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2. "Plan of work for Davis's station for the 2nd half of 1934"; Grafpen to
Berman, 27 November 1934, KGB file 17643, v.1, pp. 20, 40, 42, Vassiliev, Black, 35,
37-38.

3. "Plan of work for Davis's station for the 2nd half of 1934," KGB file 17643
V.1, p. 20, Vassiliev, Black, 35.

4. "Salmon, David Alden" entry, U.S. Department of State, Registerof the De-
partnient of State, July 1, 1934 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1934).
William V. Nessley, "State Department Keeps a Finger on the Pulse of World Affairs," Washington Post, 4 June 1939; Robert C. Albright, "Investigators Decide to
Call 12 Witnesses," Washington Post, 9 December 1948.

5. Letter to "Davis," No. oo6, 25 March 1934, KGB file 17643, v.1, PP. 17-19,
Vassiliev, Black, 34-35.

6. "Ludwig Lore," in Biographical Dictionary of the American Left, ed. Bernard
K. Johnpoll and Harvey Klehr (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986), 252-53.
Grafpen to Berman, 27 November 1934, KGB file 17643, v.1, pp. 39-42, Vassiliev,
Black, 37-38.

7. "Jung" to Moscow Center, 26 October 1934, KGB file 17643, v 1, PP. 53-54,
Vassiliev, Black, 38.

8. Grafpen to Berman, 27 November 1934; "Nikolay" to Moscow Center, 22
September 1934; "Work plan for Nord's station," December 1934, KGB file 17643,
v.1, PP. 33, 39-42, 70, Vassiliev, Black, 37-39. KGB New York to Moscow Center,
8 September 1936; Moscow Center to "Nord," 13 February 1937; "Nord" to Moscow
Center, February 1937, KGB file 36857, PP 37 39, 586o, Alexander Vassiliev,
Yellow Notebook #2 12007 English Translation], trans. Philip Redko (1993-96), 8, 12.

9. Moscow Center to "Nord," z April 1937; Grafpen to Slutsky, 25 September
1936; Report on advice to "Nord," 4 February 1937; "Nord" reply to No. 313, 8 February 1937, KGB file 36857, v.1, pp. 40, 55-56, 63, Vassiliev, fellow #2, 8, 11-13.
Hede Massing, This Deception (New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1951), 199-205.
Notes on A. E. Vassiliev and A. A. Koreshov, Station Chief Gold, Andropov Red Banner Institute, 1984, Vassiliev, Black, 140. Chapter 3 has a more detailed discussion
of the KGB-Lcrre relationship.

lo. KGB New York to Moscow Center, 3 March 1937, KGB file 3465, v.1,
pp. 230-32, 237; "M. is glad," KGB file 3465, v.2, pp. 61, 307, Vassiliev, Black, 3233.

11. Department of Justice Investigative Files, Part III: "The Use of Military Force by the Federal Government in Domestic Disturbances, 1900-1938," Lexis-
Nexis/UPA microfilm, 1g reels. The "Glasser Files" are part of General Records of
the Department of Justice, Record Group 60.3.5, National Archives and Records
Administration, College Park, MD. "Gennady" to Moscow Center, 25 January 1938,
KGB file 35112, v.5, pp. 5, 8, Vassiliev, Black, 146-47; "Gennady" letter, 25 January
1938, KGB file 3591, v.5, p. 1, Alexander Vassiliev, Yellow Notebook #4 [2007 English
Translation], trans. Stephen Shabad (1993-96), 111.

12. "Gennady" to Moscow Center, 13 April 1938, KGB file 35112, v.5, pp. 1617, Vassiliev, Black, 147.

13. Harvey Klehr, The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression
Decade (New York: Basic Books, 1984), 274.

14. "Based on Morris's material," circa 1937, KGB file 70994, p. 51, Alexander
Vassiliev, White Notebook #1 [2007 English Translation], trans. Steven Shabad
(1993-96), 141.

15. "Nikolay's account of Brit's disappearance," 24 May 1938, KGB file 34194,
p. 161, Vassiliev, White #1, 125; "Nikolay" to Moscow Center, 29 June 1938; Moscow
Center to "Gennady," 5 August 1939, KGB file 35112, v.5, PP. 48, 358, Vassiliev,
Black, 149, 154.

