GREAT HELP GIVEN RUSSIA BY BRITISH SPY

Wanganui Chronicle, 22 November 1950, Page 5

GREAT HELP GIVEN RUSSIA BY BRITISH SPY

Fuchs Let Go Bomb Secrets WASHINGTON. Nov. 21 (Recd. 6 pm). The spying of the British scientist Dr. Klaus Fuchs had speeded Russia’s work on the atomic bomb by, between one and two years, Mr. Gordon Dean, chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, declared today.

There were only about 150 people in the United States who would know how to make the bomb, Mr. Dean said. Fuchs, now in gaol for passing secrets to Russia, “knew al! about it.” He worked on America's atomic project during the war. Mr. Dean gave these views in an interview published by the magazine “United States News and World Report."

He said Russia’s uranium deposits In Czechosolvakia. Saxony, and Germany were being exhausted at a very rapid rate. The Soviet Union had other deposits “which I prefer not to discuss." Mr. Dean revealed that the United States stockpile of atomic bombs is widely dispersed in order to minimise the dangers of enemy sabotage. “Thousands upon thousands" of persons, including atomic plant workers, already knew the top secret facts about the size, shape and appearance of the bomb. However, such superficial facts were relatively unimportant to security said Mr. Dean. “It is

people who know all about the bomb who could do us most damage,” ht ac’ded“That is why the Fuchs incident was very, very disturbing to m,’ 1