The real point should be if you have to rely on the Social Security Death Index to tell you if someone is even alive or dead, you might want to consider that you don't have enough reliable sources for an article on that person. This article, and most of the other Venona-cruft, should be deleted as there is almost no historical context or solid biographical info for any of them, they are just noting a mention in decryption XY4J7 and leaving it at that. Never mind the fact that these Venona articles (this one was created by our old friend Nobs) are the work of a cadre determined to use Wikipedia to refight the Cold War. I spent several unpleasant months fighting an attempt by one of them to use a passing mention in a Venona decrypt to rewrite [[Pablo Neruda]] to flatly state he was a KGB operative.