16. Moscow Center to "Gennady," 9 November 1939, KGB file 35112, v.5a,
p. 408, Vassiliev, Black, 161-62.

17. Fitin to Beria, January 1941, KGB file 35112, v.1, p. 38, Vassiliev, Black, 170.
"Glan" to Moscow Center, 21 August 1941; "Glan" to Moscow Center, 23 August
1941, KGB file 35112, v.4a, PP. 446, 455, Vassiliev, White #1, 23-24.

18. Summary of Feldman statement, 5 August 1941, serial 638; Feldman summary, 23 June 1942, serial 743; Ladd to Director, 25 April 1946, serial 821x, FBI
Feldman file 61-7574.

1g. Glasser to Arnold, 25 May 1941, Box 3, Rutgers University, School of Law,
Committee of Review, Transcripts of the Hearings Regarding the Suspension of
Abraham Glasser, May-June 1953, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries RG N7/G2/o3. Jackson to McGuire, 17 June 1941; Alexander Holtzoff to McGuire, "Re Abraham Glasser," 23 July 1941, in U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities, Communist Methods of Infiltration (Education)
(Washington, D. C.: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1953-54), part 2, 197-200.

20. Murray Marder, "Once Cleared, Teacher Balks at Red Probe," Washington
Post, 19 March 1953. Ugo Carusi, "Memorandum for the records. In re: Abraham
Glasser," 6 November 1941, U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities, Infiltration (Education), part 2, 200-202.

21. Attorney General James McGranery to OPA Deputy Administrator Thomas
Emerson, 7 July 1944; H. A. Bergsom memo with McGranery concurrence, "Subject:
Abraham Glasser's request for reemployment," U.S. House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, Infiltration (Education), part 2, 217-20. Abraham Glasser testimony, 2 June 1953, Transcripts of the Hearings Regarding the Suspension of Abraham Glasser.

22. U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities, The Shameful Years: 30
Years of Soviet Espionage in the United States (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1951). Testimony of Abraham Glasser, 18 March 1953, U.S. House Committee
on Un-American Activities, Infiltration (Education), part 2, 179-221; Testimony of
Abraham Glasser, 2 June 1953, Transcripts of the Hearings Regarding the Suspension of Abraham Glasser. On Stone's own history as a KGB agent, see chapter 3.

23. Testimony of Abraham Glasser, 3, 5, and 30 June 1953, Transcripts of the
Hearings Regarding the Suspension of Abraham Glasser.

24. Transcripts of the Hearings Regarding the Suspension of Abraham Glasser,
May-June 1953; Glasser obituary, New York Times, 15 December 1976; Report to
the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure by the Subcommittee to Study and
Report on the Case of Professor Abraham Glasser of Rutgers University, 1955 Association of American Law School Program and Reports of Committees; "AAUP censure of the Administration of Rutgers University," 1955, Records of the Rutgers University Board of Governors Special Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure,
1952-58, v.i, Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, RG
02/C 1.

25. Floyd Jones, Silvermaster summary memo, 13 December 1945, serial 234;
Director to Attorney General, 16 September 1946, serial 155, FBI Silvermaster file
65-56402. Another FBI Silvermaster case summary, serial 446, February-March
1946, has a seven-page discussion of Wahl entirely redacted. The only extended attention to Wahl is in M. Stanton Evans, Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of
Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight against America's Enemies (New York: Crown
Forum, 2007), 7-8, 131, 142, 332, 336, 395.

26. Testimony of David Wahl, 8 April 1943, U.S. House Special Committee on
Un-American Activities, Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the
United States (Executive Hearings) (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 194043), v7, 3438-53.

27. "Plan of measures for the 1st Department," 16 March 1950; "Pink," KGB
file 43173, v.2c, pp. 99, 162-63, Vassiliev, Black, 83-84. On Aronberg and Dozenberg, see "Comintern Apparatus Summary Report," 15 December 1944, serial 3702,
FBI Comintern Apparatus file 100-203581; Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and
Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, The Secret World of American Communism (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1995), 42, 46-49; and John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr,
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (New Haven: Yale University Press
[Nota Bene], 2000), 164-66.

