Venona project (problems of using decrypted Soviet messages as evidence at court)
His code names in the Venona project decrypts of Soviet intelligence messages are MAYOR and ALBERT.
As well as Australian diplomat suspects abroad, Venona had revealed Wally Clayton (cryptonym 'KLOD'), a leading official within the Communist Party of Australia (CPA), as the chief organiser of Soviet intelligence gathering in Australia.
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Many inside the NSA had argued internally that the time had come to publicly release the details of the Venona project, but it was not until 1995 that the bipartisan Commission on Government Secrecy, with Senator Moynihan as chairman, released Venona project materials.
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In addition to British and American operatives, Australians collected Venona intercepts at a remote base in the Outback.
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According to Alexander Vassiliev's notes from KGB archive "Quantum" was Boris Podolsky, "Pers" — Russell W. McNutt, an engineer from the uranium processing plant in Oak Ridge.
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Magdoff was never indicted, but after the end of the Cold War, a number of scholars have inspected declassified documents (including those of the Venona project) from U.S. and Soviet archives.
“We don’t know what really happened until someone declassifies something,” said Reeves, “beginning with the declassification of the British Ultra Secret program from World War II, followed by the American Venona decrypts from the Cold war and continuing in earnest since the collapse of the USSR.”