In 1959, an atomic spy was released and allowed to join East Germany
After serving nine years for passing Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviet Union, physicist Klaus Fuchs was released from a British prison and immediately fled to start a new life in East Germany.
On June 23, 1959, one of the most significant spies of the Cold War walked free. Klaus Fuchs, a brilliant physicist who worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, had been convicted of funneling high-level technical secrets to the Soviets. His intelligence likely accelerated the USSR's nuclear program by several years.
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