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Alexander
Vassiliev’s Own Translation of his Notes on
Anatoly
Gorsky’s December 1948 Memo on
Compromised
American Sources and Networks
October 2005
In the fall of
2005 Alexander Vassiliev came across this site.
Noting the difficulty that others had had in reading some of his
handwritten notes on the Gorsky document, he forwarded his own translation to
Latin alphabet English.
Collapses in USA (1938-48)
Karl’s group
- Karl – Whittaker Chambers, former editor-in-chief
of Time Magazine. Traitor.
- Jerom – Barna Bukov (Altman), our former cadre officer. Now in the USSR.
- Leonard – Alger Hiss, former State
Department official.
- Junior – Donald Hiss, former official of
the internal affairs’ ministry.
- 104 – Henry Wadleigh, former State
Department official.
- 118 – F.V. Reno, former official of Aberdeen range.
- 105 – Henry Collins, former official of
the ministry of agriculture, presently the director of the
American-Russian institute in New
York.
- 114 – William Pigman, former official of
the Standards Bureau.
- Storm – Joseph Peters (aka Isidor Burstein).
Former member of the CPUSA Central Committee.
- Vig – Lee Pressman, former legal adviser
of the Congress for Industrial Organization.
- 116 – Harry Azizov, former employee of a steel
company in Chicago.
- 101 – Peter Maclean, journalist and photo
reporter, his use was stopped in 1937.
- 103 – David Carpenter, newspaper employee.
- 107 – Felix Nislerman, place of work
unknown.
- 113 – Harry Rosenthal, an employee of an
insurance firm in Philadelphia.
- 115 – Lester Hutm, former employee of Frankfurt arsenal.
- “Ernst” – Noel Field, former State
Department official.
- Rupert – V.V. Sveshnikov, former official
of the War ministry.
- Richard – Harry White, former assistant to
finance minister Morgenthau, died in 1948.
- Eleron – D. Silverman, former head of the
Air Force planning and statistical department.
- Ruble – Harold Glasser, former head of the
currency department of the finance ministry.
Redhead’s group
- Redhead – Hedviga Gumperz, Vatsek’s wife.
In 1938 sent to the U.S.
to carry out our missions. Traitor since 1948.
- Vatsek – Paul Massing, scientific employee
of the Institute of Social Studies of the Columbia University.
Traitor.
- Oscar – Oscar Bernstein, lawyer, was used
for organizing covers for our workers in the U.S.
- Prince – Laurence Duggan (aka 19), former
State Department official. Suicide.
- Yeursch (Ruff) – Franz Neumann, former
advisor of the OSS
research and analysis department.
- Vardo – E. Zarubina,
our former cadre officer. Now in the USSR.
Buben’s group
- Buben – Louis Budenz, former member of the
CPUSA Central Committee, former editor of The Daily Worker newspaper, presently
professor in the Fordham Catholic University.
- Bob – Robert Menacker, traveling salesman
of various trading firms.
- Liberal – Frank Palmer. Place of work unknown. Former CPUSA member, broke with the communist
party in 1937. Buben was recruited with his help.
- Chap – Franklin Zelman, no definite employment.
Rita’s husband. Was used as a courier.
- Rita (aka Satyr) – Sylvia Coldwell,
technical secretary of a Trotskists’ group in New York.
- Harry – Rabinovich, our former cadre officer.
Now in the USSR.
Zvuk-Myrna group
- Zvuk (Sound) – Jacob Golos (Raisin), our former
illegal officer in the U.S. Died in 1943.
- Myrna – Elizabeth Bentley, former
vice-president of the U.S. Service and Shipping Corporation. Traitor since
1945.
- Tan – Harry Magdoff, former official of
the Trade ministry.
- Ted – Edward Fitzgerald, former official
of the Trade ministry.
- Krot (Mole) - Charles Kramer, Senator
Pepper’s former adviser.
- Izra – Donald Wheeler, former OSS official.
- Sid – Allen Rosenberg, former official of
the Foreign Economics Department.
- Dan – Stanley
Graze, official of the State Department’s intelligence service.
- Arena – Gerald Graze, Dan’s brother, former
official of the War ministry.
- Boy – Charles Flato, former official of
the Foreign Economics Department.
- Raid – Victor Perlo, former official of
the War production department.
