Index and Concordance to Alexander Vassiliev’s Notebooks and Soviet Cables Deciphered by the National Security Agency’s Venona Project
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40, 104. “Lev” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Lion”. Levanes, Leo: Soviet intelligence source/agent. Engineer with the Shell Oil Company at Dominiquez, CA. Cover name in Venona: AL'MA. As Levanes: Venona San Francisco KGB, 43; Venona
“Lever” [Rychag] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Benjamin Smilg. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 10, 17, 27, 31–32, 99–102, 104; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 106, 111; Vassiliev Yellow
Leverett, Miles: Engineer involved in designing early atomic reactors as part of the Manhattan atomic project. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 11.
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LEVI (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent. Provided information of the U.S. Justice Department. Venona Washington KGB, 40; Venona Special Studies, 124–25. “Levin” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent, 1950–1951.
LEVIN (cover name in Venona): Nikolaj Alekseevich Piterskij. Venona New York KGB 1943, 48–49; Venona New York KGB 1944, 629; Venona Special Studies, 40. Levin, Isaac Don: Misspelling of the surname of Isaac Don Levine. Venona New York KGB 1944, 150–51, 402–3, NY44; Venona Special Studies, 167–68. Levine, Benjamin: Described as providing information on Walter Krivitsky via an Amtorg lawyer in 1940. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 164. Levine, Isaac Don: Anti-Communist journalist. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 158; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 32, 54; Misspelled as Levin: Venona New York KGB 1944, 150–51, 402–3, NY44; Venona Special Studies, 167–68. Levine, Peter: Victim of a 1938 kidnapping-murder. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 116. Levinson, L: Addressee of a mail drop. Venona New York KGB 1943, 211. Levis, ?: Associate of John Scott. Venona New York KGB 1945, 86–87. Levitskij, Andrej Mikhailovich: Ukrainian activist in Canada. Venona New York KGB 1943, 141–42. Levy, ?: Described as someone having the rights to stage the opera “War and Peace” in the U.S. and who used the pseudonym “Leeds”. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 103. Levy, Edward: Senior Justice Department official, advisor on anti-trust activities, 1945. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 99. Lewis, Brackett: OWI official. Venona New York KGB 1944, 108. Lewis, James H.: U.S. Senator, 1931–1939 (D. IL). Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 8–9. Lewis, John L.: President of the United Mine Workers and the Congress of Industrial Organizations in the 1930s. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 150; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 10. Lewitt, Morris: Senior figure in the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party. Venona New York KGB 1944, 103, 105, 143–44, 163–64, 197–98, 619, 628. “Leytenant” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Lieutenant”. Lezin, Ben Bernardovich: Russan born chief electrician at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Venona USA
L'GOV (cover name in Venona): ? Malygin. Venona San Francisco KGB, 109; Venona Special Studies, 105 Spec. LI [Lee] (cover name in Venona): Likely Johanna Beker. Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 32; Venona New York KGB 1944, 462; Venona Special Studies, 36, 41, 174. “Li” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Lee”. Libau, Morris: Described as a laborer from eastern Germany. Venona New York KGB 1944, 46, 297. Libby, Willard Frank: Physical chemist in the Manhattan Project at Columbia University, working on gaseous diffusion separation and enrichment of the Uranium-235. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 119.
“Liberal” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Frank Palmer, mid-1930s to 1942. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 6, 10, 18, 21, 23, 34, 44, 78, 173. “Liberal” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Julius Rosenberg (September 1944–1950). Vassiliev Black Notebook, 113–14, 119–20, 122, 124–36, 158; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 55, 108, 116, 118, 120–22; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 16–18, 29, 34, 39–46, 54. LIBERAL (cover name in Venona): Julius Rosenberg. Venona New York KGB 1944, 462, 490, 498–99, 512–13, 594, 643, 647, 675, 702, 714–16, 729, 739–40, 740; Venona New York KGB 1945, 24–25, 83, 146–47; 6, 41, 133, 137–38, 141–45, 153–54, 174. LIBERAL’s wife: (cover name in Venona): Ethel Rosenberg. Venona New York KGB 1944, 675; Venona Special Studies, 136. Liberated Areas Committee (LAC): US. Department of State committee. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 50.
