Index and Concordance to Alexander Vassiliev’s Notebooks and Soviet Cables Deciphered by the National Security Agency’s Venona Project
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White Notebook #1, 59; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 18. Poretsky, Nathan: Senior KGB officer, defected in Western Europe in 1937 and murdered by KGB operatives on 4 September 1937 in Switzerland. Also known as Ignace Reiss. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Raymond”. As Poretsky: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 58. As “Raymond”: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 58–59, 61; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 10–11, 17– 19, 24, 33. Porfir, Walter: Described as the pseudonym used by Walter Krivitsky in 1940. Porfiryev was the family name of Krivitsky’s wife. Krivitsky’s chief biographer, Gary Kern, states that Krivitsky used the pseudonym Walter Poref in the U.S. in 1940. 117
Vassiliev Black Notebook, 164. “Portable Radio Set” (Ratsiya): See “Radio Station”. “Portable Radio Transmitter” (Ratsiya): See “Radio Station”. “Portable Two-Way Radio” (Ratsiya): See “Radio Station”.
——————————— 116. Elisabeth K. Poretsky, Our Own People: A Memoir of ‘Ignace Reiss’ and His Friends (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1970). 117. Kern, Death in Washington, 300.
Porter, Paul: OPA administrator. Venona New York KGB 1943, 246. Portland, Oregon: Location of SGPC offices on the West Coast and other Soviet offices dealing with Soviet shipping traffic to the West Coast in WWII. Venona New York KGB 1943, 257; Venona
129, 134–35, 147, 163, 168, 174–75, 179–80, 186–87, 191, 198, 200, 202, 210, 213, 216, 219– 20, 243, 246, 254, 256, 271, 274, 278, 294–97, 299, 306; 5–6, 125, 135, 149, 151, 180, 182, 196– 97, 226, 234, 265, 272, 304; Venona USA Trade, 16–17, 27, 29–30; Venona USA Diplomatic, 73. Portnoff, Alexander: Russian sculptor who lives in Philadelphia. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Ali”. As Portnoff: Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 28, 33, 41–42. As “Ali”: Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 41. Portugal and the Portuguese: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 168; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 38; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 147; Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 39, 55; Venona New York KGB 1943, 21, 125, 239; Venona New York KGB 1944, 267, 388, 428–29, 685; Venona New York KGB 1945, 170; Venona Washington KGB, 38; Venona USA GRU, 35; Venona Secret Writings New York/Buenos Aires, 2–3. Porubov, Roman Sergeevich: Soviet ship internal security source and deserter. Cover name in Venona: ZUEV. As Porubov: Venona San Francisco KGB, 217, 230–31; Venona Special Studies, 102. As ZUEV: Venona San Francisco KGB, 217–18; Venona Special Studies, 102. PORYADCHIK: Appears to be a misspelling or misstyping of PODRYADCHIK. See PODRYACCHIK.
“Posrednik” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Intermediary”. Post, ?; Member of the law firm of Corwin, Cohen and Post. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 86. Post, Richard: State Department offcial. Described as a contact of Harold Glasser in 1945. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 60. Postman [Pochtar'] and Postmen [Pochtari] (cover names in Venona): Appears to be a reference to couriers. Venona San Francisco KGB, 190. Postoev, ?: Unidentified. Venona USA Diplomatic, 63. Poteshkin, ?: Soviet ambassador in Rome, 1930. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 139. Potrubach, ?: Name in the Whalen documents, 1930. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 75. Potsdam Conference: Meeting of the leaders of the USA, USSR, and U.K. in Potsdam, Germany, July- August 1945. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 45, 94–96; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 37; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 79; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 123, 126. Potsrnich, Pave: Venona analysts thought this a reference to ? Pocrnić, secretary to Ivan Subasić . Venona New York KGB 1944, 56. POV: Abbreviation for “point of view” in Alexander Vassiliev’s notebooks. Povalishin, Anatolij Nikolayevich: Chief cipher clerk of the Portland office of the SGPC. Venona USA
Poverman, ?: Name in the Whalen documents, 1930. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 75. Poyntz, Juliet Stuart: Founding member of the CPUSA, directed its women's department and the New York Workers School in the 1920s, and on the staff of the Friends of the Soviet Union and International Labor Defense. In 1934 she dropped out of open party activities and into Soviet intelligence work. She disappeared from her New York City residence in 1937 and a police investigation turned up no clues to her fate. Associates believed that she had been considering
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defection and had been murdered. 118
