Mortal Crimes: The Greatest Theft in History
Subtitle: Soviet Penetration of the Manhattan Project
Publisher: Enigma Books
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781929631216
Subjects: Espionage & secret services; Politics/International Relations; History - General History; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; United States; Political Science; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); USA; Military - Intelligence/Espionage; Modern - 20th Century/Nuclear Age; History / General; Espionage; Spies; History & Theory - General; Political Freedom & Security - Intelligence; 20th century; Atomic bomb; History
Description: "How did Soviet spies steal the secrets of the atomic bomb? Since the convictions of Allan Nunn May, Klaus Fuchs and the Rosenbergs it has been assumed that only a handful of ideologically motivated, relatively low-echelon spies were responsible for passing the information to Moscow. But following the recent declassification of documents in Russia, Britain, and the United States a more complex picture emerges of wholesale espionage and deep penetration into almost every level of the Manhattan Project." "Who were the spies, what did they betray, and how were they handled by their Russian controllers? Mortal Crimes documents the molehunts, explains how the cryptographers traced obscure clues in intercepted cable traffic to identify the suspects, and placed hundreds of Communist sympathizers under sophisticated surveillance, yet still failed to prevent Stalin from pulling off the greatest theft in history."--BOOK JACKET.