Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence

Appendix G

Venona Code Names and Encryption

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The NKVD rezidenturasin New York, Washington, and San Francisco

used code names to refer to case officers, agents, places, targets, and

even personnel in Moscow. For example, a cable from the Washington

rezidenturato Foreign Intelligence chief Pavel Fitin would be signed

Maksim (Zarubin) and would be addressed to Viktor (Fitin). Sometimes

humor entered into the designations: Boris Moros, an agent in Los An-

geles and later an FBI agent, was referred to in code as “Frost.” The

Russian word Morozmeans “Frost.”

Venona Code Name Real Name

Ales Alger Hiss

Babylon San Francisco

Caliber David Greenglass

Camp 2 Los Alamos

Clever Girl Elizabeth Bentley

Liszt John Carincross

Carthage Washington, D.C.

Compatriot Communist Party member

Enormoz (Enormous) Nuclear weapons program

Father Earl Browder

Funicular Atom bomb

Gus (Goose) Harry Gold

Helmsman Earl Browder

Homer (Gomer) Donald Maclean

Hotel Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)

Koch Douglas Chaplin Lee

Izba (Hut) Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

Kaptan (Captain) President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Lawyer Harry Dexter White

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