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Sleeper agent : the atomic spy in America who got away / Ann Hagedorn.

Hagedorn, Ann, (author.).

Summary:
"The little-known story of a spy on the atom-bomb project in World War II who had top security clearance--American born, Soviet trained, he was never even suspected until after his information was in Soviet hands and he was safe in the USSR. It's LeCarre and "The Americans" for real"-- Provided by publisher.
In 1932 George Koval's parents, Russian Jews who had emigrated because of anti-Semitism, decided to return home to live out their socialist ideals. There he was recruited by the Soviet Army as a spy and returned to the US in 1940. At Columbia University Koval knew scientists soon to join the Manhattan Project, America's atom bomb program; in the U.S. Army Koval used his scientific background and connections to secure an assignment at a site where plutonium and uranium were produced to fuel the atom bomb. There were hundreds of spies in the US during World War II but Koval was the only Soviet military spy with security clearances in the atomic-bomb project. Hagedorn tells the story of Koval, who in 2007 was posthumously awarded Russia's highest civilian honor for his contributions to the Soviet atomic bomb program. -- adapted from jacket

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781501173943
  • ISBN: 1501173944
  • Physical Description: x, 259 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue -- Part I: The lure. The dream on Virginia Street ; "Nothing but the truth" ; The arrest -- Part II: The deception. "The business trip" ; Undercover in the Bronx ; General chemistry ; Lies and ties ; The man in the Jeep ; The playhouse secret ; Spycraft ; Defections and detections ; The joiner ; The escape -- Part III: The hunt. Sovershenno sekretno (top secret) ; Postcards from Paris ; The March 1953 letters ; Exposed -- Epilogue.
Subject: Kovalʹ, Zhorzh Abramovich, 1913-2006.
Spies > Soviet Union > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Secret service > Soviet Union.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Espionage, Soviet > United States > History > 20th century.
Nuclear weapons > History > 20th century.
Chemists > Soviet Union > Biography.
United States. Army. Special Engineer Detachment, 9812th > Biography.
Russian Americans > Biography.
Genre: Biography.
Biographies.

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  • 5 of 6 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Albright Memorial Library 940.5486 HAGEDOR (Text) 50686016073459 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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Gettysburg Library 940.5486 HAGEDORN (Text) 35740635749534 Nonfiction Checked Out 04/11/2024
Reading Public Library RPL - Main 940.5486 Hag (Text) 33223008716051 Non-fiction Available -
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