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==Espionage==
==Espionage==
Malisoff fell under [[FBI]] scrutiny in 1940 on the basis of observed contact with [[KGB]] Officer [[Gaik Ovakimian]]. According to [[Venona project]] information, the Soviets, in 1944, were haiving considerable trouble with Malisoff as he wanted a sizeable lump sum payment to help him establish a laboratory. When his request was flatly refused, Malisoff complained with considerable irritation "that the materials handed over by him on one question alone—oil, by his estimate had yielded the [Soviet] Union millions during past years and the aid requested by him was trifling." Malisoff was an extremely active and important agent, his [[Glossary_of_espionage_terms#Case_Officer|Case Officer]], [[Leonid Kvasnikov]], who specialized in scientific-technical [[espionage]], had met with Malisoff twenty times in 1943 alone. Malisoff had previously raised the funding question with Mikhail Shalyapin and Gaik Ovakimian who had preceeded Kvasnikov.
Malisoff fell under [[FBI]] scrutiny in 1940 on the basis of observed contact with [[KGB]] Officer [[Gaik Ovakimian]]. According to [[Venona project]] information, the Soviets, in 1944, were haiving considerable trouble with Malisoff as he wanted a sizeable lump sum payment to help him establish a laboratory. When his request was flatly refused, Malisoff complained with considerable irritation "that the materials handed over by him on one question alone—oil, by his estimate had yielded the [Soviet] Union millions during past years and the aid requested by him was trifling." Malisoff was an extremely active and important agent, his [[Glossary of espionage terms#Case Officer|Case Officer]], [[Leonid Kvasnikov]], who specialized in scientific-technical [[espionage]], had met with Malisoff twenty times in 1943 alone. Malisoff had previously raised the funding question with Mikhail Shalyapin and Gaik Ovakimian who had preceeded Kvasnikov.
In August 1943 Pavel Mikhailov, the New York Soviet Military Intelligence ([[GRU]]) [[Rezident]] sent an iquiry to Moscow regarding Malisoff. But the GRU "was forbidden to meet Malisov [Malisoff] since the latter is connected with the Neighbors [KGB]."
In August 1943 Pavel Mikhailov, the New York Soviet Military Intelligence ([[GRU]]) [[Rezident]] sent an iquiry to Moscow regarding Malisoff. But the GRU "was forbidden to meet Malisov [Malisoff] since the latter is connected with the Neighbors [KGB]."
==References==
==References==
*[http://foia.fbi.gov/venona/venona.pdf FBI Venona file], pgs. 33 (PDF).
*[http://foia.fbi.gov/venona/venona.pdf FBI Venona file], pgs. 33 (PDF).
*[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/FBI_Synopsis_on_22Operations_of_the_MGB_Residency_at_New_York,_1944-45%22| FBI Synopsis on Operations of the MGB Residency at New York, 1944-45]
*[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/FBI_Synopsis_on_22Operations_of_the_MGB_Residency_at_New_York,_1944-45%22 FBI Synopsis on Operations of the MGB Residency at New York, 1944-45]
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pgs. 291, 325.
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pgs. 291, 325.
==External link==
==External links==
Contemporary Review of Malisoff's [http://www.alcor.org/cryonics/cryonics8312.txt ''The Span of Life''], (1937).
Contemporary Review of Malisoff's [http://www.alcor.org/cryonics/cryonics8312.txt ''The Span of Life''], (1937).