Spy for no country: the story of Ted Hall, the teenage atomic spy who may have saved the world
"Spy With No Country tells the gripping story of a brilliant scientist whose information about the plutonium bomb, including detailed drawings and measurements, proved to be integral to the Soviet's development of nuclear capabilities"--
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CONTENTS REMEMBERING “TEDDY” HALL PREFACE! A NOTE TO READERS viü x ROBERT C. WILLIAMS xüi PROLOGUE: A SOVIET ATOMIC SPY IS PUBLICLY OUTED AFTER FIFTY YEARS xviii FOREWORD 1 THE NURTURING OF A YOUNG GENIUS 2 EDWARD HALL JOINS THE ARMY AIR CORPS AND SHIPS OFF TO ENGLAND 7 3 EINSTEIN WARNS FDR ABOUT A POSSIBLE GERMAN A-BOMB 13 TED HALL: FROM STUDENT PHYSICIST TO MANHATTAN PROJECT RECRUIT 19 5 ENTER SAVILLE SAX 25 6 HIRED ONTO THE MANHATTAN PROJECT AT LOS ALAMOS 30 7 THE SOVIET BOMB PROJECT 36 8 TED HALL AT LOS ALAMOS 42 4 V 1
SPY FOR Л0 COUNTRY 9 1944 AND THE WAR’S END IS IN SIGHT 49 10 FINDING A SOVIET SPY TO SIGN UP WITH 56 11 EDWARD HALL AT WAR IN BRITAIN: SHIFTING TARGETS 65 12 THE VENONA DECRYPTION PROJECT 70 13 THE “GRAUBER INCIDENT”: TED SERIOUSLY RISKS BLOWING HIS COVER 76 KLAUS FUCHS: THE YOUNG GERMAN COMMUNIST WHO SPIED IN BOTH THE BRITISH AND THE U.S. ATOMIC BOMB PROJECTS 80 15 TED’S SPYING BEGINS IN EARNEST 88 16 THE SUCCESSFUL TRINITY TEST OF THE “GADGET” 99 LONA COHEN REPLACES SAVILLE SAX AS COURIER 105 THE CONTROVERSIAL ATOMIC BOMBING OF JAPAN 113 TED LEAVES LOS ALAMOS FOR CHICAGO AND MEETS JOAN KRAKOVER 123 20 THE SOVIETS’ FIRST ATOMIC BOMB 131 21 THE HIDDEN DANGER YEARS OF THE NUCLEAR ERA 143 22 STILL SEEKING A REAL LOS ALAMOS SPY 156 23 BUSTED! 164 24 THE RED SCARE YEARS: HUAC, MCCARTHYISM, AND THE ROSENBERG TRIAL 175 GOING AFTER ED HALL, THE AIR FORCE’S “ROCKET MAN” 185 14 17 18 19 25 vi
CONTENTS TERROR, THEN A STRANGE RESPITE FROM FEAR 200 27 MI5 COMES CALLING 209 28 TELLING THE KIDS 218 29 DENOUEMENT 222 26 EPILOGUE: WHAT TED’S SPYING ACCOMPLISHED AND DIDN’T, AND WHERE HE LEFT US 227 APPENDIX 233 NOTES 238 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 257 INDEX 261 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 269 Vii
INDEX Page numbers in italics refer to photographs. Abel, Rudolf, 138 Air Force (Air Corps), 65-69,188,195, 197-99 Albright,Joseph, xxi, 223,247nl2; on Bush, 30; on Ed as protection, 187; on Fuchs, 124; on Glauber, 216; on Los Alamos, 43; on postwar spying by Ted, 136,138,141; on Rotblat, 51 Alperovitz, Gar, 118-20 Alvarez, Luis, 44 American Student Union, 4-6, 63 American Youth for Democracy, 28,160 Amtorg, 58-60, 72 Anderson, Terry R., 194 Antisthenes, 185 Apresyan, Stepan, 63, 73 Army Counter Intelligence Corps, 88 Army Security Agency, 156 Arnold, Henry H., 67,180-81 Artkino, 58 Atomic Energy Commission, xix, 39, 146,154 Attlee, Clement, 113 Axelrod, Daniel, 132, 146,150,152, 154-55 Bacher, Robert, 34, 42 Bainbridge, Kenneth, 99,101 Baldwin, James, 28 Bean, Jake, 20 beliefs. See politics Belmont, A. H., 201 Bennett, Ralph Kinney, xx Bentley, Elizabeth, 74 Beria, Lavrentiy Pavlovich, 37, 63, 94-95,97,139 Berlin, 147-48 Bethe, Hans, 30, 44,124,126,151; and Fuchs, 83-84; and Trinity test, 100 Betsch, Carl A., 194-95 Bird, Kai, 52 Birnberg, Benedict, xx, 76 Black Power movement, 217 Bohr, Niels, 43-44, 50, 52, 90 261
