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Under interrogation, Gold admitted that he had been involved in espionage since 1934 and had helped Fuchs pass information about the [[Manhattan Project]] to the Soviet Union by way of Soviet General Consul [[Anatoli Yakovlev]]. Gold's confession led to the arrest of [[David Greenglass]]. His testimony resulted in the arrest, trial and execution of [[Julius and Ethel Rosenberg]], though in later trials he was revealed to be a somewhat unreliable witness. |
Under interrogation, Gold admitted that he had been involved in espionage since 1934 and had helped Fuchs pass information about the [[Manhattan Project]] to the Soviet Union by way of Soviet General Consul [[Anatoli Yakovlev]]. Gold's confession led to the arrest of [[David Greenglass]]. His testimony resulted in the arrest, trial and execution of [[Julius and Ethel Rosenberg]], though in later trials he was revealed to be a somewhat unreliable witness. |
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Harry Gold was sentenced in 1951 to thirty years imprisonment. He was paroled in May 1965, after serving just |
Harry Gold was sentenced in 1951 to thirty years imprisonment. He was paroled in May 1965, after serving just under half of his sentence. |
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He died in 1972 in Philadelphia,<ref>{{cite news |first= Alden|last= Whitman|authorlink= |coauthors= |title=1972 Death of Harry Gold Revealed |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B1EFA3D541A7493C6A81789D85F408785F9 |quote=Harry Gold, who served 15 years in Federal prison as a confessed atomic spy courier, for Klaus Fuchs, a Soviet agent, and who was a key Government witness in the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg espionage case in 1951, died 18 months ago in Philadelphia. |publisher=[[New York Times]] |date=14 February 1974 |accessdate=2008-07-07 }}</ref> where he is buried in [[Har Nebo Cemetery]]. |
He died in 1972 in Philadelphia,<ref>{{cite news |first= Alden|last= Whitman|authorlink= |coauthors= |title=1972 Death of Harry Gold Revealed |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B1EFA3D541A7493C6A81789D85F408785F9 |quote=Harry Gold, who served 15 years in Federal prison as a confessed atomic spy courier, for Klaus Fuchs, a Soviet agent, and who was a key Government witness in the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg espionage case in 1951, died 18 months ago in Philadelphia. |publisher=[[New York Times]] |date=14 February 1974 |accessdate=2008-07-07 }}</ref> where he is buried in [[Har Nebo Cemetery]]. |
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Revision as of 13:39, 30 September 2012
Harry Gold (11 December 1910 – 28 August 1972) was a laboratory chemist who was convicted of being the “courier” for a number of Soviet spy rings during the Manhattan Project.
Early life
Gold was born in Switzerland to poor Russian Jewish immigrants. As a young man he became interested in socialism which eventually led him to contacts within the Communist movement.
After leaving school, Gold worked for the Pennsylvania Sugar Company as a laboratory assistant. He lost his job in 1932 as a result of the Great Depression. After a variety of menial jobs, Gold studied chemical engineering at Drexel Institute (1934–36). Gold attended Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated summa cum laude in 1940[1] . Gold was recruited into espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union in 1935 by Thomas Lessing Black. He eventually found work with Brothman Associates.
Espionage
In 1940, Gold was activated for Soviet espionage by Jacob Golos, but he was not a recruited agent of the rezidentura. This changed in late 1940 when Soviet Case Officer Semyon Semenov appropriated Gold from Golos (Gold confession, KF-AS, p. 196). Gold became a formally recruited Soviet agent at this time, and was assigned the codename GUS, or GOOSE. Semenov remained Gold's control officer until March 1944.
In 1950, Klaus Fuchs was arrested in England and charged with espionage. Fuchs confessed that while working in the United States during World War II he had passed information about the atom bomb to the Soviet Union. Fuchs denied working with other spies, except for a courier who collected information from him. When initially shown photographs of suspects, including Gold, he failed to identify him as the courier, but did so after subsequent prompting.[1]
Under interrogation, Gold admitted that he had been involved in espionage since 1934 and had helped Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union by way of Soviet General Consul Anatoli Yakovlev. Gold's confession led to the arrest of David Greenglass. His testimony resulted in the arrest, trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, though in later trials he was revealed to be a somewhat unreliable witness.
Harry Gold was sentenced in 1951 to thirty years imprisonment. He was paroled in May 1965, after serving just under half of his sentence.
He died in 1972 in Philadelphia,[2] where he is buried in Har Nebo Cemetery.
See also
References
- ^ Frances Griggs Sloat. "Time Trials". Xavier Magazine. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
- ^ Whitman, Alden (14 February 1974). "1972 Death of Harry Gold Revealed". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
Harry Gold, who served 15 years in Federal prison as a confessed atomic spy courier, for Klaus Fuchs, a Soviet agent, and who was a key Government witness in the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg espionage case in 1951, died 18 months ago in Philadelphia.
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Further reading
- Harry Gold testimony, 26 April 1956, part 20, 1020, both in “Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States,” U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act, 84th Cong., 2d sess.
- Robert Lamphere and Tom Shachtman, The FBI-KGB War (New York: Random House, 1986)
- Williams, Robert Chadwell, Klaus Fuchs: Atom Spy, Harvard University Press 1987 ISBN 0-674-50507-7
- Richard C.S. Trahair and Robert Miller, Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations, Enigma Books 2009 ISBN 978-1-929631-75-9
- Allen Hornblum, The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb, Yale University Press, 2010 ISBN 0-300-15676-6
External links
- Vassiliev, Alexander (2003), Alexander Vassiliev’s Notes on Anatoly Gorsky’s December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks, retrieved 2012-04-21
- Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) Full text of Alexander Vassiliev's notebooks (including more information on Gold's involvement in espionage.)