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IN THE CHINA MAIL on Saturday began the astonishing story of Anatoll Antonovich Yakovlev, the almost unknown Rumian who as vice-canal in New York-managed Dr Klaus Fuchs and four other alom spies la America.

IT TOLD how this man--the Sixth Man, who, escaped to Russia-organised his undercover arents so effectively that the secret of the £500 millon atom bomb project was lost to the West.

THE ACCOUNT took readers from the first meeting between the Sixth Man and the American traitor Harry Gold to the point where Fuel handed over to Gold the doon- ments which gave away the precise method of making uranium 295 explosive. NOW READ ON:

FAMILY gathering in the 11th- floor flat in Knickerbocker Village, the low-rent housing estate on New York's East Side, seemed innocent enough.

Five people met there on that blustery Saturday evening in January 1945.

There was 26-year-old Jullus Rosen- berg, a tall, self-assured electrical engineer

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And there was vich, Ethel's friend,

Ann Sidoro-

They could hear the next- door neighbours' radio tuned in too loudly to the Frank Sinatra programme. There was a faint smell of cooking cabbage.

It all seemed suburban.

so harmlessly

Yet that was the setting for many of the stranger-than- fletion events which culminated La the disastrous leukage of America'n alom-bomb secrels to Russia.

Fanatical

COOD-NATURED G. 1. Greenglass was a pald Soviet spy helped by his wife.

The Rosenbergs, both fana- tical Communists, 'were serving as couriers between Green- gloss and the man who manag- all-Anatoli Antona- ed them vich Yakovlev, the Master Spy who held the cover job of Russlan Vice-Consul in New York,

Jutlus and

Elhel Rosenberg

links

two

agents

with-

THE

MAN

JELLO

IMITATION RASH BERRY FLAV

SIXTH

THE CHINA MAIL is disclosing in this series the sensational fact-by-fact story of Yakovlev the super-spy who used his job as vice-consul in Now York as a cover for espionage that gave Russia the secret of the atom bomb.

CHAPMAN PINCHER

has compiled this casebook from official sources, including verbatim transscripts of the testimony of the atom spies convicted in Britain and America,

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MR and MRS: ROSENBERG GREENGLASS

this malleable material must be made to yield results.

"Get at him

through his wife," Yakovlev told Rosen- berg. "Do it this way..."

Turned down---

November 1944

Ruth

were later to be sentenced to death. Greenglass and three other men In Yakovlev's pay were to get long prison, sen-`,que, a town near Los Alamos, tences.

to meet her busband on their second wedding anniversary.

Greenglass had a five-day sleeping-out pass. They put up at an hotel.

Only Yakovlev himself, the Sixth Mun, escaped.

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people, and the names of selen-

ists working there.

to be known only to * few

Man.

SPLIT IN AUSSIE LABOUR FORESEEN

By Noel Craig THE crisis in the ranks of

the Australian, Labour Party has been aggravated by the death of the wartime Prime Minister, Mr Joseph Benedlet Chifley, a few days ago.

Over the past three years there has been much wrang-

trusted scientists-by the Sixth ling among the rank and file which, in time, spread Fuchs, who was spying

He had got it from Klaus to the top, causing flasures laboratory near the building in in what was once generally Los Alamos, though Greengiass considered a solid phalanx.

never knew it.

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Queer things he had noticed at the lab, suddenly made sense.

There was the foreigner mos-

While Ethel Rosenberg made querading under the name Baker, the coffee Julius went into the but who was really Professor kitchen at the dar end of the Niels Bohr, the Danish alom living room and came back with

scientist.

ten-

The

of

question

Mr Chifley's successor has been avoided for some time, al- though beneath the surface two bitter opponents have been allying their forces, knowing full well that the time had to come when sides would have to emerge into the open.

Dr Robert Oppenheimer, the jelly packet-raspberry flavour.

a silver of cardboard cut from a station boss, who wore

Using a pair of nail scissors gallon hat, was also an atom man, Those "Limeys" from London. he cut it into two Jig-saw shaped Sir James Chadwick and Sir places and gave one of them 10 Geoffrey Taylor. were atom Greenglass.

