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MGB
From: NEW YORK
To: MOSCOW
No.: 993
To VIKTOR[i].
Your no. 2938[a].
T119
13 July 1944
OKhO[ii] suspects that EFRON[iii] is going abroad on a mission for
DIKTOR[iv] and ZAYaTs[v]. He is known to MAKSIM[vi] according to a re-
port of MIRA[vii]. The connection of OKhO with the IZBA[viii] is being
ascertained.
No. 556. MAJ[ix]
Notes:
[a] Not available.
Comments:
[i] VIKTOR: Lt. Gen. P.M. FITIN.
[ii] OkhO: Could be translated "OJO," the Spanish word for "eye."
Unidentified.
[iii] EFRON: David EFRON, an Argentina resident of the United States since
about 1932. Affiliated with the "Council for Pan American Democracy"
as an officer.
[iv] DIKTOR: i.e. "RADIO ANNOUNCER," William J. Donovan.
[v] ZAYaTs: i.e. "HARE" or "STOWAWAY," Maurice HALPERIN.
[vi] MAKSIM: Vasilij Mikhajlovich ZUBILIN.
[vii] MIRA: Unidentified.
[viii] IZBA: Office of Strategic Services.
[ix] MAJ: i.e. MAY, Stepan Zakharovich APRESYaN.
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