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(the Soviet [[Agent handler|Case Officer]] for [[Julius Rosenberg]] and [[Klaus Fuchs]]), published in 2001.
(the Soviet [[Agent handler|Case Officer]] for [[Julius Rosenberg]] and [[Klaus Fuchs]]), published in 2001.
Moscow then responded to New York KGB headquarters on February 25, 1945 in Venona decrypt #179,180. According to the authors of ''Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America'', researchers Allen Weinstein and ex-KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev, the cover name of "KANT" was replaced with "TAN". Moscow expressed concern that knowledge of some probationers working for various groups was widely known among other CPUSA members, so it was not uncommon for code names to change. The code name "TAN" appears in a memo of [[Anatoly Gorsky]]’s, dated December 1948, a document from the KGB archives analyzed by Alexander Vassiliev.<ref>[http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page44.html "Alexander Vassiliev’s Notes on Anatoly Gorsky’s December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks (Annotated),"] John Earl Haynes: "3. "Tan" – Harry Magdoff, former employee of the Commerce Department."</ref>
Moscow then responded to New York KGB headquarters on February 25, 1945 in Venona decrypt #179,180. According to the authors of ''Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America'', researchers Allen Weinstein and ex-KGB officer [[Alexander Vassiliev]], the cover name of "KANT" was replaced with "TAN". Moscow expressed concern that knowledge of some probationers working for various groups was widely known among other CPUSA members, so it was not uncommon for code names to change. The code name "TAN" appears in a memo of [[Anatoly Gorsky]]’s, dated December 1948, a document from the KGB archives analyzed by Alexander Vassiliev.<ref>[http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page44.html "Alexander Vassiliev’s Notes on Anatoly Gorsky’s December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks (Annotated),"] John Earl Haynes: "3. "Tan" – Harry Magdoff, former employee of the Commerce Department."</ref>
Gorsky was then a senior official of the Committee of Information ([[KI]]), the Soviet agency at the time supervising Soviet foreign intelligence.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
Gorsky was then a senior official of the Committee of Information ([[KI]]), the Soviet agency at the time supervising Soviet foreign intelligence.<ref>Ibid.</ref>