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When German-born Scientist Klaus Fuchs was sent to prison in 1950 for slipping British atomic secrets to the Russians, many of his toughest mathematical chores were taken over by chubby Boris Davison, a top scientist at Harwell. Dr. Davison got a complete security clearance, though he was born in Russia (to a British father and a Russian mother) and his mother still lives in the Soviet Union. When another top atomic scientist, Italian-born Bruno Pontecoryo, absconded to Russia with nobody-knows-how-much secret information, Dr. Davison got another checkup, and was cleared, even though it was known...
...Pacific island disappeared when the U.S. successfully exploded an experimental model last November) were prepared to assume that the Russians have the H-bomb secret. The U.S. atomic scientists have, in fact, been waiting for the Russian H-bomb ever since they learned of the treachery of Communist Spy Klaus Fuchs. who knew much about U.S. H-bomb planning...
Married. Alan Nunn May, 42, bald, unrepentant ("I have no regrets") British spy, only member of the wartime Soviet atomic espionage ring (which included Klaus Fuchs and the Rosenbergs) to regain his freedom; and Hildegarde Pauline Ruth Broda, 42, Vienna-born assistant school medical officer; he for the first time, she for the second; in Cambridge, England...
...Right Perspective. To help him run Haus Villigst, 43-year-old Hellmut Keusen has two fellow directors, Novelist Willy Kramp, 44, and Labor-Expert Klaus von Bismarck, 40, great-grandnephew of the Iron Chancellor, and a U.S. couple, the Rev. John Healey, and his wife Kay, on missionary assignment from the Presbyterian Church...
...Greenglasses finally confessed their part in the treachery. So did Harry Gold, the courier who transmitted to Yakovlev the Greenglass A-bomb data (he also passed on information from Britain's Klaus Fuchs). There were other corroboratory witnesses. But the Rosenbergs denied all, though confession might have won them a lesser sentence, through the three weeks of their 1951 trial and through two subsequent years of appeal and judicial review. In prison, Ethel sang folk songs, and such melodies as the aria One Fine Day from Madame Butterfly and John Brown's Body (also the tune of Solidarity...