The invisible Harry Gold [electronic resource] : the man who gave the Soviets the atom bomb / Allen M. Hornblum.
By: Hornblum, Allen M.
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BookPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010Description: xiv, 446 p.Subject(s): 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 UnionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 327.1/2092 | B Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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