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−	The '''Gorsky list''' is an internal [[KI]] document, dated December 1948, written by [[Anatoly Gorsky]], chief of [[USSR\|Soviet]] intelligence in the [[United States]] during [[World War II]]. It lists 43 Soviet sources and intelligence officers likely to have been identified to U.S. authorities following the defections of [[Whittaker Chambers]], [[Hede Massing]], [[Elizabeth Bentley]], [[Louis Budenz]] and [[Alexander Koral]]. It was discovered in the [[KGB]] files by former KGB agent Alexander Vassiliev during the brief opening after the fall of the [[Soviet Union]] in 1993–96, when he was permitted to make notes of some KGB archives. The contents became public as part of ''Vassiliev v Frank Cass & Co Ltd.'', a 2003 libel case in the United Kingdom, identified as "transcript of KGB file 43173 vol.2 (v) pp. 49-55, attached to Alexander Vassiliev to Hartwig, 1 February 2002, in Alexander Vassiliev and Frank Cass & Co Ltd, High Court of Justice Queen's Bench Division Claim No. HQ1X03222, Amended Particulars of	+	The '''Gorsky list''' is an internal [[KI]] document, dated December 1948, written by [[Anatoly Gorsky]], chief of [[USSR\|Soviet]] intelligence in the [[United States]] during [[World War II]]. It lists 43 Soviet sources and intelligence officers likely to have been identified to U.S. authorities following the defections of [[Whittaker Chambers]], [[Hede Massing]], [[Elizabeth Bentley]], [[Louis Budenz]] and [[Alexander Koral]]. It was discovered in the [[KGB]] files by former KGB agent [[Alexander Vassiliev]] during the brief opening after the fall of the [[Soviet Union]] in 1993–96, when he was permitted to make notes of some KGB archives. The contents became public as part of ''Vassiliev v Frank Cass & Co Ltd.'', a 2003 libel case in the United Kingdom, identified as "transcript of KGB file 43173 vol.2 (v) pp. 49-55, attached to Alexander Vassiliev to Hartwig, 1 February 2002, in Alexander Vassiliev and Frank Cass & Co Ltd, High Court of Justice Queen's Bench Division Claim No. HQ1X03222, Amended Particulars of
	Claim." Vassiliev donated his original notes the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, which posted them online in 2009. The translation is by Philip Redko, with annotations by Vassiliev and Library of Congress Cold War historian [[John Earl Haynes]].		Claim." Vassiliev donated his original notes the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, which posted them online in 2009. The translation is by Philip Redko, with annotations by Vassiliev and Library of Congress Cold War historian [[John Earl Haynes]].

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 The '''Gorsky list''' is an internal [[KI]] document, dated December 1948, written by [[Anatoly Gorsky]], chief of [[USSR|Soviet]] intelligence in the [[United States]] during [[World War II]]. It lists 43 Soviet sources and intelligence officers likely to have been identified to U.S. authorities following the defections of [[Whittaker Chambers]], [[Hede Massing]], [[Elizabeth Bentley]],  [[Louis Budenz]] and [[Alexander Koral]]. It was discovered in the [[KGB]] files by former KGB agent Alexander Vassiliev during the brief opening after the fall of the [[Soviet Union]] in 1993–96, when he was permitted to make notes of some KGB archives. The contents became public as part of ''Vassiliev v Frank Cass & Co Ltd.'', a 2003 libel case in the United Kingdom, identified as "transcript of KGB file 43173 vol.2 (v) pp. 49-55, attached to Alexander Vassiliev to Hartwig, 1 February 2002, in Alexander Vassiliev and Frank Cass & Co Ltd, High Court of Justice Queen's Bench Division Claim No. HQ1X03222, Amended Particulars of
-Claim." Vassiliev donated his original notes the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, which posted them online in 2009. The translation is by Philip Redko, with annotations by Vassiliev and Library of Congress Cold War historian John Earl Haynes.
+Claim." Vassiliev donated his original notes the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, which posted them online in 2009. The translation is by Philip Redko, with annotations by Vassiliev and Library of Congress Cold War historian [[John Earl Haynes]].
 =Failures in the USA (1938-48)=

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 :* David Lowenthal with Svetlana A. Chervonnaya, [http://hnn.us/articles/11581.html Gorsky Report], History News Network (George Mason University), May 2, 2005
+{{communism}}
 [[Category:KGB]]
 [[Category:Cold War]]

