What is Venona project?
The '''Venona project''' was a long time secret plan which started in February 1943 by the [[United States Army]] Signal Intelligence Service. The project was transferred to the [[National Security Agency]] and had many names. However, '''VENONA''' was the last name that was used. The word '''VENONA''' is usually in [[capital letter]]s (VENONA) but some writings use [[lowercase]] letters (Venona). VENONA was made to decrypt secret [[communication]]s of Soviet intelligence agencies including [[NKVD]], [[KGB]] and [[GRU]]. Decryption was possible because the encrypting [[one-time pad]]s were reused. The '''Venona project''' was most famous for the [[Julius and Ethel Rosenberg]] case known as '''LIBERAL''' and it ended in both of them being executed. VENONA exposed other spies including [[Klaus Fuchs]] and [[Alger Hiss]]. In July 1995, the first six documents were shown which included had 49 messages about the [[Soviet Union|Soviets]] trying to get information on the [[Manhattan Project|United States atomic bomb]] and the [[Manhattan Project]]. In the next five more years, about 3,000 '''VENONA''' messages were made public.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/venona/ |title='National Security Agency of USA' |access-date=2011-11-19 |archive-date=2014-06-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140628021144/http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/venona/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==Related pages== * [[Cryptanalysis]] * [[KGB]] * [[Cold War]] * [[McCarthyism]] == References == {{reflist}} {{National Security Agency}} {{history-stub}} [[Category:20th century in the United States]] [[Category:National Security Agency]]