Gertrude Kahn, also known as Mrs. Ray Kahn, was an American who allegedly had a covert relationship with Soviet intelligence during World War II. The NKVD ( НКВД, ru Народный Комиссариат Внутренних Дел ''Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del'') or People's Commissariat World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including In a Venona transcript from Moscow, the Moscow Center suggested Mrs. Originally declassified by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Chairman of the Bipartisan Commission on Government Secrecy, the Venona project and its associated Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Kahn be used for foreign intelligence work. The New York Rezidentura responded that it may not be wise, and that she was best suited for a "passive" role. Kahn's code name in Soviet intelligence and in the Venona decrypts is "Dinah. "
Venona
Mrs. Ray (Gertrude) Kahn is referenced in the following Venona project decryptions:
- 1000 KGB New York to Moscow, 24 June 1943;
- 1136 KGB New York to Moscow, 13 July 1943;
- 1205 KGB New York to Moscow, 22 July 1943.
References
- John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 353, 454.
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