Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov

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Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov was an American citizen and spy for the New York KGB Rezidentura from 1943 to 1945. Her son Sgt. Demetrius Dvoichenko-Markov of the United States Army, also worked for Soviet intelligence. Eufrosina provided Soviet intelligence with information on Romanians, Carpatho-Russians and other exile groups in the United States. Dvoichenko-Markov also provided information on United States Department of State personal with whom she had contact.

[edit] Venona

Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov codename in Soviet intelligence is "Masha". Dvoichenko-Markov is referenced in the following Venona project decryptions:

• 894 KGB New York to Moscow, 10 June 1943
• 627 KGB New York to Moscow, 5 May 1944
• 864 KGB New York to Moscow, 16 June 1944
• 1053 KGB New York to Moscow, 5 July 1945
• 1182 KGB New York to Moscow, 19 August 1944
• 1508 KGB New York to Moscow, 23 October 1944

[edit] References

• John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999), pg. 259, 347, 449. ISBN 0300077718.
• John Earl Haynes, "Cover Name, Cryptonym, CPUSA Party Name, Pseudonym, and Real Name Index. A Research Historian’s Working Reference" (revised February 2007), on the author's web site.

[edit] Works

• Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov, Jefferson and the Russian Decembrists, American Slavic and East European Review, Vol. 9, No. 3. (Oct., 1950), pp. 162-168. JSTOR link
• Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov, The Pulkovo Observatory and Some American Astronomers of the Mid-19th Century, Isis, Vol. 43, No. 3. (Sep., 1952), pp. 243-246. JSTOR link