Fitzgerald's name in Venona project decrypt 588 New York to Moscow, 29 April 1944, was sent in the clear to Moscow by Soviet Case Officer Iskhak Akhmerov reporting on Elizabeth Bentley's meeting with Perlo group.

A 1944 Venona decrypt confirms that Lee tipped off Bentley about Donovan sending him on a secret mission to China.

Rosenberg's name appears in clear text in a December 1944 Venona decrypt as the source of a State Department memo.

* Venona decrypt 1714 KGB New York to Moscow, 5 December 1944.

* Venona decrypt 55 KGB New York to Moscow, 15 January 1945.

* Venona decrypt 326 KGB Moscow to New York, 5 April 1945 ;

* Venona decrypt 3614 – 3615 KGB Washington to Moscow, 22 June 1945.

The Moscow Center then responded to New York KGB headquarters on 25 February 1945 in Venona decrypt # 179, 180.

* 5 May 1944, Venona decrypt 629 KGB New York to Moscow asks to " Urgently ... advise about the possibility of a meeting with KANT "; KANT identified as Harry Samuel Magdoff.

* 13 May 1944, Venona decrypt 687 KGB New York to Moscow reports on Bentley's contact with a new group in Washington, " MAGDOFF – KANT "..." reliable "... politically highly mature "..." they want to help with information ".

Franklin is referenced in the 26 May 1944 Venona project decrypt.

Zalmond Franklin codenamed CHEN, possibly in error, is referenced in the following Venona project decrypt:

Epstein is referenced in Venona decrypt 800 New York to Moscow 28 May 1943, and another decrypt on 30 May 1943.

Ruth Wilson is referenced in the following Venona decrypt ; the decryption cites that the KGB suspected " courier A " had come under surveillance.

Rodman is referenced in the following Venona project decrypt:

San Francisco Rezident Grigory Kheifets attested to Miller's bone fides in a Venona decrypt, putting to rest reservations from Moscow that because of Miller's eagerness, he may be a double agent.

The FBI participated in the Venona Project, a pre – World War II joint project with the British to eavesdrop on Soviet spies in the UK and the United States.

* John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999, pp. 316, 317 – 319, 320, 321, 334 ( ISBN 0-300-08462-5 )

* John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America ( Yale University Press, New Haven, 1999 ) pp. 157 – 160 ISBN 0-300-08462-5

Contained in the traffic ( intercepted and decrypted as part of the Venona project ) was information that documents had been sent to Moscow from the British Embassy in Washington.

There are a number of decrypted World War II Soviet messages between NKVD offices in the United States and Moscow, also known as the Venona cables.

The Cohens are referenced in Venona decrypts 1239 KGB New York to Moscow, August 30, 1944 ; 50 KGB New York to Moscow, January 11, 1945, regarding an erroneous report Morris had been killed in Europe.

Evidence of Kramer's membership in the Communist Party USA ( CPUSA ) and his contacts with known Soviet agents comes from several sources: the direct testimony of Whittaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bentley, Lee Pressman, and Nathaniel Weyl ; the Venona decrypts ; and the Moscow archives of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service ( SVR ).

In a 1942 Venona cable discussing infiltration of OSS, “ Maksim ” ( Rezident Vasily Zarubin, under cover as “ Vasily Zubilin ”) in New York wrote to “ Victor ” ( General Pavel Fitin, head of NKVD foreign intelligence ) in Moscow, “ KINI is being entrusted to our agentura ,” meaning that recruitment was being undertaken.

* Elizabeth Bentley reports on new KGB recruits from American Communist Party, Venona 588 New York to Moscow, 29 April 1944.

* KGB agent & Earl Browder instruct Bentley on new recruits, Venona 687 New York to Moscow, 13 May 1944.

* KGB NY Reports on new Agents from ACP working in US Govt, Venona 769, 771 KGB New York to Moscow, 30 May 1944.

Silvermasters network widely known, Venona 179, 180 KGB Moscow to New York, 25 February 1945.

Abt is referenced in Venona decrypts # 588 KGB New York to Moscow, 29 April 1944 and # 687 KGB New York to Moscow, 13 May 1944.

The Venona project transcript of 14 November 1944 reported to Moscow that Sarant had been successfully recruited.

* Elizabeth Bentley reports on new KGB recruits from American Communist Party, Venona 588 New York to Moscow, 29 April 1944.

* KGB agent & Earl Browder instruct Bentley on new recruits, Venona 687 New York to Moscow, 13 May 1944.

* KGB NY Reports on new Agents from ACP working in US Govt, Venona 769, 771 KGB New York to Moscow, 30 May 1944.

The November 14, 1944 Venona cable also documents the successful recruitment of Ruth Greenglass.

* 25 February or 5 March 1944, a rainy Sunday, Elizabeth Bentley meets with Harry Magdoff and others in John Abts apartment in New York, the initial contact with the Perlo group ( Haynes and Klehr, Venona, 1999, pg.

The full Venona transcripts were published in 1996 and show a resume of one cable from Churchill related by Maclean, during 1944 and 1945.

In 1949, Robert Lamphere, FBI agent in charge of Russian espionage, along with cryptanalysts working as part of the Venona project, discovered that twelve coded cables had been sent, six from New York from June to September 1944 and six from Washington in April 1945, by an agent named Gomer, Russian for " Homer ".

According to the Venona project intercepts decrypted by the NSA between 1944 and sometime in the 1970s, both David and his wife Ruth were given code names.

He is mentioned in Venona project transcript # 588 of April 29, 1944.

The Perlo group fits into the Venona project information when transcript # 687 of 13 May 1944 is examined.

In this memorandum, which remained classified forty-one years until the Moynihan Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy obtained its release to the public in 1997, Boardman quotes the 13 May 1944 Venona transcript, which named several members of the Perlo group, including Magdoff.

* KGB agent & Earl Browder instruct Bentley on new recruits, Venona 687 New York to Moscow, 13 May 1944.