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Fascinating subject, title seems a little baity, though. There were 1500 investigated reports of leaks, most of which were more along the lines of a guy saying
by ufmace 12y ago
Fascinating subject, title seems a little baity, though. There were 1500 investigated reports of leaks, most of which were more along the lines of a guy saying a little too much to family, store clerks, etc. Foreign spies, not so much.
Still, that's an amazingly small number of leaks for such a huge project.
- fiatmoney 12y ago"Foreign spies, not so much." The Manhattan Project (along with many other portions of the US government at the time) was in fact plagued by Soviet spies.
- walshemj 12y agomore like foolish "useful idiots" who leaked to the soviets because they thought we ought to share with our allies rather than a famous 5 type spy ring. One could argue that Roosevelt was also taken in by uncle Joe to a lesser extent if you read the history of the various 3 power summits.
- ianstallings 12y agoYes that's typically who actually spies for governments, people that are manipulated by the field agents. A typical agent's job is to recruit and collect data from those recruits. For a fascinating take on this I suggest the book See No Evil by Bob Baer. He talks a lot about his experiences as a CIA agent doing just that in a lot of interesting places during the cold war.