Robert Lamphere
Robert Lamphere (1918-2002) was an FBI officer working in counterintelligence in the 1940s and 1950s.[1]
In the late 1940s, he was responsible for liaison with the Army Security Agency and the Armed Forces Security Agency on VENONA decryption. He was also in charge of sharing VENONA material with MI5 and MI6 liaison officers. [[Dick Thistlethwaite of MI5 regarded him as 'exceptionally friendly and able'.[2]
Along with fellow FBI officer Hugh Clegg, Lamphere interviewed Klaus Fuchs in England on 19 May 1950.[3]
Lamphere believed that Roger Hollis was responsible for tipping off the Soviets about the VENONA decrypts.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Douglas Martin, Robert J. Lamphere, 83, Spy Chaser for the F.B.I., Dies, New York Times, 11 February 2002.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.374.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.389.
- ↑ Chapman Pincher, Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders and Cover-Ups: Six Decades of espionage, Mainstream Publishing, 2012, p.173.