SPY FOR NO COUNTRY Born, Max, xiv, 84-8S Branigan, W. A., 201 Breindel, Eric, xx-xxi, 32 Bridges, Harry, 168, 249n7 Briggs, Amy, 117 Briggs, Lyman J., 14 Browder, Earl, 58 Brown, Charles W., 195-96 Brown, Mick, xvii, 60, 207-8, 223-24 Browning, sergeant, 8 Brumfiel, Geoff, 117 Bush, George W., 153 Bush, Vannevar, 14-15,30-31 Butler, Smedley, 54 Byrnes, James F., 120-21,147 cables. See Venona Project Cacchione, Peter V., 3 Cairncross, John, 38, 91 California Institute of Technology, 31 Cambridge Five, 40 Cambridge University, xvi, 206 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 135 cancer, atomic research and, 45-46 Carr, Barnes, 186 Carroll,James, 198 Carroll, Joseph F., 161,166,188-89, 233-35 Case, Kenneth, 31-33, 123, 213 Castro, Fidel, 176 Cavendish Physics Laboratory, 206 Central Intelligence Agency, 145 Chadwick, James, 51, 80, 88-89 Chiang Kai-shek, 119 Chikov, Vladimir, 138-39 China, 92,119,177 Chiwas, Christopher, 229 Churchill, Winston, xv, 81, 85, 113 City College of New York, 2, 5 City University of New York, 3-4 civil rights movement, 217 Close, Frank, 156,178-79, 224, 227 Clusius, K., 81 code, Soviet: breaking, 74-75; names, 139-40; postwar changes in, 138, 203. See also Venona Project Cohen, Lona, xv-xvi, 78, 92, 98,138; as courier, 105-12 Cohen, Morris, 92, 108,111-12, 138 Cohen, Sam, xxii, 30,123 Cold War, 135,143-45, 175-84; origins of, 67-68, 132; principles of, 134, 176-77 Columbia University, 5,95 Communism: beliefs of, 183; China and, 177; Fuchs and, 82-83, 92; Hoover and, 156-63, 183; liberation movements and, 176; Sax and, 26-28; Ted and, 19-21,167,174,183
Communist Party, 3, 58, 63; fronts for, 20, 28, 63,160 A Compassionate Spy (documentary), viii, xxiii Copion,Judith, 157, 165 Cossett, Vernon Ellis, 206 Counter Intelligence Corps, 88 Cram, Cleveland, 210 Crews, Ed, xi Cuba, 176 Currie, Lauchlin, 74 Davis, Benjamin, 3 Davis, Horace Chandler, 20-21 Davis, Natalie Zemon, 20 de Gaulle, Charles, 197, 210 de Hoffmann, Frederic, 31-33, 42, 78-79,123-24,126 deuterium, 124 Dewey, Thomas, 183 Deyarmond, Al, 67 Directorate of Technical Services, 66 disarmament, 51, 134-35, 230-31 Duffy, Shannon, x 262
INDEX East Germany, 147 Einstein, Albert, 13-19,134, 231 Eisenhower, Dwight, 116,155 Emmart, Barney, 20 engineering: and atomic project, 41; Ed and, 7-12; and technical intelligence, 65-69 fascism, concerns about, 53, 90-91 Fat Man, 48,104,106,118 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): conduct of, 168-69; and Ed, 161-63, 185-99; and Fuchs, 157-58; and Glauber, 32, 79, 211-12; reputation of, 173; and Rosenbergs, 181-82; and Rotblat, 50-51; and Sax, 28, 156,158-61, 252n2; and Ted, 4, 137,156-74, 200-204; and Venona transcripts, xxiii, 165 Federal Communications