1. Which American scientist gave the Soviets US atomic secrets? 2. Who were the
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1. Which American scientist gave the Soviets US atomic secrets?
2. Who were the only US spies executed in peacetime?
3. Who were the "Cambridge Five"? (from where did they come and what did they do?)
4. Who was George Blake?
5. Give some examples of early US espionage failures.
6. What finally helped turn espionage in favor of the US?
7. Who was Aldrich Ames, what did he do and what was/is his fate?
8. Ultimately, how effective was Cold War spying including the Cambridge Five? What was the ultimate goal of espionage? Did it meet this goal? 9. Both sides recruited spies and both sides believed that their own people who became spies were traitors, so what if any difference is there between a "spy" and a "traitor"? Do the reasons for spying (ie. for ideology, a cause or money) make a difference? Explain.
Explanation / Answer
1) Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs was the one who gave this..!!
2) Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union. They were being guilty of transmitting nuclear weapon designs to Soviet Union...
3) The Cambridge Spy Ring was spiesin ring, the United Kingdom, who leaked information to the Soviet Union during World War IIs. Four members of the ring were originally identified: Kim Philby (cryptonym: Stanley), Donald Duart Maclean (cryptonym: Homer), Guy Burgess (cryptonym: Hicks) and Anthony Blunt (cryptonyms: Tony, Johnson)...
4) George Blake is a former British spy who used to work as a double agent for the Soviet Union. He became a Communist and started to work for the KGB during the Korean War. He was sentenced to 42 years in prison, he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966 and ran away to the USSR. He was not one of the Cambridge spies, although he interacted with fellow double agents Donald Maclean and Kim Philby after reaching the USSR.
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