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White Notebook #3, 52, 101;
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 31, 67–68;
Vassiliev Yellow
Notebook #2, 44, 60–61;
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 1, 7, 55, 71–72, 75, 82, 92–94, 99;
Venona New York KGB 1943, 27, 78;
Venona New York KGB 1944, 76, 326, 651, 664, 683–84.
As “Zoniya”: Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 72.
Austrian Communist Party: Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 68.
Austrian Labour Committee in the U.S. and Austrain Labour Information (magazine): Venona New York
KGB 1943, 79, 84.
Austrian Socialists and Social Democrats: Venona New York KGB 1943, 79, 84–85.
“Author” [“Avtor”] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Soviet intelligence source/agent, 1939–1941.
Likely Corliss Lamont. “Author” in 1939–41 was described as “a millionaire. Chairman of
the Society of Friends of the Sov. Union. Recruited in Moscow”. Corliss Lamont was a
millionaire, chairman of the Society of Friends of the Soviet Union, and had visited Moscow at
the appropriate time. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 167, 172, 175.
“Author” [“Avtor”] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Vladimir B. Morkovin in 1945. Vassiliev
Black Notebook, 74, 119, 122, 135.
AUTHOR [AVTOR] (cover name in Venona): Vladimir B. Morkovin. Venona New York KGB 1944,
275, 514; Venona Special Studies, 3.
“Avanesov”: Soviet ship. Venona San Francisco KGB , 199; Venona USA Naval GRU, 82, 160.
“Avangard” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Vanguard”.
Avdeyev, ?: Name in the Whalen documents, 1930. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 74.
Averescu, Alexander: Romanian Field Marshal and political leader. Venona New York KGB 1944, 430.
Avery Manufacturing Company: Venona New York KGB 1944, 275, 288.
AVGUR [AUGUR] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent. Venona
New York KGB 1944, 91; Venona Special Studies, 3.
“Avgust” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “August”.
Avia Corporation: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 6.
Aviakhim: Soviet volunteer society dealing with aviation and chemical industries. Later merged with a
military civil defense organization, Oso, to form a broad civil defense organization – Osoavikhim.
Vassiliev’s Vassiliev Odd Pages, 6.
Aviation Division, Department of the Navy: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 1, 4–5.
Aviation, U.S. Department of: Reference to in 1933–34. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 1, 5, 39 The
United States did not have a Department of Aviation in 1933–34. The reference on page 1 is
clearly an error for the Aviation Division of the Department of the Navy and the reference on
page 5 is likely so as well. The reference on page 39 is likely a misunderstanding by Moscow
headquarters about how military aviation in the United States was organized.
“Aviator” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent, 1943.
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 14.
Avinavitsky, ?: Red Army general, chief of the Soviet War Academy of Chemical Defense in the 1930s,
later executed. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 122.
AVRAAM [ABRAHAM] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent.
Venona New York KGB 1943, 343;
Venona Special Studies, 3.
Avseevich, ?: Unidentified Soviet official in Moscow. Venona USA Trade, 26.
AVSTRALIJKA [AUSTRALIAN WOMAN, the] (cover name in Venona): Francia Yakil'nilna Mitynen.
Venona USA Naval GRU, 3.
AVT-3A: American military aviation radio. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 108.
Avtodor: Early Soviet society promoting automobiles and roads. Vassiliev’s Vassiliev Odd Pages, 6.
AVTOR [AUTHOR] (cover name in Venona): Vladimir B. Morkovin. Venona New York KGB 1944,
273, 275, 514; Venona Special Studies, 3.
“Avtor” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Author”.
AVVS: See USAAF. Venona Washington KGB, 63.
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Axis: The
alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Venona New York KGB 1943, 78, 130, 208; Venona
KGB New York 1944 Cable, 651; Venona Washington KGB, 14, 38; Venona USA GRU, 83;
Venona USA Naval GRU, 114, 240–41.
“Azerbaijan” and “Azerbajdzhan”: Soviet ship. As “Azerbaijan”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 177;
Venona New York KGB 1943, 181, 313;
Venona New York KGB 1945, 169. As “Azerbajdzhan”:
Venona New York KGB 1943, 181;
Venona New York KGB 1945, 169;
Venona USA Naval GRU,
263.
Azione Italiana Garibaldi: Italian patriotic organization formed in Argentina.
Venona New York KGB
1943, 118.
Azizov, Harry: Described as a former employee of a steel-smelting company in Chicago and vulnerable to
exposure by Whittaker Chambers. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “116
th
”. As Azizov
and “116
th
”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 77.
Azneft: Soviet oil industry agency.
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 11.
...azo: Partial decryption of a name. Venona New York KGB 1943, 157.
Azores, The: Venona New York KGB 1944, 388.
“B” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence agent in Mexico in 1950.
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 48.
B. (cover name in Venona): The Plant [ZAVOD] – Soviet consulate in New York. Personal code used
by MAJ/Apresyan. Venona New York KGB 1944, 192.
B, D.: Initials (D.B.) of someone to whom “Mora” gave material. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 22.
“B”: Initial for a cover name or a real name connected with KGB plans for use of the music company of
Boris Morros and Alfred Stern. Likely “B” for Boris Morros in as much as it is paired with “A”
for Alfred Stern. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 16–17.
B.: Initial of a real name in the Venona decryptions. Likely Joseph Bauer. Venona New York KGB
1944, 498–99. .
B-17: American heavy bomber (“Flying Fortress”). Venona New York KGB 1944, 496; Venona USA
Naval GRU, 13, 36, 302.
B-20: Likely a reference to the A-20 American light bomber. Venona New York KGB 1945, 89.
B-24: American heavy bomber. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 85; Venona New York KGB 1944, 496;
Venona Washington KGB, 63.
B-25 (B25): American medium bomber: Venona New York KGB 1944, 260, 496; Venona San Francisco
KGB, 65;
Venona USA GRU, 145.
B-26 American medium bomber. Venona Washington KGB, 63.
B-29 (B29): American heavy bomber. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 85; Venona New York KGB 1944,
496; Venona San Francisco KGB, 74; Venona Washington KGB, 63; Venona USA GRU, 152.
B-2C: Reference to an American aircraft, possibly the SB2C Helldiver dive bomber.
B-32: American heavy bomber. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 85; Venona Washington KGB, 63.
“Bab” and Bab’s wife (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence
officer/agent and wife, references to in 1950. (Alternative translation: Bob). Vassiliev Black
Notebook, 95.
“Bab” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Described as “A senator, vice chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee. Visited the USSR”. (Alternative translation: Bob). Referenced to in
1933 as having been a circa-1928 contact via an questionable agent. Likely Senator William H.
King (D. Utah), who visited the USSR in 1923 and in 1933 was the ranking majority member of
the Senate Finance Committee. The Senate Finance Committee, like other Senate committee,
did not have a “vice-chairman”, but the ranking majority member was the second ranking
position after the chairman. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 1.
“Bab” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified. Described in 1934 as employed by the
International Press Division of DOS. (Alternative translation: Bob). Vassiliev Black Notebook,
4.
Babanov, ?: Soviet ship captain. Venona USA Naval GRU, 176.