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New page: '''Amadeo Sabatini''' was an American citizen and KGB agent who had fought a a non-state combatant volunteer in the Spanish Civil War together with KGB asset Morris Cohen as pa...
'''Amadeo Sabatini''' was an American citizen and [[KGB]] agent who had fought a a non-state combatant volunteer in the [[Spanish Civil War]] together with KGB asset [[Morris Cohen]] as part of the so-called "[[International Brigades]].
Sabatini was a KGB agent who had served under [[Joseph Katz]] notably in the surveillance and probably the murder of Soviet defector General [[Walter Krivitsky]]. <ref>Earl M. Hyde,
[http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=2b5d53ed5f9d474ab1e71e1690546798&referrer=parent&backto=searcharticlesresults,2,1000;homemain,1,1;''Bernard Schuster and Joseph Katz: KGB Master Spies in the United States,''] International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 1999, pg. 42.</ref>
Sabatini passed information on aircraft design and manufacture from [[Jones Orin York]], an employee of [[Northrop Corporation]], to [[Gregory Kheifets]], the KGB San Fransisco Rezident. Sabatini ceased operations on behalf of Soviet intelligence after coming under FBI surveillance. In June 1944 Joseph Katz attempted to reactivate Sabatini as an intelligence operative. <ref>[http://foia.fbi.gov/venona/venona.pdf FBI Venona file,] pg. 8-9 (PDF).</ref>
In 1949 cryptographers for the [[Army Signals Intelligence Service]] working at [[Arlington Hall]] on [[Venona project]] encryptions of [[Soviet]] wartime cable traffic deciphered covername NICK as Sabatini. In the spring of 1950, Sabatini began cooperating to a limited extent with the [[FBI]] investigation of Soviet espionage in the [[United States]]. Sabatini kept quiet about Morris Cohen but did point the FBI toward a [[Jones Orin York]] who was simultaneously identified as Venona covername NEEDLE. When questioned in April 1950, York alleged that a former case officer of his was an Arlington Hall employee named [[William Weisband]]. Army Signals Intelligence Service, which by May 1949 was under the auspices of the new Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), suspended Weisband in May. <ref>Robert Louis Benson, and Michael Warner, eds. [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/preface.htm VENONA: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957]. Washington, DC: National Security Agency/Central Intelligence Agency, 1996. Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean Park Press, 1996. pg. 12.</ref>
==References==
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sabatini, Amadeo}}
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]
Sabatini was a KGB agent who had served under [[Joseph Katz]] notably in the surveillance and probably the murder of Soviet defector General [[Walter Krivitsky]]. <ref>Earl M. Hyde,
[http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=2b5d53ed5f9d474ab1e71e1690546798&referrer=parent&backto=searcharticlesresults,2,1000;homemain,1,1;''Bernard Schuster and Joseph Katz: KGB Master Spies in the United States,''] International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 1999, pg. 42.</ref>
Sabatini passed information on aircraft design and manufacture from [[Jones Orin York]], an employee of [[Northrop Corporation]], to [[Gregory Kheifets]], the KGB San Fransisco Rezident. Sabatini ceased operations on behalf of Soviet intelligence after coming under FBI surveillance. In June 1944 Joseph Katz attempted to reactivate Sabatini as an intelligence operative. <ref>[http://foia.fbi.gov/venona/venona.pdf FBI Venona file,] pg. 8-9 (PDF).</ref>
In 1949 cryptographers for the [[Army Signals Intelligence Service]] working at [[Arlington Hall]] on [[Venona project]] encryptions of [[Soviet]] wartime cable traffic deciphered covername NICK as Sabatini. In the spring of 1950, Sabatini began cooperating to a limited extent with the [[FBI]] investigation of Soviet espionage in the [[United States]]. Sabatini kept quiet about Morris Cohen but did point the FBI toward a [[Jones Orin York]] who was simultaneously identified as Venona covername NEEDLE. When questioned in April 1950, York alleged that a former case officer of his was an Arlington Hall employee named [[William Weisband]]. Army Signals Intelligence Service, which by May 1949 was under the auspices of the new Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), suspended Weisband in May. <ref>Robert Louis Benson, and Michael Warner, eds. [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/preface.htm VENONA: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957]. Washington, DC: National Security Agency/Central Intelligence Agency, 1996. Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean Park Press, 1996. pg. 12.</ref>
==References==
<references/>
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sabatini, Amadeo}}
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]