Venona 687 KGB New York to Moscow, 13 May 1944, Perlo group
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From: NEW YORK
To: MOSCOW
No: 687
13 May 1944
On HELMSMAN's (RULEVOJ) [i] instructions GOOD GIRL (UMNITsA) [ii] contacted through AMT [iii] a new group [C% in CARTHAGE} {C% KARFAGEN} {iv]:
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MAGDOFF - "KANT" [v]. GOOD GIRL's impressions: They are reliable FELLOWCOUNTRYMEN [ZEMLYaKI] [vi], politically highly mature; they want to help with information. They said that they had been neglected and no oone had taken any interest in their potentialities
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"STORM [ShTORM]" [vii]. RAIDER [REJDER] [viii], PLUMB [LOT] [ix], TED [x], and KANT will go to TYRE [TIR] [xi] once every two weeks in turn.
PLUMB and TED know PAL [PEL] [xii]. We shall let you have identifying particulars later.
Comments:
[i] HELMSMAN: Earl BROWDER.
[ii] GOOD GIRL: Elizabeth BENTLEY.
[iii] AMT: Presumably a mistake for John ABT. See also NEW YORK to MOSCOW No. 588 of 29 April 1944. (S/NBF/T110).
[iv] CARTHAGE: WASHINGTON, D.C.
[v] KANT: Henry Samuel MAGDOFF.
[vi] FELLOW COUNTRYMEN: Members of a Communist Party.
[vii] STORM: Unidentified.
[viii] RAIDER: Victor PERLO.
[ix] PLUMB: Possibly Charles KRAMER.
[x] TED: Probably Edward Joseph FITZGERALD.
[xi] TYRE: NEW YORK CITY.
[xii] PAL: Nathan Gregory SILVERMASTER.
[xiii] MAYOR: Probably Iskhak Abdulovich AKhMEROV.
25 July 1968
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