[Intelforum] Accused FBI/White House Spy Passed FBI Polygraph

[John K. Taber]

I haven't read Romerstein directly but I understand he argued that 

unidentified covername 19 (UCN 19) was Hopkins. Mind you, the NSA (or

the FBI) did not make this identification in the VENONA decrypts.

 

There is nothing in the decrypts to support the contention, and it

appears to be speculation. Haynes and Klehr discuss the speculation, 

but do not confirm it.

 

Nigel West in his book identifies UCN 19 as Eduard Benes. He does not

give an authority for this identification, but it contradicts
Romerstein,

and West writes as if he is pretty sure about it.

 

Hopkins is mentioned a few times in several diplomatic cables, largely

unrecovered, addressed to Mikoyan, and one to Molotov, by name, not 

covername. They appear to me to be government-to-government
communications, 

not conspiratorial. There is one KGB cable that contains the bare name 

HOPKINS after a gap of 102 unrecovered groups followed by a gap of 49
groups. 

There simply is no making out what the reference to HOPKINS is about 

because none of the context is recovered. 

 

Thomas Dewey is mentioned several times too, and he has a KGB covername,


FIST [KULAK] to boot. If being mentioned is suspicious, don't forget
Dewey.

This gets absurd quickly.

 

I urge reading the decrypts directly one's self so as not to be
dependent 

on what others say they are about. 

 

John K. Taber

 

 

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From: Jon Holstine [mailto:jdhfora at cox.net] 
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 8:00 AM
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Subject: Re: Re: [Intelforum] Accused FBI/White House Spy Passed FBI
Polygraph

 

Interesting.  Romerstein and Breindel in "THE VENONA SECRETS" think he
did.

 

Jon D. Holstine

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From: John K. Taber <mailto:jktaber at charter.net>  

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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 10:25 AM

Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: [Intelforum] Accused FBI/White House Spy
Passed FBI Polygraph

 

There is no evidence in VENONA to support the accusation that Harry
Hopkins committed espionage.

I have by now read every damned one of the decrypts. There is NO, repeat
NO, evidence in the entire 

corpus that Hopkins spied.

 

John K. Taber

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