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In the Enemy's House

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by Howard Blum


  Fuchs (“Rest”) and, 198, 175, 231–32

  Gold and, 241–42

  KGB cable on Los Alamos scientists and, 121–22, 128

  KGB steals secrets on, 61–66, 121–23, 128–31, 135

  Nazi Germany and, 61

  Soviet detonated, 167–71

  Soviet project to build, 64, 78

  Zelman report on, 63

  Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 173, 182–85, 190

  B-29 radar bombsight, 154

  Babylonian texts, 80–81

  Balkanabteilung (German cryptographic unit), 99–100

  Barr, Joel (Meter), 152–63, 278, 279–80

  BBC World News Service, 5

  Bek. See Kurnakov, Sergei

  Belmont, Al, 2, 146, 206, 233, 238, 267, 269, 271, 273

  Bentley, Elizabeth “Red Queen,” 53–57, 84, 93–94, 215

  Beria, Lavrenti, 62, 64, 122

  Bethe, Hans, 121

  Birmingham, Alabama, 19–20, 23

  Black, Thomas, 240

  Blue Problem, 27, 37–38, 47, 79–81, 83–86, 100–109. See also Russian codes and ciphers

  Bohr, Niels, 121

  Born, Max, 186, 190

  Brennan, Richard, 227–30

  Britain (United Kingdom), 62–63, 78, 174–76, 289

  Fuchs arrest in, 193–94, 198–200

  British Embassy (Washington, D.C.), 195

  British scientists, 185–92

  British Section (KGB), 5, 254

  British State Commission for Atomic Energy, 198–99

  Brothman, Abe, 215–16, 230, 232, 240

  Budkov, Fyodor, 70–71

  Bumblebee. See Greenglass, David

  Bureau of Standards, 133

  Cambridge University, 63

  Camp No. 2. See Los Alamos

  Camp X (Canada), 53

  Canada, 53

  Carlson, Pasvo, 32–34, 41

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 90–91, 109, 156, 169, 279, 288

  Chaliapin, Mikhail, 93

  Cheltenham codebreaking facility (Britain), 289

  chemical extraction, 172

  Chemurgy Design Corporation, 215–16

  Chicago, 191

  Chicago field office (FBI), 248

  Chicago Tenants Action Council, 248

  Chinatown, 23–26, 49, 223

  Chinese Merchants Association, 24

  Churchill, Winston, 128

  Cimperman, John, 216–17, 223–24, 226

  City College of New York (CCNY), 133, 135, 143, 147, 153–54, 163, 214

  Clarke, Carter W., 38, 40–41, 47, 109

  Clegg, Hugh “Trout Mouth,” 206–8, 217–19, 226, 233

  Cold War, 199

  Columbia University, 63, 121, 186

  Comintern, 89–90

  Communist Party, 16, 54–56, 63, 133, 147, 153–55, 162, 190, 193

  Cooper Union, 154

  Coordinating Committee for Radio Technology, 149

  Corby Affair, 51–53

  Cornelius, Norman, 263

  Cornell University, 156

  Coyne, Pat, 109–11

  Crawford, D.M., 39

  cryptanalysts (wranglers), 34–35, 79–80, 83–86, 101. See also Army Security Agency; Gardner, Meredith; Russian code and cipher system

  Defense Department, 156

  Dillinger, John, 12, 16

  Domestic Intelligence Division (FBI), 2, 267

  East Germany, 196–97

  “Effects of Fluctuations in the Flow of N2” (Fuchs), 184–85

  Eisler, Gerhart, 89–90

  electromagnetic separation, 172, 243

  Elitcher, Helene, 164–65

  Elitcher, Max, 133–34, 137, 143–48, 152–54, 156, 163–66, 173, 275–76, 278

  Emerson Radio, 272

  Enormoz, Operation, 59, 61–63, 65, 67, 77–79, 122

  British scientist and, 187–91

  Meredith and Bob discover, 130–31, 135, 151, 242, 243–44

  Soviet atom bomb detonation and, 170–72

  “Espionage R,” 247

  Espionage Section (FBI), 89, 109–10, 170

  Farr, Tommy, 178

  fascism, 16, 54. See also Nazi Germany

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 1. See also Lamphere, Robert; and specific divisions and individuals

  anonymous letter on Soviet spies and, 49–51, 57

  ASA team formed with, 122

  Barr search and, 153

  Bentley defection and, 56–58, 93

  black bag jobs and, 90, 94, 119, 216

  Bob’s early career in, 11–12, 15–26

  bureaucratic fiefdoms, 112

  Enormoz discovery and, 131

  Elitcher investigation and, 146–47, 164–66

  Fuchs arrest and, 201–2, 217–26

  headquarters, 89–94

  Liberal/Antenna search and, 145–46

  manual, 1

  Meredith’s report on Soviet cover names and, 109

  Soviet atom bomb detonation and, 170–71

  three worlds in, 89

  training for, 16–17

  Feklisov, Alexander “Sasha”

