The Stealing of Atomic Secrets - Part 2
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| Dr. Alan Nunn May |
Igor Gouzenko was removed with his family to a safe place.
He had informed that the code names of the British scientists who leaked out
information about the atom bomb were Alec and Golia. The western intelligence
agencies intercepted a telegram from the Soviet embassy in Canada which
informed Moscow that Alec was proceeding to London.
It was immediately identified that this Alec was none other
than Dr. Alan Nunn May. He was a passionate Communist. He worked at Tube Alloy
Projects which was a code name for the atom bomb project. It was decided to
shift the atomic research project to Canada for better safety. Then it
facilitated better co-ordination with the American project. Dr. Alan Nunn May
was in contact with Colonel Zabotin, the GRU officer in Ottawa. For two and
half years after 1943, Dr. Alan Nunn May made frequent visits between Chalk
River and Montreal. He also visited the American project at the Argonne
laboratory in Chicago. Dr. Alan Nunn May was supplied information about atomic
energy and Uranium. He gave the Russians a report about the A-bomb trial at New
Mexico and also supplied a sample of Uranium-235. He was arrested in March 1946
and sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
Another principal character in this drama was Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs. He revealed to the Soviet Union details of construction of atomic
and plutonium bombs. It is said that he was involved in making the Russians
catch up with research in atomic weapons in the western countries. He was also
employed in Tube Alloy Projects. He used to make reports to Simon Kremer of the
military attaché’s department at the Soviet embassy in London.
