 Bentley would eventually name more than 80 individuals who were providing information to the Soviet intelligence from a dozen government institutions.Katz informed Bentley at their first meeting in October 1944 that Gromov had been sent to the United States to improve security of NKGB operations.One aspect of this modernization was to have Bentley turn over to NKGB control all of her agents not previously surrendered to NKGB officers.