Ignacy Witczak

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Ignacy Witczak was a GRU Illegal officer in the United States during World War II.

Witczak's code name with the GRU and as deciphered by the Venona project and other counterintelligence investigations is "R".

[edit] Evidence of espionage

Ignacy Witczak is referenced in the following Venona decryptions and FBI reports:

  • 3, 4, 5 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 2 January 1946;
  • 25 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 26 January 1946;
  • FBI report, “Soviet Espionage Activities, 19 October 1945,” attached to Hoover to Vaughan, 19 October 1945, President's Secretary's Files, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo.;
  • FBI report, “Soviet Activities in the United States,” 25 July 1946, Clark M. Clifford papers, Truman Library.

[edit] References

  • William Stevenson, Intrepid’s Last Case (New York: Villard Books, 1983).
  • New York FBI report, 5 April 1946, Comintern Apparatus file, serial 5236; FBI report, “Soviet Espionage Activities,” 19 October 1945,” attached to Hoover to Vaughan, 19 October 1945, President's Secretary's Files, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo.;
  • FBI report, “Soviet Activities in the United States,” 25 July 1946, Clark M. Clifford papers, Truman Library; *David Dallin, Soviet Espionage (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955), pg. 286.
  • Robert J. Lamphere and Tom Shachtman, The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story (New York: Random House, 1995), 34–36.
  • John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 183–185, 418-419, 370, 467. The authors thank retired FBI agent John Walsh, who in 1946 tried to spot Bunia Witczak and her son on the deck of the Sakhalin when it docked in a South American port, for noting the likelihood that R. was Witczak.
  • Transparence et secret aux États-Unis (in French)