Joel Barr carried a shirt-pocket size address book from the late 1940s through the mid 1950s. In addition to names and addresses of friends and relatives, he recorded reminders about the logistics of clandestine meetings with Soviet intelligence operatives, and an outline of his resume, as well as the parallel life the KGB created for him. Although it is extremely unusual for a spy to record and retain such incriminating details, it is consistent with Barr’s character. Links to images of pages from Barr’s address book and two notebook pages he carried in it follow.

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Notebook pages: legend (left) and clandestine meeting logistics (right)

Notebook page on clandestine meeting

Address book details of secret meeting logistics

Address book last pages: actual itinerary, notes on family, Robert Rosenberg

Address book: clandestine meeting logistics (left), births/anniversaries (right)

Barr’s note on clandestine meeting in Prague
 

FBI documents

1942 memo placing  Barr’s case in “deferred status”

1943 memo closing Joel Barr’s case

1944  Branch 16B Industrial Division Communist Party member transfers of Rosenberg, Sarant, Barr, et al.

Sarant’s CP membership

1944: Branch 16 transfers

1948 memo on similarities between Barr and  Soviet agent described in Venona decrypts (it was actually Rosenberg)

1941 Sobell memo

1949 Barr located in Paris

1951 Barr's Western Electric work

1950 FBI losses Sarant

1951 Bella Abzug represents Mrs. Sarant

1948 FBI memo to CIA re Barr

Memo about Richard Feynman

Memo about Hans Bethe and Philip Morrison

1950 FBI learns Sarant is in Mexico

1950 Carol Dayton's letter

1974 FBI to CIA re Barr

1945 Rosenberg's CP membership
 

Sarant and Barr's UM-1NKh and UM-1 computers
 

FBI memo on drawbacks to using Venona in court

Permission for Barr and Sarant to film docs

Permission to recruit Sarant

Sarant recruited

Camera for Sobell

Sarant's contribution 1, 2, 3

Reward for Perl

KGB office politics

Rosenberg report on P-47 production 1,2

Perl data on jet engines

Greenglass recruitment 1 , 2

Rosenberg recruitment of Elitcher

Ethel Rosenberg knows about Barr's espionage role
 

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Documents about the Minifab

Minifab Ad

Minifab Paper

Letters from Alexander Feklisov, KGB case officer for Rosenberg and Barr (January 1998)

To Barr

To Rosenbergs

To Sobell

K-200 Computer

Review of K-200 Computer that was designed in Staros and Berg's Leningrad Design Bureau

Articles about Berg and Staros in Soviet Publications

Article about Berg (1998, in Russian)

Article about Staros and Berg (1998, in Russian)

Article about Staros (1998, in Russian)