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YUG [SOUTH] (cover name in Venona): Bernard Schuster.
Venona New York KGB 1944, 579–81;
Venona Special Studies, 83.
Yugoslavia and Yugoslavs: Cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks: “Viganiya”, 1950. As Yugoslavia
and plain text variants: Vassiliev Black Notebook, 75–76, 80–81, 84, 181; Vassiliev Odd Pages,
28, 32; Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 1, 11, 53, 61, 86, 90–91, 96; Vassiliev White Notebook #2,
19, 45; Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 83, 135; Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 45, 73–77; Vassiliev
Yellow Notebook #4, 39, 134, 148; Venona New York KGB 1943, 12–13, 27, 80, 94, 281, 303,
308, 329; Venona New York KGB 1944, 42, 94, 119, 189, 313–14, 368, 531–32, 540, 625, 685;
Venona Washington KGB, 62;
Venona San Francisco KGB, 83;
Venona Special Studies, 179;
Venona USA GRU, 75, 84, 98;
Venona USA Diplomatic, 66. As “Viganiya” and “Viganians”:
Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 72, 74.
YULIYA [JULIA] (cover name in Venona): Olga Khlopkov. Venona New York KGB 1944, 335–36,
390–91, 393, 443, 523, 552–53, 633, 666–67, 703, 744; Venona New York KGB 1945, 33–34, 94,
120–21, 158; Venona San Francisco KGB, 50, 52, 104; Venona Special Studies, 83, 121.
YULIYA [JULIA] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent. Described in
1944 as having been out of contact for more than four years, avoiding society, and living near
Lake Geneva in New York supported by her rich father. Venona New York KGB 1944, 293–94;
Venona Special Studies, 83.
“Yuliya” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Julia”.
“Yun” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Stephen Laird. Black Notebook, 45; Vassiliev White
Notebook #1, 25, 28, 31, 49.
YUN (cover name in Venona): Stephen Laird. Venona New York KGB 1944, 223–25, 263–64, 388,
412–13, 432; Venona San Francisco KGB, 264, 267–70; Venona Special Studies, 84, 121,
131–32.
“Yung” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Jung”.
“Yunona” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Former wife of “Yun”/Laird, described as knowing of
his espionage work and of having informed her new husband. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 49.
YUNONA [JUNO] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified. Possibly the former wife of Stephen Laird.
“Yunona” was identified in Vassiliev’s notebooks as Laird’s former wife, but the reference to
YUNONA in the Venona special study provides no context to indicate if this is the same person.
Venona Special Studies, 84.
“Yunosha” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Youth”.
YUNOY (cover name in Venona): Unidentified. Venona Special Studies, 132, 176.
YUPITER [JUPITER] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent, later ODD
FELLOW. Venona New York KGB 1944, 91, 542; Venona Special Studies, 53, 84, 176.
YUR (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence source/agent. Venona New York KGB
1943, 302–3, 325;
Venona New York KGB 1944, 236;
Venona Special Studies, 84, 89.
YURIJ (cover name in Venona): Lev Tarasov, Pseudonym used by KGB officer Lev Vasilevsky,
KGB station chief in Mexico City. Tarasov’s cover was that of First Secretary of the Soviet
embassy. Venona New York KGB 1944, 39–40, 143–44; Venona New York KGB 1945, 16,
35–36; Venona San Francisco KGB, 134, 137–38, 178, 186; Venona Special Studies, 84, 121.
YURIJ’s town and YURIJ’s city (cover name in Venona): Mexico City, referring to YURIJ/Tarasov,
KGB station chief in Mexico City. Venona New York KGB 1944, 143–44; Venona New York
KGB 1945, 178.
YURIST [JURIST] (cover name in Venona): Venona analysts thought this cover name in the Diplomatic
traffic referred to the chief of the GRU station. Venona USA Diplomatic, 8, 42.
YURIST [JURIST] (cover name in Venona): Harry D. White. Venona New York KGB 1944, 34, 374,
376, 379; Venona Special Studies, 42, 61, 84.
