VENONA Historical Monograph #4: The KGB in San Francisco and Mexico City, the GRU in New York and Washington
Fort Meade, MD: National Security Agency, 1995. 12, wraps, illus., notes. The VENONA Project analyzed and translated encrypted Soviet diplomatic and trade communications, which turned out to include Soviet KGB and GRU spy messages in addition to diplomatic and trade messages. This monograph, published by the Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, provides an overview of the content of the messages involving the KGB in San Francisco and Mexico City and the GRU in New York and Washington. Among the topics discussed were the elaborate plans to free from prison Ramon Mercader (using the covername GNOME), who had murdered Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940, and the hunt for deserters from the Soviet merchant fleet in San Francisco. Condition: very good.
Keywords: Cryptography, KGB, Arlington Hall, Soviet Espionage, GRU, Intelligence, Ramon Mercader, Communist Party, Cryptanalysis
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