Index and Concordance to Alexander Vassiliev’s Notebooks and Soviet Cables Deciphered by the National Security Agency’s Venona Project
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Office of Surplus Commodities, U.S. Department of Commerce: Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 21. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (Rockefeller committee). Wartime agency headed by Nelson Rockefeller. Cover name in Vassilive’s notebooks: “Cabaret”. Cover name in Venona: CABARET [KABARE]. As Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, the Rockefeller committee or other plain text reference: Venona New York KGB 1943, 341; Venona New York KGB 1945, 36, 124. As “Cabaret”: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 29, 115. As CABARET [KABARE]: Venona New York KGB 1943, 207, 340–41; Venona New York KGB 1944, 771; Venona New York KGB 1945, 35–36, 122, 124; Venona Washington KGB, 38–39. Office of the Coordinator of Information: War agency established in July 1941 under William Donovan. Also know as the Donovan committee. In June 1942 it was divided into the Office of Strategic Services and the Office of War Information. Cover name “Radio Station” [Ratsiya] in Vassiliev’s notebooks. After the Office of the Coordinator of Information was split into OSS
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and Office of War Information in June 1942, “Radio Station” became the cover name for OWI alone while “Cabin” [Izba] became the cover name for OSS. As the Coordinator of Information or the Donovan committee: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 42–43; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 63;
“Radio Station”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 43; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 29, 31. Office of the Plenipotentiary: Soviet embassy. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 52. Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of AXIS War Criminals: Venona Washington KGB, 38. Office of War Information (OWI): America’s World War II war propaganda agency, foreign and domestic. Originally a part of the Office of the Coordinator of Information in 1941 and the first half of 1942 and included by the cover name “Radio Station” in Vassiliev’s notebooks for the OCI. After the Office of the Coordinator of Information was split into OSS and Office of War Information in June 1942, “Radio Station” (RADIO STATION [RATSIYA] in Venona) continued as the cover name for OWI alone while “Cabin” [Izba] became the cover name for OSS. As Office of War Information and OWI: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 79; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 115; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 122; Venona New York KGB 1943, 72, 95, 103–04, 113, 185, 243, 273, 356; Venona New York KGB 1944, 55, 76, 109, 158, 204, 227, 294, 348, 452, 492, 538, 686, 701; Venona New York KGB 1945, 124, 173; Venona San Francisco KGB, 69–70. As “Radio Station”: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 2, 29, 77, 115; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 134. As RADIO STATION [RATSIYA]: Venona New York KGB 1943, 103, 112–13, 171, 187–88, 240–41, 243, 272–73, 355–56; Venona New York KGB 1944, 54–55, 76, 108–09, 157–58, 227, 293–94, 348, 451–52, 492, 537, 683, 686, 700–701; Venona New York KGB 1945, 122–24. Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, U.S.: Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 38, 41, 131; Venona Washington KGB, 22, 44. As War Mobilization Board: Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 65. OFFICER [OFITSER] (cover name in Venona): Jan Fierlinger. Venona New York KGB 1943, 91–92, 171–72, 240–42, 302–5, 325, 328; Venona New York KGB 1944, 324–26; Venona Special Studies, 54.
“Official” [Chinovnik] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Laurence Duggan, 1935. Used by KGB legal station when it briefly considered cultivating Duggan before being informed that the illegal station had already done so. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 17. Offie, Carmel: Senior CIA official, late 1940s. Vassiliev Odd Pages, 29. Ogilvie, Irinescu, and brother. Unidentified Rumanians. Venona New York KGB 1944, 430. Ogloblin, G.N.: Soviet diplomatic staff and one of two persons Venona analysts thought to the the real name behind the cover name GREGORY [GRIGORIJ]. As Oglovlin: Venona New York KGB
Ognev, Vasily Ivanovich: Pseudonym used by Vladimir Pravdin in a meeting with “Quantum”/Podolsky. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 6. Ogoltsov, Sergey I.: Senior KGB officer, Moscow Center. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 92–93. OGPU: Ob'edinennoye Glavnoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye [Unified State Political Directorate].
