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=="Mr. Hoover"==

=="Mr. Hoover"==

One of the more bizarre incidents in the Venona investigation occurred a few years before work was ever begun on deciphering encryptions.  A Soviet assistant to the KGB Washington station chief became displeased with his superior and case officers he was working with.  Lt. Col. [[Vassili Mironov]], who's cover name was Markov, wrote an anonymous letter to FBI Director [[J. Edgar Hoover]] in August 1943 in Russian on a Cyrilic typewritten.  There is no "H" in the Cyrilic alphabet, so in Russian the letter is addressed to "Mr. Guver."   

One of the more bizarre incidents in the Venona investigation occurred a few years before work was ever begun on deciphering encryptions.  A Soviet assistant to the KGB Washington station chief became displeased with his superior and other case officers he was working with.  Lt. Col. [[Vassili Mironov]], who's cover name was Markov, wrote an anonymous letter to FBI Director [[J. Edgar Hoover]] in August 1943 in Russian on a Cyrilic typewritter.  There is no "H" in the Cyrilic alphabet, so in Russian the letter is addressed to "Mr. Guver."   

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.