Index and Concordance to Alexander Vassiliev’s Notebooks and Soviet Cables Deciphered by the National Security Agency’s Venona Project
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Notebook, 177–78. “X” [Kh] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent, mid-1920s. Possibly a ROSTA correspondent in the U.S. who reported to KGB. In the original text indicted by the Russian Cryillic letter “X”. The Russian Cyrillic “X” transliterates as “Kh”, but in this case is functioning in the same way as the Latin “X”, indicating an unnamed person, and in Vassiliev’s notebooks is left as “X”. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 55. X line: see XY line. X-2 (X2): OSS counter-intelligence division. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 44. X-4: German air-launched antiaircraft missile. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 127; Vassiliev Yellow
X-7: German anti-tank guided missile. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 141. XP-58: Experimental American fighter aircraft. Venona San Francisco KGB, 10. XP-81: Experimental American fighter aircraft. Venona New York KGB 1944, 133. XY line [KhU line]: KGB scientific-technical line of work. Sometimes shortened to X line. While often rendered in English with the Latin alphabet letters “XY”, this is a transfer without transliteration of the Russian Cyrillic letter “XY”, which when transliterated from Russian would be KhU. As XY: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 6, 22, 49, 68, 102–4, 107, 110, 113, 117, 127; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 8, 61, 107–9, 116–18, 136–37; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 7–8, 23, 31. As X: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 17, 97. “Y” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): “Mlad”/Hall reference to the Manhattan Project’s facilities at Los Alamos, New Mexico. (Likely derived from the Manhattan Project’s internal designation of its facilities at Los Alamos as “Site Y”.) Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 21. Yagoda, Genrikh Grigor'evich: People's Commissar for Internal Affairs (chief of the NKVD, predecessor to the KGB) from 1934 until 1936. Executed in 1938. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 8; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 23, 35; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 1, 3, 5, 45, 47–48, 55–57, 59–61, 65–66, 97, 106. Yakhontoff, Victor Alexandrovich: Soviet intelligence contact/informant Former Tsartist general turned pro-Soviet. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 9. Yakimov, Rear Admiral Aleksandr Avdeevich: Soviet naval officer and Deputy Chairman, SGPC, Washington. Venona USA Diplomatic, 63; Venona USA Trade, 29–30. YAKOR' [ANCHOR] (cover name in Venona): ? Rud...ovich. Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 61;
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“Yakov” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent, 1952, likely operating from Vienna, liaison with Boris Morros in Europe in 1952. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 82–85, 88, 91–93, 97. YAKOV (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent, likely internal security. Venona New York KGB 1944, 394–95; Venona San Francisco KGB, 163, 165, 217–18; Venona Special Studies, 122. YAKOV [JACOB and JAMES] (cover name in Venona): William Perl. Venona New York KGB 1944, 134, 462, 594, 621, 739–40; Venona New York KGB 1945, 64–65, 95, 138; Venona Special
Yakovlev, ?: Name in the Whalen documents, 1930. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 74. Yakovlev, Anatoly Antonovich: Diplomatic pseudonym used by KGB officer Anatoly Yatskov. See Anatoly Yatskov entry. As Yakovlev: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 122; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 38; Venona New York KGB 1943, 303; Venona New York KGB 1944, 29, 45, 87, 96, 148, 226, 391, 405, 455, 473, 492, 639; Venona New York KGB 1945, 56, 168; Venona San Francisco KGB, 257 (possible but not certain); Venona Special Studies, 5. Yakovlev, ? [A?]: Unidentified. The [A?] likely indicates that Venona analysts considered that this might be Anatoly Yakovlev. Venona San Francisco KGB, 257. Yakovlev, Captain: Senior Soviet naval officer in Moscow. Venona USA Naval GRU, 130. Yakubovich, ?: Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent. Venona New York KGB 1945, 162. Yakubovsky, ?: Unidentified. Possibly Vasily Yakubovsky. Venona USA Diplomatic, 62. Yakushev, M.N.: Soviet ship crewman, likely Soviet ship internal security source. Venona San
“Yakut”: Soviet ship. Venona San Francisco KGB, 111. “Yakutsk”: Soviet ship. Venona USA Naval GRU, 106–7; Venona USA Trade, 26. Yalta Conference: February 1945 meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin at Yalta, USSR. Also see Crimea Conference. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 50; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 41, 121, 135;
