Stručni rad
VENONA PROJECT AND SOVIET AGENTS INSIDE THE U.S. INSTITUTIONS DURING WW2
Robert Derenčin
orcid.org/0000-0002-3558-1664
Sažetak
Venona Project began in 1943 as an attempt of the code-breaking service of the US Army (U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Service) that by means of traffic analysis of ciphered messages between Moscow and Soviet diplomatic representations obtain some knowledge about activities of Soviet intelligence services in the U.S. Thanks to one catastrophic Soviet mistake part of the Soviet ciphered messages was (at least partially) decrypted. By means of joint work of American code-breakers, FBI, CIA and their British counterparts some of the most important Soviet agents in the U.S., Britain and other countries were identified. Nevertheless, the fact is that the Soviet Union had its agents deeply infiltrated into societies and institutions of the western countries, and that those agents helped the Soviet Union to take much better staring positions in the beginning of the Cold war. The article explains how the Soviets recruited those agents and on which way the Soviets ciphered their most secret messages, but it also explains how even the most secure system is actually insecure if not used completely properly.
Ključne riječi
Venona Project; Soviet intelligence; NKVD; GRU; code-breaking; HUMINT; WW2
Hrčak ID:
207143
URI
Datum izdavanja:
22.6.2018.
Posjeta: 2.058 *