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'''William Marias Malisoff''', also '''William Marias Malisov''' (1895 - 16 November 1948) was born in Russia, immigrated to the United States as a child, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Malisoff obtained a PhD. from [[Columbia University]] but was expelled for faking lab work in the early 1940s. He owned and operated United Laboratories, a company principally engaged in research on lubricating processes for War Industries and biochemistry.
==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.
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 1945 Malisoff was connected with the Institute for the [[Unity of Science]] for a short time.
==Venona==
William Marias Malisoff, whose cover name assigned by Soviet intelligence and decyphered by [[Arlington Hall]] cryptographers were HENRY and TALENT. Malisoff is identified in the following intercepted [[Venona project]] decrpytions:
195. Venona 1276 GRU New York to Moscow, 1943; 193 KGB New York to Moscow, 8 February 1944; 620 KGB New York to Moscow, 4 May 1944; 622 KGB New York to Moscow, 4 May 1944; 1077 KGB New York to Moscow, 29 July 1944; 1403 KGB New York to Moscow, 5 October 1944; 1680 KGB New York to Moscow, 30 November 1944; 1706 KGB New York to Moscow, 4 December 1944; 1755 KGB New York to Moscow, 14 December 1944.
==Writing by Malisoff==
*''A Calendar of Doubts and Faiths''
*''Philosophy of Science'', editor. [http://www.thatconstructionsite.com/Content_store/Sample_chapter/0631221077%5C001.pdf]
*''Meet the Sciences''
*''The Span of Life''
==See also==
*[[Otto Neurath]]
==References==
*[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]
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pgs. 291, 325.
==External link==
Contemporary Review of Malisoff's [http://www.alcor.org/cryonics/cryonics8312.txt ''The Span of Life''], (1937).
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[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]
==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.
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 1945 Malisoff was connected with the Institute for the [[Unity of Science]] for a short time.
==Venona==
William Marias Malisoff, whose cover name assigned by Soviet intelligence and decyphered by [[Arlington Hall]] cryptographers were HENRY and TALENT. Malisoff is identified in the following intercepted [[Venona project]] decrpytions:
195. Venona 1276 GRU New York to Moscow, 1943; 193 KGB New York to Moscow, 8 February 1944; 620 KGB New York to Moscow, 4 May 1944; 622 KGB New York to Moscow, 4 May 1944; 1077 KGB New York to Moscow, 29 July 1944; 1403 KGB New York to Moscow, 5 October 1944; 1680 KGB New York to Moscow, 30 November 1944; 1706 KGB New York to Moscow, 4 December 1944; 1755 KGB New York to Moscow, 14 December 1944.
==Writing by Malisoff==
*''A Calendar of Doubts and Faiths''
*''Philosophy of Science'', editor. [http://www.thatconstructionsite.com/Content_store/Sample_chapter/0631221077%5C001.pdf]
*''Meet the Sciences''
*''The Span of Life''
==See also==
*[[Otto Neurath]]
==References==
*[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]
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pgs. 291, 325.
==External link==
Contemporary Review of Malisoff's [http://www.alcor.org/cryonics/cryonics8312.txt ''The Span of Life''], (1937).
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[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]