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Liberty Magazine: Venona New York KGB 1943, 21–22. As Liberated Areas Commission: Venona New York KGB 1944, 690. Library of Congress: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 7; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 27; Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 6. Libya: Venona New York KGB 1943, 241. Lichtensztul, Joseph: Polish or Polish-American figure. Venona New York KGB 1943, 357–58; Venona
Lichtenvalner, Laird: Birth name of Stephen Laird. Venona New York KGB 1944, 225, 388, 413, 432; Venona San Francisco KGB, 270. “Lid” [Kryshka] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Soviet intelligence source/agent. Likely George Samuel Wuchinich. “Lid” is described as linked to Perlo’s group, of Serbian origin and working in OSS’s Balkan department. Wuchinich was of Serbian background and served with OSS on Balkan operations. Wuchinich is identified in Alexander Vassiliev’s notebooks as linked to the Perlo group. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 11. L.I.D: League for Industrial Democracy. Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 12. “Lida” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent. References to in 1937. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 27. “Lida” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Mrs. Byron T. Darling in 1944. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 117. LIDER [LEADER] (cover name in Venona): Venona analysts were initially unsure whether this cipher group decoded as LIDER [LEADER] or GEORGES [ZHORZH]. However, in other deciphered messages it became clear that it was GEORGES [ZHORZH], the cover name of Paul Nahin. Venona New York KGB 1944, 542. LIDIA (cover name in Secret Writings): Lydia Altschuler. Venona Secret Writings New York/Buenos Aires, 12. “Lidin” (Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent, New York, 1957. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 104. LIDIYA [LYDIA] (cover name in Venona): Possibly Lydia Altschuler. Venona Mexico City KGB, 248–49. Lieber, Maxim: Soviet intelligence agent. Immigrant from Poland, naturalized U.S. citizen. Lieber, a literary agent, was a secret Communist and undertook a variety of tasks for the CPUSA underground and Soviet intelligence in the 1930s, including assisting Whittaker Chambers’ GRU-linked apparatus. Cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Paul” and “Pol”. As “Paul”:
Liebling, Estelle: Described as voice teacher. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 62. “Lieutenant” [Leytenant] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Secretary of the Treasury Frederick Vinson. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 29, 69, 73–74. “Lieutenant’s” institution: U.S. Treasury Department. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 69, 73.
LIGA [LEAGUE] (cover name in Venona): Government of the United States. Venona New York KGB 1943, 5, 72; Venona New York KGB 1944, 53, 55, 58, 95, 216, 356, 368, 469, 498, 603, 679–80, 683, 686. “Liga” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “League”. “Light” [Svet] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Aleksandr Andreevich Raev. Unidentified in Vassiliev’s notebooks but identified in Venona as Raev. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 119, 124, 132–33, 135–36; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 109, 118. LIGHT [SVET] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Aleksandr Andreevich Raev. Venona New York
Likus, ?: Sone in the German foreign ministry. Venona Washington KGB, 33.
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LILY [LILYA] (cover name in Venona): Soviet intelligence source/agent. Likely Eugenie Olkhine. Venona New York KGB 1944, 494, 569, 640; Venona New York KGB 1945, 17–18, 100–101; Venona Special Studies, 41. Lima, Gueiros: South American Communist. Venona New York KGB 1943, 274–75. Lima, Ohio, tank depot: Venona USA GRU, 142. LIMAN [ESTUARY] (cover name in Venona): Misidentification of the Russian rendering for Herbert Lehman’s surname as a cover name. Venona Special Studies, 41. LINA (cover name in Venona): Zoya Semenovna Myakotina. Venona New York KGB 1943, 57–58, 112–13; Venona New York KGB 1944, 30, 308–9, 335–36, 390–91, 404–5, 417, 443, 552–53, 731–32; Venona Special Studies, 42. “Linchpin”: See “Lever”. Lincoln Battalion: See Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Lincolnians: American veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion and other Americans who served the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 19. Lindbergh, Charles: Well know American aviator/hero and spokesman for anti-interventionism.
