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'''Ilya Elliott Wolston''' was an American citizen who entered the [[U.S. Army]] in [[World War II]] and became a [[military intelligence]] officer. Shortly thereafter Wolston began reporting to the [[NKVD|Soviet intelligence]]. Wolston provided the Soviets  with information about the organization, curriculum, and personnel at the Army's intelligence school at Fort Ritchie, Maryland.[http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/standard/archives/apr2/fd_col4298.html] 

After the war Wolston worked for the KGB network run by his uncle,  [[Jack Soble]] which included Soble's brother and Wolston's uncle [[Robert Soblen]].  [[Boris Morros]] wrote in his autobiography that Soble told him that Ilya, whose cover name Morros remembered as Slava, had done work for the Russians in Alaska.

There is a Slava in a 1945 message (Venona 325 KGB Moscow to New York, 5 April 1945); it clearly is not Wolston but someone connected to the Rosenberg spy ring. This also suggests that by that time Wolston had a different cover name.

===Venona===

Wolston  is referenced in the following Venona project decrypts:

*777–781 KGB New York to Moscow, 26 May 1943
*893 KGB New York to Moscow, 10 June 1943
*325 Moscow to New York, 5 April 1945. (It is not clear that the Glory in the 1945 message is "Glory"/Wolston as in 1943).

===References===
*Boris Morros, ''My Ten Years as a Counter-Spy'', London: Werner Laurie (1959).
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', New Haven: Yale University Press, (1999), pgs. 275–276.


[[Category:Soviet spies|Wolston, Ilya]]
[[Category:Venona Appendix A|Wolston, Ilya]]