Commission, 70 Federation of American Scientists, 134 Feklisov, Alexander “Eugene,” xvi, 109 Fermi, Enrico, 13, 43,100,124 First Lightning, 133 fission, 13, 46 Fliorov, Georgy Nikolayevich, 36-37 Flowers, Brian, 224 Forster, E. Μ., 209, 215-16 France, Ed and, 197, 210 Frisch, Otto, 80-81 Fuchs, Emil, xiv, 82-83 Fuchs, Klaus, xiii, 124,152, 224; arrest and sentencing of, xvi, 165,180-81; background of, xiv, 38-39, 82; beliefs of, xvi, 82; and British project, 39-40, 80-87, 89; concerns regarding, 62, 86-87, 93-95; later life and death of, xvii, 92; and Manhattan Project, 30, 39, 87; and siloing, 91-92 Furry, Wendell, 159-60 fusion, 124, 126, 133,148 Gadget, 17, 47-48 gamma rays, 45 Gardner, Meredith Knox, 70, 72, 75 German atomic project, 13-18, 81 Glauber, Roy, 123; background of, 78; FBI and, 32, 211-16; at Harvard, 20-21, 24; at Los Alamos, 42-43; recruitment of, 31; Sax and, 27; Ted and,76-79 Gold, Harry, 87,107,180-81,207, 240n5 Grauber incident. See Glauber, Roy Greenglass, David, xix-xx, 87, 89-90, 107,181-82,185
Greenglass, Ruth, 90,181 Gromyko, Andrei, 147 Groves, Leslie, 31, 43, 89, 100, 123; and use of bomb, 49-51, 103 GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate), 74,140 Gubichev, Valentin, 157 Gunn, Ronald, 83 Hagedorn, Ann, 139-41 Hall, David, 11 Hall, Deborah, xviii, 207-9, 220-21 Hall, Edward Nathaniel, 1-5,12, 24, 31,197,210; FBI and, 161-63,168, 185-99; Hoover letter on, 233-35; issues with authority, 9-11; later life and death of, 186-87,199; sparing of, reasons for, 174,187-88,197-98, 202; in war, 7-12, 65-69 Hall, Edith Shawcross, 11, 126, 168 Hall, Joan Krakover, viii, xvi, xviii, xxii, 205, 208; death of, 222-23; and Ed, 190-91,194; and education, 2-3, 5, 207, 210; and FBI, 162, 174; and first meeting, 128-30; and MI5, 211; and motivation, 93; and postwar spying, 136,141; and Rosenbergs, 182-83; and Rose’s death, 23-24; and Sax, 25, 263
SPY FOR ЛО соилтяг 21, 128-29; and Soviet bomb, 131; and spying, 33; and telling daughters, 207,218-21; and use of bomb, 122 Hall, Rose Moskowitz, 1,4-5 Hall, Ruth, viii, 207,209, 219-20,225 Hall, Sara, viii, 207-9, 218-19,225 Hall, Sheila, 7,197 Hall, Theodore Alvin: beliefs and motivation of, xiv, 3-4, 22, 52-54, 90-92,129,183,223; character of, 12; contribution of, viii-ix, 227-31; death of, xvii, xxi, 222-23; early life of, 1-6; education of, 1-3,19-24, 123-24,128-29; FBI and, 4,137, 156-74,200-204; and Glauber incident, 76-79; MI5 and, 209-17; publicity and, xviii-xxiii; and Rosenbergs, 182-83,200, 205; Soviet cables and, 72-73; sparing of, reasons for, 174,187-88,197-98,202; and spying, xiii-xvii, 44, 76, 88-98; and telling daughters, 207, 218-21; and Trinity test, 100-101; and use of bomb, 122 Ham, Paul, 114-15 Harmon Report, 153-54 Harvard University, 19-22, 24 Hatanaka, Kenji, 121 Hawkins, David, 47 Haynes, John Earl, 139, 215 Heineman, Kristel Fuchs, 40, 93,108, 180,240n5 Heineman, Robert, 93 Hendelsohn, Stanley H., 194 Hermann, Rudolf, 68 Hirohito, emperor ofjapan, 121-22 Hiroshima bombing, 