John J. Walsh papers, | Library of Congress
Correspondence, writings, and research files relating chiefly to the Venona project, a secret program of the U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Service examining encrypted Soviet diplomatic communications. Research files include translations of messages sent among Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti (KGB) agents and operatives in Australia; Mexico; Moscow, Russia; New York, N.Y.; San Francisco, Calif.; South America; and Washington, D.C., during the 1940s and 1950s. Also includes research material for an unpublished article on Matthew Silverman, a figure in the Alger Hiss case, and write-ups on communists operating in the U.S. that contain their cover names and supporting Venona project documents. Writings include Walsh's unpublished memoir entitled "The Story of a Special Agent" detailing his years of service with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and as an investigator for congressional committees and executive branch agencies.