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Real Spies

The movies have given us a vision of spies that is very, very outlandish. They portray spies as guys that were always great looking and the best at everything. Well, in actuality most spies didn't look all that great and were not anything like a movie spy. They didn't boldly go break into world leaders houses and steal things, although this was done im sure most of the time spies were people that were working on the project that they were spying on. Also spies were used to set up rebellions and revolutions among the people of certain countries. This may not seem as glamorous to you and I as being a movie spy but it was a very necessary part of the cold war.

Francis Gary powers was a pilot during the cold war. He was a pilot of the U2 spy plane. He became famous when he was shot down while flying over Russia on a mission to photograph enemy installations. He serviced being shot down and was captured by the Russians to be tried as a spy in February 1962. He was freed when the US Government decided to trade a spy that we had captured (Rudolph Abel) for him. While in captivity he wrote in a secret journal that is now at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. It however was given to the museum at along with a request that it was never to be put on display.

The Rosenburgs were the leaders of a communist spy ring in the US. From their late teens they participated in local communist partys assisting in whatever way they could. Julius Rosenburg was a very smart man. Soon after collage he was higherd by the US Army Signal Corps to work as a civilian employee. Two years later he was promoted to inspector and was put in charge of his particular area of work (not stated). The new job allowed the Rosenburgs to move into a new bigger apartment. Along with his promotion at work he was also promoted to chairman of his local branch of the communist party. The party meetings were held in there apartment. One year later the Rosenburgs dropped out of the Communist Party to pursue their espionage activities more heavily. In 1945 Mr. Rosenburg was fired from his job with the Army when people found out about his past connections with the communist party. 5 years later he and his wife were arrested for suspicion of espionage after being turned in by Mrs. Rosenburgs brother. He and his wife were executed at Sing-Sing prison in New York. They both claimed they were innocent of any charges to the day they were put to death.

William Perl was a student at the city college of New York. While there he was an exceptional student as well as a member of the campuses young communist league. After graduation he began working for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at Langley Army Air Base research facility. 4 years later he transferred to NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. While at both of these jobs he constantly accessed highly classified information which he passed on to his fellow communists. After going back to school he returned to work at Propulsion Laboratory were he was contacted by another spy and given 2000 dollars to leave the country. He stayed and was arrested and found guilty of two counts of perjury for lying about his relationship with Rosenberg and another spy named Sobel. While he was to be charged with espionage counts the FBI only had circumstantial evidence at best. Perl served two concurrent 5 year sentences at the New York House of Detention, maintaining his innocence in any espionage plot. It was later found in decoded Russian documents that indeed Perl had been a spy and had passed top secret information on to the KGB.

Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs was a German communist that fled the Nazis and moved to England. There he decided to go to Bristol university were he received a doctorate in physics. In 1943, Fuchs was transferred to the Columbia University in New York City where he began to work on the Manhattan Project. After he had been working on the project for some time he was moved to the Los Alamos research facility. Everyone there saw him as an excellent scientist and researcher, but little did they know everything that was going on was being funneled back to Russia by spy contacts that Fuchs had. In 1949 the FBI confronted Fuchs with papers that he had written for the Manhattan project that were obtained in Russia. Fuchs soon confessed to his part in the theft of atomic secrets and was sentenced to fourteen years in prison, the maximum possible fine under British law for passing military secrets to a friendly nation. After serving nine years of his sentence, Fuchs was allowed to relocate to East Germany where he resumed his scientific career and lectured in Physics.

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