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Benetskaya, ?: Described as an
employee fired from Amtrog, 1930.
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 73.
Bengz, Grace Ellen: Contact of “Liberal”/Palmer and “Grin”/Spivak. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 18.
“Benjamin Dixon”: U.S. ship. Venona USA Naval GRU, 381.
Benjamin: Metropolitan Benjamin J. Fedchenkoff, head of the Russian Orthodox Church in New York.
Venona New York KGB 1945, 17–18, 117–18.
Benson, Elmer: Former U.S. senator and governor of Minnesota (Farmer-Labor) and head of the National
Citizens Political Action Committee. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 99.
Bent, Joe: “Crook”/Dickstein claimed him as one of his agents. Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 90.
Bentley, Elizabeth: Soviet intelligence agent. Liaison between CPUSA and Soviet intelligence during
World War II, defected in the fall of 1945. Cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Artist”
[“Khudozhnik”] in 1939, “Clever Girl” [“Umnitsa”] (1940 until August 1944), then “Myrna”
[“Mirna”]. Cover name in Venona: GOOD GIRL [UMNITSA], CLEVER GIRL [UMNITSA],
and MYRNA [MIRNA]. As Bentley: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 78, 161; Vassiliev White
Notebook #1, 156; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 1, 11, 28–29, 33; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1,
106; Venona New York KGB 1943, 365–66; Venona New York KGB 1944, 20, 32, 113, 278, 280,
292, 345, 524, 585, 688, 743, 776; Venona New York KGB 1945, 121; Venona Special Studies, 48,
73. As “Artist”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 160. As “Clever Girl”: Vassiliev Black Notebook,
44, 64–65, 164, 187–89; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 7, 9, 11–12, 14, 16, 42, 44, 55, 60, 70, 145,
152; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 1–6, 35–37; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 2, 13–15, 17, 27, 68,
69 [in transliterated form, not translated], 70, 86. As “Umnitsa”: Vassiliev White Notebook #3.
As “Myrna”: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 51, 58, 63, 68, 72, 76, 78, 81, 95, 97, 125–26, 129;
Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 55, 63–64, 153–55; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 1, 3, 7–11, 14–15,
18–27, 30–34, 44, 76; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 25, 38–39, 46–47, 71–75, 77, 83, 86, 98–99,
104–9, 131; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 85, 104, 106; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 54, 62,
64, 66, 68, 75, 87. As GOOD GIRL [UMNITSA]: Venona New York KGB 1943, 365–66;
Venona New York KGB 1944, 113, 291–92, 344–45, 688, 743;
Venona Special Studies, 73, As
CLEVER GIRL [UMNITSA]: Venona New York KGB 1944, 19–20, 31–33. As MYRNA
[MIRNA]: Venona New York KGB 1944, 278–80, 523–24, 584–85, 687–88, 742–43; Venona
New York KGB 1945, 121; Venona Special Studies, 48, 73.
Benton, William Burnett: U.S. Senator (D. CT, 1949–1953), Assistant Secretary of State, 1945–1947.
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 29, 48, 61, 64, 78, 87.
Benzherskij, Rudolf: Described as a senior officer of the 1st Latvian Legion, a Waffen-SS unit. Venona
USA GRU, 35.
Berard, Armand: French diplomat in Washington, 1945–1949. Vassiliev Odd Pages, 13.
Berdecio, Marion Davis: Married name of Marion Davis. See Marion Davis. Venona New York KGB
1945, 36; Venona Special Studies, 43.
Berding, Andrew: Senior OSS officer. Vassiliev Odd Pages, 31.
“Bereg” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Shore”.
BEREG [SHORE and COAST] (cover name in Venona): North Africa. Translated as SHORE: Venona
New York KGB 1943, 5, 306, 308, 319. Translated as COAST:
Venona New York KGB 1945,
357. At Venona New York KGB 1945, 161–62, BEREG as COAST appears and Venona
analysts thought this a cover name of an unidentified Soviet agency. But the wording, “our
COAST” in context seems more likely to be a simple reference to the East Coast, where the
author of the message was located. .
Berestetskij, ?: Unidentified Soviet official. Venona USA Naval GRU, 117.
Berezin, Col. Pavel F.: Soviet intelligence officer and Soviet military attaché for Air. Cover name in
Venona: ORLEANS. As Berezin: Venona USA GRU, 37, 52. As ORLEANS: Venona USA
GRU, 36–37. May also be behind the cover name ORLEAN [ORLAN]:
Venona USA GRU, 48.
