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[[United_States_Army_Signal_Corps#PSI_Investigations"|Fort Monmouth Army Signal Corps Laboratories]]<br/>

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'''Alfred Epaminondas Sarant''', also known as '''Filipp Georgievich Staros''' and '''Philip Georgievich Staros''', was an engineer and a member of the [[Communist]] party in New York City in 1944. He was part of the [[Julius Rosenberg|Rosenberg]] spy ring that reported to Soviet intelligence.  Sarant worked on secret military radar at the United States [[United States Army Signal Corps]] laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.  [[Aleksandr Feklisov]], one of the [[KGB]] [[Agent_handler#Case_officer|case officers]] who handled the Rosenberg spy apparatus described Sarant and [[Joel Barr]] as among the most productive members of the group.  

'''Alfred Epaminondas Sarant''', also known as '''Filipp Georgievich Staros''' and '''Philip Georgievich Staros''', was an engineer and a member of the [[Communist]] party in New York City in 1944. He was part of the [[Julius Rosenberg|Rosenberg]] spy ring that reported to Soviet intelligence.  Sarant worked on secret military radar at the United States [[United States Army Signal Corps]] laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.  [[Aleksandr Feklisov]], one of the [[KGB]] [[Agent handler#Case officer|case officers]] who handled the Rosenberg spy apparatus described Sarant and [[Joel Barr]] as among the most productive members of the group.  

The [[Venona project]] transcript of 14 November 1944 reported to Moscow that Rosenberg had safely carried through the contracting of Sarant.  The transcript noted Sarant and Barr were roommates and good friends and proposed to pair them off and get them to photograph their own materials.  Sarant was considered a good photographer and had a large darkroom in his home.  Rosenberg was to pick up the film and deliver it to [[KGB|Soviet intelligence]].  [[Anatoli Yatskov]] was assigned to Sarant and used [[Harry Gold]] as his courier.  Usually, the film was forwarded directly to Moscow. One transcript reports Sarant and Barr delivered 17 authentic drawings relating to the APQ-7, an advanced and secret airborne radar system developed jointly by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Western Electric for the United States military.

The [[Venona project]] transcript of 14 November 1944 reported to Moscow that Rosenberg had safely carried through the contracting of Sarant.  The transcript noted Sarant and Barr were roommates and good friends and proposed to pair them off and get them to photograph their own materials.  Sarant was considered a good photographer and had a large darkroom in his home.  Rosenberg was to pick up the film and deliver it to [[KGB|Soviet intelligence]].  [[Anatoli Yatskov]] was assigned to Sarant and used [[Harry Gold]] as his courier.  Usually, the film was forwarded directly to Moscow. One transcript reports Sarant and Barr delivered 17 authentic drawings relating to the APQ-7, an advanced and secret airborne radar system developed jointly by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Western Electric for the United States military.

Sarant's cover name in Soviet intelligence and in the Venona project is "Hughes".

Sarant's cover name in Soviet intelligence and in the Venona project is "Hughes".

==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)

*Feklisov, Alexandre, ''The Man Behind the Rosenbergs: Memoirs of the KGB Spymaster Who Also Controlled Klaus Fuchs and Helped Resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis'', (New York,Enigma, 2001)

*Feklisov, Alexandre, ''The Man Behind the Rosenbergs: Memoirs of the KGB Spymaster Who Also Controlled Klaus Fuchs and Helped Resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis'', (New York,Enigma, 2001)