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'''Trude Lash''', formerly '''Gertrude Pratt''', nee '''Wenzel''' (June 1908 – 4 February 2004) was a personal close friend of First Lady [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] and [[KGB]] operative, secretary of the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights|United Nations Human Rights Committee]], was active in may prominent [[liberal]] causes and a founder of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute at the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York.

'''Trude Lash''', formerly '''Gertrude Pratt''', née '''Wenzel''' (June 1908 – 4 February 2004) was a personal close friend of First Lady [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] and [[KGB]] operative, secretary of the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights|United Nations Human Rights Committee]], was active in may prominent [[liberal]] causes and a founder of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute at the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York.

==Background==

==Background==

==KGB activities==

==KGB activities==

A Venona decryption from May of 1943 discloses contact with Trude was maintained by Aleksej Sokirkin, First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. for [[KGB|Soviet intelligence]].  The decrypt proposes using Trude to process information on Eleanor Roosevelt (Kapitansha).  It also suggests bringing [[Elizabeth Zarubina]], who handled many high-level important cases, into close touch with her.  

A Venona decryption from May 1943 discloses contact with Trude was maintained by Aleksej Sokirkin, First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. for [[KGB|Soviet intelligence]].  The decrypt proposes using Trude to process information on Eleanor Roosevelt (Kapitansha).  It also suggests bringing [[Elizabeth Zarubina]], who handled many high-level important cases, into close touch with her.  

Venona decrypt 786-787 New York to Moscow 26 May 1943 reads as follows,

Venona decrypt 786-787 New York to Moscow 26 May 1943 reads as follows,

:To [[VIKTOR]].

:To [[VIKTOR]].

[[Image:Lash.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Trude Lash with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt]]

[[Image:Lash.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Trude Lash with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt]]

:For processing [ [[Roosevelt]] ]’s wife we [2 groups unrecovered]  her great friend Gertrude PRATT, wife of the well-known wealthy Elliot PRATT. [15 groups unrecovered] patroness and guide.  In this line contact is being maintained with her by Aleksoj SOKIRKIN, the official representative of the MOSCOW Anti-Fascist Student Committee [0% who arrived] [6 groups unrecovered] “Syndicate” [People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs].  [38 groups unrecovered]  The latter circumstances for bringing [ [[Elizabeth Zarubina]] ] into close touch with her with a view to [119 groups unrecovered or unrecoverable] or scientific worker.  [87 groups unrecovered] [64 groups unrecoverable] [Roosevelt] [1 group unrecovered] [Translators note: This unidentified group is not simply an inflexion added to [Roosevelt]. It is possible that it is added to form an oblique case of the word KAPITANShA – "Captain’s wife" [Roosevelt’s wife] which might have been adopted to replace the form “wife of "CAPTAIN" [Roosevelt] which is used at the opening of the message. [71 groups unrecovered] for further processing.

:For processing [ [[Roosevelt]] ]’s wife we [2 groups unrecovered]  her great friend Gertrude PRATT, wife of the well-known wealthy Elliot PRATT. [15 groups unrecovered] patroness and guide.  In this line contact is being maintained with her by Aleksoj SOKIRKIN, the official representative of the MOSCOW Anti-Fascist Student Committee [0% who arrived] [6 groups unrecovered] “Syndicate” [People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs].  [38 groups unrecovered]  The latter circumstances for bringing [ [[Elizabeth Zarubina]] ] into close touch with her with a view to [119 groups unrecovered or unrecoverable] or scientific worker.  [87 groups unrecovered] [64 groups unrecoverable] [Roosevelt] [1 group unrecovered] [Translators note: This unidentified group is not simply an inflexion added to [Roosevelt]. It is possible that it is added to form an oblique case of the word KAPITANShA – "Captain’s wife" (Roosevelt’s wife) which might have been adopted to replace the form “wife of "CAPTAIN" (Roosevelt) which is used at the opening of the message. (71 groups unrecovered) for further processing.]

:[[MAKSIM]]  

:[[MAKSIM]]  

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==External link==

==External links==

*[http://csh.gn.apc.org/Archives/Students%20in%20the%2030s/main/StudentInThe30s.html The Student Movement of the Thirties: A Political History]

*[http://csh.gn.apc.org/Archives/Students%20in%20the%2030s/main/StudentInThe30s.html The Student Movement of the Thirties: A Political History]