| − | Recent scholarship has concluded that [[Venona project]] codename ''Zamestitel'' (English translation, "Deputy"), is Harry Hopkins. <ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel. ''The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors''. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2000.</ref><ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200107/ai_n8970062 Reds in the White House], by William P. Hoar, Human Events, Summer 2001. Review of Romerstein and Breindel, ''The Venona Secrets''.</ref><ref>[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-6/de_toledo2.html Interview with Ralph de Toladano], Episode 6: Reds.</ref> Eduard Mark, historian at the United States Air Force Academy, builds a case that if Zamestitel is [[Henry Wallace]], as some have hypothesized, than agent 19 <ref>812 Venona 29 May 1943, "19 reports on Roosevelt/Churchill meetings," [http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/29_May_1943_m4_p1.gif pg. 1],[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/29_May_1943_m4_p2.gif pg. 2].</ref> at the Trident conference is Hopkins. <ref>Eduard Mark, ''Venona's Source 19 and the 'Trident' Conference of May 1943: Diplomacy or Espionage'', Intelligence and National Security 13, no. 2 (Summer 1998), 1-31.</ref> Mark argues on the basis of a close reading of the attendance records of the Trident conference and other evidence that he located that the most likely Deputy (Zamestitel) was Wallace and Source no. 19 was Hopkins. Source no. 19 was very highly placed in as much as he was asked to join a private conversation with President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Source no. 19 reported on a private conversation he had with Roosevelt and Churchill during the just ended 'Trident' conference of the two Allied powers in Washington. Source no. 19 reported on Churchill's views on why a 1943 Anglo-American invasion of continental Europe was inadvisable. The message also reported that Zamestitel supported a second-front and that it appeared that Roosevelt had been keeping Zamestitel in the dark about "important military decisions." The message, from the New York KGB office to Moscow, is signed by the [[KGB]] illegal officer, [[Iskhak Akhmerov]]. It states "19 reports that Kapitan [Roosevelt] and Kaban [Churchill], during conversations in the Country [USA], invited 19 to join them and Zamestitel." | + | Recent scholarship has concluded that [[Venona project]] codename ''Zamestitel'' (English translation, "Deputy"), is Harry Hopkins. <ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel. ''The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors''. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2000.</ref><ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200107/ai_n8970062 Reds in the White House], by William P. Hoar, Human Events, Summer 2001. Review of Romerstein and Breindel, ''The Venona Secrets''.</ref><ref>[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-6/de_toledo2.html Interview with Ralph de Toledano], Episode 6: Reds.</ref> Eduard Mark, historian at the United States Air Force Academy, builds a case that if Zamestitel is [[Henry Wallace]], as some have hypothesized, than agent 19 <ref>812 Venona 29 May 1943, "19 reports on Roosevelt/Churchill meetings," [http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/29_May_1943_m4_p1.gif pg. 1],[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/29_May_1943_m4_p2.gif pg. 2].</ref> at the Trident conference is Hopkins. <ref>Eduard Mark, ''Venona's Source 19 and the 'Trident' Conference of May 1943: Diplomacy or Espionage'', Intelligence and National Security 13, no. 2 (Summer 1998), 1-31.</ref> Mark argues on the basis of a close reading of the attendance records of the Trident conference and other evidence that he located that the most likely Deputy (Zamestitel) was Wallace and Source no. 19 was Hopkins. Source no. 19 was very highly placed in as much as he was asked to join a private conversation with President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Source no. 19 reported on a private conversation he had with Roosevelt and Churchill during the just ended 'Trident' conference of the two Allied powers in Washington. Source no. 19 reported on Churchill's views on why a 1943 Anglo-American invasion of continental Europe was inadvisable. The message also reported that Zamestitel supported a second-front and that it appeared that Roosevelt had been keeping Zamestitel in the dark about "important military decisions." The message, from the New York KGB office to Moscow, is signed by the [[KGB]] illegal officer, [[Iskhak Akhmerov]]. It states "19 reports that Kapitan [Roosevelt] and Kaban [Churchill], during conversations in the Country [USA], invited 19 to join them and Zamestitel." |