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X-WR-CALDESC:1 February 1943: SIS began Venona project. You can also read a
  variety of VENONA-related documents via the link (to NSA) at the bottom o
 f the page.\n\nBackground info from the NSA Web site:\n\nThe U.S. Army's S
 ignal Intelligence Service\, the precursor to the National Security Agency
 \, began a secret program in February 1943 later codenamed VENONA. The mis
 sion of this small program was to examine and exploit Soviet diplomatic co
 mmunications but after the program began\, the message traffic included es
 pionage efforts as well.\n\nAlthough it took almost two years before Ameri
 can cryptologists were able to break the KGB encryption\, the information 
 gained through these transactions provided U.S. leadership insight into So
 viet intentions and treasonous activities of government employees until th
 e program was canceled in 1980.\n\nThe VENONA files are most famous for ex
 posing Julius (code named LIBERAL) and Ethel Rosenberg and help give indis
 putable evidence of their involvement with the Soviet spy ring.\n\nThe fir
 st of six public releases of translated VENONA messages was made in July 1
 995 and included 49 messages about the Soviets' efforts to gain informatio
 n on the U.S. atomic bomb research and the Manhattan Project. Over the cou
 rse of five more releases\, all of the approximately 3\,000 VENONA transla
 tions were made public.
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DESCRIPTION:1 February 1943: SIS began Venona project. You can also read a 
 variety of VENONA-related documents via the link (to NSA) at the bottom of
  the page.\n\nBackground info from the NSA Web site:\n\nThe U.S. Army's Si
 gnal Intelligence Service\, the precursor to the National Security Agency\
 , began a secret program in February 1943 later codenamed VENONA. The miss
 ion of this small program was to examine and exploit Soviet diplomatic com
 munications but after the program began\, the message traffic included esp
 ionage efforts as well.\n\nAlthough it took almost two years before Americ
 an cryptologists were able to break the KGB encryption\, the information g
 ained through these transactions provided U.S. leadership insight into Sov
 iet intentions and treasonous activities of government employees until the
  program was canceled in 1980.\n\nThe VENONA files are most famous for exp
 osing Julius (code named LIBERAL) and Ethel Rosenberg and help give indisp
 utable evidence of their involvement with the Soviet spy ring.\n\nThe firs
 t of six public releases of translated VENONA messages was made in July 19
 95 and included 49 messages about the Soviets' efforts to gain information
  on the U.S. atomic bomb research and the Manhattan Project. Over the cour
 se of five more releases\, all of the approximately 3\,000 VENONA translat
 ions were made public.
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SUMMARY:1943: SIS began Venona Project
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