Gomer [Homer]

An NKGB foreign intelligence cover name appearing in a number of Soviet intelligence World War II period cables from 1944, which were partially decrypted in the course of the American Venona operation, and released in 1995-1996. At the time of this release, “Gomer” was identified by Venona translators as Donald Duart Maclean, a British diplomat and a long-time Soviet agent, a member of the famous “Cambridge Five” group of agents. From 1944 to 1948 Maclean served in Washington, D.C. as Secretary at the British Embassy and later as Secretary of the Combined Policy Committee on Atomic Development.