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American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born: Communist-aligned pro-emigrant body.
Venona
New York KGB 1944, 45.
American Committee of Jewish Writers, Artists and Scientists: Venona New York KGB 1943, 225;
Venona New York KGB 1944, 82.
American Communist Party: See Communist Party, USA.
American Federation of Labor (AFL): Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 78; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 2,
21, 47, 49; Venona New York KGB 1944, 41–42; Venona Washington KGB, 40, 42.
American Jewish Committee: As “Jewish Committee”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 20, 22; Vassiliev White
Notebook #1, 106; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 85, 91.
American Jewish Conference: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 62–63.
American Jewish Congress: As “Jewish Congress”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 20.
American Labor Party (ALP): A New York state party, 1936–1956. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 60;
Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 60–61, 64–66;
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 50;
Venona New York
KGB 1943, 282.
American League: Likely the American League Against War and Fascism. Vassiliev White Notebook #2,
13.
American Lurgy Corporation: Possible a garble in the title. Described as front for German intelligence.
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 94.
American Newspaper Guild: CIO union. Venona New York KGB 1944, 159.
“American Packer”: U.S. ship. Venona USA Naval GRU, 350.
American Relief Administration (ARA): American charity organized by Herbert Hoover to relieve the
famine in Soviet Russia, 1921–1923. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 47, 69.
American Rubber Corporation: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 6.
American Schering Company: Medical/pharmaceuticals firm. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 110; Vassiliev
Yellow Notebook #4, 107.
American Slav Congress: Slavic ethnic association aligned with the Communist Party. Venona New
York KGB 1944, 485.
American Socialist Party: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 28; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 144; Vassiliev
White Notebook #2, 14, 40, 105;
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 99;
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4,
9, 54, 114.
American-Russian Chamber of Commerce: Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 9.
American-Russian Institute: Pro-Soviet body headquartered in San Francisco. Cover name in Venona:
DEPARTMENT [OTDEL. As American-Russian Institute: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 77;
Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 138; Venona San Francisco KGB, 245. The “Russian-American
Institute” at Vassiliev White Notebook #, 41–42, is likely an error for the American-Russian
Institute. As DEPARTMENT [OTDEL: Venona San Francisco KGB, 245.
American-Russian Trade and Engineering Consultants (Amrusco): Firm run by Vasily Delgass and his
associates. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 78, 86–87, 89.
Americans: An American and Americans in plain text are not indexed because the excessive number of
occurrences makes the information of no value. However, three KGB cover names in
Vassiliev’s notebooks for Americans are indexed. As “Townsmen” and “Townsman” (circa
1944): Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 58–59, 71, 115; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 30. As
“Alpinists” (post-WWII): Vassiliev Black Notebook, 128, 130; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 81,
108. As “Brumians” (1950): Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 72–73. NATIVES [TUZEMTSY],
a cover name in Naval GRU messages, was left unidentified by Venona analysts but in context it
appears to be a Naval GRU reference to Americans. As NATIVES [TUZEMTSY]: Venona
USA Naval GRU, 123, 145–47, 196, 198.
Americans for Democratic Action: Liberal activist organization formed in 1947. Vassiliev White
Notebook #2, 151.
Americans for Haganah: Liberal pro-Zionist body active for a few years after World War II. Vassiliev
Black Notebook, 83.
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Amerika: Russian language publication of the United States Department of State for distribution in the
Soviet Union. Venona New York KGB 1943, 139.
“Amerikanets” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “American”.
Amerikanskaya Tekhnika: Amtorg publication. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 82–83.
“Amerikantsev”: Soviet ship. Venona San Francisco KGB, 283.
Ames, ?: Unidentified. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 19.
Ames, Edward: American diplomat, U.S. Embassy in Moscow, 1942–1945. Vassiliev Black Notebook,
91.
AMGOT: Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 106;
Venona New York KGB 1943, 323–24;
Venona USA Diplomatic, 4–5.
“Ami” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Joseph Davies, circa 1944. Vassiliev White Notebook #1,
115.
Am..idis, L.: Unidentified. Venona Secret Writings New York/Buenos Aires, 4.
“Amigo” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Soviet intelligence source/agent, likely Alfred Tanz.
“Amigo” was described as a veteran of the Spanish Civil War recruited into the OSS via the
CPUSA and a lawyer. All of these attributed fit Tanz and are not know to fit anyone else.
Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 1, 113.
Amkino: Soviet agency that distributed Soviet motion picture films in the United States. Succeeded by
Artkino Pictures, Inc. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 20.
Amkniga: Book-distributing agency in the U.S. for the Soviet state publishing house. Vassiliev Yellow
Notebook #4, 79–80.
Amminger, ?: Described as a Reichswehr office who died in the USSR circa 1930. Vassiliev Yellow
Notebook #4, 35.
AMOUR: Possible translation of cover name AMUR. Venona Special Studies, 173, 176.
AMP: Unknown abbreviation. Venona USA Naval GRU, 223.
AMPERE [AMPER] (cover name in the Venona decryptions): Harold Phillips. Unidentified by Venona
analysts. However, AMPERE is described as married to CORA, and “Cora” is identified in
Vassiliev’s notebooks as Emma Phillips and she was married to Harold Phillips. Venona New
York KGB 1944, 733–34;
Venona Special Studies, 6, 62.
Amrusco: American-Russian Trade and Engineering Consultants. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 78,
86–87, 89.
Amsterdam Conference: Early 1920s Comintern-affiliated body coordinating the new Western European
Communist parties. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 1.
Amsterdam-Pleyel movement: informal term for the World Committee for the Fight Against Imperialist
War and Fascism that met first in Amsterdam and later issued a major peace appeal from the
Salle Pleyel in Paris. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 123–24.
Amt: Spelling error for the surname of John Abt. Venona New York KGB 1944, 31–33, 113.
AMTCE: Section of the German RSHA: Reichssicherheitshauptamt – Reich Security Main Office.
Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 103.
Amtorg (AMTORG): Amerikanskaia torgovaia kompaniia – American Trading Company: Soviet
import-export agency in the United States. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Factory”
[“Fabrika”]. Cover names in Venona: FACTORY [FABRIKA] and D. As Amtorg: Vassiliev
Black Notebook, 3, 16, 20, 22–23, 28, 53, 79, 87, 114, 127, 158, 163–66, 168, 177; Vassiliev’s
Vassiliev Odd Pages, 1;
Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 29, 56, 88, 93, 115, 123–24, 127–29, 131,
144, 155; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 20; Venona New York KGB 1943, 56, 97, 154, 199, 266,
354, 358; Venona New York KGB 1944, 30, 68, 92, 107, 165, 185, 194, 180, 194, 202, 275, 343,
438–39, 443–44, 457, 473, 503, 538, 598, 614, 697, 703–4, 713, 743, 764; Venona New York
KGB 1945, 12, 25, 52, 69, 113, 131, 147, 181, 193, 206;
Venona San Francisco KGB, 145;
Venona USA Naval GRU, 120–21, 308;
Venona USA Trade, 28;
Venona USA Diplomatic, 78, 80.
As “Factory”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 124, 127–28, 182; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 29, 51,
115, 151; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 6, 22. As FACTORY [FABRIKA]: Venona New York