“Berg” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Alexander Koral. Vassiliev Black Notebook, 76, 79, 81,
94, 121; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 55, 66; Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 31; Vassiliev White
Notebook #3, 42–43; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 81, 83–88.
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Berg, Major ?: American Army officer associated with General Motors production of armored vehicles.
Venona USA GRU, 89.
BERG: Soviet intelligence source/agent. Likely Alexander Koral. BERG was not identified by
Venona analysts but was identified as Koral in Vassiliev’s notebooks. BERG appeared in the
Venona decryptions a context that suggests Alexander Koral. Venona New York KGB 1941–42,
2; Venona New York KGB 1944, 462–63, 466, 502–3, 633, 666–67, 744–45; Venona New York
KGB 1945, 33–34, 121, 158–59, 203; Venona Special Studies, 12, 65, 175.
BERG: Unidentified in a 1941 message. Not Alexander Koral. Venona New York KGB 1941–42, 2;
Venona Special Studies, 12.
Berger, Gottlob: SS Obergruppenfuehrer: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 98–99; Vassiliev White Notebook
#2, 47.
Berger, Harry: Pseudonym used by Comintern operative Arthur Ewert in Brazil in 1936. Vassiliev
Yellow Notebook #2, 3.
Berger, Joseph Isadore: former assistant of the chairman of the Democratic National Committee and DNC
speech writer (1941–1946), and U.S. delegate to the Allied Reparations Commission (1945).
Used the pen name Jeremiah Digges. As Berger: Venona New York KGB 1944, 127, 149;
Venona New York KGB 1945, 176–78. As Digges:
Venona New York KGB 1944, 127;
Venona
New York KGB 1945, 178.
Berger, Stanley: When “Blerio”/Shumovsky contacted Boris Morros in 1940 he mentioned the name
Stanley Berger to help establish his bona fides. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 11.
Beria, Lavrenty: Stalin associate. Chief of the NKVD during World War II, then Deputy Prime Minister.
Stalin gave Beria the additional duty of supervising of the Soviet atomic bomb project in late
1944. After Stalin’s death Beria became First Deputy Prime Minister but was executed in
December 1953. Cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Pavel”. In Vassiliev Yellow
Notebook #4, appears as the initial ‘B.’ in intelligence memoranda sent to Stalin, Molotov, and
Beria as in “S., M., B.” As Beria or B.: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 56, 165–66, 170, 179;
Vassiliev Odd Pages, 32–34;
Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 85, 90, 96, 105, 128, 146;
Vassiliev
White Notebook #2, 28, 32–33;
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #1, 31–34, 56, 81;
Vassiliev Yellow
Notebook #3, 11, 20, 34, 38, 61, 105;
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 38, 119, 121–34, 136–37,
139, 143. As “Pavel”: Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 130; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 13, 21.
Beriya: See Beria.
Berkeley, CA: Venona New York KGB 1945, 140–41, 190; Venona San Francisco KGB, 46.
Berkey, C: A geologist. Possibly Charles Berkey. Venona New York KGB 1945, 140.
Berkhahn, Gunther Johann Friedrich, International Brigade veteran, German Communist and member of a
German Argentinian family. Name spelled Berkhan in the texts of the Venona messages.
Cover name in Venona: CARLOS [KARLOS]. As Berkhahn: Venona New York KGB 1943,
157. As Berkhan: Venona New York KGB 1943, 156–57; Venona Special Studies, 35. As
CARLOS [KARLOS]: Venona New York KGB 1943, 156–57; Venona Special Studies, 35.
Berkhan, Gunter: See Gunther Berkhahn. Venona New York KGB 1943 156–57; Venona Special Studies,
35.
Berkman, Alexander: Leading American Anarchist (Russian-born) deported to Soviet Russia in 1919,
became highly critical of Soviet communism, and moved to Britain in 1921 and then to France.
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 54.
Berkman, Boris: Father of Raisa Berkman Browder. Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 35.
Berle, Adolf: Assistant Secretary of State, 1938–1944. Refered to once as “Mechanic’s” assistant. As
Berle: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 88, 178–79; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 22, 29, 97; Vassiliev
White Notebook #3, 48–49, 54;
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 28, 31. As “Mechanic’s”
assistant: Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #2, 25.
Berlin, ?: Soviet intelligence officer know to Jacob Golos and arrested in the purge of the security
services. Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Stark”. As Berlin and “Stark”: Vassiliev White
Notebook #1, 139.