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'''Joel Barr''', also '''Iozef Veniaminovich Berg''' and '''Joseph Berg''', was born in 1916 to [[Jew]]ish immigrant parents.  He attended City College of New York (CUNY) with [[Julius Rosenberg]] and later worked with Rosenberg and [[Al Sarant]] at the United States [[United States Army Signal Corps]] laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey during [[World War II]]. Barr and Sarant, who were recruited into espionage by Rosenberg, shared an apartment and were allowed to function as a team by their [[KGB]] [[Agent_handler#Case_officer|Case Officer]], [[Aleksandr Feklisov]].  Feklisov regarded the pair as  the most productive members of the group.  [[Harry Gold]], besides Rosenberg, sometimes also couriered information to and from Barr and Sarant.

'''Joel Barr''', also '''Iozef Veniaminovich Berg''' and '''Joseph Berg''', was born in 1916 to [[Jew]]ish immigrant parents.  He attended City College of New York (CUNY) with [[Julius Rosenberg]] and later worked with Rosenberg and [[Al Sarant]] at the United States [[United States Army Signal Corps]] laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey during [[World War II]]. Barr and Sarant, who were recruited into espionage by Rosenberg, shared an apartment and were allowed to function as a team by their [[KGB]] [[Agent handler#Case officer|Case Officer]], [[Aleksandr Feklisov]].  Feklisov regarded the pair as  the most productive members of the group.  [[Harry Gold]], besides Rosenberg, sometimes also couriered information to and from Barr and Sarant.

Both Barr and Sarant were trained and employed as electrical engineers and worked on military [[radar]].  Barr was discovered by counterintelligence to be a Communist and was fired.  He and Sarant then found employment with Western Electric and worked on a highly secret radar bombsight.

Both Barr and Sarant were trained and employed as electrical engineers and worked on military [[radar]].  Barr was discovered by counterintelligence to be a Communist and was fired.  He and Sarant then found employment with Western Electric and worked on a highly secret radar bombsight.

There are seven deciphered KGB transmissions about Joel Barr. Barr's code name in the Soviet intelligence and in deciphered [[Venona project]] transcripts was originally "Meter" (also "Metre" and "Metr"); it was later changed to "Scout" (also "Skaut"). The November 14, 1944 Venona cable also documents the successful recruitment of [[Ruth Greenglass]].

There are seven deciphered KGB transmissions about Joel Barr. Barr's code name in the Soviet intelligence and in deciphered [[Venona project]] transcripts was originally "Meter" (also "Metre" and "Metr"); it was later changed to "Scout" (also "Skaut"). The November 14, 1944 Venona cable also documents the successful recruitment of [[Ruth Greenglass]].

==Source==

==Sources==

*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)

*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)

*Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era'' (New York: Random House, 1999)

*Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era'' (New York: Random House, 1999)