Married name Juliet Glazer. As Poyntz and Glazer: Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 13–14. Pozner, Elena: Sister of Vladimir Pozner. See Ellen Kagan. Venona New York KGB 1943, 261. Pozner, Vladimir: Soviet intelligence source/agent. Cover name in Venona: PLATO [PLATON]. Russian born, his family fled the Bolshevik seizure of power. Pozner grew up in Germany and France and by 1938 had become the chief sound engineer of the European branch of MGM. He also became a Communist sympathizer. He served in the French Army in 1939–1940, then fled France after its surrender. He came to the United States and applied for citizenship. In 1943 he headed the Russian Section of the film department of the U.S. War Department. After World War II he left the United States and became active in the film industry in Communist East Germany and the USSR. As Pozner: Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 106–07; Venona New York KGB 1943, 259, 261, 271, 273, 356; Venona Special Studies, 57, 72. As PLATO [PLATON]: Venona New York KGB 1943, 259–61, 271, 273, 355–56; Venona Special Studies, 57. Pozner-Spiri, Viktoriya (Toto): A reference to Victoria Mercanton-Spiri, a sister of Vladimir Pozner. Venona New York KGB 1943, 271, 173; Venona Special Studies, 72. PP: Unknown Soviet entity. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 135. PPS and P.P.S.: POLSKA PARTIA SOCIALISTYCZNA – Polish Socialist Party. Venona New York
Pragier, Adam: Polish Socialist and member of the Polish National Council in London in 1942. Venona New York KGB 1943, 88–89. Prague, Czechoslovakia: Venona New York KGB 1943, 79, 228, 234; Venona New York KGB 1944, 108– 9, 514. PRAJS [PRICE] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent. Venona USA GRU, 165. Prake, C.B.P.: See C.B.P. Prakr. Prakr, C.B.P.: British official at SHAEF in 1944. Surname is difficult to read. (May be Prake, Frake, or Frake.) Venona New York KGB 1944, 718. Praštaio, Branco: A Yugoslav associated with Project Kay. Venona New York KGB 1943, 80. Prater, J. E.: Described as a FBI agent, 1942. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 156. Prato, Carlo A. (or E.): Described as OSS staff. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 110; Venona New York
Pratt, ?: American military officer associated with the Venona project. Venona Special Studies, 156. Pratt and Whitney Company: Maker of aircraft engines. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 5; Venona New York
Pratt, Gertrude, and Elliot Pratt: Gertrude Pratt is described as a Soviet sympathizer friendly with Eleanor Roosevelt. Venona New York KGB 1943, 46.
“Pravda”: Soviet ship. 26, 57, 82. Pravdin, Vladimir Sergeevich: Soviet intelligence officer operating under TASS cover from 1941 to 1946 in the U.S. Assisted in the assassination of Nathan Poretsky/Reiss. Birth name Roland Abbiate. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Sergey”. Cover name in Venona: SERGEJ, SERGEI, and
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——————————— 118. Bentley, “Deposition 1945,” 3–4; Dorothy Gallagher, All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988), 170–76; Bentley and Peake, Out of Bondage, 108, 176–77; Chambers, Witness, 36; The FBI conducted an extensive and fruitless investigation into Poyntz's disappearance: FBI Poyntz file 100-206603.
SERGEY [SERGIUS]. As Pravdin: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 79; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 116; Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 66; Venona New York KGB 1943, 26, 242, 269, 303, 305; Venona New York KGB 1944, 28, 52, 79, 112, 115–16, 118, 127, 146, 217, 244, 257, 302–3, 309, 326, 329, 355, 386, 443, 461, 477, 488, 501, 505, 559, 562, 565, 571, 599, 602–3, 609, 619, 684, 713, 719, 749, 753; Venona New York KGB 1945, 13, 18, 23, 36, 42, 94, 109, 120, 124, 149–50, 166, 169–71, 175, 178, 186, 195, 197, 200–201, 203, 210; Venona San Francisco KGB, 213–14, 228, 247, 272; Venona Special Studies, 65, 113, 116, 160. As “Sergey”: Vassiliev Black
69, 71–74, 77–79; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 1, 26, 30–31, 38–40, 58; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 20, 27, 29, 33, 36–38, 41–42; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 6, 24; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 80, 84–85; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 20; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 116. As SERGEJ, SERGEI, SERGEY and SERGIUS: Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 66; Venona New York KGB 1943, 26, 28 (sole appearance as SERGEI), 240–42, 268–69, 302–5; Venona New York KGB 1944, 44, 52, 79, 111–12, 114–18, 127, 146, 215, 217, 244, 256–57, 301–3, 308–9, 324–26, 328–29, 354–55, 385–86, 430, 443, 461, 476–77, 488, 500–501, 504–5, 558–59, 561–65, 570–71, 599, 601–3, 608–9, 619, 681, 684, 712–13, 719, 748–49, 752–53;
(mistyped as SEREJ), 149–50, 166, 169–72, 174–75, 177–78, 185–86, 194–97, 200–201, 203, 209–10; Venona San Francisco KGB, 227–28, 247; Venona Special Studies, 65–66, 91, 160, 167 (sole appearance as SERGEY). Pravdina, Olga Borisovna: Wife of KGB officer Vladimir Sergeevich Pravdin. Also known as Olga Pravdin. Cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Lucy” and “Shura”. Cover name in Venona: SERGEJ's wife. As Pravdina: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 79; Venona New York KGB 1944, 309. As “Lucy”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 79. As “Shura”: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 44; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 1. As SERGEJ's wife: Venona New York KGB 1944, 308–9. Pravdyuk, Vasilij Vasilievich: Soviet intelligence officer/agent. Secretary to the Soviet Naval Attaché in Washington after May 1943. Cover name in Venona: TWIST. As Pravdyuk: Venona USA Naval