  arrest of Gold and Fuchs and, 254–55

  background of, 67–72, 157

  Barr and Sarant as spies for, 157–59

  brush pass and, 149

  dispatches stolen documents to Moscow, 122–23

  Enormoz and, 67, 77

  Fuchs arrest and reposting to Moscow, 195–96, 199–201

  Gold arrest and, 235–37, 240

  Greenglass (Kalibre) and, 255–56

  London assignment to handle Fuchs (Rest) and, 174–81

  New York assignment and, 70–77

  ordered to go to ground, 60–61

  reassigned to U.S. in 1960, 289

  Rosenberg (Liberal/Libi, Antenna) and, 5–7, 137–45, 255–56, 283–84, 287–90

  Senya (Sobell) and, 149–50

  SE squad and, 75–76

  visits Rosenberg grave, 289–90

  Feklisov, Zina, 5

  Fermi, Enrico, 121

  Finland, 40, 96–98, 156

  First Chief Directorate (KGB), 5, 59, 97

  American Section, 68, 74

  British section in Moscow, 235

  KOD 14 codebook, 100

  Fitin, Pavel (Viktor), 58–60, 68, 71, 78, 132–33, 159

  “Fluctuations and the Efficiency of a Diffusion Plant (Manhattan project report), 183–84

  Foocase (code name for Fuchs investigation), 194, 206, 208, 211

  Foreign Intelligence Division or Directorate Service (KGB), 50, 58, 133

  Frutkin, Leo, 262–63

  Fuchs, Klaus “Karl” (Rest), 172–81 184, 189–202, 216, 246, 257, 279

  arrest and confession of, 197–201, 210, 233–34

  Bob interviews, in London, 202, 205–11, 217–26, 229, 232–33

  Bob hunts for, 184–87

  Gold (Raymond) and, 201–2, 214, 216, 229, 231–33, 236

  identified, 192–96

  KGB cables on, 205, 209–10

  Meredith finds clues on, 186–87, 191–92

  MI5 and, 193–99

  Rosenberg learns of arrest of, 254

  trial of, 200

  G-2 strategists, 49, 84, 109

  Gardner, Ann, 4

  Gardner, Arthur, 3–5

  Gardner, Blanche Hatfield (Meredith’s second wife), 3, 35–38, 288, 290

  Gardner, Corrine, 29

  Gardner, Daniel, 29

  Gardner, Geraldine Elder “Geri” (Meredith’s first wife), 20–22, 87, 88

  Gardner, Meredith

  background of, 27–31

  Blue Problem and, 27, 37–38, 86

  Bob begins work with, 114–19

  Bob’s relationship with, 239

  Bob’s reunion with, 290--91

  bookbreaking and, 101–4

  breaks into KGB espionage traffic, 106–9

  breaks KGB code with plaintext cables, 119–23

  breaks spell code for English words, 104–
6

  British embassy spy and, 195

  completion of hunt for spy network, 281–82

  early code-breaking for ASA, 32–37

  Enormoz and, 130–31, 242

  Ethel Rosenberg and, 160–61, 270–72, 274

  Fuchs (Rest) arrest and, 202, 205, 209–11

  Fuchs (Rest) gaseous diffusion cable and, 172–73

  Fuchs (Rest) hunt and, 181–82, 186–87, 191–92

  Gold (Raymond, Gus/Goose) hunt and, 212–13, 226

  KGB codebook recreation and, 127–31

  KGB code report to FBI, 109–11

  KOD 14 (Petsamo codebook) and, 96, 100

  language facility of, 29–31, 35

  later career of, 289

  marriage of, 86

  Rosenberg (Liberal,Antenna) discovered by, 132–34, 135, 145, 148, 150–57, 160–61, 278, 281

  Rosenberg execution and, 3–5, 284–89

  second Los Alamos spy and, 242–44, 246, 250, 257

  Soviet atom bomb detonation and, 167–71

  gaseous diffusion, 172–73, 183–84, 186, 216, 243

  General Electric, 147

  German Army (Wehrmacht), 82–83, 98–99

  Seventh Panzer Division, 83

  Sixth Army, 41

  German codes and ciphers, 34, 38, 42, 79, 80, 98

  Germany. See East Germany; Nazi Germany

  Gestapo, 190

  Glassman, Vivian, 163

  Gnome. See Perl, William

  Gold, Harry (Dave, Gus/Goose, Raymond), 20a-2, 205, 208–16, 221–24, 227–34, 236, 238–42, 246, 250–51, 254, 256–63

