Alan Nunn May, a British physicist, died aged 91 in 2003. But before he passed away, he gave a dramatic deathbed confession. Nunn had been jailed and sentenced to ten years’ hard labour in 1946 for passing information from the Western allies’ atomic bomb project, to the Soviet Union. May’s confessions were dictated to a family member days before Christmas, and began with the intriguing sentence: "This is a disclosure of how I became a Russian spy."
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