122–23, 132, 135, 155; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 100, 104–5, 137; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 25; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 45, 47, 51, 77, 79, 81–82, 87. O'Hara, Joyce: Secretary to Eric Johnson, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Venona Washington KGB, 60–61. OHM [OM] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified. Some connection to Mexico and the KGB. Venona San Francisco KGB, 178; Venona Special Studies, 110. Ohsol, Johann Gottfried: Also know as John Ohsol and Johann Petrovich Ohsol. Amtorg official. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 84–85, 104. OIYACH: Joint Institute on Nuclear Research, USSR. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 62.
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OJO [OKHO] (cover name in Venona): Unidentifed. Venona New York KGB 1944, 298; Venona Special Studies, 54. “Okano”: Party name of Sanzo Nosaka, a leading Japanese Communist who spend part of the 1930s in the U.S. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 23. OKH (cover name in Venona): Adolfo Orive de Alba. Venona New York KGB 1943, 362–63; Venona New York KGB 1945, 153; Venona Special Studies, 54. OKHO [OJO or EYE] (cover name in Venona): Venona New York KGB 1944, 298; Venona Special Studies, 52, 54. “Okhostsk”: Soviet ship. Venona USA Naval GRU, 57. OKHOTNIK (cover name in Venona): Unidentified. Venona Special Studies, 54. Okhranka: Tsarist internal security and political police service. Russian abbreviation derived from Okhrannoye otdeleniye – Security Department. More often appears in English literature as Okhrana. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 147. Okov, Yury: GRU officer at the Soviet consulate in New York in WWII. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 77.
OKTAN [OCTANE] (cover name in Venona): Dr. Maurice Bacon Cooks. Unidentified by Venona analysts but identified in Vassiliev’s notebooks as Cooke. Venona New York KGB 1943, 56; Venona New York KGB 1945, 205; Venona Special Studies, 52. “Oktan” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Octane”. OKUN' [PERCH] (cover name in Venona): Michael Tkach. Venona New York KGB 1943, 227, 229;
“Okun'” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Perch”. “Okurov” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Santa Fe, NM. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 116;
OKUROV (cover name in Venona): Santa Fe, NM. Unidentified by Venona analysts but identified in Vassiliev’s notebooks as Santa Fe. Venona New York KGB 1945, 68–69. OLA (cover name in Venona): Christina Krotkova. Venona New York KGB 1944, 44, 53–54, 93, 140, 277, 402–3, 542–43; Venona New York KGB 1945, 99; Venona San Francisco KGB, 78, 82, 98;
Olasco: Venona analysts suggested this might be a reference to Joaquin Olaso Fiera. Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 40, 42. Olaso Fiera, Joaquin: Official of the United Socialist Party of Catalonia, in exile in the United States. As Olasco: Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 42. Olazov, V.: Unidentified. Venona New York KGB 1943, 304–5. “Old Man” [Starik] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Emil Fuchs, 1950. Vassiliev Yellow
“Old Man” [Starik] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Leon Trotsky. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 28, 67–68, 167, 172; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 16, 18, 39, 57, 61, 125; Vassiliev White Notebook
OLD MAN [STARIK] (cover name in Venona): Leon Trotsky. Venona New York KGB 1944, 197, 622–23; Venona Special Studies, 69. “Old Man” [Starik] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Joseph Melamed, 1944. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 58. “Old Man” [Starik] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent, New York station, 1952–53. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 91–92, 94–95. “Old”: See “Star”. OLD [STAR] (cover name in Venona): Saville Sax. Venona New York KGB 1945, 55; Venona Special
OLD WOMAN [STARUKHA] (cover name in Venona): Natalya Ivanova Sedova Trotsky. Venona New York KGB 1944, 143, 162–64, 197, 398; Venona Special Studies, 69.
