
11. The Mom Who Stole the Blueprints for the Atomic Bomb
The Freakonomics Radio Book Club
Ursula Burton - The High Water Mark of Ursula's Espionage
Ursula burton arrived in england just before operations barbarossa, the naty invasion of the soviet union. Her main job is to gather military information britain. The fact that she could do this was both incredible tribute to her skill, and a little bit of a failure of british intelligence. It wasn't easy to pick up spies inside the atomic weapons programme. Ursula recruited him and began to extract from him an astonishing amount of material.
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