Linn Markley Farish

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Linn Markley Farish (1901 - 1944) was an American citizen and a member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. While acting as the OSS liaison officer to Josip Tito's Yugoslav Partisans he was also allegedly serving Soviet intelligence. Farish died in an aircraft crash in the Balkans in September 1944. Farish's code name in Soviet intelligence, and as deciphered in the Venona project is "Attila".

[edit] Venona

Farish is referenced in the following Venona project decryption:

  • 1397 KGB New York to Moscow, 4 October 1944

[edit] Source

John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 194, 195.

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