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When Britain's Scientist Klaus Fuchs, an inoffensive-looking man of twisted brilliance, confessed that he had betrayed U.S. atomic secrets to Russia, the FBI was left with a baffling piece of unfinished business-how to track down members of the shadowy transmission apparatus which had kept in touch with Fuchs during his tour of U.S. atomic centers and passed his stolen information back to the U.S.S.R...
Strachey's promotion was announced the same day Communist Spy Klaus Fuchs was convicted. The Standard linked the two stories together in one scare headline: FUCHS AND STRACHEY: A GREAT NEW CRISIS. WAR MINISTER HAS NEVER DISAVOWED COMMUNISM. The Standard's "proofs" were Strachey quotations, from twelve to 18 years old, expressing a sympathy for Russian Communism that Strachey had long since repudiated. "Spreading what [Beaverbrook & Co.] knew to be a lie," said the Tribune, was the kind of journalism that was "lower than [Lord] Kemsley" (the Tory publisher of four London Sunday papers, one London daily...
...dignity and a scarlet gown, entered the oak-paneled courtroom of the Old Bailey. He shuffled his papers, impatiently tapped the silver snuff box on his high desk. Then, mounting the stairs which lead from the cells below directly into the prisoner's dock, appeared Dr. Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs. The court clerk solemnly read the indictment accusing Fuchs of communicating "to a person unknown information relating to atomic research . . . directly or indirectly useful to an enemy." His hand thrust into his trouser pocket, Fuchs whispered: "Guilty." In the visitors' gallery, which was packed with distinguished spectators...
...Food to Secretary of State for War. The Standard called Strachey "an avowed Communist [who] has never publicly retracted his belief in Communism." The attack touched an exposed nerve: the British public has been shocked by the laxity of military intelligence services disclosed by the espionage case of Communist Klaus Fuchs (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Klaus Fnchs pleaded guilty yesterday to betraying the United States and Great Britain by selling vital information to Soviet Russia, at a 90 minute London court trial...