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Linn Markley Farish (view source)
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'''Linn Markley Farish''' (1901 - 1944) was an [[American]] citizen and a member of the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) during [[World War II]]. The OSS was the predecessor agency of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA). Farish functioned as liaison officer with [[Josip Tito]]'s [[Yugoslav Partisans]] for the OSS. Farish also at the same time was serving [[NKVD|Soviet intelligence]]. Farish died in a aircraft crash in the Balkans in September 1944. Farish's code name in Soviet intelligence, and as decyphered in the [[Venona project]] is "Attila".
==Venona==
Farish is referenced in the following Venona project decryption:
* 1397 KGB New York to Moscow, 4 October 1944
=== Source ===
John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America,'' Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 194, 195.
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[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]