The VENONA Documents, May 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 May 1944.
Quick Index:
- Search for Soviet Defector Kravchenko (Release Three)
- Technical Security Measures in KGB NY (Release Three)
- Amendment to technical security message translation (Release Three)
- KGB Op. to spring Trotsky's murderer from Mexican prison (Release Three)
- Various KGB officers warned about "eavesdropping devices" being used against them. (Release Four)
- High level instructions re: handling of agents. Mention of communist heroes of the Spanish Civil War; Dolores Ibarruri, Enrique Lister and Juan Modesto. (Release Four)
- Establishment of MGB link between Moscow and Bogota (1944). (Release Five)
- Views of KGB Agent & Earl Browder, American Comm. Party (Release Three)
- KGB Search for Soviet Defector Kravchenko (Release Three)
- Radio commentator Norman Jay of interest to KGB (Release Three)
- KGB has a talk with Morris Libau (Release Three)
- KGB NY desires inquiries of E. Browder, American Comm. Party Chief (Release Three)
- KGB NY has purchased sound recording equipment (Release Three)
- Diplomatic Information (Release Three)
- KGB Agent Ivan Subasic (Yugoslavia) flies to London (Release Three)
- KGB Search for Soviet Defector Kravchenko Continues (Release Three)
- various KGB agents. (Release Four)
- A Soviet seaman deserts in Seattle. (Release Four)
- Agent ECHO to make arrangements for meeting (Release One)
- KGB Agent I. Subasic (Yugoslavia) reports on 2 associates. (Release Three)
- A cover business for Senior KGB agent Joseph "Jack" Katz (Release Three)
- KGB Agent TALENT fears 10 year sentence (Release Three)
- Work of Senior KGB Officers Povel Klarin and Gen. Zubilin (Release Three)
- KGB declines large financial aid to their agent TALENT (Release Three)
- Translation of TALENT Message Amended (Release Three)
- Re-issue- "ECHO" o make arrangements for contact with Ramsay (1944) (A more complete version of documents previously released in first VENONA release on 10 July 1995) (Release 6)
- Personal Description of new agent recruited by Rosenberg (Release One)
- KGB Officer, or ZARE, proposes to live in California (Release Three)
- Administrative Arrangements at KGB Office in NYC (Release Three)
- KGB Agent HOOK is with US Army Alaska meeting Soviet Airmen (Release Three)
- KGB agents FRED and MARTIN report on US Policy toward Austria (Release Three)
- Poorly recovered message about covernames OKH and ADA. (Release Four)
- Reissue- Cafeteria as cover for ABRAM: His partner APPEL (1944) (Release 6)
- Reissue- Cafeteria as cover for "ABRAM": His partner Appel (1944) (Release 6)
- KGB Crimefighters in NYC - A Murder? (Release Three)
- Work of KGB Agent Joseph "Jack" Katz (Release Three)
- KGB Agent Ivan Subasic, Yugoslavia, to fly to London (Release Three)
- KGB to expand opportunities to report on & influence Jewish org. using agent AIDA. (Release Three)
- KGB affiliate has TB (Release Three)
- KGB NY purchasing radio parts for Moscow Center (Release Three)
- KGB Officer SHAH's wife's passport (Release Three)
- KGB NY reports on a divorce in Soviet group in NY (Release Three)
- Money transfer. (Release Four)
- Proposed future of Agent REST (Release One)
- YeLESIN works as a Cipher Clerk (1944). (Release Five)
- KGB Officer Shevchenko still needs a camera (Release Three)
- KGB wants to meet AUGUR in Chicago (Release Three)
- KGB agent OLA in search of Soviet defector Kravchenko (Release Three)
- G. Silvermaster reports on diplomatic & military matters (Release Three)
- KGB Agent Lud Ullman reports on US Air Force (Release Three)
- NY KGB searches for a merchant seaman deserter (Release Three)
- Soviet Counsel General's Chat with Governor Dewey (Release Three)
- KOZINETs (1944). (Release Five)
- 2nd Reissue: Reply on whereabouts of "ACHIEVEMENT" case (1944) (Release Five)
- Reissue: Request for information on whereabouts of "ACHIEVEMENT" case (1944). (Release Five)
- A recall to Moscow (Release Three)
- KGB agent Kitty Harris is to be told to follow KGB orders without discussion. Moscow asks for information about her work. (Release Four)
- Discussion of Ciphers (Release Three)
- A report on the Trotskyites in Mexico (Release Three)
- Personnel Problems in NY KGB Office (Release Three)
- Pablo Neruda is being assessed for KGB recruitment. Mention of the King of Romania. (Release Four)
- Moscow approves immediate departure from Mexico of KGB agent Jacob Epstein. (Release Four)
