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 ''edition published in Argentina. Though this identification our Cryptographic Laboratory deciphered seven of the eight remaining messages intercepted in the Altschuler case. These messages extend the ramifications of the espionage parallel we investigated in the Altschuler case, and one message shows the network was, in 1943, setting up a radio station in Argentina. One of the reflects that the same code was to be used by the station as in the secret writing message in the Altschuler case. This message also give the frequency to be used and the time of the intended operations.''

''It is also of considerable interest to note that there were radio station setups at the Soviet Consulates in New York City and San Francisco in 1943 which transmitted messages in code, and among the intercepts available in connection with these two transmitters there have been found intercepts of a station operating on at least one of the frequencies set forth in the secret ink messages. It has been discovered that on ten occasions between February 22, 1943, and October 12, 1943, transmissions believed to emanate from the Soviet Consulate in New York City fit the radio operation procedures which were set forth in the secret writing message dated February 1, 1943. Three of these transmissions contained an identical cipher message in five-digit groups. This message has been deciphered and reads "I send greetings -- I await news." This could appear to be a message sent in an attempt to establish radio contact.''

An investigation to being conducted to determine to what extent we con develop additional information concerning this network on the basis the new information which has been developed through the information and through the additional decipherment of the secret writing messages in the Altschuler case.





You will recall that in the spring of 1944 Kravchenko defected from his position with the Soviet Government Purchasing Commission in Washington, D.C. The information from reflects that thereafter he was designated by the cover name of