Donald Nivan Wheeler was employed by the Office of Strategic Services from 1941 to 1946. Wheeler was a member of Elizabeth Bentley’s Perlo group of spies and appeared in Venona as a Soviet source under the cover name "Izra". The Office of Strategic Services was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the wartime (but not direct) precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency. ... According to Douglas Linder [1], Elizabeth Terrill Bentley, one of the most interesting witnesses to take the stand in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the so-called Red Spy Queen. ... Victor Perlo was a member of the Ware group, and later headed a Washington DC cell of Soviet operatives. ... The VENONA project was a long-running and highly secret collaboration between the United States intelligence agencies and the United Kingdoms MI5 that involved the cryptanalysis of Soviet messages. ...
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Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, The Secret World of American Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995)
Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America--the Stalin Era (New York: Random House, 1999)
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