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KGB 1943, 56;
Venona New York KGB 1944, 67–68, 91, 106–7, 165, 180, 185, 192, 202, 342,
438, 443, 472, 502, 597, 613–14, 696, 703–4, 742–43, 763–64; Venona New York KGB 1945, 192,
205–6. As D.: Venona New York KGB 1944, 192.
AMUR (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent. AMUR had the cover
name ZHANNET until October 1944. (Venona’s AMUR, translated as CUPID, is not the same
person as the “Cupid” [“Amur”] in Vassiliev’s notebooks.) Venona New York KGB 1944, 542,
719; Venona Special Studies, 6, 27, 173, 176.
“Amur” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Cupid”.
AN USSR: Akademia Nauk – Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
AN/APN-12: American military airborne radio interrogation and rendezvous device. Vassiliev White
Notebook #1, 122.
AN/APQ-7: High resolution American airborne radar. Also appears as APQ-7. Venona New York
KGB 1944, 715–16.
AN/APS-1: American military airborne radar searching, mapping and bombing device. Vassiliev White
Notebook #1, 122.
AN/APS-12: American military airborne fire control radar. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 122.
AN/APS-2: American military radar bombsight. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 121.
Anarchists: Reference to the anarcho-syndicalist movement of Spain and Mexico. Venona New York
KGB 1943, 170;
Venona New York KGB 1944, 164.
“Anatoli” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Anatoly”.
“Anatoly” [“Anatoli”] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified KGB officer/agent Berlin
1950. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 89.
ANCHOR [YAKOR'] (cover name in Venona): ? Rud...ovich. Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 61;
Venona New York KGB 1944, 361; Venona Special Studies, 85.
AN/CPQ-1: American radar proximity fuse for bombs and artillery shells. Vassiliev White Notebook #1,
121.
AN-CRT-4: American military radio transmitting equipment. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 122.
Anderson, ?: Source in the FBI claimed by Samuel Dickstein in 1939.
Vassiliev Black Notebook, 163.
Anderson, Carl D.: Nobel-prize winning physicist at the California Institute of Technology. Venona
New York KGB 1945, 140.
Anderson class: Likely a reference to the Sims class American destroyers. Venona USA Naval GRU,
309.
Anderson, Clinton: Secretary of Agriculture, 1945–48. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 56; Venona
Washington KGB, 40.
Anderson, H. L.: Senior scientist involved with construction of the first nuclear reactor at the Manhattan
atomic project facility at the University of Chicago. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 35–36.
“Andi” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Andy”.
Andreev, ?: A senior naval officer in Moscow. Venona USA Naval GRU, 173.
Andreev, ?: Someone for whom Naval GRU was tasked to obtain an American-built artificial leg.
Likely the Andreev referenced as a senior naval officer in Moscow. Venona USA Naval GRU,
232–33.
ANDREEV (cover name in Venona): Unidentified.
Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 74–75;
Venona
San Francisco KGB, 122, 145;
Venona Special Studies, 6.
ANDREJ (cover name in Venona): Unidentified. Appears to be a Soviet assigned to assist in
propagandizing Americans involved in loading Soviet ships. Venona New York KGB 1944,
676–77; Venona Special Studies, 6.
ANDREJ (cover name in Venona): Unidentified officer at Moscow Center. Venona New York KGB
1943, 36; Venona Special Studies, 6.
Andrej: See Andrey.
Andrews, Bert: Washington journalist. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 121.
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“Andrey” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified KGB officer/agent. References to in
1934. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 40.
Andrienko, ?: Unidentified Soviet official. Venona USA Trade, 7.
Andropov, Y.V.: KGB officer and coauthor of Station Chief Gold. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 138.
“Andy” [“Andi”] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified GRU station chief 1945.
Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 59.
An....el' or Ans...el': Partial decryption of a name. Venona USA Naval GRU, 243.
“Angel” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Tamara Ullman-Pogorelskaya. Vassiliev Black
Notebook, 101, 106.
ANGELE (cover name in Venona): Possible Latin alphabet original for ANZHEL, a transliteration from
Cyrillic Russian. Venona New York KGB 1943, 151.
ANGELITAS: Unidentified. Unclear if a cover name or a real name. Venona New York KGB 1943,
20–22.
ANGELL: Considered as a possible source of the transliterated cover name ANZHEL. Venona New
York KGB 1943, 151.
ANGLIYA: Anglia, term for England or Great Britain. Venona New York KGB 1943, 5; Venona San
Francisco KGB, 234;
Venona USA GRU, 40.
Anglo-American: References to the close ties of America and Britain. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 57,
144; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 85; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 129, 133, 139; Venona New
York KGB 1943, 158, 208; Venona New York KGB 1944, 303, 357, 429, 468–69, 537, 556, 730;
Venona San Francisco KGB, 234, 255; Venona USA GRU, 84; Venona USA Naval GRU, 356.
See also Anglo-Saxon.
Anglo-Persian Oil company: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 3; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 6.
Anglo-Saxon: References to the close ties of America and Britain. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 56;
Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 98–100, 102;
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 122;
Venona New York
KGB 1945, 80. See also Anglo-American.
“Angora” [“Angore”] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): United States of America, 1937. Vassiliev
Yellow Notebook #2, 13.
Anikeev, Nicholas Michael: American naval officer of Russian extraction. Assigned as an interpreter
with Soviet naval personnel. Venona USA Naval GRU, 49–50, 146–47, 338, 359.
Anikiyev, ?: Name in the Whalen documents, 1930. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 74.
Anilobyednineniye: State Association of Aniline and Ink Factories (USSR). Vassiliev Yellow Notebook
#4, 108.
ANISIMOV (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent. May be a real
name. Venona San Francisco KGB, 80.
ANITA (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent. Venona New York KGB
1943, 70–71;
Venona New York KGB 1944, 396–97;
Venona Special Studies, 6.
Ankara, Turkey: Venona New York KGB 1943, 163, 175.
Ann Arbour: Misspelling of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Venona New York KGB 1945, 140.
“Anna” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence agent, a Volga German
trained for work behind German lines in the USSR in 1941. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 62.
Annals Of Otology, Rhinology And Laryngology (journal): Venona New York KGB 1945 128.
“Announcer” [“Diktor”]: See “Radio-Announcer”.
“Ant” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Kristel Fuchs Heineman, sister of Klaus Fuchs. Vassiliev
Black Notebook, 133, 135; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 18, 72, 80, 104.
ANT (cover name in Venona): Kristel Fuchs Heineman. Venona New York KGB 1945, 72–73; Venona
Special Studies, 6.
Ant, John: Misspelling of John Abt. Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 37.
ANTENKO (cover name in Venona): Appears to be an early Venona decoding latter revised to
ANTENNA/Rosenberg. Venona Special Studies, 132–33, 141.