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The Venona project was a long-running and highly secret collaboration between intelligence agencies of the United States and United Kingdom that involved the cryptanalysis of messages sent by several intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union, mostly during World War II. There were known to be at least 13 code words for this effort used by the U.S. and UK. "Venona" was the last one used. It has no known meaning. (In the decrypted documents issued from the National Security Agency, 'VENONA" is written in full capitals; authors writing on the subject generally capitalize only the first letter.)

In the early years of the Cold War, Venona would be an important source of information on Soviet intelligence activity for the Western powers. Although unknown to the public, and even to presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, it was a critical and guarded program behind many famous events of the early Cold War, such as the Rosenberg spying case and the defections of Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess.

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How to say "Venona project" in other languages:

	(Japanese)	ベノナ
	(German)	VENONA-Projekt
	(French)	Projet VENONA
	(Italian)	Progetto VENONA

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Jim Skardon

1949 on the basis of VENONA project material, interrogated three times by Skardon in 1959, cleared...

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Harry Dexter White

learned, from the secret VENONA project , that White's name appeared in some decrypted wartime Soviet...

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Klaus Fuchs

officers as a result of the cracking of Soviet ciphers known as the VENONA project. Fuchs was prosecuted by... research project. He became a British citizen in 1942. In late 1943 Fuchs transferred to Columbia University, New York City to work on the Manhattan Project. From August 1944 Fuchs worked in the...

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Theodore Hall

Hall and his activities, and on the VENONA project... developed as part of the Manhattan Project. These secrets, combined with other information from other... Project. His wife said, after his death, that he had begun to develop strong feelings against the...

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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

United States in 1944 and decrypted by the VENONA project were revealed publicly, and made it more... the VENONA project, an effort to decrypt intercepted communications between Soviet agents and the.... Greenglass, who worked on the atomic bomb at the top-secret Manhattan Project in Los Alamos during...

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List of cryptography topics

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Australian Labor Party

parliamentary party after the 1974 election. (See also VENONA project.) The Labor party is well-known for its...

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Computer insecurity

their implementation allowed some cryptanalysis (See Venona Project). The method uses a matching pair...

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Lauchlin Currie

"Venona" project, which had decrypted some wartime Soviet cables that mentioned Currie's name. After a... Currie was a Soviet spy, see John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Soviet Espionage in America...

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