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Sleeper agent : the atomic spy in America who got away / Ann Hagedorn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hagedorn, Ann, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army.
- Spies--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Spies.
- Nuclear weapons.
- History.
- Espionage, Soviet.
- Soviet Union.
- United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Espionage, Soviet--United States--History--20th century.
- Nuclear weapons--History--20th century.
- Chemists--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Chemists.
- Russian Americans--Biography.
- Russian Americans.
- Secret service.
- Kovalʹ, Zhorzh Abramovich, 1913-2006.
- Kovalʹ, Zhorzh Abramovich.
- Manhattan Project (U.S.).
- United States. Army. Special Engineer Detachment, 9812th--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 259 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Other Title:
- Atomic spy in America who got away
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
- 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
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE LURE
- ch. One The Dream On Virginia Street
- ch. Two "Nothing But The Truth"
- ch. Three The Arrest
- pt. II THE DECEPTION
- ch. Four "The Business Trip"
- ch. Five Undercover In The Bronx
- ch. Six General Chemistry
- ch. Seven Lies And Ties
- ch. Eight The Man In The Jeep
- ch. Nine The Playhouse Secret
- ch. Ten Spycraft
- ch. Eleven Defections And Detections
- ch. Twelve The Joiner
- ch. Thirteen The Escape
- pt. III THE HUNT
- ch. Fourteen Sovershenno Sekretno (Top Secret)
- ch. Fifteen Postcards From Paris
- ch. Sixteen The March 1953 Letters
- ch. Seventeen Exposed.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781501173943
- 1501173944
- OCLC:
- 1201298572
- Publisher Number:
- 99988374351
- 40030675856
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