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...Greenglass added her testimony to the story of a far-flung Russian espionage ring whose purpose was to steal U.S. atomic secrets (TIME, March 19). She admitted that she had recruited her husband into the conspiracy which included British Physicist Klaus Fuchs, Philadelphia Chemist Harry Gold, and Spymaster Anatoli Yakovlev, Russian vice consul in New York...
...been spying for Russia for nine years, Gold said, when Anatoli Yakovlev entered the picture in 1944 as Gold's new Russian contact. Gold became Yakovlev's go-between with Americans who could supply atomic secrets...
...Yakovlev continually advised and instructed me," said Gold. "My duties were to obtain information from a number of sources . . ." Gold told how he had arranged with Dr. Fuchs to make contacts with agents in Britain. Fuchs was to follow these instructions: go to London's Paddington subway station at 8 p.m. on the first Saturday of each month until contacted. Hold five books, bound by strings, suspended from two fingers; in the other hand, carry two books. Make contact when stopped by a man carrying Bennett Cerf's Stop Me If You Have Heard This...
...Rosenberg, indicted with them as a fellow conspirator, was the calmest. These three, the Government charged, were part of the spy transmission belt for which Physicist Klaus Fuchs (see SCIENCE) was a prime source and Chemist Harry Gold a key courier. The Russian contact for the ring was Anatoli Yakovlev, who was wartime Soviet vice consul in New York. "The evidence of the treasonable acts of each of these three defendants is overwhelming," U.S. Attorney Irving Saypol told the jury...
...dispassionate summation of the prisoner's career as a Soviet agent. In the light of the week's news, it was a flesh-creeping tale of how Gold had acted as courier between British Atomic Spy Klaus Fuchs and a Soviet consulate clerk named Anatoli Antonovich Yakovlev. Fuchs had been privy to the deepest U.S. atom secrets, and Gold had carried a treasure of horror in his soft hands...