Full text · 27 November 1944
A Venona decrypt: New York 1657, 27 November 1944
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Reissue (T9. 2)
From: NEW YORK
To: MOSCOW
No: 1657
27 November 1944
To VIKTOR[i).
Your no. 5356[a]. Information on LIBERAL's[ii] wife[iii).
Surname that of her husband, first name ETHEL, 259 years old.
Married five years. Finished secondary school. A FELLOWCOUNTRYMAN
[ZEMLYaK) [iv] since 1938. Sufficiently well developed politically.
Knows about her husband's work and the role of METR[v] and NIL[vi).
In view of delicate health does not work. Is characterized posi-
tively and as a devoted person.
No. 922
Advise on the possibility of using in our work the engineer
MAZURIN Vladimir N. [viii]. He worked as deputy to the constructor
of Plant 155. He graduated from MAI[viii] in 1936. Is now working
at ARSENIJ's[ix] plant [x]. [2 groups unrecovered] [D% I request
your decision on the question].
No. 923 ANTON [xi]
Notes: [a] Not available.
Comments
[i] VIKTOR: Lt. Gen. F. M. FITIN.
[ii] LIBERAL: Julius ROSENBERG.
[iii] Ethel ROSENBERG, nee GREENGLASS.
[iv] @ZEMLYaK: Member of the Communist Party.
[v] METR: Probably Joel BARR or Alfred SARANT.
[vi] NIL: Unidentified.
[vii] Vladimir Nikolaevich MAZURIN.
[viii] MAI: i.@. MOSKOVSKIJ AVIATSIONNYJ INSTITUT, Moscow
Aviation Institute.
[ix] ARSENIJ: Andrej Ivanovich ShEVChENKO.
[x] Bell Aircraft Plant, NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y.
[xi] ANTON: Leonid Romanovich KVASNIKOV.
1 May 1975