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Introduction to the VENONA Project An Effort to Digitize and Enhance the VENONA Documents by Mr. William P. Crowell, Former Deputy Director, National Security Agency
In July 1995 the Intelligence Community ended a 50-year silence regarding
one of cryptology's most splendid successes - the VENONA Project. VENONA
was the codename used for the U.S. Signals Intelligence effort to collect
and decrypt the text of Soviet KGB and GRU messages from the 1940's. These
messages provided extraordinary insight into Soviet attempts to infiltrate
the highest levels of the United States Goverment.
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