Lindley, Ernest: Journalist, correspondent for the Washington Post. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 49; Venona New York KGB 1944, 215, 217; Venona USA GRU, 96; Venona USA Diplomatic, 64. Lindorf, ?: Name in the Whalen documents, 1930. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 75. Lindsay, John: Mayor of New York City, 1966–1973. Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 154. Lindsey, ?: Unidentified. Venona San Francisco KGB, 88. Line A: Work on KGB ‘line A’ involved disinformation and deceptive “active measures” operations. “Link” [Zveno] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Described as an OSS connected clandestine group in Bulgaria. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 106–7, 110. “Link” [Zveno] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Likely William Weisband. “Link” was described as having worked for KGB on the West Coast and as liaison with aviation technology source “Needle”/Jones York. In 1950 York identified Weisband as a Soviet liaison in contact with him in California in the early 1940s. “Link” was described as serving North Africa, Italy, Britain, and France after entering American Army. Weisband’s work as a translator for the Army Signal Corps took him to North Africa, Italy, Britain, and France. LINK [ZVENO] appeared in the Venona decryptions as unidentified but in a context also suggesting William Weisband. LINK, for example, is described as having attended an Army language school to study Italian. Weisband attended an Army language school to study Italian. 89 Vassiliev Black Notebook, 17, 27, 101, 103, 107, 133; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 16, 113, 120, 136. LINK [ZVENO] (cover name in Venona): Likely William Weisband. See “Link” [Zveno] Vassiliev’s notebooks’ entry. Venona New York KGB 1943, 177; Venona New York KGB 1944, 458;
Lins: Unidentified. Part of a partially broken passage. Unclear is a real name or cover name. Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 32. Linschitz, Henry: Target of recruitment. Physical chemist who worked at the Manhattan atomic project Los Alamos. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Derby”. As Linschitz: Vassiliev Yellow
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89. Jones York statement of 6 October 1953 in William Wolf Weisband background memo, 27 November 1953, in Office of Security, National Security Agency, reproduced in Benson and Warner, Venona, 167–69. See also Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner, “Who Was William Weisband?” in Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response 1939–1957, Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner (Washington, D.C.: National Security Agency; Central Intelligence Agency, 1996), xxviii.
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LINZA [LENS] (cover name in Venona): Michael Sidorovich. Venona New York KGB 1944, 594, 621, 647, 739–40; Venona New York KGB 1945, 88, 95; Venona Special Studies, 42. “Linza” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Lens”. “Lion” [Lev] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Holland Roberts in March and September 1944. Note overlap of this cover name with Floyd Miller who became “Lion” in August 1944.
“Lion” [Lev] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Floyd C. Miller. Miller, who earlier had the cover name “Hell”, was shifted to “Lion” in August 1944. Note overlap with “Lion”/Roberts.
LION [LYONS and LEON] (cover name in Venona): Sergej Kudryavtsev. Venona USA GRU, 46–47, 172; Venona Ottawa GRU, 5. LIPETSK (cover name in Venona): Unidentified American city. Venona USA GRU, 24, 46–47. Lipkina: Family name of Charles Kramer’s mother. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 88. Lippman, Walter: Misspelling of the surname of Walter Lippmann. Venona New York KGB 1944, 479 NY44. Lippmann, Walter: Prominent journalist and commentator. Cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Imperialist”, 1941–1944, and “Bumblebee”, late 1944 and 1945. Cover names in Venona: IMPERIALIST, BUMBLEBEE [SHMEL'], and KATZ [KATS]. As Lippmann: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 46, 79, 176; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 22, 28, 30, 59; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 118, 121, 125, 132, 134; Venona New York KGB 1943, 98; Venona New York KGB 1944, 118, 168, 217, 477, 479, 487, 602, 611; Venona New York KGB 1945, 185; Venona Special Studies, 31, 35, 79. As “Imperialist”: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 50, 52, 59–60; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 2. As IMPERIALIST: Venona New York KGB 1943, 98; Venona New York KGB 1944, 117–18, 167–68, 215–17, 303, 610–11; Venona Special Studies, 31, 35, 79. As KATZ [KATS]: Venona New York KGB 1944, 610–11, 636–637; Venona Special Studies, 31, 35, 79. As “Bumblebee”: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 56. As BUMBLEBEE [SHMEL']:
Lipski, Joseph: Polish diplomat. Venona New York KGB 1943, 357. LIRA [LYRE] (cover name in Venona): Anna Louise Strong. Venona San Francisco KGB, 64, 101, 107;
