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that, as a result of this work, American intelligence managed to acquire important data concerning the stationing of the USSR's armed forces, the productive capacity of various branches of industry, and work in the field of atomic energy in the USSR... On the basis of
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1235:George Blake
1217:Konon Molody
1202:Morris Cohen
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1024:Robert Lipka
1014:Karl Koecher
964:Aldrich Ames
926:Maria Wicher
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866:Vincent Reno
861:Lee Pressman
846:Victor Perlo
841:William Perl
831:Boris Morros
826:Hede Massing
816:George Koval
766:Morris Cohen
746:Earl Browder
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1516:1967 deaths
1511:1908 births
1470:Herman Simm
1455:Alfred Redl
1411:Elsewhere /
1310:Arthur Wynn
1250:Klaus Fuchs
1240:David Crook
1164:Guy Burgess
1093:Post-Soviet
984:Jack Dunlap
959:Rudolf Abel
931:Nathan Witt
906:Harold Ware
881:Saville Sax
811:Donald Hiss
781:Klaus Fuchs
751:Boris Bukov
62:introducing
1526:Odesa Jews
1505:Categories
1197:Lona Cohen
1179:Kim Philby
1054:Myra Soble
1049:Jack Soble
791:Harry Gold
776:Noel Field
761:Lona Cohen
584:26 October
534:(2): 180.
504:2008-07-19
390:26 October
355:References
291:Kim Philby
196:Background
117:1908-08-28
70:March 2011
45:references
1363:Fred Rose
1270:John Peet
1207:Ethel Gee
851:J. Peters
736:Joel Barr
716:In the US
372:"Preface"
234:U.S. Army
1333:Sam Carr
951:Cold War
731:John Abt
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315:Virginia
164:Children
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566:"Index"
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287:British
250:Russian
138:Ukraine
58:improve
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182:NKVD
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