Rudy Baker
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Rudy Baker (born 1898, date of death unknown), a
Background
Baker was born in 1898 in Vukovar, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Croatia), probably under the name Rudolph Blum. Baker had little formal education, and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1909. He joined the Communist Party of the United States at its founding, in 1919. He went to Moscow and trained at the International Lenin School from 1927 to 1930. He became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during that period.
Identification in VENONA Soviet Cables
Baker shows up in the
In May 1942, General Pavel Fitin, the head of KGB foreign intelligence directorate states in a message to Dimitrov found in the Comintern Archives, "We are forwarding a telegram we received from New York addressed to you from Rudy"; this telegram is signed SON.[citation needed]
Sources
- John Earl Haynes, Russian Archival Identification of Real Names Behind Cover Names in VENONA, Cryptology and the Cold War, Center for Cryptologic History Symposium, (October 27, 2005)
- John Earl Haynes and ISBN 0-300-08462-5
- Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov and Harvey Klehr, The Secret World of American Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996). ISBN 0-300-06855-7.