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Olds, ?: Unidentified. Venona New York KGB 1943, 331. “Oleg” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Mikhail Vavilov. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 62–63, 69; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 43, 99. OLEG (cover name in Venona): Mikhail Sergeevich Vavilov. Venona New York KGB 1943, 96–97; Venona San Francisco KGB, 237, 239, 245, 254, 267–70, 295–96, 299, 311; Venona Special Studies, 53, 110. ....olins: Partially decrypted name. Venona New York KGB 1945, 38–39. Oliphant, Marcus (Mark) Laurence Elwin: Australian scientist and key member of the British atomic bomb program and later part of the British contingent in the Manhattan atomic project. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 9, 69. OLIVER (cover name in Venona): Antonio Gomez Deans. Venona New York KGB 1943, 57–58, 278, 336–38; Venona Special Studies, 53. “Oliver Ellsworth”: U.S. ship. Venona USA Naval GRU, 286. Olkhine, Eugenie: Soviet intelligence source/agent. Russian born immigrant to the U.S. Cover name in Venona: LILY [LILYA]. As Olkhine: Venona New York KGB 1945, 18. As LILY [LILYA]: Venona New York KGB 1944, 494, 569, 640; Venona New York KGB 1945, 17–18, 100–101; Venona Special Studies, 41. OL'KHOV (cover name in Venona): ? Budanov. Venona San Francisco KGB, 109; Venona Special Studies, 110. Olloa, Thomas: Unidentified. Venona Secret Writings New York/Buenos Aires, 4. OLSEN (cover name in Venona): Likely a party name or a CPUSA covert apparatus pseudonym. Possibly Morris Childs or Jack Childs. Identified as “district leader of Fraternal in Chicago”. The “Fraternal”/CPUSA district organizer for Illinois in 1944 was Morris Childs. Rosalyn Childs, wife of Jack Childs, however, is a better candidate for Rose Olsen (or Rose Olson as she appears in Venona than Morris Childs’ wife due to Rosalyn’s work for the Comintern and assistance to her husband in his covert activities. Venona New York KGB 1944, 61. Olsen (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Likely a party name or a CPUSA covert apparatus pseudonym. Possibly Morris Childs or Jack Childs. Identified as, “husband of Rose Olsen”, as “Phlox’s husband”, and in the Venona decryptions as “district leader of Fraternal in Chicago”. The “Fraternal”/CPUSA district organizer for Illinois in 1944 was Morris Childs. Rosalyn Childs, wife of Jack Childs, however, is a better candidate for Rose Olsen than Morris Childs’ wife due to Rosalyn’s work for the Comintern and assistance to her husband in his covert activities. As “Olsen”: Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 7, 12. As “Phlox’s” husband: Vassiliev
Olsen, Rose (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Likely a party name or CPUSA covert apparatus pseudonym. Soviet intelligence agent, linked to a senior CPUSA cadre. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Phlox.” Rosalyn Childs is a candidate for Rose Olsen. Rosalyn Childs was married to Jack Childs, a full-time CPUSA functionary whose work for the party was obscure and probably connected with its underground covert apparatus. “Rose Olson” and Olsen’s wife appeared in the Venona decryptions as an unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent in 1944. As Rose Olsen: Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 7, 12. As “Phlox”: Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 12, 27. Olsen, Rose (cover name in Venona): Likely a party name or a CPUSA covert apparatus pseodonym. Cover name in Venona: PHLOX [FLOKS]. As Olsen’s wife: Venona New York KGB 1944, 61, 316. As Rose Olsen: Venona New York KGB 1944, 315–16 (spelled Olson), 503 (spelled Olson), 712; Venona Special Studies, 74 (spelled Olson). As PHLOX [FLOKS]: Venona New York
Misspelled as PHLOKE [FLOKE]: Venona New York KGB 1945, 129. Olson, Joseph: Journalist. Venona New York KGB 1944, 281.