113-22 Hirschfelder, Joseph O., 50 Hiss, Alger, 179 historiography, x-xii Ho Chi Minh, 176 Holtzberg, Barnett, 1 Holtzberg, Rose Moskowitz, 1, 23-24 Holtzberg brothers. See Hall, Ed (Edward Nathaniel); Hall, Ted (Theodore Alvin) Hoover, J. Edgar: and Carroll, 233-35·, and Ed, 188-89; and MI5, 210; and Red Scare, 156-63, 178-79; and reputation, 157; and Rosenbergs, 185; and sparing of Halls, 197-98; and Venona Project, 73; and Vietnam War, 217 House Un-American Activities
Committee, 21, 179 hydrogen bomb, 133,145, 148-49, 151-53; development of, 124-26 implosion system, 94, 96-97 intelligence. See spying International Workers’ Aid, 83 isotopes, 14 James, Steve, viii, 219 Japan: bombing of, 113-22; Soviet Union and, 120-21; surrender of, 121-22 Jensen, Roxanne Μ., 189 John Reed Society, 20 Johns Hopkins Society, 31 Joseph, Toby, viii-ix Judaism: Halls and, 4; Rossi and, 43 Kahle, Hans, xiv Kaku, Michio, 132,146,152,154-55 Kaufman, Irving R., 182 Kelly, J. Μ., 162-63 Kemble, Edwin, 31 Kennedy, John F., 135 Kerpol, Feenie, 54 Khrushchev, Nikita, 21, 135 Kim Il-Sung, 120-21 Kistiakowski, George, 124 Klehr, Harvey, 139-40, 215 Koontz, Philip Grant, 43, 125-26 264
INDEX Koval, George, 139-41 Krakover, Phillip, 161-63,195-96 Kramish, Arnold, xviii-xx Kremer, Simon, xiv, 86 Kuczynski, Jurgen, 86 Kuczynski, Ursula, 87 Kumlertsakul, Pad, 121 Künstel, Marcia, xxi, 223, 247nl2; on Bush, 30; on Ed as protection, 187; on Fuchs, 124; on Glauber, 216; on Los Alamos, 43; and McQueen, 173; on postwar spying by Ted, 136,138, 141; on Rotblat, 51 Kurchatov, Igor, xvi, 36-37, 96 Kurnakov, Nick, 38 Kurnakov, Sergei, 37-38, 58, 60-62, 73,167 Kuznick, Peter, 145,197, 202 Kvasnikov, Leonid, 77, 95,106-7, 215 Ladd, D. Μ. “Mickey,” 127, 156,158 lanthanum-140, 45 Lassen, Benjamin William (Lassoff), 140 Lawrence, William, 100-101 Lax, Peter, 30 le Carré, John, 80 Lewis, Robert, 113 liberation movements, 176 Lindorff, David, 15-16 Little Boy, 103-5 Logge Dora, 68 Los Alamos. See Manhattan Project loyalty: Forster on, 209; Glauber and, 212-16; Sax and, 130; Vonnegut on, 76 MacArthur, Douglas, 176 Manhattan Project, xiii-xvii, 41-48, 88-98; British and, 39, 51, 88; departures from, 123; development of, 16; Glauber and, 214-15; intelligence on, 106-10; recruitment to, 23-24, 30-35; security at, 34-35; Trinity test, 17, 47-48, 99-104,114 Mao Tse-tung, 177 Marchione, Anthony J., 119 Martin, Steve, 7 MAUD Committee, 81-82, 85 McCarthy, Joseph, 179, 196-97,210 McDonegh, Michael J., 79,213 McGuire, L. Hoyt, 249n2 McQueen, Robert, 160, 173-74,183-84, 196, 250n2 media: and Ed, 187; and ULTRA, 54; and Venona publicity, xxi-xxii, 222 Meeropol, Michael, 6, 71, 182, 205, 208 Meeropol, Robert, 71, 182 Merkulov, Vsevolod, 97 MI5,38, 111; and Fuchs, 108,157-58; and Ted,