YAN [JAN] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent, likely Soviet internal security agent. Venona New York KGB 1944, 676–77; Venona Special Studies, 85. “Yan Tomp”: Soviet ship. Venona USA Naval GRU, 72. “Yang” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Likely Howard Gochenour. “Yang” is described as a chemist and an industrial espionage source recruited by Alfred Slack in a false flag recruitment. Gochenour admitted to FBI that he supplied information to Slack, claiming that Slack said it was for a South American buyer, not the Soviets. 198 Vassiliev Black Notebook, 110, 117; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 102, 106. “Yank” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Likely Michael Greenberg. “Yank” was Soviet intelligence contact/source described as male and a secretary of “Page” (Lauchlin Currie) in 1943 and providing valuable information about China via “Dir”/Price. Greenberg in 1942 became a China specialist for the Board of Economic Warfare and an assistant to that agency’s de facto head, Lauchlin Currie. He is also described in the notebooks under his real name as a contact of Mary Price. He was identified by Elizabeth Bentley as one of her espionage sources who provided informatin via Mary Price. 199 Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 52–53. “Yankee” [Yanki] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent, 1938. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 27, 101; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 155. ———————————
198. Alfred Slack FBI file #65-59183. 199. Bentley, “Deposition 1945,” 43.
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“Yankee” [Yanki] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): John H.F. Haskel in 1944. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 94. “Yaponets” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Japanese”. YAR (cover name in Venona): Unidentified. Venona San Francisco KGB, 293; Venona Special Studies, 122.
YAROSH (cover name in Venona): Unidentified. Venona San Francisco KGB, 240; Venona Special Studies, 122. Yarrow, Bernard: OSS official. Venona New York KGB 1944, 80–81. “Yasha” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Dimitry V. Varley. “Yasha” was a Soviet intelligence source/agent, 1943–44 who worked at one point in the Russian analytic section of OSS and later for UNRRA and was a close associate of David Weintraub. Partially identified in Vassiliev’s notebooks as Dmitry Vladimirovich ? and whose mother lived in the Soviet Union. Varley, a Russian immigrant, worked for the Russian analytic section of OSS, later of UNRRA and was a close friend of David Weintraub. 200 Vassiliev Black Notebook, 48, 51, 66; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 3, 6, 89; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 131; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 79. Yasha’s Case: Unclear reference in 1937 to the arrest of an intelligence operative “Yasha” in the USSR, possibly Yakov (Yasha) Serebryansky. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 29. “Yasha’s” special group: Reference to the KGB special operations group led by Yakov (Yasha) Serebryansky. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 148. Yatskov, Anatoly Antonovich: Soviet intelligence officer. Used the diplomatic pseudonym of Anatoly Antonovich Yakovlev, vice-consul at the New York consulate. Appears in the Venona decryptions only as Yakovlev. Appears in Vassiliev’s notebooks as both Yatskov and Yakovlev. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Aleksey”, work name “John”. Cover name in Venona: ALEKSEJ. As Yatskov: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 79; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 38; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 122; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 51, 83, 85–86, 99. As Yakovlev: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 122; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 38; Venona New York KGB 1943, 303; Venona New York KGB 1944, 29, 45, 87, 96, 148, 226, 391, 405, 455, 473, 492, 639; Venona New York KGB 1945, 56, 168; Venona San Francisco KGB, 257 (possible but not certain); Venona Special Studies, 5. As “Aleksey”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 79, 113, 117–25, 129, 135–37; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 108–9, 116–19; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 16–17, 22–24, 26–27, 29, 34, 72, 74, 99, 105–6. As “John”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 120; Vassiliev
YAVA [JAVA] (cover name in Venona): Anna Petrovna Novosel'tseva. Venona San Francisco KGB, 143, 148, 159; Venona Special Studies, 122. YAZ' [IDE] (cover name in Venona): Samuel Krafsur. Venona New York KGB 1944, 127, 146, 149, 186, 216, 301–2, 426–27, 479, 486–88, 563, 565, 599, 620; Venona New York KGB 1945, 176–78;
“Yaz'” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Ide”. YAZON [JASON] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified. Venona Special Studies, 122. YCL: Young Communist League. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 4. ———————————
200. In testimony to the Congress in 1953 Varley denied any role in espionage. Testimony of Dimitry V. Varley, 15 September 1953, U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations, Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, Vol. 3, 1841–50, 1865–78.
