ROBERT MEEROPOL ON VENONA
[NCRRC Note: the following excerpt is taken
from an interview done by a staff member of the PBS program NOVA. It is
reprinted here with the permission of R. Meeropol.]
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The problem as I see it with the Venona
debate as it's occurring today seems to me there are people who are saying,
"This is all accurate." Or there are people who are saying, "None
of this is accurate. This is all disinformation. We can't trust any of
it." There appear to me to be relatively few people who are dealing
with the rather obvious possibility that there is some accurate information
here and there's some inaccurate information here.
To follow that up, while there are people using this material in general,
I'm unaware of any studies in which particular documents are being looked
at and determined as to whether they contain accurate or inaccurate information.
I'm very concerned about a document supposedly decrypted in 1948** that
describes someone named Ruth Greenglass, living on Stanton Street, as Liberal's
brother-in-law's wife. [See
this Venona cable.]
I look at that and say, "Wait a second. Why did they need to put all
that information in there?" It seems more like a blueprint for the
FBI than it seems like something that the KGB needs to know. And when I
look at that, I say, "Is it possible that some of that material got
injected into this?" Well, nobody is doing an analysis on that level
that I'm aware of, and I think it's about time that it was done.
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** NCRRC Note: if
this cable were truly decrypted in 1948, why was there no surveillance
of Julius Rosenberg until after David Greenglass' interview with the FBI
in June of 1950?
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