Editing Venona project (section)

=== Harry Gold ===
{{Main|Harry Gold}}

The Venona decryptions also identified Soviet spy Harry Gold as an agent of the [[KGB]] who stole blueprints, industrial formulas, and methods on their behalf from 1935 until ultimately confessing to these actions in 1950.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Haynes |first1=John Earl |title=Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America |last2=Klehr |first2=Harvey |date=1999 |publisher=Yale University Press |jstor=j.ctt1npk87 |isbn=978-0-300-07771-1}}</ref> During his years of work under the KGB, Gold operated under the code names GOOSE and ARNOLD. Gold was eager to provide his services after being initially recruited by Thomas Black on behalf of the [[Amtorg Trading Corporation|Amtorg]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://vault.fbi.gov/rosenberg-case/thomas-black/thomas-black-part-11-of-1 | title=Subject T. Black | website=vault.fbi.gov}}</ref>

In 1935, Gold, with the assistance of Black, gained employment at the Pennsylvania Sugar Company, one of the largest producers of sugar in the world at the time. During his tenure, Gold worked under [[Semyon Semyonov]] and [[Klaus Fuchs]]. Over time, Gold began to work with Abraham Brothman, a fellow spy who was identified in Gold's confessions for stealing industrial processes on behalf of the Soviet Union and would later be convicted for lying under oath to a grand jury.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hornblum |first=Allen M. |title=The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb |date=2010 |publisher=Yale University Press |doi=10.2307/j.ctt1npnvb |jstor=j.ctt1npnvb |isbn=978-0-300-15676-8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vault.fbi.gov/rosenberg-case/abraham-brothman/abraham-brothman/view|title=FBI Records: The Vault — Abraham Brothman Part 01 of 66}}</ref>

Gold's confessions turned out to be a major success for the FBI, as he would unveil a network of spies entrenched in the success of KGB espionage efforts. Along with Brothman,<ref>[https://vault.fbi.gov/rosenberg-case/harry-gold/harry-gold-part-51-of Alfred Slack]</ref> (sentenced to 15 years), [[David Greenglass]], and Julius Rosenberg were all arrested following the interrogations of Gold. With regard to [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos]], Fuchs, Greenglass, and Gold all played a role in aiding the Soviet atomic espionage campaign.