The Invisible Harry Gold

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

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ebook

تاریخ انتشار

2010

نویسنده

Allen M. Hornblum

شابک

9780300156782
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Publisher's Weekly

Starred review from July 26, 2010
Although labeled a "master Soviet spy," Harry Gold (1910–1972) was never a Communist but an often reluctant courier who carried documents from spies to his Soviet handler. Journalist Hornblum (Sentenced to Science) has absorbed masses of documents and interviewed survivors to paint a vivid picture of a sad yet oddly likable figure. Feeling indebted to a Communist friend who found him a job at a sugar refinery during the Depression, Gold—extraordinarily generous and eager to please—agreed at first to provide the Soviets with information from the refinery on modern industrial processes. Then, for 15 years, though doubting the Soviet project, he performed tedious, unpaid assignments including carrying packages from Manhattan Project physicist-spy Klaus Fuchs to Soviet agents in New York. As enigmatic as his reasons for spying were his reasons for confessing when arrested in 1950. Gold named names, devastating Soviet espionage in America and leading to many convictions and, most notably, to the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But Gold's confession did not keep him from serving 15 years in prison. Gold is now obscure, but Hornblum's biography does justice to this mysterious man and recreates a bizarre era when communism was a national obsession.



Library Journal

October 1, 2010

The stealing of the secret of the atomic bomb by the Soviets during World War II has been defined as one of the major crimes of the 20th century. Who was the courier who conveyed the information? Harry Gold, a Jewish immigrant of Russian background, who was a quiet industrial chemist in Philadelphia. He passed documents to his Soviet controllers taken from the Manhattan Project by U.S.-based physicist Klaus Fuchs. When he was arrested in May 1950, Gold confessed and helped convict the Rosenbergs for their part in the operation. He later came to regret his betrayal of America. Through interviews and primary-source research, Hornblum (Confessions of a Second Story Man) presents the fascinating details of how this poorly paid nonprofessional performed so well and of the actions of desperate Communist sympathizers who heaped ridicule upon Gold's revelations of extensive Soviet espionage networks. Readers should also look at Katherine A.S. Sibley's Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War. VERDICT A well-documented, accessible, and involving story, recommended to specialists as well as interested general readers.--Daniel K. Blewett, Coll. of DuPage Lib., Glen Ellyn, IL

Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.




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