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On the request of Kheifetz and confirmed by [[Earl Browder]], Oppenheimer provided cooperation in access to research for several of KGB tested sources including a relative of Browder. <ref>''Special Tasks'', pg. 3.</ref><ref>Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era'', Random House, 1999. ISBN 0788164228 </ref>
On the request of Kheifetz and confirmed by [[Earl Browder]], Oppenheimer provided cooperation in access to research for several of KGB tested sources including a relative of Browder. <ref>''Special Tasks'', pg. 3.</ref><ref>Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era'', Random House, 1999. ISBN 0788164228 </ref>
By 1943 it was decided in Moscow that all contacts with Oppenheimer would be through illegals agents only. [[Lev Vasilevsky]], the Rezident in Mexico City was put in charge of running the illegal network after September 1943. Kheifetz and [[Semyon Semenov]] were instructed to turn over all their contacts around Oppenheimer in California. So secretive was the operation that under Beria's direct orders Kheifetz and Semyenov were instructed not to tell anyone else in the Soviet Foreign Intelligence service about the transfer of contacts to the Mexico City ''Rezidentura''. <ref>''Special Tasks'', pgs. 187.</ref>
By 1943 it was decided in Moscow that all contacts with Oppenheimer would be through illegal agents only. [[Lev Vasilevsky]], the Rezident in Mexico City was put in charge of running the illegal network after September 1943. Kheifetz and [[Semyon Semenov]] were instructed to turn over all their contacts around Oppenheimer in California. So secretive was the operation that under Beria's direct orders Kheifetz and Semyenov were instructed not to tell anyone else in the Soviet Foreign Intelligence service about the transfer of contacts to the Mexico City ''Rezidentura''. <ref>''Special Tasks'', pgs. 187.</ref>
A memo from Vselovod Merkulov to Lavrenti Beria dated October 2, 1944 read:
A memo from Vselovod Merkulov to Lavrenti Beria dated October 2, 1944 read: