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Taras

svetlana — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:55:45 +0000

A revolutionary nickname and Cheka-OGPU foreign intelligence (INO) operational pseudonym of Abram Ossipovich Einhorn (1899-1955), who was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent foreign intelligence operative and leader. ”Taras” was posted in the USA from 1930 to 1934.

Haron [Kharon]

svetlana — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:15:38 +0000

A cover name appearing in a number of NKGB World War II-period foreign intelligence cables until September 2, 1944. Identified by Venona translators as Grigorij Heifets, the Soviet Vice-Consul and NKGB resident in San Francisco.

James

svetlana — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:41:32 +0000

A cover name in Alexander Vassiliev notebooks that was identified as “former German consul Schwartz.” “Consul Schwartz” could only be Dr. Paul Schwarz – a prominent German civil servant and diplomat, who served as the German Consul General in New York from 1928 to early 1933, when he was ousted by the Nazis. He decided to remain in the United States, considering that there was no place for people like him in the Nazi Germany.

“James” was likely misidentified by Vassiliev’s American co-authors, historians John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr as Dr. Schwarz’ namesake, Thomas Schwartz, who appeared in Vassiliev’s notes as someone who “worked in the German office at the Worker’s center.”

Grin

svetlana — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:18:06 +0000

A cover name in Alexander Vassiliev notebooks that was identified as an American journalist, John Spivak.

Leonard

svetlana — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:28:52 +0000

A KGB cover name that appears in the notes on KGB foreign intelligence files from the late 1940s and early 1950s taken in the early 1990s by Alexander Vassiliev, a former KGB officer and journalist, during his research for a Russian-American collaborative book project. This cover name is identified in Vassiliev’s notes as standing for Alger Hiss. It looks like a ” communication pseudonym” assigned for the purpose of operational correspondence about investigations of espionage charges in the United States.

Lun’ [Lun]

svetlana — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:35:14 +0000

In Venona decryptions, a cover name for Edward Stettinius, the U.S. Secretary of State in 1944 and 1945.

Gomer [Homer]

svetlana — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:03:18 +0000

An NKGB foreign intelligence cover name appearing in a number of Soviet intelligence World War II period cables from 1944, which were partially decrypted in the course of the American Venona operation, and released in 1995-1996. At the time of this release, “Gomer” was identified by Venona translators as Donald Duart Maclean, a British diplomat and a long-time Soviet agent, a member of the famous “Cambridge Five” group of agents. From 1944 to 1948 Maclean served in Washington, D.C. as Secretary at the British Embassy and later as Secretary of the Combined Policy Committee on Atomic Development.

Informator [Informer]

svetlana — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:45:45 +0000

An NKGB foreign intelligence cover name appearing in the notes on KGB foreign intelligence files taken in the mid-1990s by the former KGB officer and journalist Alexander Vassiliev. Identified as Bruce Minton, which was a CPUSA penname of a writer Richard Bransten – the heir of coffee magnate M.J. Brandenstein, who was writing under the name of Bruce Minton for the leftist New Masses magazine until he was ousted from the Communist Party in 1946. In Russian, the word “informator” has two meanings: 1) an individual who informs on something, passes some information – translated into English as “informer”, “communicant”, “relator”, etc. depending on the context; 2) police secret information source [osvedomitel’] – translated into English as Confidential Informant. In case of Richard Bransten, the translation “Informer” looks more proper.

Strana

svetlana — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:30:22 +0000

The cover name for the United States of America that appears in Soviet NKGB foreign intelligence cables from the World War II period that were partially decrypted in the course of the Venona operation.

Igor

svetlana — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:11:21 +0000

An NKGB-MGB foreign intelligence cover name of Konstantin [Constantine] Mikhailovich Kukin, who was posted in the United States as a “legal” operative from 1937 to 1940 and served as a “legal” resident in London from 1943 to 1947.