User:Fyddlestix/Venona

Venona Articles Cleanup
This page is for tracking a check of the articles linked in this article. Several of them have already been found to contain OR, copyvio, and inaccurate information, or to be about individuals who are not notable. I am (very slowly) working through them, this page is for keeping track of that effort.

Articles with problems that need fixing
Nicholas W. Orloff
 * original research (list of Venoma mentions). Article text is COPYVIO from Haynes' appendix. Fixed, stubbed for now. Could be expanded with the discussion in Haynes' appendix, or, if not covered in depth in other RS, might be a candidate for AFD.  Is only discussed in Haynes' appendix.

Edna Patterson
 * copyvio from: here. OR list of Venona mentions. fixed, stubbed for now. Probably notable, the article can likely be expanded with the archive link and the discussion in Haynes' book.

George Gorchoff
 * Cleaned up, sent to AFD as a test case. Probably not notable.
 * Deleted as a result of AFD

Emma Harriet Joseph
 * Cleaned up, sent to AFD. Does not appear notable.

Rebecca Getzoff
 * OR list of Venoma mentions, sourcing may be suspect (check where/how Haynes mentions her)

Margietta Voge
 * slim evidence: mentioned only in Haynes' appendix. Her name is spelled wrong in the article title. Article can be improved using sources on her career as a scientist
 * Mostly fixed by General Ization & Collect. Notable, but as a scientist - article still needs tweaking to ensure that claims about her alleged espionage are verifiable (and not cited to OR).

Charles Bradford Sheppard
 * Article contradicts itself. OR list of Venona mentions.  Is only mentioned in Hayne's appendix, details in the article appear un-verifiable as far as I can tell.

Stephan Rich
 * OR removed, article moved to correct name (was mis-spelled). Needs to be sent to AFD eventually I think - does not appear notable.
 * Sent to AFD, is clearly not notable.

Abraham George Silverman
 * Discussion of espionage is unsourced, may be OR. Scrutinize sources and verify.

Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov
 * OR already removed, but has no inline citations. Verify/check claims and add in-line sources.

FBI Silvermaster File
 * Rampant OR.

Anna Louise Strong
 * Preliminary cleanup done, sourcing is a mess though: no/very few in-line refs, sources for the info in the article are unclear. Much of it may be OR, there was a list of archival sources under "further reading," which I've removed.

Milton Schwartz
 * Preliminary cleanup done. May not be notable - but there is a discussion of him in the linked article, only mention of him is as follows: " subparagraph 1(a) of the message states that one of the five, Milton Schwartz (‘Matrei’) has requested a loan of $1,200 from the GRU to care for his ailing father. Another message establishes that an individual who was certainly an agent of the GRU backed Schwartz’s request.73 Inasmuch as the GRU was not a charitable organization, it appears highly probable that Schwartz was at least a witting informant. The examples of Halperin and Schwartz show that the mere fact that the name of one or the other of the Hisses appeared spelled out in a message from the New York station of the GRU cannot be taken as definitely indicative of innocence in respect of espionage. Neither, of course, does it suggest guilt"  Context is question (in relation to Hiss) of whether the name being mentioned in the cables means much.

Isabel Gallardo
 * OR needs removing, likely AFD candidate (does not appear notable). Sent to AFD.

Maria Wicher
 * Check claims and cite them properly. Assess for notability.

Kenneth Richardson
 * OR needs removing, move refs inline. Assess for notability.

