Venona : Decoding Soviet Espionage in America

by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr

• ISBN13: 9780300084627
• ISBN10: 0300084625
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-08-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This extraordinary book is the first to examine the thousands of documents of the super-secret Venona Project -- an American intelligence project that uncovered not only an enormous range of Soviet espionage activities against the United States during World War II but also the Americans who abetted this effort. The stunning revelations of the Venona papers, only made public in 1995, illuminate in a new way the Stalin era and early Cold War years.

Author Biography

John Earl Haynes is 20th Century Political Historian, Library of Congress Harvey Klehr is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History at Emory University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
A Note about Transcription of the Documents	ix
Glossary	xi
Introduction: The Road to Venona	1	(7)
Venona and the Cold War	8	(15)
Breaking the Code	23	(34)
The American Communist Party Underground	57	(36)
The Golos-Bentley Network	93	(23)
Friends in High Places	116	(48)
Military Espionage	164	(27)
Spies in the U.S. Government	191	(17)
Fellowcountrymen	208	(42)
Hunting Stalin's Enemies on American Soil	250	(37)
Industrial and Atomic Espionage	287	(44)
Soviet Espionage and American History	331	(8)
Appendix A: Source Venona: Americans and U.S. Residents Who Had Cover Relationships with Soviet Intelligence Agencies	339	(32)
Appendix B: Americans and U.S. Residents Who Had Covert Relationships with Soviet Intelligence Agencies but Were Not Identified in the Venona Cables	371	(12)
Appendix C: Foreigners Temporarily in the United States Who Had Covert Relationships with Soviet Intelligence Agencies	383	(4)
Appendix D: Americans and U.S. Residents Targeted as Potential Sources by Soviet Intelligence Agencies	387	(4)
Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Leading KGB Officers Involved in Soviet Espionage in the United States	391	(4)
Notes	395	(82)
Index	477