sydney of "PALM". (Release Five)
- Reference to "GRANDSON" (1944). (Release Five)
- Discussion of the problem of ship Deserters (1944). (Release Five)
- More about getting the Fisher's into Mexico. (Release Three)
- Security Concerns. (Release Three)
- Positioning and managing assets. (Release Three)
- Budget matters. (Release Four)
- Soviet merchant fleet problems. (Release Four)
- U.S. Immigration arrests Soviet deserters. (Release Four)
- Financial Message (Release Five)
- Correction to Financial Message (Release Five)
- Financial Messages (Release Five)
- Financial Messages (Release Five)
- Confirm receipt of 750 American dollars sent to you in the name of Comrade RYaZANOV on 26 August (1944) (Release Five)
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