"If Ann Sidorovich scientists too. It all added up,

What about his own work? come to see you, some other These lens-moulds" he was ourler always machining? What ware will identify himself by showing the piece of the jelly packet they for? He would find out.

which fits yours. His code greet-tions are Dr Herbert Evatt ing will be I come from Julius, and Mr Arthur Calwell,

Promotion

cannol

will have to be sent. He

o supper table was Greenglass produced a WHS GREENGLASS made no progress report in his own bad MS husband's dis handwriting and a drawing of an closures, but followed Yakovlev's "explosive lens" shaped lite a

rule of gulding

memorising four-leaf clover. everything.

Mrs Rosenberg typed out the "Documents ar dangerous, report while her brother inter- of an preted it. Then, obeying Yakov- especially in the hands inexperienced woman," Yakovlev lev's orders, Julius burned the original papers in the frying pan, ground the ashes to powder and washed them down the drain.

The

Greenglasses left the

had warned Rosenberg.

Greenglass went back to what he had rated a dull and futile job on the lonely Los Alamos mesa with now interest.

stuff

apartment at midnight.

The leaders of the fac-

Dr Evatt is the Deputy Leader of the present Op- position, but it does not neccssarily follow that he will succeed Mr Chifley. Deputies in the past have not been very lucky. The last one was Mr Francis Forde, who succeeded Mr Curtin. He went out like a light,

Dr Evatt's appointment

Was

shock in the first place, as

he only went to Canberra in

slim,

0

1940 after being a judge in

the High Court. Some years before he had been a mem-

ber of the State Parliament and Attorney-General.

The sort you

could get for them in your work," she answered,

Instead of raising suspicion,

To Moscow "My work?" said Greenglass, this interest got him promoted- thinking of the dull hours he to foreman.

In a few weeks he learned that spent machining metal into odd the moulds he machined were for Abond is father-in-law's as Deputy leader

FDW nights later Greenglass lathe in the E- ne mon shapes

making specially shaped charges of T.N.T. building of Los Alamos.

These car, drove up First Avenue, and explosive. Greenglass had travelled "Yes, your work," Ruth charges were to go into an atom parked at a prearranged point. from New York to Albuquer replied. "Jullus asked me to bomb as part of the detenuting At exactly 11.30 p.m. a

slightly stooped Russ

Russian, with tell you that Los Alamos has mechanism.

nervous habit of continually been built to make a terrific This was the sort of new weapon called an atomic Rosenberg and Yakovlev wanted. brushing back a falling lock of bomb.

So when Greenglass turned up his hair, got into the car.

It was the Sixth Man. "Drive to the Saturday night gathering "The capitalists are keeping in Knickerbocker Village he around," he ordered.

For 20 minutes Yakovlev asked The Saturday night meeting

this secret from our Russian. brought some memorised draw-

about atom in the long, narrow living room

Greenglass questions allies Julius says it is your Ings and reports with him.

He was openly criticised of the $45-u-month

"Tenses" bom's Aat had

ses precise questions by members of the Liberal duty to help.” been arranged

about angles, on Yakovlev's

curvaturas, and instructions to Introduce

the

"Nothing doing," said David,

Party and, under cover, by methods of detonation. Greenglasses to

"And that's flat," Ann Sidoro-

Early next morning the Sixth his own party for holding vich.

Avas in the secret cypher two portfolios (Attorney- Rio Grande Ruth

THERE were introductions, and Man persuasive. She

Ann Sidorovich left the flat, room pointed out that the Russians t had supper

with Julius were willing to pay for their Then the four conspirators sat sending off a further million General and External Af- dollars worth of atomic informa- fairs) when he spent most and Ethel last week," he said. information. The extra money down to supper.

As they ate Rosenberg told tion for the attention of the of his time at the United "They are avoiding their Com- would mean she could give up CHE had been plcked to act SHE

munist friends They have her job and join him near Los Greenglass how the bomb worked Director of Military Intelligence, Nations.

