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

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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The Secret of Klaus Fuchs

Klaus Fuchs was unmasked as a spy in the summer of 1949, when British authorities received information from the American Federal Bureau of Investigation. The decryption of the codes was the key element that reveals that Fuchs had been spying. And it all came back to Russia using their one-time pad twice. Once MI5 had Fuchs in their crosshairs, the chase was on.

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