![]() ![]() Allen Nunn May, a British physicist, was among those indicted. : Acting on information from Gouzenko, Canada indicted 22 communist agencies. Truman did not withdraw his nomination of Harry Dexter White to lead the IMF. The FBI released a report, with the results of the Gouzenko and Bentley cases, that also disclosed this information to Truman. At this interview, she made a confession which ran to 90 pages and implicated several others, including Jacob Golos and Greg Silvermaser, who were also high level KGB controllers.Ģ/1946: The FBI determined that Harry Dexter White, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, was potentially acting as a spy. : Bentley, the Blond Spy Queen, was interviewed for a second time. It was just a routine interview at the time, because it was not known that she was a high level controller of a network of KGB spies operating in the United States.ĩ/1945: A GRU cipher clerk named Igor Gouzenko defected to Canada and began disclosing the identities of Russian agents. : Elizabeth Bentley, who would later become known as “The Blond Spy Queen” was interviewed for the first time by the FBI. Service was ultimately the only department employee to be dismissed, by Dean Acheson. A naval intelligence officer named Andrew Roth was also arrested. : The FBI raided Amerasia, arresting Phil Jaffe (an editor) as well as several State Department employees including Emmanuel Larsen and John Stewart Service. The Scientists became part of a newly created department called Department S.ġ/1945: John Rankin was appointed head of HUAC, and it was declared that HUAC would remain a permanent house committee until October 1946. ![]() The purpose the program was to decode and exploit encrypted Soviet diplomatic communications dating back to 1939.ġ944: Viktor Kravchenko defected from his role in the Soviet Government Purchasing Commission, AMTORG.Ģ/1944: Stalin enlisted American scientists, including Oppenhemier, Borh, Fermi, and Szillard, to serve as Russian Spies. : The United States Army Signal Intelligence Service pioneered a secret program, nicknamed VENONA. Soviet Army Intelligence groups called the KGB and the GRU began espionage activities. The following timeline provides a brief overview of key espionage activities that occurred during the cold war:ġ943 – Stalin ended the Communist International (Comintern). Posted at 20:10h in Blog, News & Articles by Lowell Bradford 0 Commentsĭuring the cold war, information was the key commodity. It was vital to know what the enemy was up to, and we did not have the option of using hi-tech surveillance camera systems. Instead of relying on technology, we relied on spies: brave people who invaded enemy territory and tried to discover information while flying under the radar.Įspionage activities persisted from the beginning of the cold war in the early forties, all the way through the late 1950’s and perhaps even the early 1960’s. Generations before we were even able to dream of surveillance cameras, these brave spies were decoding encrypted information, and using the technology of the future to gain an advantage over dangerous enemies. ![]()
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