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Sep 2023
21m 6s

Episode 8.1

Paul Kendrick
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By 1945, the Soviet Union had established a highly effective spy ring operating in the United States.  Many of their spies were key figures within the American Government, they also spies in the atomic bomb programme, who would pass on information which helped the Soviets build their own atomic bomb.  A biograph of two Soviet spies who would be executed, Julius and Ethel Rosenburg.

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