The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb

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In the history of Soviet espionage in America, few people figure more crucially than Harry Gold. A Russian Jewish immigrant who spied for the Soviets from 1935 until 1950, Gold was an accomplished industrial and military espionage agent. He was assigned to be physicist Klaus Fuchs’s “handler” and ultimately conveyed sheaves of stolen information about the Manhattan Project from Los Alamos to Russian agents. He is literally 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. Yet among his co-workers, fellow prisoners at Lewisburg Penitentiary, and even those in the FBI, Gold earned respect, admiration, and affection. In The Invisible Harry Gold, journalist and historian Allen Hornblum paints a surprising portrait of this notorious yet unknown figure. Through interviews with many individuals who knew Gold and years of research into primary documents, Hornblum has produced a gripping account of how a fundamentally decent and well-intentioned man helped commit the greatest scientific theft of the twentieth century. Contents Preface Part 1. The Spy CHAPTER 1. South Philadelphia CHAPTER 2. A Debt Repaid CHAPTER 3. The Novice Spy CHAPTER 4. The Evolution of a Secret Agent CHAPTER 5. Semenov , Slack, and Brothman CHAPTER 6. Dr. Klaus Fuchs CHAPTER 7. The Los Alamos Papers CHAPTER 8. The Postwar Years CHAPTER 9. The Hunt for Raymond CHAPTER 10. The Fatal Words Part 2. The Prisoner CHAPTER 11. Conversion CHAPTER 12. To Make Amends CHAPTER 13. Prisoner 19312-NE CHAPTER 14. State of Mind CHAPTER 15. The Campaign for Parole CHAPTER 16. Return Epilogue Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index