Lischinsky, Solomon: Soviet intelligence source. Born in 1908 in Canada, doctorate from the University of Toronto in mathematics. Worked as a statistician and economist for the U.S. State Department, the House Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration (Tolan Committee) and for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks “Sol” (appears to have been originally a Party name) and “Rock”. As Lischinsky: Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 9, 19 (spelled Leshinsky); Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 60, 83. As “Sol”: Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 9, 19; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 51, 83. As “Rock”: Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 9. Lisitsyn: Possibly the pen name of S. A. Vasilyev. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 83. Lisovoj, ?: Described as a former Denikinist. Venona New York KGB 1944, 96. “List” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Liszt”. (In Russian “List” is translated “Leaf” in the sense of the leaf or page of a book. However, Alexander Vassiliev, along with others, maintain “List” as a cover name was phonetic Russian Cyrillic for the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt. 90 . ———————————
90. West and Tsarev, Crown Jewels, 145; Vladimir Chikov, Stalin’s Atomic Spies: KGB File N. 13676 [Unpublished American Edition of Comment Staline a Volé la Bombe Atomique Aux Américains: Dossier KGB no 13676], trans and afterword by Gary Kern (1995).
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“Liszt” [List] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): John Cairncross in the U.K., 1941. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 1, 6, 29. “Liszt” [List] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence contact, 1948, cultivated by Julius Rosenberg. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 74, 131. Litauer, Stefan: Polish diplomat. Venona USA Diplomatic, 56–57. “Literator” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Writer”. Lithuania and Lithuanians: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 17, 67, 169; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 61, 132, 135, 151; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 47, 88; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 7; Venona New
“Litke”: Soviet ship. Venona San Francisco KGB, 119, 201. Litovkina, Bronislava: Relative of Boris Morros. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 15, 23. Litvinenko, Mikhail: Soviet ship crewman. Venona San Francisco KGB, 209. Litvinoff, Maxim: Common English rendering of the name of Maxim Litvinov. Vassiliev Yellow
Litvinov, Maxim: Senior Soviet diplomat. Soviet Ambassador from December 1941 to August 1943. Cover name in Venona: GRANDFATHER [DED]. As Litvinov: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 1, 178–79; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 98; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 1, 3, 11, 33, 34 (spelled as Litvinoff), 54–57, 59–60, 68, 70, 125; Venona New York KGB 1943, 154, 269; Venona USA
Liveit-Levit, ?: KGB officer at the New York Station in the 1930s, later purged. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Ten”. As Liveit-Levit: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 139. As “Ten”:
Livell, John: Described as attaché for oil at the US embassy, Cairo. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 137. “Liza” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Martha Dodd (Martha Dodd Stern). Vassiliev Black
174–75, 179, 182; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 23, 27, 33–34, 37–38, 43, 76, 134, 142l Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 46–50, 53–55, 58–63, 65, 67, 69, 71–74, 78–80; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 124; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 21–22. LIZA (cover name in Venona): Marfa Pavlovna Samojlova. Venona San Francisco KGB, 127; Venona
LIZA (cover name in Venona): Martha Dodd (Martha Dodd Stern). Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 52–53; Venona Special Studies, 41. Liza...evna, ?: Soviet intelligence source/agent. Described as a secretary associated with Vladimir Pozner, then an official in the U.S. War Department. Venona New York KGB 1943, 260–61. Llewellyn, ?: Described as a British official with the British mission to the Manhattan atomic project. Spelling garbled as Hewellyn. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 69. “Lloyd” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent linked to Silvermaster, 1946. Likely an error of Ludwig Ullmann, once referred to as Lloyd Ullmann (Vassiliev Black Notebook, 189) in Alexander Vassiliev’s notebooks. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 42. LN: League of Nations. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 59–60. “Loach” [V'yun] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent, 1938. (Loach is type of fish found in Europe, Asia, and North Africa.) Vassiliev Black Download 5.57 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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