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−	The '''Gorsky list''' is an internal [[KI]] document, dated December 1948, written by [[Anatoly Gorsky]], chief of [[USSR\|Soviet]] intelligence in the [[United States]] during [[World War II]]. It lists 43 Soviet sources and intelligence officers likely to have been identified to U.S. authorities following the defections of [[Whittaker Chambers]], [[Hede Massing]], [[Elizabeth Bentley]], [[Louis Budenz]] and [[Alexander Koral]]. It was discovered in the [[KGB]] files by former KGB agent Alexander Vassiliev during the brief opening after the fall of the [[Soviet Union]] in ~~1993-96~~, when he was permitted to make notes of some KGB archives. The contents became public as part of ''Vassiliev v Frank Cass & Co Ltd.'', a 2003 libel case in the United Kingdom, identified as "transcript of KGB file 43173 vol.2 (v) pp. 49-55, attached to Alexander Vassiliev to Hartwig, 1 February 2002, in Alexander Vassiliev and Frank Cass & Co Ltd, High Court of Justice Queen's Bench Division Claim No. HQ1X03222, Amended Particulars of	+	The '''Gorsky list''' is an internal [[KI]] document, dated December 1948, written by [[Anatoly Gorsky]], chief of [[USSR\|Soviet]] intelligence in the [[United States]] during [[World War II]]. It lists 43 Soviet sources and intelligence officers likely to have been identified to U.S. authorities following the defections of [[Whittaker Chambers]], [[Hede Massing]], [[Elizabeth Bentley]], [[Louis Budenz]] and [[Alexander Koral]]. It was discovered in the [[KGB]] files by former KGB agent Alexander Vassiliev during the brief opening after the fall of the [[Soviet Union]] in 1993–96, when he was permitted to make notes of some KGB archives. The contents became public as part of ''Vassiliev v Frank Cass & Co Ltd.'', a 2003 libel case in the United Kingdom, identified as "transcript of KGB file 43173 vol.2 (v) pp. 49-55, attached to Alexander Vassiliev to Hartwig, 1 February 2002, in Alexander Vassiliev and Frank Cass & Co Ltd, High Court of Justice Queen's Bench Division Claim No. HQ1X03222, Amended Particulars of
	Claim." Vassiliev donated his original notes the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, which posted them online in 2009. The translation is by Philip Redko, with annotations by Vassiliev and Library of Congress Cold War historian John Earl Haynes.		Claim." Vassiliev donated his original notes the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, which posted them online in 2009. The translation is by Philip Redko, with annotations by Vassiliev and Library of Congress Cold War historian John Earl Haynes.

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 #“Gennady” – [[Gaik Ovakimian|G.B. Ovakimyan]], f. station chief of the MGB USSR in NY. Currently in the USSR.
 #“Albert” – [[Ishkak Akhmerov|A.I. Akhmerov]], f. illegal station chief of the MGB in NY. Currently in the USSR.
-#“Elsa” – Akhmerova, Albert’s wife, American, a Soviet citizen. Currently in the USSR.
+#“Elsa” – Akhmerova, Albert's wife, American, a Soviet citizen. Currently in the USSR.
 #“Mushroom” – [[Willard Park]], f. employee of the “Rockefeller Committee”
 #“Charlie” – [[Cedric Belfrage]], f. employee of the English intelligence station in NY. At pres., he is a

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 =Failures in the USA (1938-48)=
-==“Karl’s” group:==
+==“Karl’s” group==
 #Karl – [[Whittaker Chambers]], former editor in chief of “Time” magazine. Traitor.
 #Jerome – Barna Bukov (Altman), our former cadre employee. Currently in the USSR.
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 #“Peak” – [[Frank Coe]], former chief of the Monetary Section of the Dept. of the Treasury
 #“Acorn” – [[Bela Gold]], former Dept. of Commerce official
-#“Zhenya” – Sonia Gold, former secretary to the chief of the Monetary Research Division of the Dept. of the Treasury<br>
+#“Zhenya” – Sonia Gold, former secretary to the chief of the Monetary Research Division of the Dept. of the Treasury
 #“Tino” – [[Irving Kaplan]], former employee of the Foreign Economic Administration
 #“Sachs” – [[Solomon Adler]], former employee of the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury
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 A. Gorsky (Dec. ’48)
-==Source==
+==Sources==
 * Alexander Vassiliev, Black Notebook ([http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.documents&group_id=511603 The Vassiliev Notebooks], Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
 :* [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Black%20Notebook%20Original.pdf Original], pp. 39-40
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 :* [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Black%20Notebook%20Translated1.pdf Translated] pp. 77-79
 * See also:
-:* Gorsky Symposium, History of American Communism (H-HOAC) Discussion Network, March 14-20, 2005
+:* Gorsky Symposium, History of American Communism (H-HOAC) Discussion Network, March 14–20, 2005
 ::* Ronald Bachman and Harold Leich (tr.), with John Earl Haynes, [http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-hoac&month=0503&week=b&msg=ycrsVT7M1e2L9EECiLFskg&user=&pw= Alexander Vassiliev's Notes on Anatoly Gorsky's December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks], March 14, 2005
 ::* Svetlana Chervonnaya, [http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-hoac&month=0503&week=c&msg=czBexT36qyqr0oCHBC%2b8sQ&user=&pw= Gorsky memo], March 15, 2005
 :* The Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth
 ::*[http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/gorskynotesscans.html Scans of Vassiliev's notes on "Gorsky's List"],
-::* [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/gorskytransliteration.html "Gorsky's List" Transliterated], March-April 2005
+::* [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/gorskytransliteration.html "Gorsky's List" Transliterated], March–April 2005
 ::* [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/gorskylist.html "Gorsky's List"], April 2005
 :* David Lowenthal with Svetlana A. Chervonnaya, [http://hnn.us/articles/11581.html Gorsky Report], History News Network (George Mason University), May 2, 2005

