'''Richard Manlio Leonidas Setaro''' (b. 1903) was an American who served as deputy chief of the Latin American department of [[CBS]] Radio during [[World War II]] and maintained a covert relationship with [[NKVD|Soviet intelligence]]. Setaro entered the United States in 1942 to study journalism. He had previously operated a news agency in Buenos Aires which distributed [[TASS]] News Agency dispatches. A 1943 deciphered [[Venona]] message identifies Setaro as a courier for KGB funds which list as expenditures "maintainance of the Apparat" and "[[Covert operation|operational work]]". | '''Richard Manlio Leonidas Setaro''' (b. 1903) was an American who served as deputy chief of the Latin American department of [[CBS]] Radio during [[World War II]] and maintained a covert relationship with [[NKVD|Soviet intelligence]]. Setaro entered the United States in 1942 to study journalism. He had previously operated a news agency in Buenos Aires which distributed [[TASS]] News Agency dispatches. A 1943 deciphered [[Venona]] message identifies Setaro as a courier for KGB funds which list as expenditures "maintainance of the Apparat" and "[[Covert operation|operational work]]". |