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Cold Open: We're reading from a document released by The Black Vault, an archive of declassified government records. The document is titled "14aug sloni" and is a Soviet-era intelligence report from 1966. It's notable for its discussion of a potential asset, a chemist with connections to the West. Provenance: This document was released by The Black Vault, an online archive of declassified government records. The canonical PDF is available at archive.org. Unfortunately, no FOIA case number or declassification authority is provided. The Document: USSR aef. No.: J/NBP/T1437, dated May 22, 1966, is addressed to MOSCOW No.: 880. The report states that a certain individual has arrived from LONDON, where he has been staying for some time. It's considered essential that he take up work in a nearer port, so that the agency can liaise with him. On Saturday, five groups were unable to recover him. A certain Kh.X. StaCjM, a doctor with a chemistry background, has applied to enter the 35S. The doctor is 40 years old and has relatives in GJu'jJCu, at XZF17TZ3L [ &GVX7'ATZR5KATa] Street. He is known to Acs '., -ia- iii1. He studied chemistry in GERMAN from 1926 to 1931 and worked as a chemist in [5 groups unrecovered] enterprise in CZZClIOSUW.iK. He is now working as a consultant to an English chemical company, to which he sold a process for making chromium oxide. He has his own methods of producing iron oxide, manganese dioxide, and a special substance for increasing the life of dry batteries by 60 percent. He has published a paper at a minority institute on his own methods of purifying the water used at raw material. The EAST'j{lQ>OZTaIN] of the ITT20 considers that he would be useful to us, but supposes that his clearance will take about six months. I have not met the doctor, who has been [C£] by No. &U) BARCh. Context: Unfortunately, no contextual statement is available from the issuing agency or a credible neutral source. Outro: This is what the public record looks like at its most ordinary. The document's canonical URL is archive.org/download/14augsloni/14augslonidjvu.txt. Storyflo.com.

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14aug Sloni

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Cold Open: We're reading from a document released by The Black Vault, an archive of declassified government records. The document is titled "14aug sloni" and is a Soviet-era intelligence report from 1966. It's notable for its discussion of a potential asset, a chemist with connections to the West.

Agency: National Security Agency (NSA)
Date: JUL 18 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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What was 14aug Sloni about?: Cold Open: We're reading from a document released by The Black Vault, an archive of declassified government records. The document is titled "14aug sloni" and is a Soviet-era intelligence report from 1966. It's notable for its discussion of a potential asset, a chemist with connections to the West.
Why was this case declassified?: This material was released by the National Security Agency (NSA) through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. The originating source document is linked in the case notes above so the citation chain is fully auditable.

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