Word: yakovlev
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...Colombo, Soviet Ambassador to Ceylon Vladimir Yakovlev, possibly noting how fashionably his U.S. opposite number, Ambassador Maxwell Gluck, is getting about town, ordered the same brand of jalopy−an air-conditioned Buick...
...dropped from the Signal Corps. But he became more valuable than ever to Moscow. He went underground. He became part-owner and operator of a Manhattan machine shop. But secretly he ran an apparatus of spies and informants who passed scientific and technical data to Russian agents, including Anatoli Yakovlev, a clerk in the Russian consulate at New York...
...supersecret atomic bomb laboratory at Los Alamos, N. Mex. Ethel had used older-sister cajolery, and Julius had given money ("Money is no object," Julius had said, explaining that it came from "friends") to persuade David and his confused wife Ruth to join the treasonable conspiracy. Later, Yakovlev conveyed the commendation of his masters in Moscow for Greenglass' sketches: "Extremely excellent and very valuable." At the Rosenberg trial, a U.S, atomic expert, examining a duplicate sketch drawn by Greenglass, testified that it showed the atom bomb substantially as perfected. And he meant the improved wartime Abomb, the implosion type...
...Greenglasses finally confessed their part in the treachery. So did Harry Gold, the courier who transmitted to Yakovlev the Greenglass A-bomb data (he also passed on information from Britain's Klaus Fuchs). There were other corroboratory witnesses. But the Rosenbergs denied all, though confession might have won them a lesser sentence, through the three weeks of their 1951 trial and through two subsequent years of appeal and judicial review. In prison, Ethel sang folk songs, and such melodies as the aria One Fine Day from Madame Butterfly and John Brown's Body (also the tune of Solidarity...
David Greenglass, whose confession got his prison sentence down to 15 years, was backed up by the testimony of his wife Ruth. Convicted Spy Harry Gold told the court that, in May 1945, a Russian agent named Yakovlev had ordered him to go to Albuquerque to pick up some atom-bomb diagrams from Greenglass...