Elizabeth Bentley
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Elizabeth Terrill Bentley was an American NKVD spymaster, who was recruited from within the Communist Party USA. She served the Soviet Union as the primary handler of multiple highly placed moles with
Bentley in 1948
Press photos of Bentley during her 1948 testimony
Bentley in 1948
Venona project
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The Venona project was a United States counterintelligence program initiated during World War II by the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service and later absorbed by the National Security Age
Elizabeth Bentley
…their innocence. For Hoover and a few highly-placed FBI and army intelligence personnel, the corroboration of Bentley was the late-1940s-to-early-1950s Venona project decryption of wartime cables between Soviet intelligence agents and Moscow. Bentley was referred to in the cables by the codename she had given the…
Meredith Gardner (far left); most of the other code breakers were young women.