“Yurist” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Jurist”.
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Yurkevich, Vladimir I., and Olga Yurkevich: Vladimir Yurkevich,
formerly living in France, was the
naval architect for the well-know French passenger ship the “Normandie”. Venona New York
KGB 1943, 271–73.
“Yurt” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent, Vienna,
1954. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #3, 101.
Yusupova, Princess Irina Felixovna: Prominent anti-Bolshevik exile. Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 44.
Spelled as Youssoupoff: Vassiliev Yellow Notebook #4, 44.
“Yuz” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Iosif R. Grigulevich, 1938–1939. Vassiliev Black
Notebook, 152;
Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 125, 127–29, 131.
YUZHANKA [SOUTHERNER] (cover name in Venona) Elena Enriqueta Huerta Muzquiz. Venona
Mexico City KGB, 313.
YUZHNYJ [SOUTHERN] (cover name in Venona): Unidentified Soviet intelligence officer/agent.
Venona New York KGB 1944, 703,
Venona Special Studies, 83 [translated as SOUTHERNER].
“Yuzik” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Iosif R. Grigulevich, 1938–1939. Vassiliev Black
Notebook, 101, 161, 165;
Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 125.
“Z” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Initial for the cover name of an unidentified Soviet
intelligence source/agent possibly connected to an FBI probe of leaked diplomatic documents and
identified as having “failed” in some sense by early 1945. Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 57.
“Z” (cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): Initial of a source reporting on the OSS in July and November
1944. Likely “Z” for “Zayats”, i.e. “Hare”/Maurice Halperin. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 94,
97.
Za Svobodu and Za Svoboda (likely a misstyping) [For Freedom]: Russian-language journal. Venona
New York KGB 1944, 93, 403; Venona New York KGB 1945, 54.
“Zaatlantik” and “Zaatlantika”(cover names in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Transatlantic” and
“Transatlantica”.
Zabellov, Ivan: Soviet intelligence officer/agent. Venona San Francisco KGB, 296.
Zablodowsky, David: OSS officer identified by OSS security as likely a Communist and suspected of
giving information to the Soviets. Identified by Whittaker Chambers as active in the Communist
covert apparatus in the mid-1936, acting as a mail drop for Joseph Peters. Active in a number of
CPUSA front groups and remained active in them after the Nazi-Soviet Pact. Zablodowsky later
admitted acting as a mail drop for Chambers but denied Communist affiliation and espionage.
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Vassiliev White Notebook #3, 110;
Venona New York KGB 1944, 525, 779.
Zabotin, Nikolay: Soviet military attaché and GRU station chief the USSR’s Canadian legation at the
time of Igor Gouzenko’s defection in 1945. Cover name in Venona: GRANT: As Zabotin:
Vassiliev White Notebook #2, 27; Venona Ottawa GRU, 3–4, 6–7, 11–12. As GRANT: Venona
Ottawa GRU, 2–3, 5–12.
Zacharias, Captain Ellis M.: Deputy Director of ONI, 1942–43. Venona USA Naval GRU, 342–43.
“Zagadka” (Russian original of a cover name in Vassiliev’s notebooks): See “Riddle”. (Alternative
translations: Puzzle, Enigma).
Zagrav, ?: Described by OSS as running an intelligence apparatus in the USSR from Rumania for the
Nazis. Vassiliev White Notebook #1, 90.
Zaikin, Dmitrij Ivanovich: Soviet Vice-Consul in New York until July 1943, when he became
Consul-General in Havana. Venona New York KGB 1943, 254.
Zaitsev, ?: Unidentified. May be associated with the SGPC. Venona USA Diplomatic, 66.
Zajchenko, Aleksej Yanovich: Soviet ship crewman. Venona San Francisco KGB, 213.
Zajtaev, Ivan Dmitrievich: Representative of Sevmorput' in WASHINGTON. Venona USA Naval GRU,
122.
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