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→Alphabetical listing of Venona cases: several comments
Rob, do you have any objection to listing the Venona cases in the Venona section in alphabetical order? They seem to be listed randomly. I thought in keeping with the MOS that they be re-listed in alphabetical order. Any thoughts? Do you want to handle it or do you want me to do it? It doesn't matter to me. Let me know. [[User:Scorpio|Scorpio]] 20:48, 25 August 2007 (EDT)
Rob, do you have any objection to listing the Venona cases in the Venona section in alphabetical order? They seem to be listed randomly. I thought in keeping with the MOS that they be re-listed in alphabetical order. Any thoughts? Do you want to handle it or do you want me to do it? It doesn't matter to me. Let me know. [[User:Scorpio|Scorpio]] 20:48, 25 August 2007 (EDT)
:There is a phenomenal mass of material on Mary Jane Keeney in the Silvermaster file, absolutley phenomenal. She seems to have had a very active social life, and was ''personally'' in contact with virtuyally everyone involved ion the CPUSA Underground Apparatus. She singularly is probably the most surveilled and reported on individual in all 164 volumes of the Silvermaster file (I esitimate it at 40,000 pages). This is significant, because in sum, Mary Jane Keeney is the only case were McCarthy made an accusation in an open hearing of her being Communist agent, which she denied. Let me do a little more study before on alphabetizing, ok?
:Also, as to Dan Margolies, I found a Dan Morgolis in the Silvermaster file, but am unsure if its the same. I suspect it is, but need more information. Also, there are several figures in the Silvermaster file which may be spouses or relatives of the list names on the Lee List, buy again we need more information (there are several Stones, and couple of Hunts, for example).
:Interestingly, I discovered former CIA Director [[Richard Bissell]] came under surveillance in 1946 in connection with a suspect; it appears he was inquiring about information on a veteran's relief bill of something, and propably got some information to passed to him. Nothing subversive, just your routine everyday Washington Congressional leak.
:Another little quirck I may have stumbled upon is, Haynes & Klehr make light of the fact that [[Charles Flato]] was never named in [[Elizabeth Bentley]]'s deposition, so it was much of a surprise when [[Venona]] documents added him to the Silvermaster group. A document from Soviet Archives corroborates it, misspelling his name as "Floto." I found summaries of FBI wiretaps (in those days wiretaps include reading telegrams), one from Mary Jane Kenney & Philip Kenney to a "Charles Slato." Who knows, a teletypist may have misspelled Flato's name, Bentley didn't ID him, Hoover kept tight lipped about Venona to most of these FBI fied investigators in the Silvermaster case, and by a total fluke of history Flato was never fully developed as a suspect and escaped scrutiny and surveillance.
:Such is life. [[User:RobS|Rob Smith]] 15:27, 26 August 2007 (EDT)
:P.S. You know the 1954 version of Buckley/Bozell is online in its entirety, right? Do we have a link to it? [[User:RobS|Rob Smith]] 15:27, 26 August 2007 (EDT)