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Atomic Spies, Part 1/2: The Klaus Fuchs Effect | WW2

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The Secret Agents of the Soviet Union

Sonia was living in a village called Great Roll Right, in the heart of Oxfordshire countryside. She would go to Bambry with a bicycle and Fuchs would come down by train from Birmingham - so that if they were sort of seen, it would just appear like a loving couple going for a walk. By walking together, arm in arm, they could give the illusion of a courting couple. But it also gave Sonia time to finally tune Fuchs's spycraft. Ursula even hit a radio transmitter inside one of her children's teddy bears. Moscow received almost the entirety of the scientific data produced by the Tube Alloys team,. including large books filled with blueprints,

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