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Soviet Espionage: Venona Secrets
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By the Schecters' account, Truman's unerring political instincts "told him that knowing about Soviet espionage on American soil, especially with the cooperation of American agents, would be a huge liability for the Democrats in the coming year's congressional elections." But this assumes that Truman or American intelligence planned to make Venona public in 1945 or 1946, long before any significant Soviet traffic had been broken. Even if Truman knew about Venona in 1945, he would not have known anything about what it said of Soviet espionage, so that cannot explain Truman's actions.
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Decrypted VENONA messages list 349 individuals in America who had contact with Soviet espionage. Less than half of these people have been identified [see pp. 340-370], and the proportion of unbroken messages is large. Given these additional considerations, the stringent security measures put in place in the late forties suddenly become understandable, if not acceptable.
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For nearly 50 years American intelligence agents had been decoding thousands of Soviet messages, uncovering an enormous range of espionage activities carried out against the USA during World War II by its own allies. This is an analysis of the Venona Project and some of the messages.
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This is an exceptionally detailed novel about Soviet espionage tactics during the Cold War. The manufactured tale provides an extraordinary and factual inside view of the two Soviet powerful and aggressive secret police spy agencies, the KGB and the GRU.
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