Message to KAL'MARO: Checking Entrusted To FINO

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11 Apr 1940

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USSRRef. No.: 3/NBF/T1795(of 12/7/66)
Issued 29/10/69
Copy No.: 201

REISSUE

MESSAGE TO KAL'MARO: CHECKING ENTRUSTED TO FINO
(1940)
From: MOSCOW
To: PARIS
No: 375
11th April 1940

To KAL'MARO[i].

   Entrust[a] FINO[ii] with the checking
      [60 groups recovered]
will be fixed by him[b] for the last part of April or the first half of May.

No. 1876          DIREKTOR


Notes: [a] This group, not fully identified, stands for some part of the verb "to entrust", e.g. "I/you/he/she/we/they entrust(ed)" or the imperative "entrust".
[b] Or "by her/them".
Comments: [i] KAL'MARO: Unidentified covername. This is presumably the same word as French CALMAR, Spanish CALAMAR, Italian CALAMARO, Russian KAL'MAR = SQUID. Possibly a dialectal form. Also occurs as an addressee in MOSCOW's Nos. 424 and 427 of 28 April 1940 (3/NBF/T1797 and 1798).
[ii] FINO: Unidentified. This could be(a) a covername FINAUD = CRAFTY
(b) the common French surname FINOT.
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Source(s):
United States National Security Agency

Added By:
C. Peter Chen





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