Umnitsa [Clever girl]

An NKGB foreign intelligence code name appearing in a number of Soviet intelligence World War II period cables which were partially decrypted in the course of the American Venona operation, and released in 1995-1996. At the time of this release, “Umnitsa” was identified by Venona translators as Elizabeth Terrill Bentley, an American Communist and a Soviet intelligence agent who defected to the FBI in November 1945.