Moscow, us courier between Rosen- hers in New York and Green-given up going to party meet Alamos. Maybe they could then "It is essentially a gun through

of

Greenglass was on a train- atomic ings and rallies, They have afford to have that baby they which one plece gloss, who worked in the even stopped buying the Dally, both wanted,

explosive is fired at another," he bound for Los Alamos with his atomic bomb laboratory at Los Worker."

said. "When the two pieces are half of the jelly packel hidden Alamos, New Mexico, 2,000

Next day Greenglass decided to

forced together they explode in his wallet. miles away.

do as Rosenberg-and Yakovlev automatically...

had directed.

This bomb has no

need of (WORLD-COPYRIGHT The Sixth Man's sizing up of explosive lenses, So the bomb LONDON EXPRESS SERVICE.) Greenglass's susceptiblities had you are working on must be been masterly.

different type. We

most anxious to dind out all about "

Rosenberg had been given this information—which avas supposed

His luck

walking

Ruth said nothing during the

three

the days about rat

hod Rosenberg instructions

On their fourth given her.

ahe deftly introduced evening the subject while they were

by the

river.

"How come?" naked.

her husband

She was scheduled to pay "Well, at inst they're doing him regular visits and pick up what they have always wanted reports which would be poss-

to do giving Information to ed on to Yakovlev for despatch Russin."

- Russia.

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Posting of Greenglass as conscripted G.I. to the secret Los Alamos laboratories in 1944 had been an astonishing stroke of luck for Yakovlev,

The Master Spy immediately realised what scope this post- ing offered. He quickly work- ed out a plan for getting the 22-year-old G.I. to the net."

Greengluss was no trailor when he first joined the army, But he was already corrupted

with Communist Ideas,

While he was a youngster living in a teaming East Side tenement Rosenberg, a smooth had worked hard to

Greenglass "What kind he asked.

was

Was

Greenglass gave his wife an startled. of information?" account of the layout of the Los number of Alamos plant, the

BRITAIN

ARIS. — Britain's tradi- K÷PE

Ptional calm and unity in

face of growing world ten- . sion impress the French.

All the same, Britain lost great opportunity for with closer relationships France by standing aloof win him over to the Party from the Schuman Plan. Line. At 10 Greenglaser had Joined the Young Communist

talker,

League.

Yakovlev

visit to

AS

From Fuchs

are

OTHERS

How stands Bri-

tain's prestige abroad? This week

some correspon- dents report different attitudes taken in various countries. IESITIKTI

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at the

Soviet Consulate

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BRITONS THINK OF THEMSELVES

The three most common Bri- FINALLY, THIS IS WHAT tish exports seen in Italy are Scotch whisky, clothes and cais Italians, admit that in these fields the British are still "the best in the business,"

Robert Shearer.

ONDON-The average Brl- ton's feeling about his own country's prestige abroad is in some degree dictated by his political views at home.

DENMARK PREFERS

Most Tories are convinced OPENHAGEN. When Bri-

that if the Conservatives were tish pride was wounded at returned to power, and Mr Churchill again be- the appointment of an Amer! Winston

came Premier,

Britain's can admiral to command Atlan-

The French still vote the British tourist as the most knew all about popular

for of all-except

tic Pawers forces. Danes were prestige abroad would rise Im- this from the central files in those holiday-makers who will

Time and again measurably. sympathetic. ut the persist in treating a the secret cypher room

they sigh for lesa Ameri- Consulate or East 61st Street. Paris as if it were a hilarious So when Greenglass was posted cheap day excursion to Brigh- following in the footsteps of can influence in European and America are now wondering world affairs and more British to Los Alamos he decided that lon-Henry Thody.

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At times, they believe that Britain is trying to back out of the whole. Far East war.

A

His recent action in de- fending Communists in High Court case against the Federal Government has brought him into the lime- light again.. Although he maintained that he was only acting in his capacity of a barrister, the split in the Labour Party be- came wider as Communist- inspired strikes continued throughout the hearing of the case.

