REISSUE - 1. "LILY'S" INFORMATION ABOUT "SPIDER" 2. REQUEST FOR INSTRUCTING ABOUT "PA".

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP00M01914R001000050008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 4, 1945
• Content Type: CABLE

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VENONA
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From: NEW YORK
To: MOSCOW.
No: 20
To VIKTOR. [1]
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Ref. No: 3/NBF/T249 (of 10/10/052)
? Issued:
2/2/1 9 62 50X1
COpy No: 2.0W-
RE-ISSUE
1. "LILY' s" INFORMATION ABOUT "SPIDER"
2. REQUEST FOR irsTRucTIoNn ABOUT "PA".
Jan. L2
According to LILY' s [LILIYa] [U.] informationt viii4ch needs checking, Lieutenant-
General A. IGNATI4v[1ii] is one of SPIDER' s [PAUK] [iv J oomootions. SPDDDR often
V.11,3i.tS BENJADITNly _I (who is to leave for the Soviet Union on the 8th of January)
and has already handed. him a letter V:$ Rass on to. IGNAT'EV. SPICER is said. to
have drafted. telegrams to THEOPHILUSLviJ for BENJAMIN'. Measures are being taken
to clarify the situation:
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Please expedite ohookingrall4 Vaegraph your instructions about "PA"[vii.-]
as he may be leaving. SERCEJLviliJ for the time being '
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Comments: [i] VIKTOR : Lt. Gen. P. M. ITIN.
[ii] LILY Possibly Eugenie OLKHINE
[iii] IGNATILY : Unidentified,
[iv] SPIDER : Unidentified. oover-name. 4 h' 1(l)t k?__. 0 cci
BENJAMIN : Metropolitan Benjamin J. k2.4DCHENK0FF, Head of the
Amerioan-Russian Orthodox Churoh in NEW YORK.
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[vi] THEOPHILUS : Metropolitan THJOPHILUS of tha American-Russian
Orthodox Church in SAN FRANCISCO.
[vii] FA : Richard Edward LAUTERBACH, reporter for "TINE".
magazine.
SERGEJ Vladimiv Sergeevioh PRAVDIN, PASS represeritative
in NEW YORK. 1
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