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...them. In accordance with Russian espionage practice, Zabotin's man insisted on paying May, despite his squeamish objections, for his information. The fee: a bottle of whisky and at least $700. In the records of the Russian intelligence, Dr. May became known by the code name "Alek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Alek Goes Free | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...Canada came to an end, but before returning to England he was able to pass on to Zabotin minute samples of separated uranium isotopes. Zabotin immediately sent one of his men flying back to Moscow with the samples, dispatched this signal to Moscow: "Facts given by Alek: 1) the test of the atomic bomb was conducted in New Mexico (with '49', '94-239'). The bomb dropped on Japan was made of uranium 235. It is known that the output of uranium 235 amounts to 400 grams daily at the magnetic separation plant at Clinton . . . Alek handed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Alek Goes Free | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...news spread through the city. Mozhaisk had been recaptured. The last German stronghold near the capital was again in Russian hands. Smoking Russian cold and smoking Russian artillery (under heavy-jawed Major General Leonid Alek-sandrovich Govorov, hero of World War I and the Finnish War) had at last shattered the carefully prepared German positions in the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Memorial to Lenin | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

THIS ORGANIZATION OF 454 YOUNG MEN, AGES 18 TO 35, RESENTS LIBELING OF SUNSHINE CITY BY SMART ALEK TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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