- Saul Goldblatt and the MGM laboratory. (Release Four)
- Reissue: Further reply about "ACHIEVEMENT" ; Mention of "MIRA", "Sh...." (1944) (Release Five)
- KGB Agent MARGARITA may visit England (Release Three)
- KGB agent KLEMENS runs a Safe House (Release Three)
- Administrative Matters - NY KGB (Release Three)
- KGB agent & Eric Browder instruct Bently on new recruits. (Release Three)
- KGB General Zubilin is looking into a transit visa. (Release Four)
- The search for Soviet defector Kravchenko continues. (Release Three)
- KGB Agents in the Yugoslav government in exile. (Release Three)
- KGB Off. SERGEJ reports on talks with Walter Lippmann. (Release Three)
- KGB Agent in a Yugoslav Trade Union (Release Three)
- KGB Agent reports on Soviet - Polish matters (Release Three)
- KGB person reports on anti-Soviet personalities (Release Three)
- Governor Dewey's talk with Soviet Consul-General in NYC (Release Three)
- KGB Agent Samuel Krafsur reports on potential recruits. (Release Three)
- KGB Personnel Matters. (Release Three)
- Amendment to translations of 17 May 1944. (Release Three)
- A COMINTERN directive. Kitty Harris is forbidden to do something. (Release Four)
- A reference to Orlov. (Release Four)
- A Soviet clerk enroute to Vladivostok. (Release Four)
- Analysis of 1944 Election Campaign (Release Three)
- KGB NY recieves a letter from Mexico. (Release Three)
- Moscow needs more information before approving recruitment of Simone Terry. (Release Four)
- KGB Administrative Matters (Release Three)
- A KGB Agent to be sent to work in Chile (Release Three)
- Anti-Soviet Letters (Release Three)
- More KGB reporting about Soviet defector Kravchenko (Release Three)
- Amendment to Report of 19 May 1944 (Release Three)
- Payment to KGB agent MARS (Release Three)
- Covername TS-16 refuses to work with KGB. (Release Four)
- "ROMAN" (1944) (Release Five)
- KGB learns that Kravchenko is living in New England (Release Three)
- The Trotskyites in Mexico (Release Three)
- A Report about Trotsky's Widow (Release Three)
- KGB Agent GNOME reports about US Jet Aircraft R&D (Release Three)
- "VIKTOR" orders Bogota MGB to find out real reasons for retirement of LOPEZ (1944). (Release Five)
- KGB reports on two journalists (Release Three)
- Discussion of spycraft on the Rosenberg line (Release One)
- Discussion of a recruitment. Moscow needs more information. (Release Four)
- The KGB has received a favorable character report on Saul Goldblatt. (Release Four)
- An evening reception for foreigners. (Release Four)
- "KIRILL'S" child is ill (1944) (Release Five)
- Identity of "IDE" and recommendation of his friends Joseph Berger and _________ (Release 6)
- More on Kravchenko defection - Krivitsky case mentioned (Release Three)
- KGB reporting on President Roosevelt's declining health. (Release Three)
- "PEPE" signed on (1944). (Release Five)
- Reference to Soviet and American made films (Release Five)
- KGB Agent ARTHUR (Release Three)
- Mexico City KGB is told not to recruit Simone Terry - She is to be allowed to go to Algiers. (Release Four)
- Agent SEDAR hands over technical information to KGB. (Release Four)
- Handling of 2 KGB Agents (Release Three)
- KGB Agent reports on Italian Matters (Release Three)
- Various KGB Agents drawn from American Communist Party (Release Three)
- KGB Plans to place agent OSIPOV in US Government Position (Release Three)
- MAKAShEV left with his wife. (Release Five)
- Personnel Problems (Release Three)
- KGB Agent MUSE in the OSS (Release Three)
- KGB Sources report on Polish Matters (Release Three)
- Polish Personalities (Release 3)
- Discussion of three KGB agents. (Release Four)
- The Polish American Congress (Release Three)
- The KGB Chief in San Francisco to visit Portland. (Release Four)
- Information from SQ/LDR fleet about the German Air Force (1944) (Release Five)
- KGB NY Reports on new Agents from ACP working in US Govt. (Release Three)
- KGB personnel in Seattle, Philadelphia, Vancouver, & L.A. (Release Three)
- A report on a journalist and his wife (Release Three)
- KGB NY reports on price of technical materials (Release Three)
- The work of cipher clerks. (Release Four)
- Financial arrangements re: the movement into Mexico of KGB officers Nicholas and Maria Fisher. (Release Four)
- Work of the KGB Illegal MER (Release Three)
- Reissue: Payments to "NEIGHBOURS" on behalf of "PROKhOR" and "KIRILL" (1944) (Release Five)
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