28. Moscow Center to "Vadim" and "Sergey," June 1945; Moscow Center to
"Vadim," 25 September 1945; "Vadim" to Moscow Center, 1 October 1945; "Vadim
is exploring" and "Graur's decision," KGB file 43173, v.1, pp. 128, 150, 153, Vassiliev, Black, 53, 55, 57.

29. "Grigory" to Moscow Center, i July 1947; Moscow Center to "Grigory," 3
July 1947, KGB file 43173, v.2, p. 176, 178-79, Vassiliev, Black, 62-63.

30. KGB Washington to Moscow Center, 18 July 1947; "Grigory" to Moscow
Center, 10 July 1947; "`Pink' goes to"; "Received information"; " Grigory" to Moscow
Center, 1 August 1947, KGB file 43173, v.2, pp. 182-84, 209-11, 213, 219-20, Vassiliev, Black, 63.

31. KGB Washington to Moscow Center, 1g August 1948; "'Pink' was in structed," 16 November 1948, KGB file 43173, v4, pp. 369, 373-74, 454, Vassiliev,
Black, 71.

32. "Vladimir" to Moscow Center, 25 December 1948, KGB file 43173, v.4,
p. 478; "Plan of measures for the 1st Department"; "Pink," 16 March 195o, KGB file
43173, v.2c, pp. 99, 162, Vassiliev, Black, 72, 83-84.

33. Feinberg obituary, New York Times, 7 December 1998; Michael I. Karpin,
The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclearand What That Means f orthe
World (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2oo6).

34. Report on "Vick," z8 October 1948, KGB file 43173, v.6, pp. 302-3, Vassiliev, Black, go-g1; Claudia Levy, "Henry H. Ware, go, Dies," Washington Post, 27
May 1999; FBI New York report, 16 August 1948, serial 1474, FBI Silvermaster file
65-56402.

35. Report on "Vick," z8 October 1948, KGB file 43173, v.6, pp. 302-3, Vassiliev, Black, go-91. Zarubin to Merkulov, "Memorandum (on the station's work in
the country)," 30 September 1944, KGB file 35112, v.1, p. 396; Moscow Center to
"Maxim," 15 March 1943, KGB file 35112, v.6, p. 417, Vassiliev, White #1, 3, 40.

36. Zarubin to Merkulov, "Memorandum (on the station's work in the country),"
30 September 1944, KGB file 35112, v.1, pp. 396, 402-4, Vassiliev, White #1, 3, 6.
There is one KGB cable deciphered by the Venona project that refers to "Vick," but
it is badly broken and largely unintelligible. "Vick" was not identified by NSA/FBI analysts. Verona 959 KGB New York to Moscow, 21 June 1943.

37. Report on "Vick," 28 October 1948, KGB file 43173, v.6, pp. 302-3, Vassiliev, Black, go-9j.

38. FBI New York report, 16 August 1946, serial 1474; FBI Washington report,
19 July 1946, serial 1447; FBI Washington report, ig November 1946, serial 1909,
p. 171, FBI Silvermaster file 65-56402. Ware obituary, Washington Post, 27 May
1999.

39. "Source Sh-142"; "A. is a lieutenant," "War Preparations by W. A., 7 January
1933," KGB file 17517, V-3, pp 9, 51 53, 95, Vassiliev, Yellow #4, English Translation, 23-24.

40. "Jung" to Moscow Center, 5 July 1937; "Jung" to Moscow Center, 26 October 1938, KGB file 59264, v.1, pp. 9, z6-z8, Vassiliev, Yellow #2, 70, 72.

41. "Jung" to Moscow Center, 5 July 1937; Moscow Center to "Jung," 27 November 1937; Moscow Center to "Jung," 8 January 1938; Note by "Granite," KGB
file 59264, v.1, pp. 9, 15a, 16-17, Vassiliev, Yellow #2, 70-71.