209-17 Miftakhov, Azat, 21 Mott, Neville, xiv, 83 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1 Münzenberg, Willi, 83 Mussolini, Benito, 43 mutual assured destruction, 155, 229-30 Nagasaki bombing, 113-22 Napoli, Nicola, 58,60 National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, 135 National Defense Research Committee, 14-15 National Security Agency, xxiii, 70, 73,212 neutron, 80 Nicodemus, David, 45-46 Nitze, Paul, 150 Nixon, Richard, 179 NKGB (People’s Commissariat for State Security), 37 NKVD, 37, 60, 63, 70, 74-75,93-94 Nobel Prize, 216 265
SPY FOR ЛО С О 0ЛТП Y nuclear weapons: abolition efforts, 51, 134-35, 230-31; arms race, 132, 145-55,177; and limits of war, 228-30; propaganda on, 115-19; targets for, 114-17,138, 143, 149, 153-54, 236; test ban, 135; threats as war crime, 147; use of, 49-55, 101-2, 113-22 Oak Ridge, TN, 46,90,127 Obama, Barack, 119 Office of Scientific Research and Development, 15 Office of Special Investigation, 191, 197-98 Oliphant, Mark, 81 Operation Paperclip, 69 Operation Pincer, 148-49 Oppenheimer, Robert, 23, 30-31, 34-35, 50; and atomic bomb, 113-15; brother of, 187; death of, 46; and hydrogen bomb, 145; and Ted, 125; and Trinity test, 47, 99-101 Palmer, Archie, 157 parahydrogen, 125-26 Parkinson’s disease, atomic research and, 46 Parks, Rosa, 56 Patterson, Joseph Medill, xxi Pauling, Linus, 231 Paxton, W. Rulon, 137, 250n2 Peck, Michael, 143 Peierls, Rudolf, 39, 80-81, 85-86, 124,224 Penny, William, 224 Philby, Kim, 74, 91 Phillips (Wendell) Club, 28 plutonium, 16-18,34,44,46 plutonium bomb, 96; design of, 46-47; intelligence on, 61-62,108-10; production of, 146, 149-51; test of, 99-104 politics: FBI and, 162-63; Fuchs and, xiv, xvi, 82; Harvard and, 19-21; Sax and, 25-28, 183; Ted and, xiv, 3-4, 22,52-54, 90-92,129,183 polonium, 137 postwar period, 143-55,175-84 Potsdam Conference, 113 Progressive Party, 137, 162, 183 Project Lusty, 67 proximity fuse, 31 Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, 51,89,135 Putin, Vladimir, xvii, 228-29 Quakers, Fuchs and, 83 Quebec Agreement, xv Queens College, 5, 14,19 Rabi, Isidore, 16 radar, 15, 31 radiation exposure, 45-46 Radiation
Lab, 15-16, 31 Ramsey, Norman Foster, 99 Red Scare, 175-84, 196-97, 210-11; Hooverand, 156-63 Regents exams, 5,19 Rhodes, Richard, 222, 230 Romerstein, Herbert, xx-xxi, 32 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, xv, 74,178; and atomic bomb, 13-18, 50,102-3 Rosenberg, Ethel, xix-xx, 185; death of, 92,182-84, 200, 205-8; Soviet cables and, 71; trial of, 165,181-82 Rosenberg, Julius, xix-xx, 5-6, 71-72, 185; death of, 92, 182-84, 200, 205-8; and Ruth Greenglass, 90; trial of, 165,181-82 Rossi, Bruno, 43-44,47,124 Rotblat, Joseph, 50-51,88-89,134-35 Russell, Bertrand, 134 266
INDEX Russell-Einstein Manifesto, 51 Russia, xvii, 227-29; Bolshevik Revolution, 26. See also Soviet Union Rutherford, Ernest, 80 Sakharov, Andrei, 133 Sass, James D., 65 Sax, Bluma, 63,158 Sax, Boria, 25,159,169 Sax, Sarah, 25, 27 Sax, Saville, xv, xix, 25-29; and Cohen, 105-12; and Communism, 183; death of, xxii, 130; FBI and, 156, 158-61,164-74,192-93, 200-204, 252n2; and Joan, 25, 27,128-29; and plan, 57-60; and postwar spying, 136; Soviet cables and, 73; and spying, 30, 32-33, 97-98; and telling