Ignacy Witczak
Encyclopedia
Ignacy Witczak was a GRU
Illegal officer in the United States during World War II
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Witczak's code name with the GRU and as deciphered by the Venona project
and other counterintelligence investigations was "R".
GRU
GRU or Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye is the foreign military intelligence directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation...
Illegal officer in the United States during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
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Witczak's code name with the GRU and as deciphered by the Venona project
Venona project
The VENONA project was a long-running secret collaboration of the United States and United Kingdom intelligence agencies involving cryptanalysis of messages sent by intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union, the majority during World War II...
and other counterintelligence investigations was "R".
Evidence of espionage
Ignacy Witczak is referenced in the following Venona decryptions and FBI reports:- 3, 4, 5 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 2 January 1946;
- 25 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 26 January 1946;
- FBI report, “Soviet Espionage Activities, 19 October 1945,” attached to Hoover to Vaughan, 19 October 1945, President's Secretary's Files, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo.;
- FBI report, “Soviet Activities in the United States,” 25 July 1946, Clark M. Clifford papers, Truman Library.