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...night train for London pulled out of Normanton station. Yorkshire, a little man with a greying, Chaplinesque mustache quietly took his seat. The other passengers, if they noticed him at all, certainly did not recognize Atomic Spy Alan Nunn May, for whose release over 30 reporters were at that moment waiting outside nearby Wakefield Prison (see PRESS...
...free to move where he liked. Anticipating charges of pussyfooting with atomic spies, the British government (which wants to share U.S. atomic secrets) supplied its overseas missions with this guidance: since Nunn May, under the rules of good behavior, has served his term, "it is better to release him now and see if it is possible to change him into an honest citizen than embitter him by detaining him for the full sentence. He retains his ability as a scientist, but after seven years his atomic knowledge is no longer of value...
Then came a shocker: "If Nunn May wants to go to Russia, and the Russians want him, there is no general power to prevent a British subject from leaving the United Kingdom, with or without a passport. Nunn May does not have a valid passport. Refusal to grant him one could hamper him, but would not prevent him from leaving...
...July 1945, someone tipped off Moscow. The Russians quickly followed up the tip. In the files of the Russian intelligence services in Moscow there was the name of a British physicist, a secret member of the Communist Party, then working on the atomic project in Canada: Dr. Allan Nunn...
...British and U.S. counterespionage agents ran down the now familiar roster of traitors: Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Only then did the full significance of the atomic spy ring dawn on the free world. All this while, in Britain's Wakefield prison, Allan Nunn May had proved an exemplary prisoner, becoming a trusty and working as a librarian, and earning all the remission allowed by British law for good behavior. This week, after serving two-thirds of his time (six years eight months), Atomic Physicist Allan Nunn May was released, his debt to society...