Vassiliev, Alexander. creator mixed material monographic eng rus 110 11 4.2 168 Notebooks compiled by Vassiliev from Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti (KGB) files relating to KGB espionage activity in the United States during the 1930s through the early 1950s. Includes typewritten transcriptions and English translations of the notebooks, summary narratives, a file guide, and a concordance. Also includes scans of VENONA cables and other material relating to VENONA, the code name for the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service's project to analyze and decrypt Soviet communications primarily during World War II. Legal documents, correspondence, trial notes, and other papers pertain to the lawsuit Vassiliev v. Frank Cass & Co., a libel suit concerning the article, "Venona & Alger Hiss," by John Lowenthal, published in 2000 by the journal Intelligence and National Security Journal. Open to research. Digitized versions of the file guide and concordance as well as the original, transcribed, and translated notebooks available as part of the Cold War International History Project on the Woodrow Wilson International Center Web site at http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/86/Vassiliev-Notebooks Russian journalist, author, espionage historian, and KGB operative. Collection material in English and Russian. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010012 Lowenthal, John 1925-2003 Vassiliev, Alexander Trials, litigation, etc United States. Army. Signal Intelligence Service. Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti. Frank Cass & Co. Trials, litigation, etc Cryptography United States Espionage United States Intelligence service Soviet Union World War, 1939-1945 Cryptography World War, 1939-1945 Military intelligence United States World War, 1939-1945 Soviet Union Soviet Union Foreign relations United States United States Foreign relations Soviet Union Authors Historians Intelligence officers Journalists mm2009085460 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010012 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010012.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010012 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010012.3 Open to research. DLC 090421 20260227111731.0 mm2009085460 eng