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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. Allegedly, Wolston began reporting to [[NKVD|Soviet intelligence]]. Wolston allegedly provided the Soviets with information about the organization, curriculum, and personnel at the Army's intelligence school at [[Fort Ritchie, Maryland]].

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 City|New York]], [[5 April]] [[1945]]); it clearly is not Wolston but someone connected to the [[Julius and Ethel Rosenberg|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. ISBN 0300077718

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