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 ==“Redhead’s” group==
 #“Redhead” – [[Hede Massing|Hedwiga Gumpertz]], “Vatsek’s” wife. Sent to the USA in ’38 to carry out our assignments. A traitor since ’48.
-#“Vatsek” – Paul Massing, a scientist at the “Institute for Social Research” at Columbia University. Traitor.
+#“Vatsek” – [[Paul Massing]], a scientist at the “Institute for Social Research” at Columbia University. Traitor.
 #“Oscar” – Oscar Bernstein, a lawyer, used for setting up covers for our workers in the USA.
 #“Prince” – [[Laurence Duggan]] (a.k.a. 19) former employee of the State Dept. Suicide.
 #“Ruff” – [[Franz Neumann]], former consultant for the Research and Analysis Branch of the OSS.
-#“Vardo” – E.Y. Zarubina, our former cadre employee. Currently in the USSR.
+#“Vardo” – [[E.Y. Zarubina]], our former cadre employee. Currently in the USSR.
 ==“Buben’s” group==

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	::* [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/gorskylist.html "Gorsky's List"], April 2005		::* [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/gorskylist.html "Gorsky's List"], April 2005
	:* David Lowenthal with Svetlana A. Chervonnaya, [http://hnn.us/articles/11581.html Gorsky Report], History News Network (George Mason University), May 2, 2005		:* David Lowenthal with Svetlana A. Chervonnaya, [http://hnn.us/articles/11581.html Gorsky Report], History News Network (George Mason University), May 2, 2005
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−	The '''Gorsky ~~memo~~''' is an internal [[KI]] document, dated December 1948, written by [[Anatoly Gorsky]], chief of [[USSR\|Soviet]] intelligence in the [[United States]] during [[World War II]]. It lists 43 Soviet sources and intelligence officers likely to have been identified to U.S. authorities following the defections of [[Whittaker Chambers]], [[Hede Massing]], [[Elizabeth Bentley]], [[Louis Budenz]] and [[Alexander Koral]]. It was discovered in the [[KGB]] files by former KGB agent Alexander Vassiliev during the brief opening after the fall of the [[Soviet Union]] in 1993-96, when he was permitted to make notes of some KGB archives. The contents became public as part of ''Vassiliev v Frank Cass & Co Ltd.'', a 2003 libel case in the United Kingdom, identified as "transcript of KGB file 43173 vol.2 (v) pp. 49-55, attached to Alexander Vassiliev to Hartwig, 1 February 2002, in Alexander Vassiliev and Frank Cass & Co Ltd, High Court of Justice Queen's Bench Division Claim No. HQ1X03222, Amended Particulars of	+	The '''Gorsky list''' is an internal [[KI]] document, dated December 1948, written by [[Anatoly Gorsky]], chief of [[USSR\|Soviet]] intelligence in the [[United States]] during [[World War II]]. It lists 43 Soviet sources and intelligence officers likely to have been identified to U.S. authorities following the defections of [[Whittaker Chambers]], [[Hede Massing]], [[Elizabeth Bentley]], [[Louis Budenz]] and [[Alexander Koral]]. It was discovered in the [[KGB]] files by former KGB agent Alexander Vassiliev during the brief opening after the fall of the [[Soviet Union]] in 1993-96, when he was permitted to make notes of some KGB archives. The contents became public as part of ''Vassiliev v Frank Cass & Co Ltd.'', a 2003 libel case in the United Kingdom, identified as "transcript of KGB file 43173 vol.2 (v) pp. 49-55, attached to Alexander Vassiliev to Hartwig, 1 February 2002, in Alexander Vassiliev and Frank Cass & Co Ltd, High Court of Justice Queen's Bench Division Claim No. HQ1X03222, Amended Particulars of
	Claim." Vassiliev donated his original notes the the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, which posted them online in 2009. The translation is by Philip Redko, with annotations by Vassiliev and Library of Congress Cold War historian John Earl Haynes.		Claim." Vassiliev donated his original notes the the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, which posted them online in 2009. The translation is by Philip Redko, with annotations by Vassiliev and Library of Congress Cold War historian John Earl Haynes.