The Atom Bomb Spies

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"As I would have expected of a leading contemporary historian like Montgomery Hyde, he unveils Soviet espionage, particularly in the post-World War II period, for what it is — an unmitigated affront to world peace efforts. The Atom Bomb Spies is a gripping story using previously unpublished material, and serves as a chilling warning in the light of recent events. It should be mandatory reading for all concerned with the fate of mankind."
Sir William Stephenson ('Intrepid'), war-time director of British security intelligence and 'special operations' in the Western Hemisphere
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In 1945, Igor Gouzenko, a Russian cipher clerk working in the military intelligence branch of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, defected to the West. He took with him over one hundred top secret documents that revealed a spy network in North America, a network that had supplied the Soviet Union with the secrets of the atom bomb.
Narrowly escaping Soviet vengeance, thanks to the intervention of British... Tovább

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"As I would have expected of a leading contemporary historian like Montgomery Hyde, he unveils Soviet espionage, particularly in the post-World War II period, for what it is — an unmitigated affront to world peace efforts. The Atom Bomb Spies is a gripping story using previously unpublished material, and serves as a chilling warning in the light of recent events. It should be mandatory reading for all concerned with the fate of mankind."
Sir William Stephenson ('Intrepid'), war-time director of British security intelligence and 'special operations' in the Western Hemisphere
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In 1945, Igor Gouzenko, a Russian cipher clerk working in the military intelligence branch of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, defected to the West. He took with him over one hundred top secret documents that revealed a spy network in North America, a network that had supplied the Soviet Union with the secrets of the atom bomb.
Narrowly escaping Soviet vengeance, thanks to the intervention of British security intelligence chief Sir William Stephenson ('Intrepid'), Gouzenko and his family were granted asylum in Canada. His testimony to a Royal Commission appointed by Prime Minister Mackenzie King to investigate the extent of Soviet espionage led to a series of arrests not only in Canada but in Britain and the US.
Tried in England were Allan Nunn May and Klaus Fuchs. May, who had worked on the atomic research team in Montreal and visited the nuclear plant at Chalk River, Ontario, had given the Russians a sample of Uranium 235, an essential component of the atom bomb. Fuchs had disclosed the actual details of the bomb's manufacture. They had been assisted in their treason by MP Fred Rose in the Canadian Parliament, Donald Maclean in the British Embassy in Washington and Bruno Pontecorvo at the atomic research establishment at Harwell, England. All three eventually fled to the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, Harry Gold, an American intermediary between Fuchs and his US spymaster, implicated others. At the height of the McCarthy hysteria Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviets and sentenced to die in the electric chair. In 1953 they were executed, although eminent scientists including Albert Einstein thought that Ethel Rosenberg, if not her husband, was almost certainly innocent. contimied
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Basing his revelations on hitherto unpublished sources in the Canadian National Archives, notably Mackenzie King's secret diaries, the confidential archives of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI in Washington, and material recently released by the English Public Record Office, Montgomery Hyde reveals the incredible facts about the atom bomb spies.
HARFORD MONTGOMERY HYDE was born in Belfast and was educated at Sedbergh; Queen's University, Belfast; and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read history and law. He has practised as a barrister, worked in secret intelligence during the war, and sat as Ulster Unionist MP for North Belfast.
He has written over fifty books, including: The Rise of Castlereagh, Judge Jeffreys, The Trials of Oscar Wilde, biographies of Carson, Patrick Hasting and Norman Birkett, The Quiet Canadian, A History of Pornography, Their Good Names, The Cleveland Street Scandal and The Londonderrys: A Family Portrait.
Dr. Montgomery Hyde lives with his wife at Ten-terden in Kent.

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