The election mirror reflected public opinion, and the doctor just scraped home against wor hero Nancy Wake.

It is Interesting to note that Dr Evalt at one time could not. sland having anyone Ground him who smoked. On his re- turn from the United Nations, he has taken up the habit.

Arthur Calwell will stom against the Doctor in any ballot. and it is possible that many of his misdemeanours have been forgotten.

the

The O'Keefe case was among hls blunders worst of affecting the deportation of aliens oven though married to Australians.

He has dropped many bricks in the past, and his dictatorial attitude has not endeared him to either his colleagues populace in general,

His popularity in free enter- prise America is still enormous, and firmer dealings with Egypt, the Argentine and other coun Yet 48 regards trade, the tries could, they feel, bo ex- Danes have come to look upon pected, with a resultant in- Britain as more than astute crease in Britain's standing. Often Denmark has Russia too would be impressed. country, entered into a long-term built-

The Socialists on the other contract, in the be- purchase

lef that it was definitely to her hand maintain that the Welfare

but somehow

that, they are building the State advantage,

While in Canberra nearly two contract has always seemed to should be reflected in

The years ago, one of the Ministers work out very much in Britain's country's prestige abroad.

absence. of black markets, re said: "He is too liable to 'blow favour.

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latively

cheap food and other his top," la benents As

with are pointed at half- atul

as justification for this

SPAIN INTERESTED

●ARCELONA.--The Spanish people Art bewildered about Great Britain.

They are still fanctical on the subject of the Red menace in Europe, and The average German is a again and again, Britain's

anxious indeed to be friendly Labour

Government opposes suggestion that

British tourists, and it is Spain to should collaborate in Western only to be regretted that most Europe defence. Instead, they British tourists make poor am call

the Spanish Government, bassadors, giving the Impres "Fascist. beast” who ħna noh

ston that Britain. is a to be trusted.

storved, poverty-strickenna tion, with a frightful climate.~ Antony Terry.

any

As for Britain's social re- forma, the Spanish people are very interested in them.

And they are sympathetic to

| Britain's position as regards

ITALY ADMIRES

in prido

in

the

or to the

a tourist, the Briton than popular more Denmark-James White.

altitude. Similarly their policies

giving freedom to India, That is more or less the Pakistan, Burma and US DISCRIMINATING

Ceylan summning-up of the position DRA advanced as examples of which faces the party when NEW YORK-Provided the imaginative world atalesman they ballot for their new leader.

British. tourist does not ship,

There is, however, a dark Amerier, for they called that R-Rallans admire Bri- sponge on his American friends,

horse who might come out in provided he does not go TV jain, but it is felt that the

fron!-Mr A. S. Drakeford, one- out of his way to 'hit

Air in the Britain, ike their own coun" British imperial life line run- America, he will and that his acious but not ashamed of his time Minister for

st Labour Parliament. therefore ning through the Mediterraneun reception is a friendly one, must accept American lender is a great restriction on Italy's

Mr Drakeford la probably one ship to a greater extent than naval and colonial aspirationi.

of the soundest members, al the otherwise might. -- Derek,

are rather. though his views Paimora.

strong in certain directions.

try, needs American support at.

the

moment, and

and

The ordinary holiday-making at Briton abroad is acutely con-

poverty,

.ly

J

:

He feels that it is Insulelent- Very much the same applies

realised that Britain lost to "Made in Britain" goods,

most of her wealth in the war Admiration for Britain ts almost universal, however, for Americans will buy British against Hitler, and that many GERMANS WONDERING; the Italians admire the way goods only. If they really are of people who now tend to scon their ex-enemies have been top quality. The "Made in at his poverty should remein- label itacit is begin- ber that Britain's present cir- BERLIN-Forty million West tackling their Industrial and Britain"

Gennana who have been social programmes since the ning to mean very little to them. cumstances are largely due to

her aacrifices.—Pat. Keury, regarding Britain-as tamely war.

--Rodney Campbell.

If his name is entered then it is certain that he will split the ballot, with possible disastrous effects on the chances of the other two candklates,