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<div style="background: #ccf; font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 1px 3px;">This article is part of the<br/>[[Venona project|Venona]]<br/>series.</div> | <div style="background: #ccf; font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 1px 3px;">This article is part of the<br/>[[Venona project|Venona]]<br/>series.</div> | ||
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Wicher was a two-time [[Wisconsin]] state chess champion. | Wicher was a two-time [[Wisconsin]] state chess champion. | ||
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*Haynes, John Earl & Klehr, Harvey, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 0300084625 | *Haynes, John Earl & Klehr, Harvey, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 0300084625 | ||
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| − | *[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/05_Dec_1944_R3_m1_p2.gif 1714 KGB New York to Moscow, 5 December 1944], p.2 | + | *[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/05_Dec_1944_R3_m1_p2.gif 1714 KGB New York to Moscow, 5 December 1944], p. 2 |
| − | *[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/05_Dec_1944_R3_m1_p3.gif 1714 KGB New York to Moscow, 5 December 1944], p.3 | + | *[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/05_Dec_1944_R3_m1_p3.gif 1714 KGB New York to Moscow, 5 December 1944], p. 3 |
*[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/17_Jan_1945_R3_m2_p1.gif 76 KGB New York to Moscow, 17 January 1945] | *[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/17_Jan_1945_R3_m2_p1.gif 76 KGB New York to Moscow, 17 January 1945] | ||
| − | *[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/17_Jul_1945_R3_m2_p1.gif 1137 KGB New York to Moscow, 17 July 1945], p.1 | + | *[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/17_Jul_1945_R3_m2_p1.gif 1137 KGB New York to Moscow, 17 July 1945], p. 1 |
| − | *[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/17_Jul_1945_R3_m2_p2.gif 1137 KGB New York to Moscow, 17 July 1945], p.2 | + | *[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/17_Jul_1945_R3_m2_p2.gif 1137 KGB New York to Moscow, 17 July 1945], p. 2 |
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[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]] | [[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]] | ||
Revision as of 04:57, June 27, 2016
Enos Regnet Wicher was married to Maria Wicher and was the stepfather of Flora Wovschin. He was a professor at Columbia University. Wicher, an American citizen worked in the Wave Propagation Group at Columbia's Division of War Research and spied for Soviet intelligence during World War II. All three, Wicher, his wife, and daughter Flora Wovshin spied for the KGB. His code name in Soviet intelligence and in the Venona project is "Kin" (also "Keen").
Wicher was a two-time Wisconsin state chess champion.
Sources
- Haynes, John Earl & Klehr, Harvey, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 0300084625