“Prepodavatelnitsa” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Female Teacher”. “Preserve” [Zapovednik] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Los Alamos Manhattan atomic project facility in February 1945. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 115, 123–25, 133, 136–37; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 116; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 18, 25–26, 40, 44–45, 72, 74–75. PRESERVE [ZAPOVEDNIK]: Los Alamos Manhattan atomic project facility. Venona New York KGB 1945, 72–73. “President” [Prezident] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): William Dodd, Jr., 1939–1948. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 24, 46, 53, 86, 154, 158, 160, 163, 170, 172–75, 179; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 23, 27, 33, 44, 51, 76, 125; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 58, 77, 98. PRESS (cover name in Venona): Unidentified, likely not a Soviet. Venona New York KGB 1943, 75. PRESS (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent. (A mechanical press.)
Pressman, Lee: Soviet intelligence contact/agent. Government attorney in the mid-1930s, then chief legal advisor to the CIO. 119
Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Vig”. As Pressman:
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——————————— 119. Identified by Chambers as a member of the original “Ware group” covert CPUSA unit. Gilbert J. Gall, Pursuing Justice: Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the CIO (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999); Earl Latham, The Communist Controversy in Washington: From the New Deal to McCarthy. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966), 107–9; Joseph P. Lash, Dealers and Dreamers: A New Look at the New Deal (New York: Doubleday, Vassiliev Black Notebook, 77; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 60, 90, 96, 99, 101; Venona Washington KGB, 60–61. As “Vig”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 77, 80, 96–97; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 65, 84. Prestes, Luís Carlos: Brazilian Communist leader. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 3; Venona New York KGB 1943, 274–75. Presto K-8 Sound RecorderL Venona New York KGB 1944, 49–50, 754. “Prezident” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “President”. Price Administration, Office of: See Office of Price Administration. Price Board: Reference to the Office of Price Administration. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 89. Price, Mary Wolfe: Soviet intelligence source/agent. 120 Cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Kid” (early 1941), then “Dir” (late 1941 to August 1944), “Cat” (August 1944), and “Zone” (starting in September 1944). Cover names in Venona: DIR, CAT, and ZONE [ZONA]. As Price: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 79; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 33; Venona New York KGB 1943, 98; Venona New York KGB 1944, 33, 174, 345; Venona Special Studies, 8, 24. As “Kid”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 174–76; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 20. As “Dir”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 46, 79, 174–76, 189; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 28, 30, 36, 38, 48–50, 52–53, 55; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 2–3, 5, 8–9, 18, 33; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 71, 102–6, 108. As DIR: Venona New York KGB 1943, 98; Venona New York KGB 1944,344–45; Venona Special Studies, 24. As “Cat”: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 55. As CAT (only partially deciphered as ...T): Venona New York KGB 1944, 462–63. As “Zone”: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 55. As ZONE [ZONA]:Venona New York KGB 1944, 500; Venona Special Studies, 29. Price, Mildred: Soviet intelligence source/agent. Secret Communist and sister of Mary Price. 121
Married name: Mildred Coy. Cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Cio” (1944) and “Dorothy” (1944). As Price: Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 9, 33; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 105. As Coy: Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 9. As “Cio”: Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 9, 33;
PRICE [PRAJS ] (cover name in Venona):Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent. Venona USA GRU, 112, 165–66. Price, W. Z.: FBI agent, 1941–42. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 156. Price, Wright Moore: Brother of Mary Wolfe Price. Venona New York KGB 1943, 98. Prieto, Luis Beltram: Likely a reference to the Venezuelan political figure Luis Beltran Prieto. Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 51. Prigarin, Alexis V.: Chairman of Amtrog, 1926. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 83–84. Prince, Frank: Investigator employed by the Jewish Anti-Defamation League to research and expose anti- Semitic, Nazi, and Fascist organizations. Also worked for the U.S. House’s McCormack- Dickstein Committee (Special Committee on Un-American Activities). Vassiliev Black
“Prince” [Knyaz'] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Laurence Duggan, after September 1944. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 72, 78, 88; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 55; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 1, 34, 36.
