Index and Concordance to Alexander Vassiliev’s Notebooks and Soviet Cables Deciphered by the National Security Agency’s Venona Project
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SKLĒR, Josep: Unidentified. Venona analysts thought this might be a Russian rendering of the name Sklare. Venona New York KGB 1943, 2. Skoropadskij, Danila (Danylo) and Paul (Pavel or Pavlo) Skoropadskij: Paul Skoropadskij was Hetman (military commander and chief of state) of the briefly independent Ukrainian state in 1918 supported by Germany. Danila was his son and a prominent Ukrainian/Cossack nationalist in exile. Venona New York KGB 1943, 141–42, 226, 228. Skoryukov, ?: Soviet diplomat at the San Francisco consulate in 1941. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 177–78. “Skott” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Scott”. Skriagin, Nikolaj A.: Spelling variant. See Nikolaj A. Skryagin. Venona Special Studies, 165. SKRIB (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent. Venona New York KGB 1944, 758; Venona Special Studies, 68. Skryagin, Nikolaj Alekseevich: Soviet intelligence officer, Naval GRU and Assistant Naval Attaché in Washington, D.C. Cover name in Venona: KENT. As Skryagin: Venona New York KGB 1944, 53, 55; Venona USA Naval GRU, 148, 159, 284, 319, 345; Venona Special Studies, 165 (spelled Skriagin). As KENT: Venona USA Naval GRU, 90–91, 109–10, 128–29, 147–48, 158–59. Skryaginskij, ?: Unidentified Soviet staffer. Venona San Francisco KGB, 149. Skvirsky, Boris: Amtorg official in the 1920, later Soviet embassy staff. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 155;
Skvortsov, ?: Soviet ship crewman. Venona USA Naval GRU, 368. Sidorov, L.G.: Unidentified Soviet diplomatic staffer. Venona USA Diplomatic, 53–54, 69.
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Silin, ?: Chief of Soviet diplomatic personnel management in Moscow. Venona USA Diplomatic, 10, 46. Sitnikov, Nikolaj Mikhajlovich: Chief Cipher Officer of the SGPC in Washington. Venona USA Trade, 12–14, 21, 23, 25. Slack, Alfred: Soviet intelligence source/agent. Chemist at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York and Holston Ordnance Works in Kingsport, Tennessee. Cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “El” and “Ell” prior to October 1944, then “Bir”. Cover names in Venona: ELL (and ĒLL) and BIR [BEER]. Arrested in 1950, Slack confessed and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. As Slack: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 121; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 101, 110. As “El”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 98, 101, 104; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 111–12; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 101–2. As “Ell”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 110, 116–18l; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 111; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 102–3, 106. As “Bir”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 114, 119, 121–22, 125, 133, 135–36; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 23, 28, 103, 106. As ELL and ĒLL: Venona New York KGB 1944, 542, 738 Venona Special Studies, 12, 81, 173, 175. As BIR [BEER]: Venona New York KGB 1944, 542, 737–38; Venona Special Studies, 12, 81.
“Slang” [Sleng] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Jane Foster Zlatowski. Also known as Jane Foster. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 3, 14, 38; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 80; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 78; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 71–72, 92, 94–95, 100–101, 103. SLANG [SLENG] (cover name in Venona): Jane Foster Zlatowski. Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 53; Venona New York KGB 1943, 152, 209; Venona New York KGB 1944, 173–74; Venona
Slav Congress: A reference to the American Slav Congress. Venona New York KGB 1944, 485. “Slava” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Ilya Elliott Wolston. (Slava translates as Glory, but Wolston was know to Jack Soble and Boris Morris, two of his KGB contacts, by the untranslated “Slava.”) Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 92, 94–100, 102–3. SLAVA (cover name in Venona): Ilya Elliott Wolston. Venona New York KGB 1943, 41, 43–44, 110; Venona New York KGB 1945, 146–47; Venona Special Studies, 68. “Slave” [Rab] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source, possibly a U.S. government employee, involved with furnishing false immigration or passport documents, 1935. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 40–42. SLAVIN (cover name in Venona): Unidentified. Possibly a real name. Venona USA Naval GRU, 136. Slavyagin, A.: Soviet intelligence officer. