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'''Linn Markley Farish''' (1901 - September 9, 1944) was an [[United States|American]] citizen and a member of the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) during the [[World War II]]. The OSS is the predecedsor agency of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA). Farish functioned as liaison officer with [[Josip Tito]]'s [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|Yugoslav Partisans]] for the OSS. Farish also at the same time was serving [[NKVD|Soviet intelligence]]. Farish died in a aircraft crash in the Balkans in [[September]] [[1944]]. Farish's code name in Soviet intelligence, and as decyphered in the [[Venona project]] is "Attila".

==Venona==
Farish is referenced in the following Venona project decryption:

* 1397 KGB New York to Moscow, 4 October 1944

=== Source ===

John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America,'' Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 194, 195.

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