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In the letter, Mironov names several high level KGB operatives,<ref>Document No. 10 in Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner, eds., Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957 (Washington, DC: National Security Agency/Central Intelligence Agency, 1996).[https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/10.gif][https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/10a.gif][https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/10b.gif][https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/11c.gif]</ref> many involved in the ongoing atomic espionage, and suggest surveilling them would lead to incrimination.  Cited in the letter is Mironov's boss, [[Vasili Zarubin]], the North American KGB Rezident; Zarubin's wife [[Elizabeth Zarubina]] who was accreditted in 1992 as playing a significant role in recruiting [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] and infiltrating [[Klaus Fuchs]] into the Manhattan Project; [[Semyon Semenov]] said to be "robbing the whole of the war industry in America;" [[Grigory Kheifets]], KGB San Fransisco Rezident who first contacted Oppenheimer at Berkley and managed other contacts; and [[Leon Tarasov]], KGB Mexico City Rezident to whom the targeting of the [[Los Alamos]], New Mexico facility and operations connected with it were transfered in order to gain better operational security.

In the letter, Mironov names several high level KGB operatives,<ref>Document No. 10 in Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner, eds., Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957 (Washington, DC: National Security Agency/Central Intelligence Agency, 1996).[https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/10.gif][https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/10a.gif][https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/10b.gif][https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/11c.gif]</ref> many involved in the ongoing atomic espionage, and suggest surveilling them would lead to incrimination.  Cited in the letter is Mironov's boss, [[Vasili Zarubin]], the North American KGB Rezident; Zarubin's wife [[Elizabeth Zarubina]] who was accreditted in 1992 as playing a significant role in recruiting [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] and infiltrating [[Klaus Fuchs]] into the Manhattan Project; [[Semyon Semenov]] said to be "robbing the whole of the war industry in America;" [[Grigory Kheifets]], KGB San Fransisco Rezident who first contacted Oppenheimer at Berkley and managed other contacts; and [[Leon Tarasov]], KGB Mexico City Rezident to whom the targeting of the [[Los Alamos]], New Mexico facility and operations connected with it were transfered in order to gain better operational security.

Mironov made an assertion that the information is boss, Zurabin, was obtaining from all these sources was being sent to Japan, and not the Soviet Union. Mironov and several others were all recalled to Moscow and an investigation found this to be untrue.  Mironov was diagnosed schizophrenic, hospitalized, and later shot.

Mironov made an assertion that the information his boss, Zurabin, was obtaining from all these sources was being sent to Japan, and not the Soviet Union. Mironov and several others were all recalled to Moscow and an investigation found this to be untrue.  Mironov was diagnosed schizophrenic, hospitalized, and later shot.

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