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'''Ralph Bowen''' was an economist in the [[United States Department of State]] during [[World War II]] who worked with [[NKVD|Soviet spy]], [[Flora Wovschin]]. Wovschin, who was acquainted with Bowen and his wife Sue since their youth together in the [[Comintern]] affiliated [[Young Communist League]]. A March 1945 Venona project decryption from the Soviet [[Communist]] Moscow Center ordered the New York KGBV office to follow up on a report from Wovschin. was cone of Soviet intelligence's most productive spies. Bowen was assigned cover name ALAN.
===Venona===
Ralph Bowen is referenced in the following [[Venona]] decrypt:
227 KGB New York to Moscow, 13 March 1945.
===Reference===
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pg. 200.
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