DOCID_3148766_SEALED_OK.PDF

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MORI DocID: 1036821 Doc ID: 3148766 Doc Ref ID: A2327975 NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755-6000 MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE SUBJECT: Release of Venona Translations - INFORMATION MEMORANDUM Attached at Tab A is our proposed schedule for releasing the Venona translations, beginning with a group of high interest. items: the Rosenberg and Atomic bomb spies messages. I have enclosed a selection of the Rosenberg/Atomic bomb messages and the ALES translation. We are sending the first group of messages to the FBI to obtain their approval for release …

MORI DocID: 1036821 Doc ID: 3148766 Doc Ref ID: A2327975 Lou Benson, MSJ, 963-1978s 1. 8 June 1995. Press Release, Summary Unclassified History of Venona, and Translations of the Rosenberg/Atomic bomb spies messages ready for public release at a press conference, ceremony, other. About 50 message translations will be released. Thereafter to be released to public: 2. Sep 1995: translations of KGB messages passed on the New York to/from Moscow lanes during 1942-1943. (200 messeges) 3. December 1995: translations of KGB messages on the New York to/from Moscow lanes during 1944-45 and Washington t…

MORI DocID: 1036821 Doc ID: 3148766 Doc Ref ID: A2327975

MORI DocID: 1036821 Doc ID: 3148766 Doc Ref ID: A2327975 Lou Benson, M5J, 963-1978s DATES OF VENONA TRANSLATIONS NSA is releasing translations of decrypted KGB and GRU messages of the 1940s, the final product of the VENONA program. In each instance the released translation is the last one prepared. Most messages were translated several times, often over a period of many years. This was done because continuing analysis by NSA led to the recovery of more parts of the encrypted messages. However, the very earliest translations, from the later 1940s and early 1950s often contained almost all the i…