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After Prosecutor Humphreys finished reading the confession, he called witnesses. The most important was William Skardon, one of Britain's topflight military intelligence agents (he had grilled Lord Haw-Haw). By October 1949, British Military Intelligence and the FBI had narrowed their suspicions down to Fuchs, and Skardon was sent to Harwell, the British atomic energy project. On the witness stand, Skardon told the story of how he had gradually drawn out Fuchs...
...Fuchs had admitted that "he regarded the oath of allegiance taken in 1942 as a serious matter but . . . should circumstances . . . comparable to those which existed in 1932 and 1933 in Germany arise, then he would feel free to act on the loyalty which he owed to humanity generally." Skardon then accused Fuchs point-blank of spying for the Russians. Fuchs smiled, said, "I don't think so ... I don't understand. Perhaps you will tell me what the evidence...
Sands, E. A.; Sherman, F. J., Jr.; Shepard, D. A.; Shore, B. E.; Singer, M. B.; Skardon, W. R.; Smith, D. W.; Smith, S. O.; Spalding, I. E.; Sparks, B. S.; Stewart, J. T., Jr.; Stockbridge, H. W. C.; Stone...