Dir

An NKGB foreign intelligence code name which appeared in a few Soviet intelligence cables beginning in mid-1944. These cables were partially decrypted in the course of the American Venona operation, and released in 1995-1996. At the time of this release, “Dir” was identified as “possibly” Mary Wolfe Price – an American who had been named by Elizabeth Bentley as part of Jacob Golos’s spy network.