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Author Hornblum, Allen M.

Title The invisible Harry Gold [electronic resource] : the man who gave the Soviets the atom bomb / Allen M. Hornblum.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.

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Description xiv, 446 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. The spy -- South Philadelphia -- A debt repaid -- The novice spy -- The evolution of a secret agent -- Semenov, Slack, and Brothman -- Dr. Klaus Fuchs -- The Los Alamos papers -- The postwar years -- The hunt for Raymond -- The fatal words -- pt. 2. The prisoner -- Conversion -- To make amends -- Prisoner 19312-NE -- State of mind -- The campaign for parole -- Return -- Epilogue.
Summary A gripping account of the man who gave the USSR the plans for the atom bomb. The subject of the most intensive public manhunt in the history of the FBI, Gold was arrested in May 1950. His confession revealed scores of contacts, and his testimony in the trial of the Rosenbergs proved pivotal.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Gold, Harry.
Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- History.
Spies -- United States -- Biography.
Chemists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
Prisoners -- Pennsylvania -- Biography.
Espionage, Soviet -- United States -- History.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.
Soviet Union -- Relations -- United States.
United States -- Relations -- Soviet Union.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780300156768 (cloth alk. paper)
0300156766 (cloth alk. paper)
9780300156782 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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