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VENONA: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957 (NSA & CIA)

One of the greatest counterintelligence sources in the 20th century

• Foreword

• Preface

• Acronyms and Abbreviations

• Chronology

• Part I: The American Response to Soviet Espionage

• Part II: Selected Venona Messages

Counterintelligence Reader: An American Revolution into the New Millennium (NCIX)

The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency

• Acknowledgments

• Foreword

• COI Came First

• What Was OSS?

• Research & Analysis

• Special Operations

• Secret Intelligence

• X-2

• Weapons & Spy Gear

• OSS in Asia

• An End and a Beginning

• Suggested Readings

On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946 to 1961

Okhrana: The Paris Operations of the Russian Imperial Police

A Stone for Willy Fisher aka Rudolf Ivanovich Abel

1960: Rudolph Abel Appeal

The Mystery of "ALES": Once Again, the Alger Hiss Case

The Alger Hiss Case: A Half-Century of Controversy

Tracking Julius Rosenberg’s Lesser Known Associates

1968: CIA Yuri Nosenko Report, Part 1

1968: CIA Yuri Nosenko Report, Part 2

1968: CIA Yuri Nosenko Report, Part 3

The Art of Strategic Counterintelligence--The Musketeer’s Cloak: Strategic Deception During the Suez Crisis of 1956

Bureaucratic Wrangling over Counterintelligence, 1917–18

New Insights into J. Edgar Hoover's Role: The FBI and Foreign Intelligence

Tolkachev, A Worthy Successor to Penkovsky

How “Uncle Joe” Bugged FDR: The Lessons of History

The Kaiser Sows Destruction: Protecting the Homeland the First Time Around

Soviet Deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis: Learning from the Past

The Lie That Linked CIA to the Kennedy Assassination: The Power of Disinformation

The Vilification and Vindication of Colonel Kuklinski

Recollections from the Church Committee's Investigation of NSA: Unlucky SHAMROCK

The Pike Committee Investigations and the CIA: Looking for a Rogue Elephant

A First Tour Like No Other: Held Hostage in Iran

CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90: A Die-Hard Issue

The Farewell Dossier: Duping the Soviets

NSA Korean War Commemoration:

The Korean War: The SIGINT Background

So Power Can Be Brought into Play: SIGINT and the Pusan Perimeter

SIGINT and COMSEC HELP SAVE THE DAY AT PUSAN

Purple Dragon: The Origin and Development of the US OPSEC Program

Historical CI and Security Posters from World War II:

• A Careless Word, A Needless Loss

• A Few Careless Words May End in This

• Careless Talk Got There First

• Keep Mum Chum

• Keep Mum, She's Not So Dumb

• Wanted for Murder

• Keep it to Yourself, Buddy

• A Careless Word, A Needless Sinking

Records of the Rosenberg Grand Jury Transcripts:

1953: Spy Hearings - Contents

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, October 23, 1953

  • Sidney Glassman

  • David Ayman

  • Lawrence Friedman

  • Elba Chase Nelson

  • Herbert S. Bennett

  • Norman Levinson

  • Louise Sarant

  • Joseph H. Percoff

  • Lawrence Aguimbau

  • Perry Seay

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, October 26, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, October 27, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, October 30, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, November 2, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, November 3, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, November 4, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, November 5, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, November 16, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, November 17, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, November 25, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, December 10, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, December 10, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, December 14, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, December 15, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, December 16, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, December 17, 1953

• Army Signal Corps--Subversion and Espionage, December 18, 1953

• Transfer of Occupation Currency Plates--Espionage Phase, October 19, 1953

• Transfer of Occupation Currency Plates--Espionage Phase, October 21, 1953

• Transfer of Occupation Currency Plates--Espionage Phase, November 10, 1953

• Subversion and Espionage in Defense Establishments and Industry, November 12, 1953

• Subversion and Espionage in Defense Establishments and Industry, November 13, 1953

• Subversion and Espionage in Defense Establishments and Industry, November 18, 1953

• Transfer of the Ship "Greater Buffalo,'' December 8, 1953

• Personnel Practices in Government--Case of Telford Taylor, December 8, 1953

The FAREWELL Dossier by Gus Weiss

Recollections from the Church Committee's Investigation of NSA by Britt Snider

Article-Pike Committee Investigations and the CIA by Gerald Haines

Russians combat public apathy to Soviet-era horrors

1949 Truman statement on the USSR atomic bomb

Helen Sobell obituary and info

Documents related to Cuban Missile Crisis

June 2000 HPSCI report on improving CI at DOE ("Redmond Report")

Jun 99 Joint Hearing on security at DOE labs

Dec 2000 White House press conference re Edmond Pope

May 2000 State Department press conference concerning security and missing laptops

Oppenheimer & Security

1954: Recommendations of the General Manager to the United States Atomic Energy Commission in the Matter of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer

1954: Letter from General Manager K. D. Nichols, United States Atomic Energy Commission, to Dr. Oppenheimer's Attorneys, Concerning Procedures in the Matter of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer

1954: Letter from General Manager K. D. Nichols, United States Atomic Energy Commission, to Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer--Forwarding Findings and Recommendation of the Personnel Security Board

CNN "Cold War" series

Episode 1: Comrades: 1917-1945

Time magazine article about US/USSR victory, Feb. 2, 1945

Interview with Amb. George Kennan

Interview with Sergo Beria

FDR's Yalta Report

United Nations Charter

 

Episode 2: Iron Curtain 

Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech

Stalin's reaction to "Iron Curtain" speech

Famous Kennan cable re: USSR

 

Episode 6: Reds: 1947-1953 

Was McCarthy right about Soviet espionage?

Interview with author Harvey Klehr

Interview with John Service

Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover before HUAC (excerpts) March 1947

Joseph McCarthy's speech on communists in the State Department (excerpt)

 

Episode 15: China: 1949-1972 

Kissinger's 1972 talks with Mao

Time magazine article on defeat of Chinese Nationalists, Feb. 7, 1949

 

Episode 21: Spies

interview with Oleg Kalugin

interview with Markus Wolf

interview with Rick Ames

Penkovsky Defection Letter

PBS

Red Files (includes interviews with CI Centre Professors)

Stalin's Bomb Maker

Race for the Superbomb

Spying on Saddam

Decoding Nazi Secrets

Supersonic Spies

Submarines, Secrets, Spies

Other

58th Anniversary of Venona

American Intervention In The Russian Civil War, 1918-1920

Another Berlin Wall site

Fall of the Wall  

Case Against the "Reds" by Mitchell Palmer

The DO and Opsec

Documents of the Interwar Period

Hunt for Communists in Washington

“I glanced up—the Statue of Liberty!” by Emma Goldman

 "The Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA" by Mark Riebling

Jamestown Foundation

J. Edgar Hoover's obituary, NYT

Jonathan Pollard supporters webpage. Has news articles on other spies

Palmer Raids

Reagan Administration NSC email

Spaniard behind the D-day landings

Spy secrets revealed

Soviet archive documents in the Library of Congress

Soviet Archives Exhibit (US Library of Congress)

Wen Ho Lee supporters webpage

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