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* 25 February or 5 March 1944, a rainy Sunday, Elizabeth Bentley meets with Harry Magdoff and others in John Abts apartment in New York, the initial contact with the Perlo group (Haynes and Klehr, ''Venona'', 1999, pg. 409); "the group specifically discussed the information they would be able to furnish her and with respect to Magdoff, Bentley advised, '.....Magdoff, who had just returned from a period of approximately six months hospitalization, expected to return to the War Production Board but was uncertain as to what specifically he would be able to furnish.....' " ([http://foia.fbi.gov/silversm/silversm2c.pdf pg. 182, paragraph 3]) * [[5 May]] [[1944]], Venona decrypt 629 KGB New York to Moscow asks to "Urgently...advise about the possibility of a meeting with KANT"; KANT identified as Harry Samuel Magdoff. [http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/05_May_1944_R3_m4_p1.gif]* [[13 May]] [[1944]], Venona decrypt 687 KGB New York to Moscow reports on Bentley's contact with a new group in Washington, "MAGDOFF - KANT"..."reliable"...politically highly mature"..."they want to help with information". KANT identified as Harry Samuel Magdoff. [https://www.cia.gov/csi/books/venona/b35.gif]* [[30 May]] [[1944]], Venona 769, 771 KGB New York to Moscow, addressed to KGB head Pavel Fitin the probationers of the new group gives personal histories, " 'KANT' became a member of the CPUSA a long time ago...works in the Machine Tool Division of the DEPOT" [http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/30_May_1944_R3_m1_p1.gif]; KANT identified as Harry Samuel Magdoff. [http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/30_May_1944_R3_m1_p3.gif]* [[29 September]] [[1944]], in Moscow, [[Wikisource:Fitin to Dimitrov, 29 September 1944|Fitin to Dimitrov Memo]] asks to Comintern General Secretary to provide any information to KGB head on members of the Perlo group, including "Magdoff, works on the [[WPB]]." * [[25 February]] [[1945]], Moscow Center to Venona to New York 179, 180 KGB Moscow, uses code name "TAN"; subsequent researchers identify TAN as Harry Magdoff.* [[20 December]] [[1946]], "Magdoff indicated that he was happy to be leaving the [[U.S. Commerce Department|Commerce Department]]..." ([http://foia.fbi.gov/silversm/silversm5b.pdf pg. 176]).* [[30 December]] [[1946]], Magdoff retires from government service.* December 1948, Anatoly Gorsky, senior official of the Committee of Information ([[KI]]), the agency then supervising Soviet foreign intelligence reports in KGB file 43173 vol.2 (v) lists Magdoff as number "3. 'Tan' – Harry Magdoff, former employee of the Commerce Department" of Elizabeth Bentley's contacts in his report on compromised American sources and networks; NKVD operatives are ranked either alphabetically or in chronological order, beginning with pre-WWII names, followed by WWII names, with the Soviet Case Officer himself the last in line.* [[1 February]] [[1956]], FBI Belmont to Boardman Memo discussses prosecution of the members of the Perlo group, including " 'Kant' (Harry Magdoff)" but weighs the disclosure of Government techniques and practices in the cryptography field to unauthorized persons and would compromise the Government's efforts in the communications intelligence field.