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The VENONA Soviet Spy Codebreaking Program

The VENONA Soviet Spy Codebreaking Program was one of the most consequential secret intelligence efforts of the early Cold War. This entry traces how a small wartime cryptanalytic project grew into a long-running counterintelligence resource that exposed Soviet espionage methods, identified covert networks, and remained hidden from the public for decades.