Augustina Stridsberg, formerly Augustina Jirku (born in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, c. 1896), was an American

United States

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 citizen, and the mother of Margietta Voge

Margietta Voge

Marietta Voge, née Mariette Jirku was married to Noel Voge and was the daughter of Augustina Stridsberg. Both mother and daughter were Americans who worked for Soviet intelligence during World War II...

 (née Jirku). Both mother and daughter worked for Soviet intelligence

NKVD

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....

 between 1943 and 1944. Stridsberg worked for the KGB

KGB

The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...

 San Francisco office. Her code name with Soviet intelligence, as deciphered by the Venona project

Venona project

The VENONA project was a long-running secret collaboration of the United States and United Kingdom intelligence agencies involving cryptanalysis of messages sent by intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union, the majority during World War II...

, was "Klara".

Stridsberg was also a writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

 and an interpreter as well as a literary translator

Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...

.

Venona

Stridsberg is referenced in the following Venona decryptions:

• 500 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 27 November 1943;
• 26 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 17 January 1944;
• 39 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 22 January 1944;
• 104 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 5 March 1944;
• 725 KGB New York to Moscow, 1944 May 19.