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Olson, Orville: Described as a contact of Harold Glasser 1945. Orville Olson, a secret Communist, worked in Washington in WWII and later was head of the Progressive Party in Minnesota. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 60. OM [OHM] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified. Some connection to Mexico and the KGB. Venona San Francisco KGB, 178; Venona Special Studies, 110. Omaha class: USN light cruisers built in the 1920s. Venona USA Naval GRU, 309, 315. “Omega” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): A 1937 intelligence project on arms and military technology. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 27. Omelchenko, Ye. I.: Described as writer on American economic matters, 1926. Vassiliev Yellow
OMP – Otdel Morskikh Perevozok: Department of Marine Transportation. Venona USA Naval GRU, 62. OMS: Otdel Mezhdunarodnykh Svyazey – International Relations Department, a reference to the OMS of the Communist International. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 135. OMUT [POOL] (cover name in Venona): British embassy in the U.S. Venona Washington KGB, 7, 10–11, 13–14, 16, 23–24. “Omut” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Pool”. Ondra: Hungarian birth name of Edith Emery. Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 72–73. O.N.I. (ONI): Office of Naval Intelligence, U.S. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 5–8. OO: Osoby Otdel – Special Department, usually counter-intelligence. OO GUGB: The GUGB’s “special department” that conducted counter-intelligence. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 103. OO NKVD: The NKVD’s “special department” that conducted counter-intelligence. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 90. OO OGPU: The OGPU’s “special department” that conducted counter-intelligence security. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 5; Vassiliev Odd Pages, 5; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 100. OPA: Office of Price Administration. Venona New York KGB 1943, 246. Operative: KGB terminology for a professional intelligence officer. Usually not used to refer to agents or sources (probationers) or co-optives from other Soviet agencies. “Operator” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Hazen Sise. While not directly identified in Vassiliev’s notebooks as Sise, “Operator” is described as a contact of Elizabeth Bentley and working in Washington “for the Canadian motion-picture representative office”. Elizabeth Bentley identified Sise, a secret Canadian Communist and Washington representative of the Canadian National Film Board, as one of the sources for her network. 111
Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 10. OPM: Office of Production Management, U.S.: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 42; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 26, 36. OPPEN (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent. Venona analysts had two candidates for OPPEN but the names were redacted when NSA released the decryptions. For a discussion that OPPEN was not a cover name but a real name, the surname of the Communist Poet George Oppen and his wife Mary, see two essays by Eric Hoffman. 112
Venona USA GRU, 99, 104–5, 108. ———————————
111. Bentley, “Deposition 1945,” 50. 112. Eric Hoffman, “A Poetry of Action: George Oppen and Communism,” American Communist History 6, no. 1 (June 2007); Eric Hoffman, “‘A Poetry of Action: George Oppen and Communism’: Responses and Further Investigations,” American Communist History 9, no. 2 (August 2010).
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Oppenheim: Misspelling of the surname of Robert Oppenheimer. Venona New York KGB 1944, 729; Venona Special Studies, 152, 154. Oppenheimer, Frank: Nuclear scientist. Brother of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Secret member of the CPUSA. Target of recruitment. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Beam”. As Oppenheimer: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 107, 117; Venona San Francisco KGB, 277. As “Beam”: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 107, 117, 136, 138; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 10, 31. Oppenheimer, J. Robert: Nuclear scientist and scientific director of the Manhattan project. Secret member of the CPUSA. Brother of Frank Oppenheimer. Target of recruitment. Cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Chester” (early 1944 to mid-1945 and again in 1954), “Chemist” (September 1944), “Yew” (late 1944–1945), and “Doctor” (1954). As Oppenheimer: Vassiliev
77; Venona New York KGB 1944, 729 (spelled Oppenheim); Venona New York KGB 1945, 114, 132, 191; Venona Special Studies, 152 (spelled Oppenheim), 154 (spelled Oppenheim). As “Chester”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 113; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 117–18; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 10, 17, 31; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 100–103. As “Chemist”: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 131, 138. As “Yew”: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 118–19; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 10, 17, 23–24, 33–34. As “Doctor”: Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 102. “Optant” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Samuel Dickstein, 1937. Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 83. Ordensburgen: Term for elite Nazi schools. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 100–101. Order of ‘76: Secret anti-Semitic society in the 1930s. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 97. Order of Friendship Among Nations: Soviet decoration. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 67. Order of Patriotic War: Soviet decoration. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 109. Order of the Badge of Honor: Soviet decoration. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 151. Order of the Red Banner: Soviet decoration. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 140; Venona Washington KGB, 35; Venona San Francisco KGB, 162. Order of the Red Star: Soviet decoration. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 120, 140; Vassiliev White Notebook
“Orderly” [Sanitar] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Herbert Lehman, 1943–1944. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 115; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 79. Ordynski, Ryszard: Described as a Polish film producer. Venona New York KGB 1944, 363. Orear, Stanley: Described as an OPA official. Venona New York KGB 1943, 246. Orekhov, Fedor Terentievich: Soviet diplomat. Venona New York KGB 1943, 215–16; Venona USA Diplomatic, 59. OREL [EAGLE] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent Venona New York KGB 1944, 190–91, 244; Venona Special Studies, 53. “Orel” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Eagle”. Organization for the Rebirth of Ukraine (ODVU): Ukrainian nationalist organization. Vassiliev Black
ORIGINAL [ODD FELLOW] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent, earlier JUPITER [YUPITER]. Venona New York KGB 1944, 542, 703; Venona Special Studies, Download 5.57 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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