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A new history of Soviet espionage in the United States during those critical pre-World War II years takes full advantage of a brief peek at one of the crown jewels of Cold War history, the brown ...
- The Unsuspected
- Unseized Agent
- The Intelligence Helps The Physicists
- George Koval Behind The Legend
However, the restrictions at the Oak Ridge center did not apply to X-Ray operators, one of whom was named George Koval who the military command knew only as a patriotic American. Born in 1913 in Sioux-City, Iowa, to a family of Jewish immigrants, Koval worked for Raven Electric Company before World War II and was called up for military service in 1...
The first Soviet atomic bomb was tested in 1949. After this, U.S. intelligence agencies grew suspicious and began an investigation into whether there were Soviet spies in the American nuclear bomb project. Koval became a focus of the investigation, and anyone potentially acquainted with him was interrogated. The investigators eventually realized he...
Koval really did find his place as a secret Soviet agent. His chemical knowledgegavehim the ability to understand how all these unfamiliar new technologies worked, while the agent in him always kept his eyes at the plant for anything that could be useful for the Soviet nuclear project. Stewart D. Bloom recalled that, “I saw him staring off in the d...
The U.S. military command was unaware of one important fact: George Koval had lived in the USSR for eight years. They did not know that the Koval family—who fled the Russian Empire before George’s birth—had decided to return to the USSR in 1932. They moved to the Jewish Autonomous Region and lived near Birobidzhan (6000 kilometers south-east of Mos...
- Sarah Pruitt
- John Cairncross. John Cairncross, a British literary scholar, civil servant and Soviet atomic spy, is shown in his house on October 18, 1990 in Saint-Antonin, France.
- Melita Norwood. Eighty-seven year-old Melita Norwood stands outside her home in Bexleyheath, England in 1999 to read a statement concerning her involvement in passing over atomic secrets to the KGB.
- Klaus Fuchs. Police photograph of physicist-turned spy, Klaus Fuchs. Fuchs, a German-born physicist, fled to England amid the rise of Nazism in 1933 and became a British citizen in 1942.
- David Greenglass. David Greenglass, a sergeant and machinist assigned to the Manhattan Project, shown in 1950. Greenglass passed on data about the making of atomic bombs to his sister, Ethel Rosenberg.
Koval told colleagues he was a native New Yorker, an only child and an unmarried orphan. Standing six feet tall, with a penetrating gaze and a bohemian's distracted air, Koval came across as a ...
Jul 7, 2014 · The documents have been held in secret since Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB official-turned-dissident, snuck them out of the collapsed Soviet Union in 1992. Mitrokhin first tried bringing them to ...
Nov 26, 2019 · A Soviet "Godsend". KGB archives made public in 2009 introduce still more clues pointing to Seborer as a fourth atomic-era spy. Notes describe an operative at Los Alamos, identified as "Godsend ...
For the first time in life a commander of a submarine had a nuclear weapon and had the authority to fire the missile at his command.” However, aboard the B-59, three men—not two—needed to be ...
