Venona - Soviet Espionage & American Response (Cryptographic Series) (Paperback)

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This sensational book, edited by NSA and CIA officers, reveals U.S. "code-breaking" successes in reading KGB and GRU messages during the Cold War. The cryptanalytic efforts of NSA, termed the Venona project, succeeded in dramatically tearing away the veil of secrecy surrounding Soviet intelligence and espionage. Venona breakthroughs -- described in detail -- played a significant role in exposing and confirming the espionage activities of Soviet agents such as the Rosenbergs, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and others.

Aegean Park Press has added a lengthy index to the text, as well as additional monographs with pictures concerning the great significance of the Venona project.

Product Details

• Paperback: 503 pages
• Publisher: Aegean Park Press (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0894122657
• ISBN-13: 978-0894122651
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,558,084 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Starting point for understanding Venona, February 13, 2005

By	Rodney Carlisle - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the essential starting point for anyone interested in learning more about the connections between the Soviet espionage effort against the United States during the Cold War and the American Communist party, as revealed through the decrypted Venona messages. An excellent introduction is followed by photo reproductions of many of the actual decrypted messages sent between Moscow Central and undercover agents in the United States. Included are references to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Ted Hall, David Greenglass, and Klaus Fuchs, all involved in the espionage penetration of the Manhattan Project. The release of these decrypted messages in 1995 and 1996 was so significant that the history of the relationship of the American Communist Party to the Soviet espionage system has been completely rewritten, generating what some historians have called "post-Venona revisionism."
Rodney P. Carlisle, author of Complete Idiot's Guide to Spies and Espionage.