Charles Bradford Sheppard was an American working as a radio engineer for Hazeltine Electronics during World War II. Sheppard, who, worked on radar in the design office, asked Soviet intelligence to arrange Soviet citizenship for himself and his family. Sheppard intended to emigrate with his entire family to the Soviet Union. Soviet intelligence assigned Sheppard the cover name MASTER or MASTER CRAFTSMAN.
Venona
Sheppard is referenced in the following Venona project decryptions:
- 1589, 1590 KGB New York to Moscow, 30 September 1943
- 886 KGB New York to Moscow, 22 June 1944
- 943 KGB New York to Moscow, 4 July 1944
References
- John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
