[GreenKeys] Spy Games from KPBS website
jsheetz
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Thu, 07 Feb 2002 11:58:09 -0500
The program will be rebroadcast from channel 13, New York City,
on Saturday, February 9th at 5:00 a.m. and also at 5:00 p.m.
I hope to tape it.
de John, K2AGI
Don Robert House wrote:
>
> 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 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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