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In the History of counter intelligence operations in the United States, published by the United States Office of the National Counterintelligence Center (NACIC), lists Magdoff as a member of the [[Perlo group]] of Soviet agents. <ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/docs/ci3/ch1.pdf ''A Counterintelligence Reader,'']  Office of the National Counterintelligence Center, p. 31:  "The following were members of the Victor Perlo group....Harry Magdoff: Statistical Division of WPB and Office of Emergency Management; Bureau of Research and Statistics, WTB; Tools Division, War Production Board; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Commerce Department."</ref>  Magdoff was identified by [[Arlington Hall]] cryptographers in the VENONA cables and by [[FBI]] [[counterintelligence]] investigators as being a Soviet information source under the cover name "KANT" as of 1944. <ref>[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/05_May_1944_R3_m4_p1.gif Venona 629 KGB New York to Moscow,  5 May 1944.]</ref>

In the History of counter intelligence operations in the United States, published by the United States Office of the National Counterintelligence Center (NACIC), lists Magdoff as a member of the [[Perlo group]] of Soviet agents. <ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/docs/ci3/ch1.pdf ''A Counterintelligence Reader,'']  Office of the National Counterintelligence Center, p. 31:  "The following were members of the Victor Perlo group....Harry Magdoff: Statistical Division of WPB and Office of Emergency Management; Bureau of Research and Statistics, WTB; Tools Division, War Production Board; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Commerce Department."</ref>  Magdoff was identified by [[Arlington Hall]] cryptographers in the VENONA cables and by [[FBI]] [[counterintelligence]] investigators as being a Soviet information source under the cover name "KANT" as of 1944. <ref>[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/05_May_1944_R3_m4_p1.gif Venona 629 KGB New York to Moscow,  5 May 1944.]</ref>

The name "KANT" appears in declassified decrypts of cables from [[New York City|New York]] to [[Moscow]], dated May 5, May 13, and May 30, 1944.  The first is described by the decrypters as being sent from Pavel Ivanovich Fedosimov in which he requests a "telegraph a reply to No. 139 and advise about the possibility of a meeting with KANT."

The name "KANT" appears in declassified decrypts of cables from [[New York City|New York]] to [[Moscow]], dated May 5, May 13, and May 30, 1944.  The first is described by the decrypters as being sent from [[Pavel Ivanovich Fedosimov]] in which he requests a "telegraph a reply to No. 139 and advise about the possibility of a meeting with KANT."

On the May 13 cable, "MAYOR", according to Arlington Hall counterintelligence is [[Iskhak Akhmerov|Iskhak Abdulovich Akhmerov]], reports on a meeting in which Elizabeth Bentley was placed in contact with the Perlo group for the purposes of obtaining secret government information to transmit to the Soviet Union. Magdoff's surname was transmitted in the clear. <ref>[http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/venona/b35.gif Venona 687 KGB New York to Moscow, 13 May 1944.]</ref>

On the May 13 cable, "MAYOR", according to Arlington Hall counterintelligence is [[Iskhak Akhmerov|Iskhak Abdulovich Akhmerov]], reports on a meeting in which Elizabeth Bentley was placed in contact with the Perlo group for the purposes of obtaining secret government information to transmit to the Soviet Union. Magdoff's surname was transmitted in the clear. <ref>[http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/venona/b35.gif Venona 687 KGB New York to Moscow, 13 May 1944.]</ref>