  confession of, 229–33, 236

  Fuchs (Rest) and, 221–26, 229, 231–34, 240–42

  Greenglass (Kalibre) and, 250, 256–58, 262–64, 266, 279

  Rosenberg execution and, 284

  Goldfarb, Elaine, 163

  Golos, Jacob, 54–55, 215

  Goose/Gus. See also Gold, Harry

  Gouzenko, Igor, 51–53, 56–57, 190

  Grabeel, Gene, 41, 46–47, 79

  Greenglass, David (Bumblebee, Kalibre), 244–64, 258–70, 282

  arrest of, 280–81, 283

  confession of, 264–72, 275, 276

  Gold and, 256, 266

  Rosenberg and, 268–69, 284

  Yatskov and, 256

  Greenglass, Ruth (Wasp, Osa), 244, 252–53, 258–59, 261–62, 265, 268, 270–72, 274, 282–84

  GRU (Soviet military intelligence), 190–91

  Gusdorf, Gerson, 211

  Gymnast (Young Communist League member), 243

  Hall, Joan, 247

  Hall, Theodore (Mlad), 243–51, 280–81

  Hallock, Richard, 80–81

  Halperin, Israel, 190–91

  Harrington, John, 267–68

  Harvey, Bill, 50–51, 89–91, 94

  Harvey, Libby, 91

  Harwell Atomic Research Station (Britain), 175, 178–79, 194, 196–200

  Hayes, Harold, 109, 122

  Heineman, Kristel Fuchs, 194, 212–13, 216, 220–21, 224–25, 230, 232

  Heineman, Robert, 194, 212–14, 216, 224, 230, 232

  Heisenberg, Werner, 189

  Henry (KGB handler), 136–37, 139

  Henry Street Settlement House, 222

  high-explosive lens device, 255

  Hip Sing Tong, 24

  Hiroshima, 169

  Hiskey, Clarence, 63

  Hitler, Adolf, 40, 41

  Homer. See Maclean, Donald

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 1–2, 11, 16–17, 19, 22, 49, 56, 58–59, 90–92, 94, 156, 206–7, 219, 226, 232–33, 267

  Horace, 30

  Hughes. See Sarant, Alfred

  Huntsville defense plant, 20

  hydrogen bomb (Super), 173, 188, 196–97, 246

  infrared ray technology, 149

  Inspection Division (FBI), 206

  Intelligence Division (FBI), 1

  Italian Library of Information, 54

  Italy, 54

  Jack. See Katz, Joseph,

  JADE cable circuit, 105

  Japan, atomic bombing of, 169, 256

  Japanese codes and ciphers, 34, 35, 38, 40, 42, 79, 80, 84, 113

  Japanese General Staff, 40, 46

  Joint Chiefs of Staff, 182

  Justice Department, 90, 182, 269

  Criminal Division, 269

  Kalibre. See Greenglass, David

  Katz, Joseph (Jack), 93–94

  Kaufman, Irving, 2, 284–85

  Kazakhstan test site, 169

  Kellex Corporation, 186

  KGB, 5–7, 42–46, 50. See also Moscow Center; Soviet Union; and specific cables; code names; divisions; and individuals

  anonymous letter to FBI on, 50–51

  atomic bomb secrets and, 61, 64–65, 122–23

  Canadian network, 53

  FBI’s approach to, 91

  Fuchs and, 191

  Gold arrest and, 236–37

  Petsamo codebook, 96–104 (see also Russian code and cipher system)

  Rosenberg (Liberal) recruited by, 135–37

  U.S. network, 50, 54–56, 93

  KGB cables

  code names tracked down, 271

  FBI black-bag job and copies of, 94–95, 118–19

  Hallock analyzes, 81–82

  Meredith finds clues to spies in, 100–8

  plaintext, 43, 46, 118–23

  sorted by Blue Problem force, 79–80

  KGB cables by date

  1944, 118–19

  February 9, 1944 (on Goose and Rest), 209, 212

  June 15, 1944 (on Rest Report), 183

  July 26, 1944 (on atom spy), 132–33

  September 14, 1944, 278

  November 1944 (on second Los Alamos spy), 242–44

  November 16, 1944 (on Rest at Los Alamos), 191

  November 27, 1944, 108, 160–61

  December 1944, 121

  December 5, 1944 (on Meter and Hughes), 155

  January 8, 1945, 244

  February 1945 (on Rest), 191

  May 1945, 243–44

  December 1945, 59–60

  Klarin, Pavel, 74–75

  Korean War, 274, 285

  Kurchatov, Igor, 64–65, 78, 123

  Kurnakov, Sergei (Bek), 243

  Kvasnikov, Leonid, 62–67, 77–78, 122, 136, 139, 144, 175, 254

  atomic bomb memo, 63–64

  Laboratory Number 2, (Soviet facility), 64–65, 77, 122–23, 180

  Laboratory V (U.S. facility), 78

  Labor Day Rally, 136

  Ladd, Mickey, 246, 267, 269–70, 288

  Lamphere, Arthur “Art”, 23

  Lamphere, George, 145–146

  Lamphere, Joe, 12–15, 188

  Lamphere, Lilly, 12–14

  Lamphere, Martha (Bob’s fourth wife), 290–91

  Lamphere, Robert “Bob”

