A courier who bridged the gap between a physicist's betrayal and Moscow's archives spent 15 years in prison after a record kept secret for decades mapped the route of atomic leaks.
By Eleanor Voss ·
A Quaker relief worker's role as a conduit for the Soviet atomic spy remained buried in a file labeled 'Pacifists' for decades, masking a network that stretched from Berlin to Los Alamos.
By Constance Bell ·
The identity of the man who facilitated the theft of nuclear calculations in 1946 was matched to a dossier in 1950, but the source of that identification remains redacted.
By Vera Kessler ·
A German refugee and mathematician was cast into the orbit of the Soviet atomic spy Klaus Fuchs, leaving a trail of surveillance that ended in a suspicious archival silence
By Vera Kessler ·
A member of the Communist Party spent years insulating a nuclear spy from the state; the Security Service kept the details of his 'legal help' in a personal file for decades.
By Constance Bell ·
A woman with four identities spent years navigating the London social scene, masking a link between the BBC's Russian section and the Soviet spy who stole the atomic secret.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A package left in a Surrey garden once held the secrets of the atomic age, while three disciplined Communists maintained a wall of silence that MI5 could not breach.
By Vera Kessler ·
Atomic secrets were siphoned to Moscow through an academic pipeline of German communists, leaving the British state blind to the penetration of its most sensitive laboratories.
By Constance Bell ·
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 ·
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 ·
He handed over "detailed and damaging" nuclear data for years, yet his 14-year sentence rested entirely on a confession elicited by the Security Service after a US source spoke.
By Eleanor Voss ·
He volunteered his services to the Russians in 1942, compromising the most guarded secret of the West before a sensitive US source finally tripped the wire.
By Roy Castellano ·
A British security file describes how an economist and an associate steered a physicist toward betrayal, a connection that expedited the Soviet atomic bomb.
By Harlan Pryce ·
He spent years in the heart of the Manhattan Project betraying allies to the KGB and GRU; his 1950 conviction relied on a confession because investigators found no evidence.
By Constance Bell ·
A British citizen lost his nationality after providing damaging nuclear data to the KGB and GRU, though the investigation that caught him produced no physical evidence of espionage.
By Roy Castellano ·
Soviet agents used a German economist to compromise the British atomic project, a betrayal tracked in Security Service files categorized as "Soviet Intelligence Agents and Suspected Agents."
By Constance Bell ·