Atomic Spies, Part 1/2: The Klaus Fuchs Effect | WW2
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The Fallout of Fuchs's Arrest
Fuchs knew that he hadn't done a single mistake, and he began to worry that his sister in Boston had some behow been compromised. Fuchs was prosecuted and was convicted on the 1st of March 1950 of four counts of breaking the official Secrets Act by communicating information to a potential enemy. Justice Lord Goddard sentenced Fuchs to 14 years imprisonment, and this in turn set off a chain of arrests. The fallout was disastrous for the USSR, and what about Rudolph Piles, the nucleus of all this?
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