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The Atomic Spies, Part One
Some previous articles detailed how the USSR infiltrated the USA and UK using spies and agents of influence. When they got wind of the atomic bomb project, the Soviets put in a lot of effort [more…]
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7 – The defection of Igor Gouzenko
On September 5th 1946 Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk working in the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa defected. He had been told he was going back to the socialist paradise that was the USSR and decided [more…]
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6 – Harry Hopkins
When FDR was Governor of New York State he needed some one to run his Welfare Program. That person was Harry and from that point they were friends and colleagues for the rest of their [more…]
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3 – Whittaker Chambers
In 1938 Whittaker Chambers defected. Well they call it defected but he was an American in the USA who worked for the NKVD but saw the light and severed relations with the Soviets. Defection is [more…]
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4 – Elizabeth Bentley
Elizabeth Bentley was another American born Soviet agent who turned against the Soviets. Whittaker Chambers became disillusioned with the Communists. Elizabeth was the woman scorned. She was the lover of Jacob Golos who ran quite [more…]
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2 – The Venona Project
The Venona Project was launched by the US Army Signal Intelligence Service in February 1943. The Russians had sent thousands and thousands of coded and enciphered messages over commercial telegraph services. The US Army decided [more…]
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1 – Stalin won the war
Instead of diving further into the UK’s entanglement with the commies in the thirties, it’s time to take a look at what was going on over the pond. Much of the thirties antics over here [more…]
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The Lawn Road flats
The Lawn Road flats in Hampstead, also known as the Isokon Building, were built in 1934 in the style known as Bauhaus or Le Corbusier. This is often known these days as brutalist and you [more…]
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The Woolwich Arsenal case
One of the few spy cases that was prosecuted in the thirties was the Woolwich Arsenal case. The background to this case was twofold, the Russians were spying on us anyway and they really needed [more…]