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“Arkady” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer, Vienna KGB
station, 1954. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 97–98.
Arkhangel: Soviet port. Venona New York KGB 1943, 23, 128; Venona San Francisco KGB, 180;
Venona USA Naval GRU, , 15 325.
ARKHANGEL'SKIJ (cover name in Venona): ? Lebedev. Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 61;
Venona Special Studies, 10.
“Arkhimed” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Archimedes”.
“Arkhip” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer, 1934, likely in
Berlin. Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 46.
“Arktika”: Soviet ship. Venona USA Naval GRU, 70.
Arkush: Unidentified. May be a real name or a cover name. Venona New York KGB 1945, 49–50;
Venona Special Studies, 8.
Arlington Hall: Former girls’ school that became the site of Army Signals Intelligence, predecessor to
NSA. Likely reference to in partial deciphering as “. . . INGTON”. Venona New York KGB
1943, 176–77.
ARM: Unidentified acronym Venona New York KGB 1945, 63.
Arma Engineering: Machine and tool company in New York. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 44.
Armed Forces Committee, U.S. Senate. Likely a reference to the Senate Committee on Military Affairs.
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 151–52.
Armenia and Armenians: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 122; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 47; Venona
New York KGB 1941–42, 60;
Venona New York KGB 1944, 258
Venona New York KGB 1944;
Venona New York KGB 1945, 91, 187.
Armenian Progressive League of America: Venona New York KGB 1944, 258.
“Armor” [“Bronya”] (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Harold Smeltzer starting in October 1944.
Vassiliev Black Notebook, 119, 121, 135.
ARMOR and ARMOUR [BRONYA] (cover name in Venona): Harold Smeltzer. The identify of
ARMOR was redacted by NSA from the Venona messages made public but “Armor” was
identified in Vassiliev’s notebooks as Smeltzer. As ARMOR: Venona New York KGB 1944,
543; Venona New York 1945, 188; Venona Special Studies, 14. As ARMOUR: Venona New
York KGB 1944, 274, 632.
Armour, Lester: OSS officer. Venona New York KGB 1945, 85.
Armour, Norman: Senior American diplomat. Served at various times as ambassador to Canada, Chile,
Argentina, Spain, Venezuela and Guatemala as well as chief of DOS’s Latin American division
and Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs. Venona New York KGB 1943, 130,
276–77, 283–84; Venona New York KGB 1944, 372.
Arms and Munitions, Office of: See Office of Arms and Munitions Control.
Armstrong, C. D.: British Brigadier General with the SOE in Yugoslavia. Vassiliev White Notebook
#3, 135.
Army Air Corps, U.S. (AAC) and Army Air Force, U.S. (AAF and USAAF). Vassiliev Black Notebook,
77, 99, 135, 175; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 7; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 107; Venona
New York KGB 1943, 54, 230–31, 236, 334; Venona New York KGB 1944, 496; 645, 705, 766;
Venona Washington KGB, 63–65; Venona USA GRU, 7, 106, 144.
Army intelligence, U.S.: See Military Intelligence Division.
Army Security Agency, U.S.: U.S. Army’s cryptologic service. Successor to Army Signals Intelligence
Service and predecessor to the National Security Agency. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks:
“Cranberry” [“Klyukva”]. As “Cranberry”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 70.
Army, U.S.: Reference to the U.S. Army are too numerous to be of any index value.
Arnall, Ellis: Democratic Governor of Georgia, 1943–1947. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 150.
ARNAUD [ARNO] (cover name in Venona): Harry Gold. Venona New York KGB 1944, 542.
Arnautoff, Victor Michael: Described as the first President of the Russian-American Society Inc. Venona
San Francisco KGB, 196.
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Arnautov: See Victor Michael Arnautoff.
Venona San Francisco KGB, 195.
“Arno” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Harry Gold, October 1944 to 1950. Vassiliev Black
Notebook, 113–14, 119–25, 127, 129, 133–36;
Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 109, 116, 118:
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 16, 18, 27, 29–30, 34, 40, 44, 46–47, 70–72, 74–77, 80, 84–87, 91,
94, 99, 102–09.
ARNO (cover name in Venona): Harry Gold. Venona New York KGB 1944 542 (translated as
ARNAUD), 621, 644, 714–15, 739–40; Venona New York KGB 1945, 72–73, 121; Venona
Special Studies, 8, 21.
Arnold, ?. Unidentified. Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 45.
ARNOLD [ARNOL'D] (cover name in Venona): Andrew Steiger. The cover name FAKIR was changed
to ARNOLD in October 1944. Both FAKIR and ARNOLD are unidentified in the Venona
decryptions, however, “Fakir” appeared in Vassiliev’s notebooks and was identified as Andrew
Steiger. The details of FAKIR and ARNOLD in Venona are compatible with “Fakir” and
Steiger in Vassiliev’s notebooks. Venona New York KGB 1944, 96, 542–43; Venona New York
KGB 1945, 121; Venona Special Studies, 8,74.
Arnold, Henry: Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Venona USA
Trade, 6.
Aronberg, Philip: Veteran CPUSA cadre and Soviet intelligence agent. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 27,
84.
Aronoff, Edwin: Described as a lawyer and secret Communist. Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 39.
Aronovich, ?: Described as an employee in the visa section of the American embassy in Paris.
Vassiliev
Yellow Notebook #3, 52.
Arons: See Aarons.
ARROW [STRELA] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent described as
working on Carpatho-Russians. Venona New York KGB 1944, 71, 236; Venona Special Studies,
69.
“Arsen” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source, Communist,
technical intelligence 1942. Associated with Julius Rosenberg and Jacob Golos.
Vassiliev
White Notebook #1, 44.
“Arsenal” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): U.S. War Department. White Notebook #1, 69, 115;
Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 20;
Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 132;
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook
#1, 75.
ARSENAL (cover name in Venona): U.S. War Department. Venona New York KGB 1943, 5, 235–36,
260–61, 331, 348–49; Venona New York KGB 1944, 383–84, 470–71, 522, 601–2, 622–23,
748–49; Venona New York KGB 1945, 21–22, 138, 142, 179–81, 188, 205–6; Venona
Washington KGB, 45, 47.
ARSENIJ (cover name in Venona): Soviet intelligence officer Andrey Raina, pseudonym Andrey
Shevchenko in the United States. Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 15, 74–75; Venona New York
KGB 1943, 178, 189–93; Venona New York KGB 1944, 27, 72, 89–90, 148, 228–29, 269–74,
289–90, 352–53, 408–9, 481, 498–99, 514, 631–32, 634–35, 645–46, 675, 746–47; Venona
Special Studies, 8–9.
ARSENIUS [ARSENIJ and ARSENIY] (cover name in Venona): Soviet intelligence officer Andrey
Raina, pseudonym Andrey Shevchenko in the United States. Venona New York KGB 1944, 27, 72;
Venona Special Studies, 137–38.
ARSENIY (cover name in Venona): Soviet intelligence officer Andrey Raina, pseudonym Andrey
Shevchenko in the United States. Venona Special Studies, 137, 143–44.
“Arseny” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Soviet intelligence officer Andrey Raina, pseudonym
Andrey Shevchenko in the United States. “Arseny” was identified as Raina in Alexander