Kenneth Richardson

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Kenneth Richardson was an American who was a source of scientific and technical intelligence for the New York office of Soviet intelligence during World War II. Richardson was an employee of World Wide Electronics. Soviet intelligence assigned Richardson the cover name CONDENSER.

[edit] Venona

Richardson is referenced in the following Venona project decryptions:

• 1047 KGB New York to Moscow, 2 July 1943
• 918 KGB New York to Moscow, 12 June 1945.

[edit] References

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