children, 207 Sax, Susan, 184 Schiller, Friedrich, 42 Schrecker, Ellen, 21 scientists: Nazi, migration of, 69; against nuclear weapons, 51, 89,102-3, 113-14,134-35, 231; and Soviet bomb, 133 Serber, Robert, 47 Sherwin, Martin, 52 Short, colonel, 9-10 Signals Intelligence Service, xxiii, 70-71, 74 Skardon, William “Jim,” 40,180-81 Sloan Kettering Institute, 204-5 Smith, Harold, 173 Smith, Ralph Carlisle, 127 Sobell, Morton, 181-82 solid-fuel rockets, 31 Soong Tse-wen, 119 Soviet Union: atomic project, 35-41, 92,131-42,145,148,151-52; and liberation movements, 176; Ted and, 52-54, 90-91; and World War II, 84-85,120-21. See also spying Special Engineering District, 89 spying: Beria and, 37; contacts for, 56-64; Fuchs and, xiv; historiography of, xi-xii; le Carré on, 80; postwar, 67-68,126-28, 135-42, 145; Sax and, 29-30,32-33,97-98; and siloing, 91-92; Ted and, xiii-xvii, 44, 76,88-98,126-28,135-42; in United Kingdom, 38-40, 86; and vetting, 61 Stalin, Joseph, 21, 84, 113,120; and atomic project, 36-37, 41, 96, 146-47 Staub, Hans, 44, 46 Stimson, Henry, 116 Student Peace Union,
135 Sudoplatov, Pavel, 105,109 Sullivan, James T., 79, 213 “Super” bomb, 124,133 surveillance, FBI and, 192-93, 200-201, 204-5 Symington, Stuart, 161,188 Szilard, Leo, 13-14,17, 102-3 telephones: bugging, 190,193; Soviet network and, 63 Teller, Edward, xv, 100,114,124-26 Tolstoy, Leo, X treason, nature of, xxii-xxiii, 40 Trinity Test, 17, 47-48, 99-104; effects of, 114 Truman, Harry, 113,127, 178,183; and arms race, 132-33; and atomic project, 39; and Soviet bomb, 131, 145,147; and use of bomb, 101,103, 115-19; and Venona Project, 74 Trytten, Merriam Hardwick, 31 Tube Alloys Project, 38-39, 51, 85-86,88 Tutu, Desmond, 25 267
SPY FOR NO COUNTRY Ukraine, 227-29 ULTRA, 54 United Kingdom: atomic project, xv, 38-40, 80-87; and Communism, 83, 85; Ed in, 65-69; Hall family in, xvi, xviii, 206-17; postwar, 176; and radar, 15 University of Chicago, 125-28,186 Urals research post, 96,146 uranium: critical mass calculation, 42; isotopes of, 14,16-17, 34, 43 uranium bomb: design of, 17; production of, 105-6,146,149-51 Van Vleck, John, xiii, 31 Vassiliev, Alexander, 77, 87, 97,106, 198, 215; and postwar spying, 139-40 Venona Project, xv, 70-75; and Amtorg, 59; and Fuchs, 40; and Grauber incident, 212; Hoover and, 156, 179-80; and Kurnakov, 38; publication of, xviii-xxiii, 222-26; secrecy of, 202-3; and Ted, 164-74 Vietnam War, 154, 176,217 von Neumann, John, 30, 33-34 Wallace, Henry, 145,183 Weisband, William, 74-75, 203 Weisskopf, Victor, 124 Weizsäcker, Ernst von, 14 Wells, H. G., 13,33 Whitman, Walt, 97 Williams, Robert Chadwell, xiii-xvii, 59, 83-85,92 wiretaps, 157 Women’s Strike for Peace, 135 World War II, 84,101-2, 119; Ed and, 7-12; end of, 49-55, 69; Japan bombing and, 113-22; and Red Scare, 175-76 Yalta Agreement, 121 Yatskov, Anatoly, 62, 73, 78, 94; and Cohen, 108-9; and FBI, 79,167 Young Communist League, 4, 63,160 Zirkle, Raymond, 204 268 |
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