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16 The name TSS was born from bureaucratic infighting. Components in the DDP that ran operations carried the designation “division.” Drum’s initial proposal for a technical “division” met with stern objection from the other division chiefs because this would imply an operational rather than a support role for technical services. “Staff” became the acceptable alternative. Fortunately for TSS, Drum’s first suggestion for a name, the Material Assistance and Development Office, was also rejected. Inevitably, the staff would have been called the “MAD” techs.
CHAPTER THREE
1 The message originated in Moscow. A CIA officer had first written the text in longhand, then, using a one-time pad, he converted the text into what appeared to be a series of random letters. These were given to the local communicator and the coded message was fed through an electronic encryption machine before being transmitted to Langley. Because the message was first enciphered by hand and then by machine, the term “superencipherment” encompassed the full process.
2 Ronald Kessler, Inside the CIA (New York: Pocket Books, 1992), 178.
3 See Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner (editors), VENONA: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957 (Washington, D.C.: National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency, 1996).
4 Jerold L. Schecter and Peter S. Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992), 348.
5 The operation ran from April 1961 until August 1962. For a concise description, see: Polmar and Allen, Spy Book, 490-493.
6 Schecter and Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World, 92-93.
7 Ibid., 411.
8 Ibid., 340.
9 Ibid., 337.
10 Ibid., 262.
11 Ibid., 413.
12 Jacob had run a surveillance detection route (SDR) that made a circuitous route through Moscow culminating at a bookstore that he entered through one door and exited from another. Called “dry cleaning” at the time of the operation, the term has been replaced with the less colorful term SDR. Fifteen years later CIA officers were equipped with hidden earpieces to monitor the transmissions of KGB surveillance teams, but Jacob had no such advantage.
13 Schecter and Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World, 307.
14 Ibid., 394.
15 Ibid., 301.
16 Ibid., 365-366.
17 Viktor Suvorov, Aquarium: The Career and Defection of a Soviet Military Spy (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985), 1-4.
18 Schecter and Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World, 377.
19 Ibid., 95, 351.
20 David C. Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors (New York: Harper & Row, 1980), 90.
21 Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (New York: Basic Books. 1999), 182.
22 Schecter and Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World, 159.
23 Ibid., 248.
24 Ibid., 280.
25 Ibid., 330.
26 Ibid., 29.
27 Ibid., 334.
CHAPTER FOUR
1 I Samuel 19:18-42 relates the story of how Jonathan, son of Israel’s King Saul, communicated covertly to David through shooting of arrows to specific locations.
2 Schecter and Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World, 320-321.
3 Ibid., 394.
4 Ibid., 184
5 The Model IIIs was an improvement over the original Minox, which had been made of stainless steel throughout World War II. This new, postwar version of the classic spy camera was light since it was made of aluminum and featured a better lens. The suffix “s” indicated that the camera could be used for synchronized flash, though in the world of espionage this feature was seldom employed.
6 The operational file on each staff member contained the available data that could be gleaned from previous assignments abroad and with information from the KGB’s network of Soviet nationals who regularly reported their suspicions to their contacts about their American colleagues. Information about the newly arriving diplomat’s age, marital status, hobbies, education, and official position