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ACHIEVEMENT [DOSTIZHENIE] (cover name in Venona): A KGB operation involving Mexico,
possibly in reference to attempts to gain release of Trotsky’s assassin. Venona New York KGB
1943, 82–83;
Venona New York KGB 1944, 39–40.
ACHILLES [AKHIL] (cover name in Venona): Likely Arthur Adams. ACHILLES was an unidentified
GRU agent in Venona. But ACHILLES is identified as Adams’ GRU cover name during
1939–1946 in Russian literature on the GRU, and ACHILLES’s activities reported in the Venona
cables fit with FBI surveillance of Adams during World War II.
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Venona USA GRU, 1, 90.
“Achilles” [“Akhill”] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Karl Dunts.
Vassiliev Black Notebook, 27,
100; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 99, 106.
“Achilles” (cover name in Venona): A speculative decoding of a partially solved cover name. Venona
Special Studies, 174.
“Acorn” [“Zholud'”] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Bela (William) Gold. Vassiliev Black
Notebook, 78;
Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 6, 68;
Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 31, 33;
Vassiliev
White Notebook #3, 28, 30–31, 34–35, 38, 42.
ACORN [ZHOLUD'] (cover name in Venona): Bela (William) Gold. Venona New York KGB 1945 8–9,
16; Venona Special Studies, 27.
ACP: American Communist Party. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 147; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 46;
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 50, 104.
Active measures: Aktivakhi – aktivnye meropriyatiya. Described actions taken to plant disinformation
in the mainstream press and media via ostensibly non-Communist or neutral sources. Vassiliev
Black Notebook, 71, 87; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 57–58.
“Actor” [“Akter”] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent.
Member of the American Socialist Party, source on Trotskyist movement in 1937, visited Trotsky
in Mexico. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 28.
ADA (cover name in Venona): Kitty Harris. Venona New York KGB 1943, 362–63; Venona Special
Studies, 3; Venona Mexico City KGB, 3, 11, 64–65, 90–91, 103–4, 120–21, 129, 141–42, 144,
156, 189, 216, 232, 254–56, 261–62, 308, 310, 316, 330–31, 339–41, 343, 353.
“Adam” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Eva Getsov. (“Adam” as a cover name for “Eva”
Getzov looks like a KGB play on words “Adam” and “Eve”.) “Adam” was identified in 1944
and 1945 Venona decryptions as Rebecca Getzoff. While it seems likely, it is not firmly
established that Eva Getsov and Rebecca Getzoff are the same person. “Adam” appears to be
garbled once as “Adams” As “Adam”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 68, 78, 101, 176; Vassiliev
White Notebook #1, 66, 145; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 30, 32–33; Vassiliev White Notebook
#3, 74, 80; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 83; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 67. As “Adams”:
Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 48.
ADAM (cover name in Venona): “Probably” Rebecca Getzoff. Venona New York KGB 1944, 197–98,
224–25, 251, 271–72; Venona New York KGB 1945, 127; Venona Special Studies, 3.
Adamic, Louis: Slovenian American writer active in left circles, supporter of Tito. Vassiliev White
Notebook #2, 26, 33.
“Adams” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Soviet agent, referred to as a liaison/courier agent in
1942. Likely a garble for “Adam”/Getsov. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 48.
Adams, Arthur Alexandrovich: Soviet intelligence officer, GRU. Adams, born in Sweden, spend much
of his early life in Russia and joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic
Labor Party in the early 1900s. He emigrated to Canada and graduated from the University of
Toronto with a degree in engineering. He then moved to the United States and joined the radical
wing of the Socialist Party. In 1920 he became the head of the technical department of the
Soviet Russian Information Bureau, the new Soviet regime’s unofficial diplomatic office. The
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5. Vladimir Lota, GRU i Atomnaya Bomba (Moscow, Russia: OLMA-Press, 2002), 192–214.
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U.S. government shut down the Bureau in 1921
and deported its staff, including Adams. He
returned for several visits in in the late 1920s and early 1930s as a representative of the Soviet
aviation industry. In 1934 he joined the GRU and served as chief of the GRU illegal station in
the United States from 1935 to 1938 and again from 1939 to early 1946. Cover name in Venona:
ACHILLES [AKHIL]. As ACHILLES [AKHIL]: Venona USA GRU, 1, 90–91.
Adams, James Truslow: Well-known American historian. No relation of Josephine Truslow Adams.
Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 40.
Adams, Josephine Truslow: Secret Communist. Adams, who may have been mentally unbalanced,
convinced CPUSA chief Earl Browder that she as a confidant of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt
and was a covert communications link between the President and Browder.
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Vassiliev White
Notebook #2, 40;
Venona USA GRU, 105.
Adams, Walter S.: American astronomer. Venona New York KGB 1945, 139.
Adana conference: On 30 and 31 January 1943, Britain's Prime Minister Churchill met with Turkey's
President Ismet İnönü in Adana, Turkey to discuss Turkey’s position in World War II. Venona
New York KGB 1943, 108.
Addis, Thomas: Communist and physician at Stanford Medical School. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1,
24.
“Adjutant” [“Ad''yutant”] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Herbert Gaston, circa 1944. Vassiliev
White Notebook #1, 115.
“Adler” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified KGB agent/officer, Berlin, 1950. Vassiliev
Yellow Notebook #1, 88.
Adler, Friedrich Wolfgang: Refugee Austrian Social Democrat. Venona New York KGB 1943, 78–79,
84–85.
Adler, Solomon: Soviet intelligence source. Secret Communist and Treasurey Department official.
Cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Hello” [“Allo”] (prior to 1941) and “Sachs” [“Saks”]
(1941–1945). Cover name in Venona: SACHS [SAKS]. As Adler: Vassiliev Black Notebook,
78; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 41; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 33; Vassiliev White Notebook
#3, 60, 116–18. As “Hello”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 174. As “Sachs”: Vassiliev Black
Notebook, 43, 78, 174; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 23, 116; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 31,
33; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 30, 34–35, 41, 44, 68. As SACHS [SAKS]: Venona New York
KGB 1945, 11–12, 122;
Venona Special Studies, 64.
“Administration” [“Direktsiya”] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 116.
ADN: Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst – General German News Service. State news agency
of the German Democratic Republic. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 58.
Adriatic Sea: Venona New York KGB 1944, 368.
“Advokat” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Attorney”.
“Ad''yutant” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Adjutant".
AESCULAPIUS [ĒSKULAP] and AESCULAPIUS’s wife (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet
intelligence source/agents. AESCULAPIUS’s wife had some sort of association with the
University of Chicago and with technical or scientific activities. Venona USA GRU, 70, 90.
Af.: Initials for the name of a Soviet intelligence officer known to Boris Morros, possibility the officer
know to him as Afanasy Efimov. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 86, 98.
Afanas'ev, ?: Soviet ship crewman and internal security source. Cover name in Venona: MEL'NOSKIJ.
As Afanas'ev: Venona Special Studies, 108. As MEL'NOSKIJ: Venona San Francisco KGB,
109; Venona Special Studies, 108.
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6. Harvey Klehr, “The Strange Case of Roosevelt’s ‘Secret Agent’: Frauds, Fools, & Fantasies,”
Encounter [Great Britain] 9, no. 6 (1982): 84–91.