November 19th, 2007 · Comments Off
Der Spiegel, East German Spook Reunion:
“At first glance, it looked like a group of retirees on holiday: two buses filled with gray-haired men, and a few women, heading north on the German Autobahn. But rather than heading for Legoland or Tivoli Gardens, the group was on its way to the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. And they weren’t tourists either. Rather, all of them — at least 60 in total — were former East German spies.”
Tags: ddr,espionage,germany,history
November 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment
NY Times, A Spy’s Path: Iowa to A-Bomb to Kremlin Honor:
“On Nov. 2, the Kremlin startled Western scholars by announcing that President Vladimir V. Putin had posthumously given the highest Russian award to a Soviet agent who penetrated the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb.”
Zie ook: Putin.
Tags: atomic bomb,espionage,george koval,history,manhattan project,usa,ussr
