Daniel Zaret

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During World War II Daniel Abraham Zaret was an American citizen who supplied information about shells, bombs, and torpedoes to Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU) while working as a safety inspector for the U.S. Army's Explosives Division. Zaret had previously served as aide-de-camp to the commander of the International Brigades' Fifteenth Division in the Spanish Civil War and returned to the United States in November 1938.

Up to August of 1943, Zaret was employed by various explosives factories, including a job as assistant director at a factory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1943. He later took a position as production safety inspector in the Explosives Division of the War Department in Chicago.

[edit] Venona

Zaret is referenced in the following Venona project decrypt:

• Venona 1325 GRU New York to Moscow, 11 August 1943

[edit] References

• Haynes, John Earl; and Harvey Klehr (1999). Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, pp. 180–181, 292. ISBN 0-300-07771-8.