The National Security Agency (NSA) in 1995 began releasing decrypts of Soviet espionage traffic collected during World War II, and some traffic into the Cold War. A little less than 3500 messages (about 0.5% of the total Soviet messages) are now released. Unfortunately, NSA never provided a cross reference to the many names, covernames and coverwords used in the decrypts. The purpose of this website is to correct the NSA oversight.
Also, names, covernames, and coverwords are cross referenced to the decrypts in which they appear. This cross reference makes it easy to find and view all decrypts that reference GNOME, let us say, and view them with a few mouse clicks. Also, it allows you to group decrypts by location, for example, New York.
5/10/06 allnames.xls for Microsoft Excel
5/10/06 allnames.sxc for Linux OpenOffice Calc
5/10/06 allnames.txt
5/10/06 index.htm
5/10/06 name2id.htm
5/10/06 name2msg.xls for Microsoft Excel
5/10/06 name2msg.sxc for Linux OpenOffice Calc
5/10/06 name2msg.htm
6/18/06 added Grombach, hedged identification of Maj. Judson, added Anwar Muhammed
6/20/06 NSA restored missing June 1945 scans, so links in name2msg.xls and name2msg.sxc are changed to the NSA scans. My scans which duplicated the missing scans will be removed from this site, which means that if you have downloaded either spreadsheet you will have to download again.
5/17/08 added introduction stating purpose of this web site.
5/17/08 added correction from Svetlana Chervonnaya on identification of SASHA in London GRU messages. I once stated on the History Net, H-HOAC, that SASHA was the only instance of an acronym, ES SHA AH (USA), used as a coverword. I accept Ms. Chervonnaya's correction that SASHA is not a coverword, but the acronym for the older Russian designation for the United States, that is, Severo-Americanskie Shtaty Ameriki (North-American States of America).
7/10/09. NSA changed the filenames of every decrypt on their website. Since name2msg.xls links to the NSA website, the change broke every link, almost 3000. This update corrects the links.
The NSA change replaces the original gifs with pdfs. In some places, in their change, pages are dropped. A few are out of order. I have tried to correct these errors and omissions. And all the postscript versions are missing from the NSA website. Hopefully I didn't compound the errors and omissions.
These links have been broken for some time without a complaint, indicating that this website is no longer useful. Therefore, I will remove this site after several months.
Please let me know of any errors or suggestions - John K. Taber
Names and Identifications Index