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Jacob Golos was the "main pillar" of the [[NKVD]] intelligence network.  He had worked with Soviet intelligence from the mid 1930s, and probably earlier.  He was not merely a CPUSA official assisting the NKVD (an agent or “probationer” in Soviet intelligence parlance) but held official rank in the NKVD, and claimed to be a an oldtime ''[[Chekist]]''.  Golos headed the Central Control Commission (discipline) which planned the execution of [[Juliet Poyntz]], an American defector from the [[GRU]]. <ref>Anthony Cave Brown and Charles B. MacDonald, ''On a Field of Red'', New York: G. P.  

Jacob Golos was the "main pillar" of the [[NKVD]] intelligence network.  He had worked with Soviet intelligence from the mid 1930s, and probably earlier.  He was not merely a CPUSA official assisting the NKVD (an agent or “probationer” in Soviet intelligence parlance) but held official rank in the NKVD, and claimed to be a an oldtime ''[[Chekist]]''.  Golos headed the Central Control Commission (discipline) which planned the execution of [[Juliet Poyntz]], an American defector from the [[GRU]]. <ref>Anthony Cave Brown and Charles B. MacDonald, ''On a Field of Red'', New York: G. P.  

Putnam's Sons, 1981, p. 345. </ref>

Putnam's Sons, 1981, p. 345. </ref>

 

The code name "Sound" appears in the [[Venona]] decryptions as a Soviet source and was identified as Jacob Golos.  The reference to Golos in the Venona decrypts as an “illegal colleague” corroborates [[Elizabeth Bentley]]'s testimony.  The term “nelegal’ny sotrudnik” can be translated as  “illegal colleague,” “illegal associate” or “illegal operative,” was Soviet espionage terminology for a Soviet officer or professional agent who operated without the protection of diplomatic or official status with a Soviet embassy, consulate or agency and usually with false documents.  Soviet officers with the latter status were said to be “legal.”  Golos worked for the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia. Cover name "Zvuk" ("Sound") is from Latin "Vox", or "Voice".

The code name "Sound" appears in the [[Venona]] decryptions as a Soviet source and was identified as Jacob Golos.  The reference to Golos in the Venona decrypts as an “illegal colleague” corroborates [[Elizabeth Bentley]]'s testimony.  The term “nelegal’ny sotrudnik” can be translated as  “illegal colleague,” “illegal associate” or “illegal operative,” was Soviet espionage terminology for a Soviet officer or professional agent who operated without the protection of diplomatic or official status with a Soviet embassy, consulate or agency and usually with false documents.  Soviet officers with the latter status were said to be “legal.”  Golos worked for the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia. Cover name "Zvuk" ("Sound") is from Latin "Vox", or "Voice".