of cinemas than during the 1930s, with its Red Scare. With the collapse of Soviet-American alliance following the war, Artkino was registered with the U.S. Department of State under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) as an agent of the US and Soviet Government. However, both the U.S. Department of Justice and the War Department had full cooperation in gaining Artkino's full compliance. Following the death of Stalin and attendant changes within the Soviet film industry, allowing for production of non-political, artistic films, a wider market for Soviet film product resumed and Artkino found itself in increasing competition with other foreign film distributors in the United States. International Film Exchange The company held its own after Napoli's death, continuing under Madell's guidance until, nearing retirement age, she affiliated Artkino with International Film Exchange and allowed that company to take over Artkino's role in Soviet film importation and distribution by the late 1970s. Venona cable messages The Venona project decrypt "1699 KGB New York to Moscow, 2 December 1944." is a Soviet intelligence cable message which lists the names of scientists engaged on the problem of atomic energy. It has Saville Sax contacting Napoli, who then directed him to Sergey Kurnakov. See also Cinema of the Soviet Union Ricardo Setaro References FBI Silvermaster file, pgs. 463, 464 (PDF pgs. 64, 65). John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pgs. 239, 259, 303. Ra FBI Files, (April, 2018). External links 1905 births 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American newspaper editors American communists American film people American people in the Venona papers American people of Italian descent American spies for the Soviet Union Espionage in the United States Members of the Communist Party USA Year of death missing