Articles to vet for OR, verifiability, and copyvio
John Abt**


 * Solomon Adler**
 * Rudy Baker**
 * Joel Barr
 * Alice Barrows
 * Theodore Bayer, President, Russky Golos Publishing
 * Cedric Belfrage
 * Elizabeth Bentley
 * Joseph Milton Bernstein
 * Earl Browder, American communist and General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1934 to 1945.
 * Paul Burns**
 * Sylvia Callen**
 * Virginius Frank Coe
 * Lona Cohen**
 * Morris Cohen**, Communist Party USA & Portland Spy Ring member who was courier for Manhattan Project physicist Theodore Hall.
 * Judith Coplon
 * Lauchlin Currie, White House economic adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt and director of World Bank mission to Colombia.
 * William Dawson, United States Ambassador to Uruguay
 * Eugene Dennis
 * Samuel Dickstein**
 * Martha Dodd**, daughter of William Dodd, who served as the United States ambassador to Germany between 1933 and 1937.
 * William E. Dodd, Jr.
 * Laurence Duggan, head of the South American desk at the United States Department of State during World War II.
 * Nathan Einhorn
 * Jack Bradley Fahy
 * Linn Markley Farish, senior liaison officer with Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav Partisan forces
 * Edward J. Fitzgerald
 * Charles Flato
 * Isaac Folkoff
 * Jane Foster
 * Zalmond David Franklin
 * Boleslaw K. Gerbert
 * Harold Glasser, U.S. Treasury Dept. economist, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) spokesman.
 * Bela Gold
 * Harry Gold, sentenced to 30 years for his role in the Rosenbergs' ring
 * Sonia Steinman Gold
 * Jacob Golos, "main pillar" of NKVD spy network, particularly the Sound/Myrna group, he died in the arms of Elizabeth Bentley
 * Gerald Graze**
 * David Greenglass, machinist at Los Alamos sentenced to 15 years for his role in Rosenberg ring; he was the brother of executed Ethel Rosenberg
 * Ruth Greenglass
 * Theodore Alvin Hall, Manhattan Project physicist who gave plutonium purification secrets to Soviet intelligence.
 * Maurice Halperin, American writer, professor, diplomat, and Soviet spy (NKVD code name "Hare").
 * Kitty Harris
 * Clarence Hiskey**
 * Alger Hiss, Lawyer involved in the establishment of the United Nations, both as a U.S. State Department and UN official.
 * Donald Hiss**
 * Harry Hopkins, One of FDR's closest advisers & New Deal architect, esp. Works Progress Administration (WPA); as a diplomat in charge of relations between FDR and Stalin his name naturally appears on the list.
 * Bella Joseph**
 * Gertrude Kahn
 * Joseph Katz
 * Helen Grace Scott Keenan
 * Mary Jane Keeney
 * Philip Keeney
 * Alexander Koral**
 * Helen Koral
 * Samuel Krafsur
 * Charles Kramer
 * Christina Krotkova
 * Sergej Nikolaevich Kurnakov
 * Fiorello La Guardia, mayor of New York City
 * Stephen Laird
 * Oscar Lange
 * Richard Lauterbach, employee at Time magazine
 * Duncan C. Lee
 * Michael S. Leshing
 * Helen Lowry
 * Harry Samuel Magdoff
 * William Malisoff, owner and manager of United Laboratories
 * Hede Massing**
 * Robert Owen Menaker
 * Floyd Cleveland Miller
 * James Walter Miller
 * Robert Miller**
 * Robert G. Minor, Office of Strategic Services, Belgrade
 * Leonard Emil Mins
 * Nichola Napoli
 * Franz Neumann**
 * David K. Niles
 * Frank Oppenheimer**
 * Julius Robert Oppenheimer, Scientific director of the Manhattan Project and chief advisor to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
 * William Perl
 * Victor Perlo
 * Vladimir Aleksandrovich Posner, United States War Department
 * Lee Pressman
 * Mary Wolfe Price
 * Bernard Redmont**
 * Peter Rhodes
 * Samuel Jacob Rodman, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
 * Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States, his name appears on the list under the code name "capitan". (Winston Churchill's codename was "boar."
 * Allen Rosenberg
 * Julius Rosenberg, United States Army Signal Corps Laboratories, executed for role in the Rosenberg ring
 * Ethel Rosenberg, executed for role in Rosenberg ring based on testimony of her brother, David Greenglass
 * Alfred Epaminodas Sarant
 * Marian Miloslavovich Schultz
 * John Scott
 * Ricardo Setaro
 * Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, U.S. War Production Board (WPB) economist and head of a major ring of spies in the U.S. government.
 * Helen Silvermaster, Leader of the American League for Peace & Democracy and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties.
 * Morton Sobell
 * Jack Soble
 * Robert Soble
 * Johannes Steele
 * I. F. Stone, Investigative journalist whose newsletter, I. F. Stone's Weekly, was ranked 16th out of 100 by his fellow journalists.
 * Augustina Stridsberg
 * Helen Tenney**
 * Mikhail Tkach, editor of the Ukrainian Daily News
 * William Ludwig Ullmann
 * Irving Charles Velson
 * Henry A. Wallace
 * William Weisband**
 * Donald Wheeler
 * Harry Dexter White, Senior U.S. Treasury department official, primary designer of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
 * Ruth Beverly Wilson
 * Ignacy Witczak**
 * Ilya Elliott Wolston
 * Flora Don Wovschin
 * Jones Orin York
 * Daniel Abraham Zaret,
 * Mark Zborovski