Vladimir Morkovin

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Vladimir Borisovich Morkovin was an aeronautical engineer who worked at the Bell Aircraft plant at Niagara Falls during World War II. He allegedly provided technical information to Andriy Shevchenko, a KGB officer working as an inspector at Bell.

Morkovin's cover name as identified in the Venona project is "Author".

[edit] Venona

Morkovin is referenced in the following Venona project decrypts:

• 943 KGB New York to Moscow, 4 July 1944
• 1341 KGB New York to Moscow, 21 September 1944

[edit] Reference

• John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, New Haven: Yale University Press, (1999). ISBN 0-300-08462-5