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——————————— 1988), 218, 326, 434–37. 120. Identified by Elizabeth Bentley as one of her singleton espionage sources. Bentley, “Deposition 1945,” 15–17, 33–35, 39, 43–44, 53–54, 71, 74, 77, 80, 91, 94–95. 121. Identified by Elizabeth Bentley as a talent spotter and source for the Golos/Bentley apparatus. Bentley, “Deposition 1945,” 34, 43–44, 80. PRINCE [KNYAZ'] (cover name in Venona): Laurence Duggan. Venona New York KGB 1944, 463, 649, 668; Venona Special Studies, 36. Pritomanov, Leonid G.: Soviet intelligence officer. Cover name in Venona: PHOTON [FOTON]. (In Alexander Vassiliev’s notebooks, “Photon” is identified as the cover name of KGB officer Ivan Kamenev. Likely Pritonamov was Kamenev’s diplomatic pseudonym.). As Pritomanov: Venona
PHOTON [FOTON]: Venona New York KGB 1944, 628, 746–47; Venona New York KGB 1945, 11, 84; Venona Special Studies, 75. As “Photon”/Kamenev: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 68, 114, 119, 127–28, 133, 135; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 85, 106–7, 109. Pritt, D. N.: Left Socialist British politician. As a Labour Party member of Parliament he urged an alliance with USSR. Expelled from the Labour Party in 1940 due to his support for the Soviet invasion of Finland. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 78, 92–93. Privalov, Evgenij Mikhajlovich: Soviet internal security source. With the SGPC staff. Venona San Francisco KGB, 2–3. “Priyatel'” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Buddy”/Unidentified Czechoslovak. PRIYATEL’ [FRIEND] (cover name in Venona): Oscar Lange. Venona New York KGB 1944, 385, 453; Venona Special Studies, 58. “Priyut” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Shelter”. PRIYUT [SHELTER] (cover name in Venona): United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Venona New York KGB 1944, 306–7, 371, 386–87, 414, 517, 519, 615–16, 625. “Probationer” [Stazher] and “Probationers” [Stazhery]: KGB tradecraft term and cover name used for sources and agents in the 1930s and early 1940s. A “Probationer” was someone who was not a professional KGB officer but who was knowingly undertaking some task for the KGB. PROBKA [CORK] (cover name in Venona): William Pinsly. Venona New York KGB 1944, 269, 273, 275; Venona Special Studies, 51, 58. Processing [Oformleniye] and to process: KGB tradecraft term covering gathering background information, cultivating, vetting, and, if indicated, eventually preparing for recruitment a person of interest. Procope, Hjalmar: Finnish Minister in Washnigton. Venona New York KGB 1944, 94–95. “Prodavets” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Vendor”. PRODAVETS [SALESMAN] (cover name in Venona): Likely Harry Kagan. Unidentified by Venona analysts but identified in Vassiliev’s notebooks as likely Harry Kagan. “Prodavets” translated as “Vendor” was described in Vassiliev’s notebooks as an American Communist, former agent handler for Jacob Golos, and employee of the Soviet Government Purchasing Commission used to “cover” employees of the SGPC. Elizabeth Bentley identified Kagan, an employee of the SGPC, as an agent of Jacob Golos used to watch and report on any suspect activities of SGPC employees. 122
Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 74; Venona Special Studies, 58. Prodesco: Product Exchange Corporation, predecessor to Amtorg. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 81. Production Management, Office of: See Office of Production Management. Professor ?: A candidate for recruitment described as rich, active in political and public life, associated with medical circles, and Jewish. Identified by Venona analysts but the name was redacted in the version released by NSA. Venona New York KGB 1943, 255. Professor ?: Described as “progressive” and a director of the University of California Radiation Laboratory. Identified by Venona analysts but the name was redacted in the version released by NSA. Possibly Ernest Lawrence, director of the Radiation Laboratory. The redacted space on the released cable would fit Lawrence. Lawrence, however, was apolitical and not regarded as a Download 5.28 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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