Mystery AtlasThe Venona Project
The US Army Signal Intelligence Service's programme to decrypt wartime Soviet diplomatic cables, running from 1943 into the 1980s; its decrypts identified Klaus Fuchs's espionage in 1949, though the programme's own secrecy meant the intercepts could not be used directly as courtroom evidence.
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People
- Klaus Fuchs1911-1988
The Venona Project discovered Klaus Fuchs — Fuchs's espionage was identified through Venona's 1949 decryption of wartime Soviet cables, four years after the war ended.
Organisations & Programmes
- The Cambridge Five1930s-1979
The Venona Project discovered The Cambridge Five — Venona's decryption of Soviet cables identifying Donald Maclean ('Homer') triggered his and Guy Burgess's 1951 defection, the ring's first public exposure.
Historical Context
The Venona Project occurred during Cold War.
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