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...RDX Formula. In a statement issued after his arrest, however, FBI Chieftain J. Edgar Hoover charged that Slack, a World War II supervisor at the Holston Ordnance Works at Kingsport, Tenn., had given Harry Gold samples of a secret,' high-powered explosive called RDX-and data on its manufacture. At the same time, the FBI made public the names of two Russian officials accused of directing Harry Gold in his espionage activities. Unfortunately, the FBI added, the two Russians had already left...
...Amtorg Trading Corp. employee named Semen M. Semenov was Gold's first boss; after being handed the RDX sample, he told the Philadelphian to forget Slack for "a very important assignment"-getting atomic information from Fuchs. From then on, Gold had reported to Anatoli Antonovich Yakovlev, Soviet vice consul in New York...