The following list of Americans in the Venona papers is a list of names deciphered from codenames contained in the Venona project, an American government effort from 1943-1980 to decrypt coded messages by intelligence forces of the Soviet Union. To what extent some of the individuals named in the Venona papers were actually involved with Soviet intelligence is a topic of dispute.
The following list of individuals is extracted in large part from the work of historians John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr and reflects their previous points of view. However, Haynes' positions on the meaning and correct identification of names on the list continues to evolve.
Non-Americans may also be mentioned in passing.
John Abt**
Solomon Adler**
Rudy Baker**
Joel Barr
Alice Barrows
Theodore Bayer, President, Russky Golos Publishing
Cedric Belfrage
Elizabeth Bentley
Joseph Milton Bernstein
Earl Browder, American communist and General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1934 to 1945.
Paul Burns**
Sylvia Callen**
Virginius Frank Coe
Lona Cohen**
Morris Cohen**, Communist Party USA & Portland Spy Ring member who was courier for Manhattan Project physicist Theodore Hall.
Judith Coplon
Lauchlin Currie, White House economic adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt and director of World Bank mission to Colombia.
Byron T. Darling**
William Dawson, United States Ambassador to Uruguay
Eugene Dennis
Samuel Dickstein**
Martha Dodd**, daughter of William Dodd, who served as the United States ambassador to Germany between 1933 and 1937.
William E. Dodd, Jr.
Laurence Duggan, head of the South American desk at the United States Department of State during World War II.
Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov
Nathan Einhorn
Jack Bradley Fahy
Linn Markley Farish, senior liaison officer with Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav Partisan forces
Edward J. Fitzgerald
Charles Flato
Isaac Folkoff
Jane Foster
Zalmond David Franklin
Isabel Gallardo
Boleslaw K. Gerbert
Rebecca Getzoff
Harold Glasser, U.S. Treasury Dept. economist, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) spokesman.
Bela Gold
Harry Gold, sentenced to 30 years for his role in the Rosenbergs' ring
Sonia Steinman Gold
Jacob Golos, "main pillar" of NKVD spy network, particularly the Sound/Myrna group, he died in the arms of Elizabeth Bentley
George Gorchoff
Gerald Graze**
David Greenglass, machinist at Los Alamos sentenced to 15 years for his role in Rosenberg ring; he was the brother of executed Ethel Rosenberg
Ruth Greenglass
Theodore Alvin Hall, Manhattan Project physicist who gave plutonium purification secrets to Soviet intelligence.
Maurice Halperin, American writer, professor, diplomat, and Soviet spy (NKVD code name "Hare").
Kitty Harris
Clarence Hiskey**
Cary Hiles
Alger Hiss, Lawyer involved in the establishment of the United Nations, both as a U.S. State Department and UN official.
Donald Hiss**
Harry Hopkins, One of FDR's closest advisers & New Deal architect, esp. Works Progress Administration (WPA); as a diplomat in charge of relations between FDR and Stalin his name naturally appears on the list.
Louis Horwitz
Bella Joseph**
Emma Harriet Joseph
Gertrude Kahn
Joseph Katz
Helen Grace Scott Keenan
Mary Jane Keeney
Philip Keeney
Alexander Koral**
Helen Koral
Samuel Krafsur
Charles Kramer
Christina Krotkova
Sergej Nikolaevich Kurnakov
Fiorello La Guardia, mayor of New York City
Stephen Laird
Oscar Lange
Richard Lauterbach, employee at Time magazine
Duncan C. Lee
Michael S. Leshing
Helen Lowry
William Mackey
Harry Samuel Magdoff
William Malisoff, owner and manager of United Laboratories
Hede Massing**
Robert Owen Menaker
Floyd Cleveland Miller
James Walter Miller
Robert Miller**
Robert G. Minor, Office of Strategic Services, Belgrade
Leonard Emil Mins
Nichola Napoli
Franz Neumann**
David K. Niles
Eugénie Olkhine
Frank Oppenheimer**
Julius Robert Oppenheimer, Scientific director of the Manhattan Project and chief advisor to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Nicholas V. Orloff
Edna Margaret Patterson
William Perl
Victor Perlo
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Posner, United States War Department
Lee Pressman
Mary Wolfe Price
Bernard Redmont**
Peter Rhodes
Stephan Sandi Rich
Kenneth Richardson, World Wide Electronics
Samuel Jacob Rodman, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States, his name appears on the list under the code name "capitan". (Winston Churchill's codename was "boar."
Allen Rosenberg
Julius Rosenberg, United States Army Signal Corps Laboratories, executed for role in the Rosenberg ring
Ethel Rosenberg, executed for role in Rosenberg ring based on testimony of her brother, David Greenglass
Amadeo Sabatini
Alfred Epaminodas Sarant
Marian Miloslavovich Schultz
Milton Schwartz
John Scott
Ricardo Setaro
Charles Bradford Sheppard, Hazeltine Electronics
Abraham George Silverman
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, U.S. War Production Board (WPB) economist and head of a major ring of spies in the U.S. government.
Helen Silvermaster, Leader of the American League for Peace & Democracy and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties.
Morton Sobell
Jack Soble
Robert Soble
Johannes Steele
I. F. Stone, Investigative journalist whose newsletter, I. F. Stone's Weekly, was ranked 16th out of 100 by his fellow journalists.
Augustina Stridsberg
Anna Louise Strong
Helen Tenney**
Mikhail Tkach, editor of the Ukrainian Daily News
William Ludwig Ullmann
Irving Charles Velson
Margietta Voge
Henry A. Wallace
William Weisband**
Donald Wheeler
Maria Wicher
Harry Dexter White, Senior U.S. Treasury department official, primary designer of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Ruth Beverly Wilson
Ignacy Witczak**
Ilya Elliott Wolston
Flora Don Wovschin
Jones Orin York
Daniel Abraham Zaret, Spanish War veteran
Mark Zborovski
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