- Robert – Gregory Silvermaster, former
official of the financial corporation for reconstruction in the Trade
ministry.
- Vim (aka Page) – Lauchlin Currie, former
assistant to President Roosevelt.
- Pick – Frank Coe, former head of the
currency department of the finance ministry.
- Zholud’ (Acorn) – Bella Gold, former
official of the Trade ministry.
- Zhenya - Sonya Gold, former secretary of the head of currency and research
department of the Finance ministry.
- Tino – Irving Kaplan, former employee of the
Foreign Economics Department.
- Sax – Solomon Adler, former employee of
the U.S. Finance ministry.
- Pilot – Ludwig Ullman, former employee of the
U.S. War ministry.
- Buck – David Whinetraub, former employee
of the UNRRA.
- X – Joseph Katz, our veteran agent, group
handler, co-owner of a cover created by us – a gloves’
factory. Now he is in Italy,
where by our assignment he is organizing a firm with the purpose to cover
our illegal courier line between Europe and U.S.
- Adam – Eva Guetsov, employee of the Jewish
Welfare Board.
- Zayats (Hare) – Maurice Galperin, OSS former employee.
- Kokh – Duncan Lee, OSS former employee.
- Muza (Muse) – Helen Tenney, OSS former employee.
- Flora – Ruth Rivkin, former employee of
the UNRRA.
- Mon – Bernard Redmont, former employee of
the Rockefeller Committee.
- Mirage – Robert Miller, former official of
the State Department.
- Dir – Mary Price, former secretary of
Lippman, American journalist.
- Gor – Joseph Gregg, former official of the
Rockefeller Committee.
- Fedya – William Remington, former official
of the War production department.
- Ostorozhniy (Careful) – Julius Joseph, OSS former employee.
- Echo – S. Schuster,
employee of the CPUSA Central Committee apparatus.
- Irma – Ray Elson, former vice-president of
the U.S. Service and Shipping Corporation.
- Green – John Spivak, journalist, before
1941 was used on Trotskists.
- Vadim – A.V. Gorsky, former station chief
of the MGB of the USSR
in Washington.
Now in the USSR.
- Lyucya – Mrs. Pravdin, Amtorg former
employee, wife of Serguey, former station chief in New York. Now in the USSR.
- Serguey – V. Pravdin, former station chief
of the MGB of the USSR in
New York.
Now in the USSR.
- Schtock – our cadre officer M. Shalyapin. Now in the USSR.
- Guennady – G.B. Ovakimyan, former station chief of the MGB of the USSR in New York. Now in the USSR.
- Albert – A. I. Akhmerov, former illegal station chief of the MGB in New York. Now in the USSR.
- Elsa – Mrs. Akhmerov, American, Soviet citizen.
Now in the USSR.
- Gruzd’ (Milk Mushroom) – Willard Parp, former
employee of the Rockefeller Committee.
- Charlie – Cedrik Belfridge, former
employee of a station of the British intelligence service in New York. Presently
a journalist.
Berg-Art group
- Berg – Alexander Koral, former engineer of
the New York
municipality.
- Art – Heken Koral, Berg’s wife. House-wife.
- Son – Richard Koral, son. Student.
- Dlinniy (Long) – Horman Hight, engineer of
Sperry Gyroscope Co in New
Jersey.
- Smart – Elliot Goldberg, engineer of an
oil equipment producing firm in New
York.
- Guron (Huron) – Byron T. Darling, engineer
of the firm Rubber.
- Teacher – Melamed, pedagogue in a musical
school in New York.
- Kora – Emma Philips, house-wife.
- Lock – Sylvia Koral, former employee of
the secret ciphering section of the War information department.
- Chizh (Siskin) – Eduardo Pecchio,
businessman in Caracas (Venezuela).
- Gonets (Messenger) – Richard Setaro,
journalist, writer, former employee of Columbia Broadcasting System. Presently
in Buenos Aires.
- Artyom – A. Slavyaguin, our cadre office.
Now in the USSR.
- Twen – S.M. Semenov, station chief of the technical intelligence of the KI in Paris. Presently on holiday in Moscow.
- Alexey – A.A. Yatskov, our cadre officer,
now in the USSR.
- Julia – O.V. Schimmel, our cadre officer,
now in the USSR.
- Shakh (Shah) – K.A. Chugunov, our cadre
officer, now in the USSR.
- Gorsky (December 1948)
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