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...Skardon left Fuchs alone with his conscience-and his obvious fear that clear proof might be produced against him at any moment. On Jan. 24 Fuchs sent word to Skardon to meet him at his home...
...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...