42. Report on "Arena," 14 November 1940; Report, April 1942, KGB file 59264,
v.1, pp. 30, 36, Vassiliev, Iellotc #2, 73.

43. Zarubin to Merkulov, "Memorandum," 30 September 1944, KGB file 35112,
v.1, p. 419; Moscow Center to "Gennady," 24 February 1941, KGB file 35112, v.4,
pp. 113-14; Moscow Center to "Maxim," 27 November 1941, KGB file 35112, v.6,
p. 11, Vassiliev, White #1, 13-14, 17, 31. Report on Graze, circa 1945; Handwritten
"P.S." July 1943 addition to Report, April 1942; Report, October 1946, KGB file
59264, v1, pp. 36, 44-45, 53, Vassiliev, Yellow #2, 72-75. Entries regarding
"Arena"/Graze, can be found in Vassiliev, Yellow #2, 40-61, 66, 70-75, 77-78; Vassiliev, Black, 51, 78, 89, 95, 173, 175-76; Vassiliev, White #1, 10-14, 17, 30-31; Alexander Vassiliev, White Notebook #3 [2007 English Translation], trans. Steven
Shabad (1993-96), 66-71, 74, 76, 79-80, 120.

44. "Vadim" to Moscow Center, 7 December 1944; Report, circa 1945; "Vadim"
to Moscow Center, April 1945; Report by "X," 16 November 1944, KGB file 59264,
v. 1, PP. 43-45, 48, 57-58, Vassiliev, Yellow #2, 73-75. "Vadim" to Moscow Center,
20-21 March 1945, KGB file 45100, v.1, pp. 97-98, Vassiliev, White #3, 76.

45. "Jung" to Moscow Center, 13 April 1939; "Jung" to Moscow Center, 3 June
1939; "Mer" to Moscow Center, i December 1942; "Permission granted in Dec.
1942"; "Mer" to Moscow Center, 9 March 1943; "Maxim," 30 March 1943; KGB
New York to Moscow Center, 8 May 1943; "Report by Gorsky," 4 May 1944; "Mer"
to Moscow Center, 13 May 1944, KGB file 45100, v.i, pp. 1-3, 7, 8-io, 12-14, Vassiliev, White #3, 66-68. Zarubin to Merkulov, "Memorandum (on the station's work
in the country)," 30 September 1944, KGB file 35112, v.i, pp. 412-13, Vassiliev,
White #1, io-11. Elizabeth Bentley, FBI Deposition, 3o November 1945, serial 220,
PP. 51-57, 78-79 ; FBI New York memo, 16 January 1947, serial 1936, FBI Silvermaster file 65-56402.

46. Moscow Center to "Vadim," 23 November 1945, KGB file 70545, P. 405,
Alexander Vassiliev, White Notebook #2 12007 English Translation], trans. Steven
Shabad (1993-96), 30; "In 1948, X," KGB file 59264, v.i, p. 81, Vassiliev, Yellow #2,
75; Remarks of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Congressional Record, 20 February 1950.
To confuse matters, McCarthy sent a written list to the Tydings Committee with
slightly different numbering. Gerald Graze was number twenty-six on that list. McCarthy's Tydings Committee list and the earlier "Lee List" from which it was drawn
can be found in Evans, Blacklisted by History, 246-62. Gerald Graze obituary, Washington Post, 31 March 1999.

47. Allen Weinstein, Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (New York: Random
House, 1997), 269. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., "The Party Circuit," New Republic, 29
May 1995, 39. The object of Schlesinger's ire was Klehr, Haynes, and Firsov, Secret
World.

48. "Report by source S-17," circa 1934; "Nikolay" letter, 3 October 1934, KGB
file 36857, v.1, pp. 11-12, 14, Vassiliev, Yellow #2, 1-2. "S-17" was unidentified, but
his report indicated he was a native Russian speaker whose vocabulary was pre-Soviet.

49. "Nord" to Moscow Center, 3o November 1935; "Personal data regarding
Helen Boyd (wife of `1g')," 1935; "Note by `Redhead' about Helen Boyd," circa 1935,
KGB file 17407, v.1, pp. 16, 1g-2o and reverse, Vassiliev, Yellow #2, 2-3.

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