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Artem”. cvnvv ARTEM. Venona analysts identified ARTEM as likely the cover name of either G. N. Ogloblin or M.N. Khvostov, two young Soviet diplomatic staff. Those latter two names may be pseudonyms, and A. Slavyagin identified in Vassiliev’s notebooks as “Artem” may be the real name of one of the former. As Slavyagin: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 79; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 81. As “Artem”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 79; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 81. As ARTEM: Venona New York KGB 1944, 101, 192, 537, 619, 633, 666–67; Venona New York KGB 1945, 33, 84, 121, 194–95; Venona Special Studies, 9. (Note confusion of ARTEM and ARTEK at Venona New York KGB 1945, 84, 195). “Sleng” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Slang”. SLENG [SLANG] (cover name in Venona): Jane Foster Zlatowski. Venona New York KGB 1943, 209; Venona New York KGB 1944, 173; Venona Special Studies, 68. Partially decrypted as ...NG: Venona New York KGB 1943, 152, 209; Venona Special Studies, 68, 87. Slepenkov, ?: Soviet intelligence officer, Naval GRU. Later Assistant Naval Attaché in Sweden. Venona USA Naval GRU, 140, 296. Slonim, Mark: Russian emigré in New York. Venona New York KGB 1943, 304–5. SLOUGH [SLOU] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent. Venona USA
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Slutsky, Abram Aronovich: Senior KGB officer, headed the KGB foreign intelligence service from, 1936–38, died under mysterious circumstances and subsequently denounced as an enemy of the people. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 8; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 123, 134–35, 142, 144;
Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki: SVR – Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, successor to the foreign intelligence branch of the Soviet era KGB. SM: Sovet ministrov — Council of Ministers (formerly the Council of People’s Commissars). Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 107, 154; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 61–63. SM: Unidentified American military radio or radar devise. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 122. SMALL [MALYJ] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent. Venona New
SMART [BOJKIJ] (cover name in Venona): Norman Jay. Venona Special Studies, 13. “Smart” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Elliot Goldberg, engineer for an oil equipment company in New York. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 79, 117; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 113. SMART [SMART] (cover name in Venona): Elliot Goldberg. Unidentified by Venona analysts but identified in Vassiliev’s notebooks as Goldberg. Venona New York KGB 1944, 253, 466–67, 502–3, 527–28; Venona Special Studies, 68. SMB: Initials for Stalin, Molotov, Beria. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 127. Smekhov, ?: Soviet naval chief petty officer. Venona USA Naval GRU, 206. Smeltzer, Harold: Soviet intelligence source/agent, technical intelligence, Bell aircraft. Cover names in Venona: ARMOR and ARMOUR [BRONYA] and STAMP [SHTAMP]. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Armor”. As Smeltzer: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 121. As “Armor”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 119, 121, 135. As ARMOR [BRONYA]: Venona New York KGB 1944, 543; Venona New York 1945, 188; Venona Special Studies, 14. As ARMOUR: Venona New York KGB 1944, 274, 632. As STAMP [SHTAMP]: Venona New York KGB 1944, 273–74, 498–99, 542–43; Venona New York KGB 1945, 188; Venona Special Studies, 14, 80, 143, 176. “Smel'y” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Plucky”. SMELYJ [PLUCKY] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent, later KURT. Venona New York KGB 1944, 236, 514, 542; Venona Special Studies, 39, 68. Smernov, ?: Soviet diplomat. Venona USA GRU, 126. SMERSH: Smert Shpionam – Death to Spies. Chief Counter-intelligence Directorate of the USSR People’s Commissariat of Defense. SMERSH was a KGB militarized special detachment, 1943– 1946, charged with counter-intelligence duties as well as harshly suppressing disaffection and malingering in the Red Army. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 49; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 14. Smilg, Benjamin: Soviet intelligence source/agent, aviation technology. An employee of the National Aeronautics Center in Dayton, Ohio, Smilg was tried for perjury but acquitted in 1952. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Lever”. As Smilg: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 106. As “Lever”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 10, 17, 27, 31–32, 99–102, 104; Vassiliev White Notebook
Smilg, David: Considered for recruitment. Younger brother of “Lever”/Benjamin Smilg. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “David”. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 100. “Smirna” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Smyrna”. SMIRNA [SMYRNA] (cover name in Venona): Moscow. Venona New York KGB 1943, 4, 348; Venona
446–47, 457, 635, 645–46, 727–28; Venona Washington KGB, 10; Venona San Francisco KGB, 185, 216. Smirnoff, Victor: Variant spelling of the head of Amkino, Victor E. Smirnov. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 19.