  ASA rules on deciphered cables (Venona) and, 113–14

  assigned to Espionage Section at headquarters, 89–95

  assigned to SE squad, 26–27, 48–49

  assigned to work with Meredith on KGB cables, 114–20

  atomic secrets and, 172–73

  background of, 11–15, 28

  Barr (Meter) and Sarant (Hughes) hunt and, 155–57, 161, 279–80

  Bentley information on KGB and, 56–57, 84, 93

  Chinatown incident and, 11, 23–26, 49

  Corby Affair and, 53

  early FBI career of, 15–24

  Eisler trial and, 89–90

  Elitcher hunt and, 147–48, 164–65

  Enormoz discovery and, 130–31

  Ethel Rosenberg and, 162–63, 270–71, 273–74

  Fuchs (Rest) arrest and Raymond (Gold) hunt, 201–2, 205–26, 229, 233–34, 238

  Fuchs (Rest) hunt and, 172–73, 181–92, 194–95

  Gold (Raymond) confession and, 233–34, 239–42

  Greenglass (Kalibre) hunt and, 242–47, 250–52, 257–58, 260–66, 270, 272–73

  Hall (Mlad) and Sax (Star) hunt and, 247, 250–51
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br />   “Jack” trailed by, 93–94

  KGB codebook recreation and, 127–31

  later career of, 288–89

  marriage to Geri Elder, 21–22, 87–88

  marriage to Sarah Hosch, 87–89, 92, 95, 110–11, 205

  Meredith report on KGB cover names and, 110–13

  plaintext cables found by, 119–23

  reunion with Meredith, 290–91

  Robbins and, 212–15

  Rosenberg (Liberal, Antenna) hunt and, 132–35, 145–57

  Rosenberg (Liberal) interrogation and, 265–67, 269–74

  Rosenberg trial and execution and, 1–2, 282–88

  second Los Alamos spy and, 242–46

  son born, 145–46

  Soviet atom bomb detonation and, 167–70

  Soviet code room break in and photos, 94–95

  spy hunt post-Rosenberg arrest, 275–82

  Lamphere, Sarah Hosch (Bob’s second wife), 87–89, 92, 110, 146, 205

  Laurence, William, 61

  Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 249

  Lend-Lease Act (1941), 39, 85–86

  Leningrad, siege of, 64

  Lewis, John, 262

  Liberal. See Rosenberg, Julius

  London, 174–77, 198–202, 205–9, 216–18, 222, 232–33

  London rezidentura, 62, 177

  Los Alamos atomic research facility (Camp No. 2), 121, 175, 186, 190–92, 238, 243

  David Greenglass (Kalibre) and, 243–46, 253, 263, 266, 270

  Experimental Physics Division, 249

  Fuchs (Rest) and, 191, 198, 210, 225, 231–32, 240, 243–46

  furlough records, 257

  Gold (Raymond) and, 266

  Mlad (Hall) and, 243–46

  Rosenberg (Liberal) and, 270

  Ruth Greenglass (Wasp) and, 244–45

  second Soviet spy at, 242–45

  Lucretius, 28

  Maclean, Donald (Homer), 195

  Manhattan Project, 121, 172, 183, 243. See also Los Alamos atomic research facility; and specific individuals

  British scientists and, 185–86

  Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 29

  Martin. See Slack, Alfred Dean

  McCarthy, Joseph, 188

  McCarthy, William, 165

  McInerney, Jim, 269, 270, 273

  Meter. See Barr, Joel

  MI5 (British intelligence), 186, 194–95, 197–98, 200–201, 208, 217–18, 238, 281

  Microbe Hunters (de Kruif), 230

  Military Intelligence Service, 38, 109, 190

  Miller, Scotty, 227–30, 232, 239, 250

  missile guidance technology, 149

  Mississippi College for Women, 79

  Mlad. See Hall, Theodore

  Molotov, Vyacheslav, 64–66, 71–72

  Morse code, 46

  Moscow, siege of, 82–83

  Moscow Center (KGB headquarters), 5, 7, 44, 46, 50, 53, 55–56, 58–59, 69, 157

  Enormoz and, 61–62, 130, 133

  Fuchs (Rest) and, 195–96

  Gold arrest and, 236–37

  key page change and, 84–85

  New York radio connection and, 74–75

 

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