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'''Enos Regnet Wicher''' was married to [[Maria Wicher]] and was the stepfather of [[Flora Don Wovschin|Flora Wovschin]]. He was a professor at [[Columbia University]]. Wicher, an American citizen worked in the Wave Propagation Group at Columbia's Division of War Research and spied for Soviet intelligence during [[World War II]]. All three, Wicher, his wife, and daughter Flora Wovshin spied for the [[KGB]]. His code name in Soviet intelligence and in the [[Venona project]] is "Kin" (also "Keen").
Wicher was a two-time [[Wisconsin]] state chess champion.
==Source==
*Haynes, John Earl & Klehr, Harvey, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 0300084625
*[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/05_Dec_1944_R3_m1_p1.gif 1714 KGB New York to Moscow, 5 December 1944], p.1
*[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/05_Dec_1944_R3_m1_p2.gif 1714 KGB New York to Moscow, 5 December 1944], p.2
*[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/05_Dec_1944_R3_m1_p3.gif 1714 KGB New York to Moscow, 5 December 1944], p.3
*[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/17_Jan_1945_R3_m2_p1.gif 76 KGB New York to Moscow, 17 January 1945]
*[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/17_Jul_1945_R3_m2_p1.gif 1137 KGB New York to Moscow, 17 July 1945], p.1
*[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/17_Jul_1945_R3_m2_p2.gif 1137 KGB New York to Moscow, 17 July 1945], p.2