The VENONA Documents, May 1942
These are the scanned-in images of the VENONA documents which have been
declassified up to this point that are from the month of May 1942.
Quick Index:
- Report on conversation with the Swedish Naval attache in Moscow (1942) (Release Five)
- 1. May day greetings; 2. Instructions for test transmissions by SAMUEL, AKMA, VAL'DEN and BERNS (1942) (Release Five)
- Training of SVANTE and FRITS completed (1942) (Release Five)
- Training of SVANTE and FRITS COMPLETED (1942) (A more complete version of British Government-excised messages previously released in fifth venona release on 1 Oct 1996) (Release 6)
- A largely unreadable GRU message of 1942. (Release Four)
- Name No. 64 asks for guidance in reporting intelligence (1942). (Release Five)
- Name No. 64 asks for guidance in reporting intelligence (1942) (A more complete version of British Government-excised messages previously released in fifth VENONA release on 1 Oct 1996) (Release 6)
- Report from VALER; and reference to the FRIENDS (1942). (Release Five)
- Intelligence from a Swedish editor: reference to ANDRE (1942). (Release Five)
- Allocation of money for the second quarter of 1942 (1942) (Release Five)
- Reissue: 1. "BRIDGEBUILDER" identified as . . . 2. Attempt by a NEIGHBOUR to enlist "BRIDEGBUIDER" who was developed by GRU agent ELOR; 3. Intelligence passed by STAS on German Army (1942) (Release Five)
- Re-issue: Report from a Newspaper Correspondent (1942) (Release Five)
- 1. ANDERSON's TALMUD and book handed over to SVANTE and FRED; 2. LEVANGER, NARYM, IVANOV, ANDERSON (1942) (Release Five)
- 4th Reissue: ANDERSON, SAMUEL', SVANTE, FRITs, FELIKS, FOL'KE ("VAL'TER") (1942) (Release Five)
- Cipher for "FELIX" to be modelled on that used by "ALBIN" (1942) (Release Five)
- Anderson's Talmud and book handed over to Svante and Fred (1942) (A more complete version of British Government-excised messages previously released in fifth venona release on 1 Oct 1996) (Release 6)
- 4th Reissue-Anderson, Samuel, Svante, Frits, Feliks, Fol'ke, Svendsen (1942) (A more complete version of British Government-excised messages previously released in fifth venona release on 1 Oct 1996) (Release 6)
- Reissue: Information from a Norwegian on Arrival in Sweden (1942) (Release Five)
- Reissue: 1. Proposed meeting between fishing boat and submarine; 2. Preparation to send man at NIL'SON's place to COWLAND to teach the TALMUD to MORTIs, a radio operator; 3. AREL's SAT . . . (1942) (Release Five)
- ANDERSON and FELIKS: TALMUDS and key books (1942) (Release Five)
- Reissue-Anderson and Feliks: Talmuds and Key Books (1942) (A more complete version of British Government-excised messages previously released in fifth venona release on 1 Oct 1996) (Release 6)
- Ship cargo/displacement data (Release Two)
- Information from OLSEN about Germany (1942) (Release Five)
- US Military budget/productivity reports (Release Two)
- Instructions for selections of candidates in Europe (Release Two)
- Information from FRITZ (1942) (Release Five)
- 2nd Reissue-"DIPLOMAT","VIKTOR","INDEETs","ZhORES","..SKIJ";"LOM" and "LAR". ARTUR: instructions on selection of candidates for Europe etc (1942) (A more complete version of documents previously released in second venona release on 10 Oct. 1995) (Release 6)
- Per Travels to OSTERSUND to Meet His Acquaintance (1942) (Release Five)
- PER travels to Ostersund to meet his acquaintance (1942) (A more complete version of British Government-excised messages previously released in fifth VENONA release on 1 Oct 1996) (Release 6)
- Request for information of "IZBA" (Release Two)
- Re-issue: Information from PER (1942) (Release Five)
- ARTUR in Mexico, KARMEN warned of courier's arrival (Release Two)
- Mostly unrecovered descriptions of individuals' wages (Release Two)
- Detailed description of European assets (Release Two)
- Mostly unrecovered. Refers to New York #466 (Release Two)
- Data on construction/distribution of military aircraft (Release Two)
- Weapons production data (Release Two)
- Suggestion for new recruitment effort (Release Two)
- Biographical details of Latin Americans and Germans (Release Two)
- Highly garbled references to the persons in the previous message (Release Two)
- Recruiting Cleveland resident into the Local Organization (Release Two)
- "KUM"; "UCN 32" in Odessa in 1931 (1942). (Release Five)
- Departure of KURNEVSKIJ for the U.S.A (Release Two)
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