Rebecca Getzoff

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Rebecca Getzoff was an American who worked for the KGB during World War II. Getzoff was engaged in anti-Trotskyist efforts in the United States on behalf of the Soviet Union. Getzoff's cover name in Soviet intelligence and as deciphered in the Venona cables is "Adam".

[edit] Venona

Rebecca Getzoff is referenced in the following decrypted Venona cables:

  • 826 KGB New York to Moscow, 7 June 1944;
  • 851 KGB New York to Moscow, 15 June 1944;
  • 907 KGB New York to Moscow, 26 June 1944;
  • 942 KGB New York to Moscow, 4 July 1944;
  • 292 KGB Moscow to New York, 29 March 1945.

[edit] References

  • John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 350, 451.


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