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Yefimovna, Ekaterina: Wife of Boris Morros. Also know as Catherine Morros. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 33. YEFRÉM [EPHRAIM] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified. Venona Special Studies, 187–88. Yegorichev, ?: Senior Soviet naval attaché in Washington. Venona USA Naval GRU, 14, 46, 73, 81, 83, 86, 99–100, 108, 139–41, 143, 167, 175, 179, 202, 215 (spelled as Yegorechev), 223, 236, 243–44, 274, 297, 301, 304. Yegorov, ?: Soviet official in Moscow associated with artillery. Venona USA Naval GRU, 274. “Yel'” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “El'”. Yelesin, Ivan Ivanovich: Soviet cipher clerk. Venona USA Trade, 27. Yeliseyev, P.: KGB officer, Moscow, 1966. Yeliseyev; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 153. Yeremin, ?: SGPC official. Venona USA Trade, 23. “Yersh” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Ruff”. “Yew” [Tis] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Robert Oppenheimer, 1944–1945. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 118–19; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 10, 17, 23–24, 33–34. Yezhov, Nikolay: People's Commissar for Internal Affairs (head of the NKVD), 1936–1938. Executed in 1940. Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 50, 53; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 38; Vassiliev
York, Jones (Jo) Orin: Soviet intelligence source/agent, Los Angeles. Aviation engineer. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Needle”. Cover name in Venona: NEEDLE [IGLA]. As York:
117, 119–20, 136–37. As NEEDLE [IGLA]: Venona New York KGB 1944, 465, 618; Venona San Francisco KGB, 10, 18; Venona Special Studies, 30, 102. Yost, Charles: Assistant chief of the Office of Arms and Munitions Control in State in 1937–38. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 152; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 119. Young Communist League (YCL), Komsomol, and young Communists: Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebook, “Gymnasts”. Cover names in Venona: GYMNAST [FIZKUL'TURNIK and FIZKUL'TURNITSA] and GYMNASTIC [FIZKUL'TURNYJ] organization. As Young Communists and variants in plain text: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 108, 115, 121; Vassiliev
41; Venona New York KGB 1944, 513, 639; Venona New York KGB 1945, 98. As “Gymnasts”: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 29, 115. As GYMNAST [FIZKUL'TURNIK and FIZKUL'TURNITSA]: Venona New York KGB 1944, 512–13, 638–39. As GYMNASTIC [FIZKUL'TURNYJ] organization: Venona New York KGB 1945, 97–98. Young, Martin: Communist and brother-in-law of Joseph Katz. Venona New York KGB 1944, 59. Young Men’s Christian Association: Vassiliev Odd Pages, 20. YOUNG [MLAD] (cover name in Venona): Theodore Alvin Hall. Venona New York KGB 1944, 716, 729; Venona New York KGB 1945, 55, 168, 190; Venona Special Studies, 48. “Young”: See “Yang”. “Young Woman” [Devushka] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Alice Barrows. Vassiliev Black
“Youngster”: See “Mlad”. Youssoupoff, Princess: Spelling variant of Yusupova. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 44. “Youth” [Yunosha] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Nadine Redeker, 1944; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 10. “Youthful” [Malody] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Dmitry Golos, Jacob Golos’ son. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 65–66. YU. (cover name in Venona): Editorial Office – TASS. Personal code used by MAJ/Apresyan. Venona New York KGB 1944, 192. Yudenich, Nikolay Nikolaevich: Russian general who commanded a major White army in the Russian Civil War. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 12.
