Spy Who Came in from the Co-Op - Burke David
A story of wartime intelligence, super-power relations and spies and their handlers - seen through the experience of Melita Norwood.On September 11th 1999 The Times newspaper carried the front page…
Specifikacia Spy Who Came in from the Co-Op - Burke David
A story of wartime intelligence, super-power relations and spies and their handlers - seen through the experience of Melita Norwood.On September 11th 1999 The Times newspaper carried the front page article Revealed: the quiet woman who betrayed Britain for 40 years. The spy who came in from the Co-op. Melita Norwood, the last of the atomic spies, hadfinally been run to ground, but at 87 she was deemed too old to prosecute. Her crime: the shortening of the Soviet Union's atomic bomb project by up to 5 years.At a time when the world faces fresh dilemmas caused by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, this is the remarkable story of a much earlier drama. After the atomic bomb strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, British and American intelligence estimated the earliest date for the production of a Soviet bomb to be 1953. In fact, the Soviet Union went nuclear in 1948,
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