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New page: '''Ignacy Witczak''' was a GRU ''Illegal'' officer in the United States during World War II. Witczak's code name with the GRU and as decyphered by the Venona project and othe...
'''Ignacy Witczak''' was a [[GRU]] ''Illegal'' officer in the United States during [[World War II]].
Witczak's code name with the GRU and as decyphered by the [[Venona project]] and other counterintelligence investigations is "R".
====Evidence of espionage====
Ignacy Witczak is referenced in the following [[Venona names|Venona]] decryptions and FBI reports:
*3, 4, 5 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 2 January 1946;
*25 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 26 January 1946;
*FBI report, “Soviet Espionage Activities, 19 October 1945,” attached to Hoover to Vaughan, 19 October 1945, President's Secretary's Files, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo.;
*FBI report, “Soviet Activities in the United States,” 25 July 1946, Clark M. Clifford papers, Truman Library.
====Reference====
*William Stevenson, ''Intrepid’s Last Case'' (New York: Villard Books, 1983).
*New York FBI report, 5 April 1946, Comintern Apparatus file, serial 5236; FBI report, “Soviet Espionage Activities,” 19 October 1945,” attached to Hoover to Vaughan, 19 October 1945, President's Secretary's Files, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo.;
*FBI report, “Soviet Activities in the United States,” 25 July 1946, Clark M. Clifford papers, Truman Library; *David Dallin, Soviet Espionage (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955), pg. 286.
*Robert J. Lamphere and Tom Shachtman, ''The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story'' (New York: Random House, 1995), 34–36.
* John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 183–185, 418-419, 370, 467. The authors thank retired FBI agent John Walsh, who in 1946 tried to spot Bunia Witczak and her son on the deck of the Sakhalin when it docked in a South American port, for noting the likelihood that R. was Witczak.
*[http://www.paradigme.com/sources/SOURCES-PDF/Pages%20de%20Sources10-2-4.pdf Transparence et secret aux États-Unis] (in French)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Witczak, Ignacy}}
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]
Witczak's code name with the GRU and as decyphered by the [[Venona project]] and other counterintelligence investigations is "R".
====Evidence of espionage====
Ignacy Witczak is referenced in the following [[Venona names|Venona]] decryptions and FBI reports:
*3, 4, 5 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 2 January 1946;
*25 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 26 January 1946;
*FBI report, “Soviet Espionage Activities, 19 October 1945,” attached to Hoover to Vaughan, 19 October 1945, President's Secretary's Files, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo.;
*FBI report, “Soviet Activities in the United States,” 25 July 1946, Clark M. Clifford papers, Truman Library.
====Reference====
*William Stevenson, ''Intrepid’s Last Case'' (New York: Villard Books, 1983).
*New York FBI report, 5 April 1946, Comintern Apparatus file, serial 5236; FBI report, “Soviet Espionage Activities,” 19 October 1945,” attached to Hoover to Vaughan, 19 October 1945, President's Secretary's Files, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo.;
*FBI report, “Soviet Activities in the United States,” 25 July 1946, Clark M. Clifford papers, Truman Library; *David Dallin, Soviet Espionage (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955), pg. 286.
*Robert J. Lamphere and Tom Shachtman, ''The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story'' (New York: Random House, 1995), 34–36.
* John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 183–185, 418-419, 370, 467. The authors thank retired FBI agent John Walsh, who in 1946 tried to spot Bunia Witczak and her son on the deck of the Sakhalin when it docked in a South American port, for noting the likelihood that R. was Witczak.
*[http://www.paradigme.com/sources/SOURCES-PDF/Pages%20de%20Sources10-2-4.pdf Transparence et secret aux États-Unis] (in French)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Witczak, Ignacy}}
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]