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YUG [SOUTH] (cover name in Venona): Bernard Schuster. Venona New York KGB 1944, 579–81; Venona Special Studies, 83. Yugoslavia and Yugoslavs: Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Viganiya”, 1950. As Yugoslavia and plain text variants: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 75–76, 80–81, 84, 181; Vassiliev Odd Pages, 28, 32; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 1, 11, 53, 61, 86, 90–91, 96; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 19, 45; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 83, 135; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 45, 73–77; Vassiliev
308, 329; Venona New York KGB 1944, 42, 94, 119, 189, 313–14, 368, 531–32, 540, 625, 685; Venona Washington KGB, 62; Venona San Francisco KGB, 83; Venona Special Studies, 179; Venona USA GRU, 75, 84, 98; Venona USA Diplomatic, 66. As “Viganiya” and “Viganians”: Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 72, 74. YULIYA [JULIA] (cover name in Venona): Olga Khlopkov. Venona New York KGB 1944, 335–36, 390–91, 393, 443, 523, 552–53, 633, 666–67, 703, 744; Venona New York KGB 1945, 33–34, 94, 120–21, 158; Venona San Francisco KGB, 50, 52, 104; Venona Special Studies, 83, 121. YULIYA [JULIA] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent. Described in 1944 as having been out of contact for more than four years, avoiding society, and living near Lake Geneva in New York supported by her rich father. Venona New York KGB 1944, 293–94;
“Yuliya” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Julia”. “Yun” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Stephen Laird. Black Notebook, 45; Vassiliev White
YUN (cover name in Venona): Stephen Laird. Venona New York KGB 1944, 223–25, 263–64, 388, 412–13, 432; Venona San Francisco KGB, 264, 267–70; Venona Special Studies, 84, 121, 131–32.
“Yung” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Jung”. “Yunona” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Former wife of “Yun”/Laird, described as knowing of his espionage work and of having informed her new husband. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 49. YUNONA [JUNO] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified. Possibly the former wife of Stephen Laird. “Yunona” was identified in Vassiliev’s notebooks as Laird’s former wife, but the reference to YUNONA in the Venona special study provides no context to indicate if this is the same person. Venona Special Studies, 84. “Yunosha” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Youth”. YUNOY (cover name in Venona): Unidentified. Venona Special Studies, 132, 176. YUPITER [JUPITER] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent, later ODD FELLOW. Venona New York KGB 1944, 91, 542; Venona Special Studies, 53, 84, 176. YUR (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent. Venona New York KGB 1943, 302–3, 325; Venona New York KGB 1944, 236; Venona Special Studies, 84, 89. YURIJ (cover name in Venona): Lev Tarasov, Pseudonym used by KGB officer Lev Vasilevsky, KGB station chief in Mexico City. Tarasov’s cover was that of First Secretary of the Soviet embassy. Venona New York KGB 1944, 39–40, 143–44; Venona New York KGB 1945, 16, 35–36; Venona San Francisco KGB, 134, 137–38, 178, 186; Venona Special Studies, 84, 121. YURIJ’s town and YURIJ’s city (cover name in Venona): Mexico City, referring to YURIJ/Tarasov, KGB station chief in Mexico City. Venona New York KGB 1944, 143–44; Venona New York
YURIST [JURIST] (cover name in Venona): Venona analysts thought this cover name in the Diplomatic traffic referred to the chief of the GRU station. Venona USA Diplomatic, 8, 42. YURIST [JURIST] (cover name in Venona): Harry D. White. Venona New York KGB 1944, 34, 374, 376, 379; Venona Special Studies, 42, 61, 84. “Yurist” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Jurist”.
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Yurkevich, Vladimir I., and Olga Yurkevich: Vladimir Yurkevich, formerly living in France, was the naval architect for the well-know French passenger ship the “Normandie”. Venona New York KGB 1943, 271–73. “Yurt” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent, Vienna, 1954. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 101. Yusupova, Princess Irina Felixovna: Prominent anti-Bolshevik exile. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 44. Spelled as Youssoupoff: Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 44. “Yuz” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Iosif R. Grigulevich, 1938–1939. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 152; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 125, 127–29, 131. YUZHANKA [SOUTHERNER] (cover name in Venona) Elena Enriqueta Huerta Muzquiz. Venona Mexico City KGB, 313. YUZHNYJ [SOUTHERN] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent. Venona New York KGB 1944, 703, Venona Special Studies, 83 [translated as SOUTHERNER]. “Yuzik” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Iosif R. Grigulevich, 1938–1939. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 101, 161, 165; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 125. “Z” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Initial for the cover name of an unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent possibly connected to an FBI probe of leaked diplomatic documents and identified as having “failed” in some sense by early 1945. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 57. “Z” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Initial of a source reporting on the OSS in July and November 1944. Likely “Z” for “Zayats”, i.e. “Hare”/Maurice Halperin. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 94, 97.
“Zaatlantik” and “Zaatlantika”(cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Transatlantic” and Download 5.57 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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