29
Vassiliev’s unpublished summary narrative “Enormous”
used to write the Haunted Wood.
10
“Arseny” transliterated as ARSENIJ and ARSENIY and translated as ARSENIUS was identified
in the Venona decryptions as KGB officer Andrey Shevchenko, indicating that Shevchenko was
Raina’s American pseudonym. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 110, 113, 117, 119, 121–22, 124, 126,
135; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 109, 118; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 29, 34, 76, 81.
“Art” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Helen Koral beginning in September 1944. Vassiliev Black
Notebook, 76, 79; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 55, 66; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 31;
Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 42; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 81, 83–88.
ART (cover name in Venona): Helen Koral. (There are two Venona messages where Venona analysts
thought ART was Alexander Koral, Helen’s husband. Taken in totality, however, it is clear that
ART was Helen Koral while Alexander Koral had the cover name BERG.) Venona New York
KGB 1944, 462–63, 619, 633, 666–68, 733–34;
Venona New York KGB 1945, 158–59, 203;
Venona Special Studies, 9, 47.
ARTEK (cover name in Venona): Leonid Dmitrievich Abramov. Venona New York KGB 1943, 111,
302–3; Venona New York KGB 1944, 72, 96–97, 101, 195, 236, 238–39, 276, 318, 354–55, 514;
Venona New York KGB 1945, 84, 195; Venona Special Studies, 9 (Note confusion of ARTEM
and ARTEK at Venona New York KGB 1945, 84, 195).
ARTEL, 175 Venona Special Studies.
“Artem” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): A. Slavyagin, KGB officer. “Artem” was identified in
the Venona decryptions as likely the cover name of either G. N. Ogloblin or M.N. Khvostov,
Soviet diplomatic staff. The 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.
Vassiliev Black Notebook, 79; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 81.
ARTEM (cover name in Venona): ARTEM was identified in the Venona decryptions as likely the cover
name of either G. N. Ogloblin or M.N. Khvostov, Soviet diplomatic staff. ARTEM as “Artem”
was identified in Vassiliev’s notebooks as KGB officer A. Slavyagin. Likely Slavyagin used the
name G. N. Ogloblin or M.N. Khvostov as the pseudonym of his diplomatic cover. 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).
Artemenko, Koz'ma Petrovich: Soviet naval officer. Venona San Francisco KGB, 130–31, 250–52;
Venona Special Studies, 93.
ARTHUR [ARTUR] (cover name in Venona): Soviet intelligence officer operating in Central and South
America. Likely Iosif Grigulevich. Grigulevich is identified with the cover name “Arthur” or
“Artur” in the early 1940s when operating in Central and South America in several sources.
11
Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 25; Venona New York KGB 1943, 125–26, 202–3; Venona New
York KGB 1944, 224–25, 517;
Venona Special Studies, 9–10.
ARTHUR [ARTUR] (cover name in Venona): Thomas Bisson. Venona New York KGB 1943, 233;
Venona USA GRU, 30, 32, 38, 51, 103.
“Arthur” See “Artur”.
Artiksnab: Unidentified Soviet agency, 1933. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 23.
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10. Alexander Vassiliev, “Enormous,” Alexander Vassiliev papers, box 4, Library of Congress.
11. Christopher M. Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive
and the Secret History of the KGB (New York: Basic Books, 1999), 99–101; Jerrold L. Schecter and
Leona Schecter, Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History
(Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 2002), 61–62; Benson, Venona Story, 50.
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ARTIST [KHUDOZHNIK] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified, 1940s.
Venona Special Studies,
76.
“Artist” [“Khudozhnik”] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Jacob Golos’s source at McClure’s
Newspaper syndicate in 1939. Likely Elizabeth Bentley.
12
Vassiliev Black Notebook, 160.
Artkino Pictures, Inc.: Soviet agency that distributed Soviet motion picture films in the United States.
Successor to Amkino. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 22; Venona New York KGB 1944, 695.
Artonius (cover name in Venona): See ARTEM. Venona New York KGB 1944, 192.
ARTUR [ARTHUR] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent, GRU.
Venona USA Naval GRU, 186, 228.
ARTUR [ARTHUR] (cover name in Venona): Thomas Bisson. Venona USA GRU, 30, 32–33, 38, 51,
103.
ARTUR [ARTHUR] (cover name in Venona): Soviet intelligence officer operating in Central and South
America. Likely Iosif Grigulevich. Grigulevich is identified with the cover name “Arthur” or
“Artur” in the early 1940s when operating in Central and South America in several sources.
13
Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 3–5, 24–25, 38, 41; Venona New York KGB 1943, 20–22,
30–32, 59, 61, 73–74, 112–13, 115–16, 118, 120–22, 126, 155–60, 202–4, 360;
Venona New York
KGB 1944, 136, 154–55, 224, 396–97, 456, 589–90, 757;
Venona Special Studies, 9–10, 89.
“Artur” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Soviet intelligence officer operating in Mexico,
1941–1943, with “Express Messenger” as one of his couriers. Likely Iosif Grigulevich.
References to in 1944 and 1947. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 84, 88.
ARTUR (cover name in Secret Writings): Soviet intelligence officer operating in Central and South
America. Likely Iosif Grigulevich. Venona Secret Writings New York/Buenos Aires, 3, 15.
Artuzov, Artur Khristyanovich: Chief of OGPU foreign intelligence, 1931–1935, executed in 1937.
Vassiliev Black Notebook, 7; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 7, 45, 47, 65–66.
“Arunah Abell”: U.S. ship. Venona USA Naval GRU, 350–51.
Arutinyan, ?: Unidentified Soviet personnel. Venona USA Diplomatic, 74.
Arutyunov, Nikolaj Bagratovich: Some connection to Amtorg. Venona New York KGB 1943, 199.
ASA: Army Security Agency, predecessor to NSA. Venona Special Studies, 156.
Asatiani: Unclear. Venona San Francisco KGB, 76.
ASDIC: British term for Sonar. Venona USA Naval GRU, 230, 249.
Aseev, Pavel Nikolaevich: Soviet military Attaché. Venona USA GRU, 26–27; Venona USA Trade, 7.
Ashikhmin, ?: Unidentified. Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 11.
“Ashkhabad”: Soviet ship. Venona USA Naval GRU, 77, 143.
Asia (journal):
Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 41.
Asimow, Morris: See Harry Azizov.
ASIO: Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. Venona New York KGB 1943, 17, 19, 23, 103,
153–54, 176, 179, 255, 287, 299, 322, 325, 340; Venona New York KGB 1944, 301, 527; Venona
New York KGB 1945, 64, 68, 70, 133, 135, 138, 166, 199, 203;
Venona San Francisco KGB, 293,
299–300, 304–5, 310; Venona USA GRU, 78, 110, 113.
“Askol'd”: Soviet ship. Venona USA Trade, 29.
“Asmussar”: Soviet ship. Venona San Francisco KGB, 37.
“Aspirant” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Graduate Student”.
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12. Bentley discusses her infiltration of McClure’s at Golos’s direction in Elizabeth Bentley and
Hayden B. Peake,
Out of Bondage: The Story of Elizabeth Bentley (New York: Ivy Books, 1988), 73–74,
76.
13. Andrew and Mitrokhin, Sword and the Shield, 99–101; Schecter and Schecter, Sacred
Secrets, 61–62; Benson,
Venona Story, 50.