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Smirnov, ?: Soviet diplomatic courier. Venona USA Diplomatic, 62, 68. Smirnov, Anatolij Nikolaevich: Accountant at the Soviet Embassy in Australia. Smirnov, Andrej Semenovich: Soviet intelligence officer/agent. Venona New York KGB 1944, 240, 343;
Smirnov, Lieutenant-Commander ?: Soviet naval officer. Venona USA Naval GRU, 264–65, 272, 311. Smirnov, Victor E.: See Victor Smirnoff. Smirnova, Nina Stepanovna: Wife of Anatolij Smirnov. Venona San Francisco KGB, 198. “Smit” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Smith”. Smith, ?: Assistant to the Secretary of State, 1938. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 22. Smith, ?: Described as one of the “leading reactionary scientists” involved in atomic research in the United States or Britain that might be the target of a disinformation program. Possibly Cyril Stanley Smith, head of the plutonium metallurgy group during the Manhattan Project. Vassiliev
Smith, Alfred: Former Democratic governor of New York: Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 18. Smith, Ben: British Labour Party member of parliament. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 69; Venona New
Smith, Berton F.U.: Likely a garble for Burton J.W. Smith. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 7. Smith, Burton J.W.: American who wrote a letter to Stalin in 1930 offering his services to the USSR and the Communist cause. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 7; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 158. Smith, Cyril: Head of the plutonium metallurgy group during the Manhattan Project. Likely the ? Smith referenced on Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 91. Smith, Gerald L.K.: Anti-Semitic agitator. Venona New York KGB 1943, 223. Smith, Horace Harrison: American diplomat in Moscow. Venona USA Diplomatic, 27. Smith, Howard Kingsbury: American journalist. Vassiliev Odd Pages, 27. Smith, Jessica: Communist and Soviet intelligence contact. Editor of Soviet Russia Today/New World Review. Wife of Harold Ware and, after his death, John Abt. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 72; Vassiliev Odd Pages, 34; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 45, 96, 101; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 1. Smith’s hospital (L. Smith’s hospital): Likely a garbled reference to St. Vincent Hospital, a major beneficiary of support from Alfred Smith and his family. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 60. Smith, Lieutenant Commander ?: American naval officer, probably with the Bureau of Naval Yards and Docks. Venona USA Trade, 9. Smith, Paul: Described as active in Massachusetts politics and a friend of Tom Corcoran. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 99; Venona Washington KGB, 49. “Smith” [Smit] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Soviet intelligence officer. There appear to have been two KGB officers with the cover name “Smith” operating in the United States in the 1930s. One, named ? Chivin, was described as the American station chief of a 1930s KGB special operations group (sabotage, kidnapping and assassination) headed by Yakov Serebryansky that was in touch with but operated independently of the KGB legal and illegal stations in New York. In 1940 Chivin refused to return to the USSR. The other “Smith” was Grigory Kheifets who worked initially for the New York legal station and was later send to California where the KGB maintained a small station operating out of the Soviet’s San Francisco consulate. Differentiating the two “Smiths” is in several cases difficult. “Smith” [Smit] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): ? Chivin early 1930s. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 40–41 (unclear if Chivin or Kheifets), 99 (unclear if Chivin or Kheifets), 152 (unclear if Chivin or Kheifets); Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 139–40 (unambiguous Chivin), 142 (unambiguous Chivin), 148 (unambiguous Chivin). “Smith” [Smit] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Grigory Kheifets. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 40– 41 (unclear if Chivin or Kheifets), 99 (unclear if Chivin or Kheifets), 152 (unclear if Chivin or Kheifets); Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 37 (unambiguously Kheifets).
