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"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.
by 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.