Word: skardon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asked for me," said Skardon. "Well, here...
...then told Skardon the story of his life-without admitting espionage. When Skardon asked him to "unburden his mind and clear his conscience" by telling the full story, Fuchs snapped, "I will never be persuaded by you to talk...
...Skardon suggested lunch. Afterwards Fuchs said, "I have decided to answer your questions." Then Fuchs told Skardon how he had first met a Russian agent in 1942, had arranged recognition signals for future meetings with other agents (some Russian, some of "unknown nationality"), how he had methodically passed top-level atomic information to them for nearly seven years, in New York, Los Alamos and London...
Later Fuchs admitted to Intelligence Agent Skardon that he had accepted ?100 from the Russians "as a symbolic payment signifying subservience to the cause." He still believed in Communism, "but not as practiced in Russia today...
...After Skardon and other witnesses had given testimony, Chief Magistrate Sir Lawrence Dunne remanded Fuchs to stand trial for treason at the Feb. 28 Old Bailey criminal sessions. The hearing at Bow Street had taken just two hours. The proceedings over, Fuchs walked out of the courtroom, back to his cell, looking like a harmless, nondescript scientist whom one might see in any laboratory. Despite his harmless look, despite repentance of a sort, Dr. Klaus Fuchs still bore Communism's indelible brand-NASH...