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SMITH [SMIT] (cover name in Venona): Leonard Mins, 1943. Venona USA GRU, 72–73, 103–5, 110– 11, 119–21. Smith, Ted: Radio operator in British Merchant Navy, veteran of the International Brigades. Venona
Smith, Thomas: Possibly a State Department official. Venona New York KGB 1943, 153. Smith, Walter Bedell: U.S. Ambassador to the USSR, 1946–1948, former U.S. Army general. Also know as ‘Beetle’ Smith. Vassiliev Odd Pages: 7- 9, 13–17, 24–25; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 109, 112–14, 132, 134, 136, 138, 142; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 29. Smith-Nei or Smith-Na, ?: Unidentified. Likely a garbled hyphenated name. Venona USA Diplomatic, 15. Smodlaka, Josip: Senior figure in the Yugoslav Partisan (Communist) resistance. Venona Washington KGB, 62. Smolenskaya, Elena Glebovna: Soviet intelligence source/agent. Venona New York KGB 1944, 508. “Smolnyj”: Soviet ship. Venona San Francisco KGB, 250; Venona USA Naval GRU, 57. SMUTNYJ [VAGUE] (cover name in Venona): James Walter Miller. Venona San Francisco KGB, 13– 14, 20–21, 26, 35, 73; Venona Special Studies, 116. Smyka, Anastasia Illarionovna: Crewman on the Soviet tanker “Azerbaijan”. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 177. “Smyrna” [Smirna] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Moscow. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 66, 182; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 58, 62, 74, 115; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 38; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 24, 104. SMYRNA [SMIRNA] (cover name in Venona): Moscow. Venona New York KGB 1943, 4, 153, 348–49; Venona New York KGB 1944, 121, 125–26, 137, 157–58, 199, 203, 242–44, 250, 267, 365–66, 373, 377, 379, 402–3, 446, 457, 562, 634, 645, 727; Venona New York KGB 1945, 176–78; Venona Washington KGB, 7–8, 10, 30; Venona San Francisco KGB, 35, 185, 216. Smyth, Henry DeWolf.: Physicist, participant in the Manhattan atomic project and member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1949–1954. Chief author of a authorized unclassified report made public in 1945 on the building of the atomic bomb. Venona San Francisco KGB, 281–82. “Snegirev” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Valentin A. Sorokin. (Alternative translation: Sneguirev). Vassiliev Black Notebook, 74, 81, 91; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 44–45, 69–73. “Snegov” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Boris Sokolov. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 75. SNK: Sovet narodnykh komissarov — Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR. Vassiliev Odd Pages, 3. Snopkov, Maksim Rodionovich: Chauffeur at the Soviet San Francisco consulate. Venona San Francisco KGB, 80. Snopkova, Agrafina Kirillovna: Wife of Maksim Snopkov. Also identified as Aleksandra Georgievna Nikolaevskaya. As Snopkova and Nikolaevskaya: Venona San Francisco KGB, 80. SNOW (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent Venona USA Naval GRU, 224–35. Snow, Helen Foster: See Nym Wales. Snyder, John: U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1946–1953. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 47. “Soba” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent, operating outside the U.S. and the brother of Olga Neyman. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 107. Sobell, Morton: Soviet intelligence source/agent. Engineer and member of Julius Rosenberg’s technical intelligence apparatus. Convicted of espionage in 1951 and imprisoned. Admitted espionage in 2008.
157 Cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Senya” (1944–1945) and “Stone” (1951). In
——————————— 157. Sam Roberts, “Figure in Rosenberg Case Admits to Spying,” New York Times, 11 September 2008. one Venona decryption (Venona New York KGB 1944, 295) Venona analysts suggest that the cover name RELAY, later changed to SERB, was “possibly Morton Sobell”. However, in another decoded message Venona analysts withdraw this identification as impossible (Venona
Venona analysts also noted their withdrawal of the Sobell identification at Venona Special Studies, 60 and 65). As Sobell: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 120; Venona New York KGB 1944, 295, 462; Venona Special Studies, 60, 65. As “Senya”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 113, 119–20, 126–28, 132, 135–36; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 110–11, 116, 120. As “Stone”: Vassiliev
Sobkowski, Leon: Polish diplomat. Venona USA Diplomatic, 56–57, 59. Soble, Jack: Soviet intelligence officer/agent. Arrested in 1957, he confessed and was sentenced to seven years in prison. Cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Abram” until September 1944 (with occasional use thereafter), then “Czech”, appears as “Peter” by early 1945, then “Czech” once more. Cover names in Venona: ABRAM, ABRAHAM, and CZECH [CHEKH]. As Soble: Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 75; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 89, 104, 106. As “Abram”: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 55, 74; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 16–17, 65, 76, 82–84, 86– 87, 91. As “Czech”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 62–53, 67–68; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 55; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 75–77, 81; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3,17, 20–22, 24–26, 28–34, 36–3840–42, 46, 48, 53–54, 65, 71–72, 82–83, 85–103; Venona New York KGB 1943, 184, 238, 359; Venona New York KGB 1944, 70, 225, 404, 462, 524, 575, 719; Venona New York KGB
ABRAM: Venona New York KGB 1943, 184, 238, 359; Venona New York KGB 1944, 69–70, 224–25, 404, 462, 523–24, 572, 574–75, 719; Venona New York KGB 1945, 30–31; Venona
CZECH [CHEKH]: Venona New York KGB 1944, 462; Venona Special Studies, 3, 78, 174. Soble, Myra: Soviet intelligence agent. Wife of Jack Soble. Arrested in 1957, she confessed and was sentenced to five years in prison. Cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Myra” and “Maria”. As Myra Soble: Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 75; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 104. As Download 5.28 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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