'''William Alfred Plourde''' was an American who was a source of information for [[Andrey Shevchenko]], a [[NKVD|Soviet intelligence]] operative during [[World War II]]. Plourde was an engineer who worked at engineer with [[Bell Aircraft]] in Buffalo, New York.
===Venona===
William Plourde is referenced in the following [[Venona project]] decryption:
*1151 KGB New York to Moscow, 12 August 1944.
===Reference===
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
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