Herbert Skinner Oversaw Two Soviet Spies While His Wife Slept With One
The security service kept a file on the physicist whose wife shared a bed with a Soviet agent while they managed the secrets of the atomic age.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Harwell
Herbert Skinner Supervised Klaus Fuchs and Bruno Pontecorvo at Harwell
A physicist's wife slept with a Soviet spy while her husband oversaw the security of Britain's nuclear program, creating a web of intimacy that drew the attention of the Security Service.
By Roy Castellano ·
Erna Skinner Was Mistress to Atom Spy Klaus Fuchs while Her Husband Ran Harwell
A marriage survived the secret liaison between the wife of a senior nuclear official and a Soviet agent, though the Security Service tracked the entanglement for years.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Klaus Fuchs handed the Soviet Union nuclear secrets and lost his nationality
Western nuclear dominance was compromised by a man who volunteered his services to Moscow, a betrayal that stayed hidden until his 1950 confession.
By Eleanor Voss ·