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...Korea & Klaus Fuchs. Would this be enough to check Communist espionage and subversion? Obviously, a large part of Congress didn't think so. Harry Truman had sent his message (which spent more time arguing against the powers he didn't want than in favor of the changes he did want) in order to head off the Mundt-Ferguson bill, already approved 9 to 1 by the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...including the big labor unions, and the non-Communist American Civil Liberties Union. Michigan's Homer Ferguson, however, argued that his bill had the support of a committee of the American Bar Association. The Senate had once let a bill similar to Mundt-Ferguson die. But Korea and Klaus Fuchs had changed a lot of minds...
...four employees), there arrested the owner, Abraham Brothman, 36, and a blonde, comely colleague, Miriam Moskowitz. FBI officials identified the pair as two more links in the Soviet atomic spy chain which the U.S. started to unreel early this year after the arrest of the British atomic scientist, Dr. Klaus Fuchs...
British Physicist Klaus Fuchs. The FBI said Rosenberg had been an important cog in the machinery, working directly under Anatoli Yakovlev, Soviet vice consul in New York. An electrical engineer (C.C.N.Y., class of '39), Rosenberg had been an inspector for the War Department's Signal Service until early 1945, when he was fired for Communist affiliations. He broke off all open contacts with the party, quit subscribing to the Daily Worker and set up as the owner of a small, non-union machine shop in Manhattan. But the FBI kept its many eyes...
Patiently, month after month, the FBI had been trying to untangle the all-but-invisible skeins of plot and counterplot by which Russia had stolen U.S. atomic secrets. The pursuit of Britain's Dr. Klaus Fuchs, physicist and traitor, started the process. After his arrest, it took 3½ months of painful toil before U.S. agents worked their way back along his trail to Harry Gold, the Philadelphia chemist. After that, the untangling progressed quickly. Last week, 23 days after catching Gold, the FBI picked up two of his confederates...