Some background VENONA links ....
and one book review.
Draw your own conclusions.
http://www.nsa.gov/publications/publi00039.cfmfrom NSA-CSS
The VENONA Story
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The Rosenberg/Atomic Bomb Espionage Messages
VENONA translations that had been identified as associated with atomic bomb espionage messages were released first. All but two of this group of forty-nine messages were KGB traffic - one is a GRU and one a Soviet diplomatic message.
These messages disclose some of the clandestine activities of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Harry Gold, Klaus Fuchs, David and Ruth Greenglass, and others such as the spy known by the covername MLAD (Theodore Hall) or the important, but still unidentified, PERS. The role played by the person covernamed VEKSEL remains uncertain but troubling. A number of other covernames of persons associated with atomic bomb espionage remain unidentified to this day.
VENONA messages show that KGB officer Leonid Kvasnikov, covername ANTON, headed atomic bomb espionage in the United States but that he, like the Rosenbergs, who came under his control, had many other high-tech espionage targets such as the U.S. jet aircraft program, developments in radar and rockets, etc.
http://www.nsa.gov/museum/museu00020.cfmfrom NSA-CSS
The VENONA Exhibit
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The Rosenbergs became a controversial case, due in part to the accusation and conviction of Ethel Rosenberg. VENONA messages indicate that her husband, Julius, was heavily involved in providing information to his KGB handler. At least one message shows that Ethel may have known about her husband's activities. Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, was also involved, selling details about the atomic bomb project in Los Alamos where he worked. It was David's testimony against his sister and brother-in-law that led to the conviction of the Rosenbergs for conspiracy to commit espionage.
http://www.nsa.gov/venona/venon00127.cfmfrom NSA-CSS
VENONA Chronology
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1948-1951 Exploitation of VENONA exposes major KGB espionage agents such as Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Theodore Hall, William Perl, the Rosenbergs, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, and Harry D. White.
http://www.nsa.gov/venona/venon00121.cfmfrom NSA-CSS
Remembrances of VENONA
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Note: The following are the remarks made by Mr. William P. Crowell, Deputy Director of NSA when the declassification of the VENONA project was announced at CIA Headquarters on 11 July 1995. Mr. Crowell retired from NSA on 12 September 1997.
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To the motherlode, index here
http://www.nsa.gov/venona/index.cfmfrom NSA-CSS
VENONA
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The first of six public releases of translated VENONA messages was made in July 1995 and included 49 messages about the Soviet’s efforts to gain information on the U.S. atomic bomb research and the Manhattan Project. Over the course of five more releases, all of the approximately 3,000 VENONA translations were made public.
http://www.nsa.gov/venona/venon00017.cfmfrom NSA-CSS
The Venona Documents - Dated
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These are the scanned images of the VENONA documents which have been declassified. They are arranged by specific dates. For each document, a one-line summary has been provided, which release it was contained in, as well as a link to a PostScript version for printing. To begin viewing the VENONA documents, please select a year and a month, then click on "Submit Year-Month".
http://www.nsa.gov/venona/venon00126.cfmfrom NSA-CSS
The Venona Documents - Undated
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These are the scanned-in images of the VENONA documents which have been declassified up to this point and are not dated.
Please note that the foregoing url also indexes the "Cheka" cover names in rough alpha order, with associated messages cited. E,g., a set of refs to ANTENNA (Julius Rosenberg) is here - no search function, you have to search page by page from the relevant index page (city to city transmissions).
http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/indexnym4.gif
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One more source - a secondary source, indeed; but from a man whose name is familiar here.
http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft99.../bacevich.htmlBooks in Review
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America and The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—The Stalin Era
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Old Ghosts
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. By John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr. Yale University Press. 475 pp. $30.
The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—The Stalin Era. By Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev. Random House. 402 pp. $30.
Reviewed by Andrew J. Bacevich
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....Ethel Rosenberg offers a case in point. That she was complicit in her husband’s spying is beyond dispute; her offenses did not justify execution, however.....
I happen to agree with the colonel-professor from Boston (Ethel guilty, but no death penalty). Judge Medina thought differently. He was there - neither Bacevich nor I were there.
Have fun reading, folks - I gotta hit the sack.
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