[GreenKeys] Spy Games from KPBS website

[gil smith]

Arrggghhh!  I missed it!  Do you know if there is a date for a rebroadcast?

gil


At 10:17 PM 2/5/02 -0800, you wrote:
>>Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 15:46:45 -0800
>>
>>Spy Games
>>In 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for stealing the secret of
>>the atom bomb. Now, through never-before-seen-interviews Nova uncovers who
>>really stole it. "Secrets, Lies and Atomic Spies" takes viewers inside one
>>of the most extraordinary decryption breakthroughs in history - VENONA,
>>which in 1943 began probing the seemingly unbreakable Soviet code for a
>>loophole.
>>Nova interviews several surviving officials involved with VENONA, including
>>crack code breaker Meredith Gardner, who explains how he exploited Soviet
>>mistakes to uncover their atom spy ring, and retired FBI agent Robert
>>Lamphere, who worked with Gardner to identify spies. Against all odds the
>>code breaker's effort finally succeeded, and with the help of the FBI,
>>exposed a vast network of spies operating in the United States, including
>>highly placed agents at the clandestine facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico,
>>where the atomic bomb was designed and built.
>>VENONA is now forcing scholars to reassess the entire history of the Cold
>>War, in which spying inside the most sensitive branches of the U.S.
>>government and military played a more significant role than many experts
>>believed.
>>Nova reveals that Los Alamos scientist Ted Hall was among the spies
>>identified by VENONA, but never confessed and managed to escape prosecution,
>>even though his espionage gave the Soviets the all-important key to
>>designing their first nuclear weapon. Hall was never publicly accused by the
>>government since it was reluctant to expose VENONA by using decrypts as
>>evidence in court.
>>Hall comes clean about his spying activities in a never-before-seen
>>interview recorded shortly before his death from cancer in 1999. His wife,
>>Joan, also recounts-for the first time on television-the tale of his
>>treachery and the cat-and-mouse game he and she played with the FBI, as it
>>unsuccessfully tried to maneuver Hall into self-incrimination. Nova's
>"Secrets, Lies and Atomic Spies <020205.htm>" airs tonight at 8 p.m.
>
>It is also available on a video cassette.
>
>Don
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