Zamestitel’ [Deputy]

The cover name that appears in a decrypted Venona foreign intelligence communiqué from the Soviet NKGB dated May 29, 1943. The cover name was identified by Venona translators as belonging to Henry A. Wallace or “more likely” Harry Hopkins. But judging from the cable’s historical context, this cover name most probably stood for Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles.