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New page: '''Ilya Elliott Wolston''' was an American citizen who entered the U.S. Army in World War II and became a military intelligence officer. Shortly thereafter Wolston began reporting to t...
'''Ilya Elliott Wolston''' was an American citizen who entered the U.S. Army in [[World War II]] and became a military intelligence officer. Shortly thereafter Wolston began reporting to the [[NKVD|Soviet intelligence]]. Wolston relayed to Soviet intelligence matters relating to the organization, curriculum, and personnel of the Army's intelligence school at Fort Ritchie, Maryland.[http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/standard/archives/apr2/fd_col4298.html]
After the war Wolston worked for the KGB network run by his uncle, [[Jack Soble]] and included Soble's brother and Wolston's other uncle [[Robert Soblen]]. [[Boris Morros]] wrote in his autobiography that Jack Soble told him that Ilya, whose cover name Morros remembered as Slava, had done work for the Russians in Alaska.
There is a Slava in a 1945 message (Venona 325 KGB Moscow to New York, 5 April 1945); it clearly is not Wolston but someone connected to the Rosenberg spy ring. This also suggests that by that time Wolston had a different cover name.
===Venona===
Ilya Wolston is referenced in the following Venona project decrypts:
*777–781 KGB New York to Moscow, 26 May 1943
*893 KGB New York to Moscow, 10 June 1943
*325 Moscow to New York, 5 April 1945. (It is not clear that the Glory in the 1945 message is "Glory"/Wolston as in 1943).
===Reference===
*Boris Morros, ''My Ten Years as a Counter-Spy'', London: Werner Laurie (1959).
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', New Haven: Yale University Press, (1999), pgs. 275–276.
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[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]
After the war Wolston worked for the KGB network run by his uncle, [[Jack Soble]] and included Soble's brother and Wolston's other uncle [[Robert Soblen]]. [[Boris Morros]] wrote in his autobiography that Jack Soble told him that Ilya, whose cover name Morros remembered as Slava, had done work for the Russians in Alaska.
There is a Slava in a 1945 message (Venona 325 KGB Moscow to New York, 5 April 1945); it clearly is not Wolston but someone connected to the Rosenberg spy ring. This also suggests that by that time Wolston had a different cover name.
===Venona===
Ilya Wolston is referenced in the following Venona project decrypts:
*777–781 KGB New York to Moscow, 26 May 1943
*893 KGB New York to Moscow, 10 June 1943
*325 Moscow to New York, 5 April 1945. (It is not clear that the Glory in the 1945 message is "Glory"/Wolston as in 1943).
===Reference===
*Boris Morros, ''My Ten Years as a Counter-Spy'', London: Werner Laurie (1959).
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', New Haven: Yale University Press, (1999), pgs. 275–276.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wolston, Ilya}}
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]