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The [[Venona project]] suggests he may have been implicated, along with [[Amadeo Sabatini]], in the murder of [[Walter Krivitsky]] in 1941. After [[Jacob Golos]] death in November 1943, spotting and recruitment was taken over by Katz by mid–1944, while [[Elizabeth Bentley]] continued as manager and courier. Katz was extremely active at this time.  Katz was known to Elizabeth Bentley as “Jack.”   

The [[Venona project]] suggests he may have been implicated, along with [[Amadeo Sabatini]], in the murder of [[Walter Krivitsky]] in 1941. After [[Jacob Golos]] death in November 1943, spotting and recruitment was taken over by Katz by mid–1944, while [[Elizabeth Bentley]] continued as manager and courier. Katz was extremely active at this time.  Katz was known to Elizabeth Bentley as “Jack.”   

In 1944 Katz was put in charge of handling agent recruitments from the New York [[TASS]] office headed by [[Vladimir Pravdin]], former rezident of the NKGB in New York.  And in September 1944 Katz was freed of other liaisons (operations) and was assigned to work directly under Washington D.C. Rezident [[Anatoli Gorsky]]. Gorsky came to the United States to implement a new security program of isolating agents from each other by a complicated arrangement of cutouts.   

In 1944 Katz was put in charge of handling agent recruitments from the New York [[TASS]] office headed by [[Vladimir Pravdin]], former [[Rezident]] of the NKGB in New York.  And in September 1944 Katz was freed of other liaisons (operations) and was assigned to work directly under Washington D.C. Rezident [[Anatoli Gorsky]]. Gorsky came to the United States to implement a new security program of isolating agents from each other by a complicated arrangement of cutouts.   

Katz was to arrange a meeting between one "Margarita and a new person" in mid-October 1944.  Katz had been meeting "Margarita" for some time but had made no attempt to recruit her because she was causing the KGB anguish by equating Stalinism and Nazism and, therefore, was not judged to be a reasonable risk nor a cooperative worker. At that time it was decided only to keep an eye on her. <ref>Venona 1337 New York to Moscow, 19 September 1944. </ref>  Margarita continued to be of considerable concern to KGB Moscow.  On 6 October 1944, New York cabled its awareness of the problem, probably in answer to headquarters insistence on further information, stating that, according to Katz, she was hostile to "our firm but not the country."  She evidently explained to Katz "her hostile frame of mind and her simultaneous desire to return home."  The New York Resident was not about to meet her personally, and informed Moscow that "there are no grounds for not trusting Katz' conclusions which were being passed on." <ref>Venona 1411 New York to Moscow, 6 October 1944. </ref>

Katz was to arrange a meeting between one "Margarita and a new person" in mid-October 1944.  Katz had been meeting "Margarita" for some time but had made no attempt to recruit her because she was causing the KGB anguish by equating Stalinism and Nazism and, therefore, was not judged to be a reasonable risk nor a cooperative worker. At that time it was decided only to keep an eye on her. <ref>Venona 1337 New York to Moscow, 19 September 1944. </ref>  Margarita continued to be of considerable concern to KGB Moscow.  On 6 October 1944, New York cabled its awareness of the problem, probably in answer to headquarters insistence on further information, stating that, according to Katz, she was hostile to "our firm but not the country."  She evidently explained to Katz "her hostile frame of mind and her simultaneous desire to return home."  The New York Resident was not about to meet her personally, and informed Moscow that "there are no grounds for not trusting Katz' conclusions which were being passed on." <ref>Venona 1411 New York to Moscow, 6 October 1944. </ref>