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Afanas'ev, ?: Soviet officer. May be Viktor V. Afanas'ev.
Venona San Francisco KGB, 100.
AFANAS'EV (cover name in Venona): Ivan Afanas'evich Chuzhin. Venona San Francisco KGB, 120;
Venona Special Studies, 93.
Afanas'ev, Viktor Vasil'evich: Soviet intelligence officer. Chiefly assigned to the Fifth line: KGB security
of Soviet merchant fleet and personnel. Cover as a diplomat at the San Franciso Consulate.
Cover name in Venona: SERGEJ. As Afanas'ev: Venona San Francisco KGB, 100, 165, 198,
201, 205, 207–10, 213–14, 218, 220, 228, 231, 240–41, 243, 246, 249 (spelled as Afanasiev),
252–54, 256, 260–62, 265–66, 268, 270, 272–75, 278, 283, 286, 290, 294, 302–3, 306, 309–310;
Venona New York KGB 1945, 137;
Venona Special Studies, 66, 116;
Venona USA Diplomatic, 20,
2. As SERGEJ: Venona New York KGB 1945, 137; Venona San Francisco KGB, 165–66, 198,
200–201, 205, 207–10, 213–14, 217–20, 231, 240–41, 243, 246, 249, 252–54, 256, 260–62,
265–66, 268, 270, 272–75, 278, 283, 286, 290, 294, 302–3, 306, 309–10; Venona Special Studies,
66, 116.
Afanas'eva, Nina: Nina Jones, the Russian-born wife of Francis Arthur Jones. Venona USA Diplomatic,
24; Venona USA Diplomatic, 71.
Afanasiev: See Viktor V. Afanas'ev. Venona San Francisco KGB, 249.
AFL (A.F.L.): American Federation of Labor. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 2; Venona New York KGB
1944, 41; Venona Washington KGB, 40.
Africa: Vassiliev’s Vassiliev Odd Pages, 31; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 53; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook
#2, 54;
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 147;
Venona USA Naval GRU, 114, 204, 239–41. Also
see North Africa, South Africa, and East Africa.
AFSA: Armed Forces Security Agency, U.S. Predecessor to the National Security Agency. Venona
Special Studies, 157, 160.
AFT: AMERIKANSKAYa FEDERATsIYa TRUDA – American Federation of Labor. Venona New
York KGB 1944, 41–42;
Venona Washington KGB, 40, 42.
Agabekov, Grigory: Soviet intelligence defector and author of Ch.K. za rabotoi [The Cheka at Work] in
1931, which appeared in the U.S. As OGPU, the Russian Secret Terror.
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Vassiliev’s Vassiliev
Odd Pages, 6;
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 85.
Agafonov, ?: Soviet diplomatic courier. Venona USA Diplomatic, 62, 68.
Agapov, ?: Unidentified Soviet official. Venona USA Trade, 28.
Agayants, I.: Soviet intelligence officer, Moscow Center. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 93–94, 144.
Ageev, Aleksej Prokhorovich: On the staff of the SGPC. Venona San Francisco KGB, 2–3.
Agentura: KGB collective term for its sources and agents.
Ager, ?: Described as director of Jack Soble’s factory near Paris, 1952. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3,
88.
“Agnes” [“Agnessoy”] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence
source/agent, 1948. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 76.
“Agnessoy” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Agnes”.
Agranov, Yakov Samuilovich: Senior KGB officer executed in 1938. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 91,
94, 97.
Agricultural Adjustment Administrations, U.S. (AAA): Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 1.
Agricultural Commission in New York: Likely a reference to a CPUSA committee that dealt with
agricultural policy matters. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 1, 64.
Agriculture, U.S. Department of: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 2, 56, 68, 77; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 4;
Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 89; Venona New York KGB 1943, 323; Venona New York KGB
1944, 356, 592; Venona Washington KGB, 40.
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7. Grigorii Sergeevich Agabekov, Ch. K. Za Rabotoi [The Cheka at Work] (1931). Published in the
U.S. as: G. S. Agabekov,
OGPU, the Russian Secret Terror (New York: Brentano’s, 1931).
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Aguirre, Francisco: Cuban delegate to the San Francisco U.N. conference.
Venona San Francisco KGB,
248.
“Agwi Prince”: U.S. ship.
Venona USA Naval GRU, 287.
AHILL: Possible decryption of a cover name. Venona Special Studies, 174.
AHMET: Possible decryption of a cover name. Venona Special Studies, 174.
“Aida” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Likely Esther Trebach Rand. Unidentified in Vassiliev’s
notebooks but identified in Venona as Rand. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 55.
AIDA (cover name in Venona): Esther Trebach Rand. Venona New York KGB 1944, 82, 462; Venona
Special Studies, 3, 36, 174.
AILERON [ELERON] (cover name in Venona): Abraham George Silverman. Venona New York KGB
1943, 210, 230–31, 236, 314;
Venona New York KGB 1944, 461, 583;
Venona New York KGB
1945, 8;
Venona Special Studies, 81
Venona Special Studies.
“Aileron” [“Eleron”] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Abraham George Silverman. Vassiliev
Black Notebook, 77, 189;
Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 5, 14, 42, 44, 56, 65, 67–69, 71–73;
Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 31, 33;
Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 13, 23–25, 27–28, 31, 33–36,
38, 46, 60; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 79–80.
Air Force, U.S.: Vassiliev’s Vassiliev Odd Pages, 18; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 80. Also see Army
Air Corps entry.
AIR UNIT [USTANOVKA VOZDUKHA] and AIR UNITS [USTANOVKI VOZDUKHA] (cover name
in Venona): Reference to jet aircraft and jet engine development. Venona New York KGB 1944,
133, 228, 406–08, 498.
“Air” [“Vozdukh”] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Aviation intelligence, particularly jet engines
and jet aircraft. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 68, 117, 119, 136. As VOZDUKH: Venona New
York KGB 1944, 145.
“Aiva” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent, 1950 on
Middle-East / Israeli matters. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 96.
AÏDA: See AIDA. Venona New York KGB 1944, 82.
AJ (cover name in Venona): Mikhail A. Vorontsov. Venona USA Naval GRU, 308, 311, 313, 317, 326,
330–32, 334–35, 340–42, 346, 355–57, 361–62, 364–66, 368–71, 378, 383–84.
AJSBURG (cover name in Venona): See ICEBERG. Venona New York KGB 1945, 89.
Ajzek, Roza: See Rose Isaaks. Venona San Francisco KGB, 245.
“Akademich” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Academic”.
Akets, William: Soviet intelligence source/agent. Described as reserve lieutenant of Army Intelligence
Corps, early 1930s. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Sh-142”. As Akets: Vassiliev
Yellow Notebook #4, 23–24. As “Sh-142”: Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 23.
AKHIL [ACHILLES] (cover name in Venona): Likely Arthur Adams. AKHIL [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,
90–91.
“Akhill” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Achilles”.
AKHMAD (cover name in Venona): Error for AKHMED.
Venona New York KGB 1945, 100.
“Akhmed” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent, cover
name “Thrush” prior to September 1944. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 55.
AKHMED (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent. Venona New York
KGB 1944, 435, 462, 493–94, 610–11, 636–37, 724, 726;
Venona New York KGB 1945, 16, 32,
100–101; Venona Special Studies, 10, 25.
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8. Vladimir Lota, GRU i Atomnaya Bomba (Moscow, Russia: OLMA-Press, 2002), 192–214.