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'''Simon Samuel Krafsur''' (January 10, 1913 – June 1983) was a Boston-born journalist who worked for the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] news agency [[TASS (USSR)|TASS]] during [[World War II]]. He was also known as '''Bill Krafsur'''.<ref>[http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:zvSmw-tjBF8J:www.alba-valb.org/volpdf/vol_1938_04.pdf+%22Bill+Krafsur%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us The Volunteer For Liberty, Vol. 1, No. 3, April, 1938]</ref>.
'''Simon Samuel Krafsur''' (January 10, 1913<ref>U. S. Social Security Death Index</ref> – June 1983) was a Boston-born journalist who worked for the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] news agency [[TASS (USSR)|TASS]] during [[World War II]]. He was also known as '''Bill Krafsur'''.<ref>[http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:zvSmw-tjBF8J:www.alba-valb.org/volpdf/vol_1938_04.pdf+%22Bill+Krafsur%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us The Volunteer For Liberty, Vol. 1, No. 3, April, 1938]</ref>.
Krafsur was mentioned in the [[Venona]] intercepts under the codename IDE. He was used by the [[KGB]] during the war as a source of information and for recruiting journalists as informants and agents, and is referred to in the [[NSA]] archives as a "KGB agent" <ref>National Security Agency Archives[http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps33230/www.nsa.gov/docs/venona/monographs/monograph-1.html], National Cryptological Museum, [http://www.nsa.gov/museum/museu00040.cfm] Custodian of documents for the Army Signals Intelligence Corp.</ref>[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/venon00116.cfm?CFID=2412771&CFTOKEN=59316524&jsessionid=c830b21ad087a$5FoV$B#17].
Krafsur was mentioned in the [[Venona]] intercepts under the codename IDE. He was used by the [[KGB]] during the war as a source of information and for recruiting journalists as informants and agents, and is referred to in the [[NSA]] archives as a "KGB agent" <ref>National Security Agency Archives[http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps33230/www.nsa.gov/docs/venona/monographs/monograph-1.html], National Cryptological Museum, [http://www.nsa.gov/museum/museu00040.cfm] Custodian of documents for the Army Signals Intelligence Corp.</ref>[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/venon00116.cfm?CFID=2412771&CFTOKEN=59316524&jsessionid=c830b21ad087a$5FoV$B#17].