Venona Special Studies doc

 
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                                                                  M35 
 
 
 
New York-Moscow 
1944 
No. 638 (5 May) 
 
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     Please......and sanction drawing into work Alfred Sarant, a 
 
lead [or: tip] of Antenna's [ANTENNA]
a
.  He is 25 years old, a Crook, n 
 
 an American citizen, lives in Tyre [TIR]
b
.  Finished the engineering 
 
course at Cooper Union in 1940.  Worked 2 years in a Signal Corp 
 
laboratory at Fort Mammoth [MAMOT]
c
.  Was discharged for past union 
 
activity.  Has been working for 2 years for Western Electric 
 
                    [30 groups on a depth of one] 
 
entrance into the Fellow-Countrymanly [
ZEMLIACHESKAYA
]
d
.  Sarant lives 
 
separate from [his] family.  Do not delay reply. 
 
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                                             May [MAY] 
 
     5 May 
 
 
 
        a
Julius Rosenberg. 
 
        b
New York, New York. 
 
        c
That is, Fort Monmouth. 
 
        d
The Communist Party of the country in question. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                         27 June 1950 
  
                                                        27 xxxxx 1950 
 
 

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Special Study 
 
MESSAGES IN . . . INVOLVING THE COVERNAME"ENORMOZ" 
AND THE NAMES OF NUCLEAR PHYSICISTS, ETC. 

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TO    FROM   DATE    SUBJECT 
Chief, 
AS-90  AS-93 21 Apr48     Study of nnnnnnnn Messages 
 
     The attached study of messages innnnnnnnn involving cover 
names is forwarded for your information. This report is a con- 
tiuation of the study forwardes to CSGAS-90, 16 April 1948, 
subject: Study RUDAI-2A Messages. 
 
                              Hugh S. Erskine 
Incl                          HUGH S. ERSKINE 
                              Lt. Col., Signal Corps 
                              Chief, CSGAS-93 
 
 
 
 
                1  For information 
 
                2  No distribution has been 
                 made of this information 
 
                       Frank B Rowlett 
 
                         AS-90 
 
                               22 Apr 48 
 
 
AS-90  AS-10 1 May           Further information along  
 
this line would be of  
 
great help to Security Group. 
 
HSA 
 

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                                                   AS93-944685 
                                                      4 
 
 
 
TO     FROM   DATE    SUBJECT    
 Chief, 
 AS-90  AS-93 16 Apr48     Study of nnnnnnnn Messages 
 
      The attached study of messages in nnnnnnnn involving the cover 
 name ENORMOZ and the names of nuclear physicists is forwarded for 
 your information. 
 
          Hugh S. Erskine 
1 Incl                               HUGH S. ERSKINE 
          Lt. Col., Signal Corps 
          Chief, CSGAS-93 
 
 
 
               1  For information 
               2  No distribution has been 
                made of this information 
 
Frank B Rowlett 
      AS-90 
22 Apr 48 
 

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AS93-944685 
                                               4 
 
 
Chief, 
AS-90    AS-93  16 Apr48          Study of nnnnnnnn Messages 
 
     The attached study of messages in nnnnnnnn involving the cover 
name ENORMOZ and thenames of nuclear physicists is forwarded for 
your information. 
 
 
                                            HUGH S. ERSKINE 
                 Lt. Col., Signal Corps 
                 Chief, CSGAS-93 
 

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Chief, 
AS-90 
AS-93 16 Apr48  Study ofnn nnnnnn Messages 
 
     The attached study of messages in nnnnnnnn involving the cover 
name ENORMOZ and the names of nuclear physicists is forwarded for 
your information. 
 
 
1 Incl                              HUGH S. ERSKINE 
         Lt. Col., Signal Corps 
         Chief, CSGAS-93 
 

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   MESSAGES IN nnnlnnnnn INVOLVING THE COVERNAME 
"ENORMOZ" AND THE NAMES OF NUCLEAR PHYSICISTS, ETC. 
 
 
 
     1.  For some time the covername "ENORMOZ" (which is not 
a word found in Russian dictionaries, but is obviously based  
on the English enormous) has been known to occur in one or  
two New York - Moscow messages of 1944 in the system nnnnnnnn 
but previously the context has not been readable enough to  
limit the possible reference of the name.  Recently enough 
context has been recovered to suggest a possible link between 
ENORMOZ and war-time nuclear fission research.  The point of 
connection is message 1773 of 16 December 1944, in which  
first a man definitely connected with ENORMOZ is being talked  
about and then, after a gap of ten group, there is talk of  
OPPENHEIM and KISTIAKOWSKI.  The gap may conceal some indica- 
tion of a change of subject; but the possibility that ENORMOZ 
is connected with the work of Oppenheim and Kistiakowski is 
too strong to be dismissed without comment. 
 
     2.  It will be sufficient, for the rest, to give a trans- 
lation of four messages.  These are still full of gaps; and 
the nature of the problem is such that almost anything included 
in the translation may be in the future be radically revised. 
 
         The message numbers and dates not enclosed in brackets 
are the external ones; those in brackets are the internal ones. 
Covernames are explained in brackets when the reference is 
known. 
 
     3.  New York - Moscow 850 [458], 15 June 1944: 
 
     To VIKTOR. 
 
         --6F-- report MSN-1* [1 digit or group of letters 
     wanting] EFRENT FLUKTUATSIYA [?efferent fluctuation?] 
     --1F-- --2U-- --37F-- ...sion method--work according  
to (?their?) (?specialties? ?specifications?). 
(??Radiation?? [very doubtful]) --11F-- islanders 
[British] and urbanites [Americans] final(ly) --14F--. 
The urbanites stated to the representative of the  
island [Great Britain] that the construction of a/the 
plant on the island inevitably would directly contradict 
the spirit of the agreement on ENORMOZ "(?earnestly?) 
imputed by the Atlantic Charter".  At the moment --1U-- 
(Of) the island [Great Britain] in Carthage [Washington] 
is looking into the details of the transfer of the work 
to the island.  The work is the cause of the fact that  
--2U-- left LAT [garble?] via --1F--. 
 
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                                             15 June 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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