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[[CPUSA#Secret_apparatus|Secret apparatus]]<br/>

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[[Elizabeth_Bentley#Myrna_group|Myrna group]]

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In 1944 Katz was put in charge of handling agent recruitments from the New York [[TASS]] office headed by [[Vladimir Pravdin]], former [[Rezident]] of the NKGB in New York.  And in September 1944 Katz was freed of other liaisons (operations) and was assigned to work directly under Washington D.C. Rezident [[Anatoli Gorsky]]. Gorsky came to the United States to implement a new security program of isolating agents from each other by a complicated arrangement of cutouts.   

In 1944 Katz was put in charge of handling agent recruitments from the New York [[TASS]] office headed by [[Vladimir Pravdin]], former [[Rezident]] of the NKGB in New York.  And in September 1944 Katz was freed of other liaisons (operations) and was assigned to work directly under Washington D.C. Rezident [[Anatoli Gorsky]]. Gorsky came to the United States to implement a new security program of isolating agents from each other by a complicated arrangement of cutouts.   

Katz was to arrange a meeting between one "Margarita and a new person" in mid-October 1944.  Katz had been meeting "Margarita" for some time but had made no attempt to recruit her because she was causing the KGB anguish by equating Stalinism and Nazism and, therefore, was not judged to be a reasonable risk nor a cooperative worker. At that time it was decided only to keep an eye on her. <ref>Venona 1337 New York to Moscow, 19 September 1944. </ref>  Margarita continued to be of considerable concern to KGB Moscow.  On 6 October 1944, New York cabled its awareness of the problem, probably in answer to headquarters insistence on further information, stating that, according to Katz, she was hostile to "our firm but not the country."  She evidently explained to Katz "her hostile frame of mind and her simultaneous desire to return home."  The New York Resident was not about to meet her personally, and informed Moscow that "there are no grounds for not trusting Katz' conclusions which were being passed on." <ref>Venona 1411 New York to Moscow, 6 October 1944. </ref>

Katz was to arrange a meeting between one "Margarita and a new person" in mid-October 1944.  Katz had been meeting "Margarita" for some time but had made no attempt to recruit her because she was causing the KGB anguish by equating Stalinism and Nazism and, therefore, was not judged to be a reasonable risk nor a cooperative worker. At that time it was decided only to keep an eye on her.<ref>Venona 1337 New York to Moscow, 19 September 1944.</ref>  Margarita continued to be of considerable concern to KGB Moscow.  On 6 October 1944, New York cabled its awareness of the problem, probably in answer to headquarters insistence on further information, stating that, according to Katz, she was hostile to "our firm but not the country."  She evidently explained to Katz "her hostile frame of mind and her simultaneous desire to return home."  The New York Resident was not about to meet her personally, and informed Moscow that "there are no grounds for not trusting Katz' conclusions which were being passed on." <ref>Venona 1411 New York to Moscow, 6 October 1944.</ref>

Katz and Bentley’s operations in New York and Washington were very extensive. Bentley would eventually name more than 80 individuals who were providing information to the Soviet intelligence from a dozen government institutions.

Katz and Bentley’s operations in New York and Washington were very extensive. Bentley would eventually name more than 80 individuals who were providing information to the Soviet intelligence from a dozen government institutions.

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==Source==

==Sources==

*{Haynes, John Earl & Klehr, Harvey, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', (Yale University Press, 2000). ISBN 0300084625.

*{Haynes, John Earl & Klehr, Harvey, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', (Yale University Press, 2000). ISBN 0300084625.

* 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).