[GreenKeys] Spy Games from KPBS website

Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:07:24 -0800

PBS often rebroadcasts programs.  I know of none at this time.

Don

>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 wh=
o
>>>really stole it. "Secrets, Lies and Atomic Spies" takes viewers inside on=
e
>>>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, includi=
ng
>>>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 Mexic=
o,
>>>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 prosecuti=
on,
>>>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 i=
t
>  >>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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