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-'''Linn Markley Farish''' (1901 - 1944) was an [[American]] citizen and a member of the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) during [[World War II]].  The OSS was the predecessor agency of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA).  Farish functioned as liaison officer with [[Josip Tito]]'s [[Yugoslav Partisans]] for the OSS. Farish also at the same time was serving [[NKVD|Soviet intelligence]].  Farish died in a aircraft crash in the Balkans in September 1944.  Farish's code name in Soviet intelligence, and as decyphered in the [[Venona project]] is "Attila".
-==Venona==
-Farish is referenced in the following Venona project decryption:
-* 1397 KGB New York to Moscow, 4 October 1944
-=== Source ===
-John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America,'' Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 194, 195.
-{{DEFAULTSORT:Farish, Linn Markley}}
-[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]

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