Bradford Keeney

Bradford Keeney is identified in a list derived from the Venona project, a United States government initiative that operated from 1943 to 1980. This project focused on decrypting coded messages sent by Soviet intelligence agencies. The list, compiled with input from historians John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, includes individuals whose names were deciphered from codenames found in the Venona documents.

It is important to note that the extent to which individuals named in the Venona papers were actually involved with Soviet intelligence remains a subject of debate. Some individuals marked with a double asterisk (**) do not appear directly in the Venona documents but were included based on inferred correlations with codenames or similar spellings. Additionally, identities inferred by researchers, where a name appears in the documents but a positive identification of the person is lacking, are also indicated with a double asterisk. The list also mentions non-Americans who may have been referenced in passing.