The VENONA Documents, September 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 September 1943.
Quick Index:
- Unidentified covername JOHNNY provides reports and diagrams. (Release Four)
- UCN/9 visits England and meets with ZVUK (Release Two)
- ZVUK reports FBI's investigation of PEL (Release Two)
- Subject of this message unknown. (Release Four)
- GRU Source No. 12 (unidentified) provides State Department information. (Release Four)
- Movement of U.S. cruiser and destroyers. (Release Four)
- Reference to a manual. (Release Four)
- Mostly unrecovered. Meeting with OFFICER (Release Two)
- Moscow requests information about aircraft engines. (Release Four)
- Courier shipment of secret and top secret packages. (Release Four)
- Relations with U.S. naval officers. (Release Four)
- The unidentified FARLEY and agent Joseph M. Bernstein. (Release Four)
- Reference to ration cards and to another Soviet intelligence service. (Release Four)
- Formation of Soviet convoys to cross Atlantic. (Release Four)
- LANDAU instructed by the British to meet TYULEN in Mexico (Release Two)
- Unidentified covername CLARKE and GRU agent Leonard Mins. Other agents mentioned. The illegal MOK. Milton Schwartz needs to borrow $1200 from GRU. (Release Four)
- Moscow comments on tank testing. (Release Four)
- Moscow discusses technology issues. (Release Four)
- New regulations governing salaries and family allowances for RIS workders (1943) (Release Five)
- Pretty much incomprehensible (Release Two)
- IZBA suggests that KHAZAR go to Yugoslavia illegally (Release Two)
- Movement of U.S. cruiser, aircraft carrier, destroyers. (Release Four)
- A report from covername ELLIS. (Release Four)
- Interoffice memo regarding contact with intelligence assets (Release Two)
- Instructions of contacts with felow countrymen following the dissolutions of the "Big House" (1943) (Release Five)
- Magazine article catches LUKA's attention (Release Two)
- Director of GRU to get special goods. (Release Four)
- Thomas Babin reports on shipping. (Release Four)
- A report from covername ELLIS. The information passed along to GRU. (Release Four)
- Soviet convoys. (Release Four)
- Money sent to family members in Soviet Union. (Release Four)
- Unidentified GRU personality FARLEY. (Release Four)
- Navigational matters. (Release Four)
- 1. Report on Smirnov, Smirnova and Kranidova 2. "AMMARILIS" (1943) (Release Five)
- Security: Detailed reminder to RIS residents and operational workers (1943) (Release Five)
- Mention of Allied military operations. (Release Four)
- Some problems with a ship. (Release Four)
- Soviet convoys. (Release Four)
- Soviet ships leave Miami. (Release Four)
- A navigational item. (Release Four)
- Discussion of U.S.- Iran relations. An anti-American movement in Iran. (Release Four)
- British bombing raids in Europe. (Release Four)
- Soviet convoys en route to Iceland. (Release Four)
- A report on location of German ships. (Release Four)
- Movement of U.S. merchant ships. (Release Four)
- A Soviet ice-breaker. (Release Four)
- Request for covernames. (Release Four)
- Covername PAUL. Problems with petroleum production. (Release Four)
- Administrative message. (Release Four)
- Personnel matters. (Release Four)
- Mention of Commander York. (Release Four)
- Courier packages. (Release Four)
- The convoy service. (Release Four)
- Five GRU sources are named. Milton Schwartz needs a loan to pay off debts. KGB (or perhaps Naval GRU) has mentioned a person from State Department named Hiss, (Release Four)
- Commandant of U.S. Marine Corp "infuriated" about a visa issue. (Release Four)
- Shipment of guns and ammunition. (Release Four)
- Mention of Admiral Monroe. (Release Four)
- Changes in U.S. Naval Intelligence personnel due to faulty intelligence reporting about Aleutians. (Release Four)
- Convoy business. (Release Four)
- Information about new types of German torpedoes and bombs. (Release Four)
- Commander Erdman is mentioned again. (Release Four)
- Mostly unrecovered. U.S. War Department mentioned (Release Two)
- Administrative matters. (Release Four)
- A report from covername PATON (a Naval GRU officer). (Release Four)
- "ALEKSANDR" to be warned not to use ANNA COLLOMS' address. (Release Five)
- Biography of Bradford Shepard ("MASTER") (Release Two)
- A UK-US aircraft carrier. (Release Four)
- U.S. convoys. (Release Four)
- Lend-Lease shipments. (Release Four)
- Extract of court decision in the SORGE case with mention of OZAKI, KLAUSEN and VUKELICH. (Release Five)
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