deus ex machina
Arguably the greatest espionage 'play' of all time, The JANUS Operation, undertaken by British Security Coordination (BSC). (Updated 10/4/14)
Truman and Venona
The controversy over whether or not President Harry Truman was told about the Top Secret Venona Program. (Updated 7/24/14)
Goldberg and the Reds
The Venona revelation that a 1944 OSS document listed Arthur J. Goldberg, a future U.S. Supreme Court Justice, as a member of the Communist Party.
Rosenberg Case: Not Closed
Was Julius Rosenberg a member of the Volunteer Group and thus involved in atomic espionage beyond the established record? The legal action Craig vs. USA has resulted in the unsealing of Secret Grand Jury Testimony of David Greenglass and Max Elitcher. Heretofore, if reasonable doubt about the extent of Rosenberg espionage has existed, that is no longer the situation. In addition to atomic espionage, U.S. research in the late 1940’s into orbital satellites can be added to the Rosenberg record.
A Curious Character
Some curious circumstances regarding a bonafide curious character, physicist Richard Feynman (aka Richard Arturovich Feynman). (Updated 11/30/15)
Zhorzh Abramovich Koval
The George Koval espionage case is more interesting than currently reported. For one thing, the FBI investigation began on information from a GRU informant. In addition, there is evidence that Koval became part of the pivotal Volunteer Group.
VEKSEL' Re-examined
Does the Venona covername VEKSEL' stand for Enrico Fermi or Robert Oppenheimer?
The FUCASE
During WWII and afterwards, Klaus Fuchs served two spy masters, the KGB and MI6. This accounts for premeditated British efforts to hide Fuchs's Communist background from the U.S. Army and the FBI.
"all hell broke loose"
Explanation of a mis-reported FBI event following the arrest of Klaus Fuchs in January 1950.
Soviet Message Unit
The top secret FBI Unit created in 1949 to investigate espionage cases stemming from the Venona decrypts.
CHESS PLAYER
Investigation of the legend of a Soviet agent linked to Julius Robert Oppenheimer before JRO left Berkeley for Los Alamos.
Vassiliev Notebooks
Discussion of Soviet documents in light of the Vassiliev Notebooks. The notebooks do not account for the KGB's real time intelligence on Little Boy in January 1945.
Channel of Conspiracy
The Robert Oppenheimer, Steve Nelson, Philip Morrison cohort-cabal.
The Volunteer Group
The Morris Cohen atomic espionage ring.
Was Kitty in Spain?
The evidence that Kitty Oppenheimer entered Spain during the Spanish Civil War and came in contact with Morris Cohen either in Barcelona or later in New York.
"Arthur Fielding"
The Perseus Legend: The sanctioned account from the Russian SVR that Morris Cohen recruited an American atomic physicist in Spring 1942. The initial literary pseudonym for this scientist was "Arthur Fielding." Specifically emphasized was the fact that Klaus Fuchs was of secondary importance to "Fielding."
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
The final, definitive history on Robert Oppenheimer has not been written. However new historiography concerning the question of Oppenheimer’s membership in the U.S. Communist Party has settled that issue: he was a Communist.
The Anonymous Letter
The Anonymous Letter was the basis, genesis of the FBI's national counterintelligence response to Soviet espionage in America in the 1940's.
Stephan Mesarosh, aka "Steve Nelson"
The correct understanding of Steve Nelson is that he was a naturalized Soviet citizen, he was a member of the USSR Communist Party and he was a KGB agent.
Who Was "Bill"?
Was Alger Hiss's first GRU case officer Leonid M. Tolokonskii?
M. Mil'shtein and A. Hiss
The improbable likelihood that Alger Hiss was photographed in public with his Soviet case officer.
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