Much I did not know.
But am wiser for the read!
In the Enemy’s House:
Venona and the Maturation of American Counterintelligence
Presented at the
2005 Symposium on Cryptologic History
October 27, 2005
John F. Fox, Jr., FBI Historian1
One man was tall, thin, a genius linguist at the NSA who was working on breaking coded telegrams sent from Soviet offices in the US to Moscow.
The other was a lawyer and cop, a young FBI supervisor recently transferred to Headquarters.
A relationship did not blossom immediately and neither man knew what, if anything, to expect from the other.
Some might predict that men from such diverse institutional cultures would be incompatible.
And yet within weeks, a working relationship and, thereafter, a friendship grew between the NSA’s Merideth Gardner and FBI Special Agent Lamphere.
Lamphere later described this success saying:
“I stood in the vestibule of the enemy’s house, having entered by stealth. I held in my hand a set of keys ...and we were determined to use them.
SNIP
By the third interview with British intelligence, Fuchs had admitted to espionage from the end of 1941 to February of 1949.
His admission provided the British government with the leverage it needed to charge him with a crime.
Knowing the British were soon to publicly try Fuchs, the Bureau rushed to wrap up the loose ends to its REST investigation.
Fletcher, in a memo to Ladd, asked for permission to interview Fuchs’s sister before news of her brother’s prosecution got out.
Permission was granted and the interview was held that day.
Meanwhile, the Bureau began to press the British to get answers to US questions about Fuchs’s activities in Canada and the U.S.
MORE at LINK...
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FROM http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/intercepts.html
Decrypted cables
Read Venona Intercepts
by Peter Tyson
In 1995, the U.S. National Security Agency broke a half century of silence by releasing translations of Soviet cables decrypted back in the 1940s by the Venona Project.
Venona was a top-secret U.S. effort to gather and decrypt messages sent in the 1940s by agents of what is now called the KGB and the GRU, the Soviet military intelligence agency.
The cables revealed the identities of numerous Americans who were spies for the Soviet Union, including those chronicled in NOVA's "Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies."
The four Venona cables presented here provide striking evidence of the covert activities of several atomic-era spies, including Klaus Fuchs, Julius Rosenberg, and Theodore Alvin Hall. Through the cables and accompanying stories, peer through the keyhole into the secret lives of these and other agents, who gave away details of the atomic bomb and other highly sensitive technologies. Watch for code words such as "Enormous," which stood for the Manhattan Project, America's atomic-bomb program.
To see the complete set of Venona documents released so far, go to the NSA's Venona Documents page at
www.nsa.gov/docs/venona/venona_docs.html
*The February 9, 1944 cable: Klaus Fuchs and Harry Gold
*The September 21, 1944 cable: The Rosenbergs and the Greenglasses
*The November 12, 1944 cable: Theodore Alvin Hall and Saville Sax
*The November 14, 1944 cable: Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant
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The question of McCarthyism is another subject from the era than brought forth the Venona Papers.
And here we are today facing the threat of Russia again.
Hmmm..
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