Harry Gold

Harry Gold (b. December 12, 1910) was a laboratory chemist who was convicted of being the "courier" for a number of Soviet spy rings during the Manhattan Project. Image File history File links Harrygolda. ... Image File history File links Harrygolda. ... December 12 is the 346th day (347th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 19 days remaining. ... -1... Control panels and operators for calutrons at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. ...

Gold was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to poor Russian Jewish immigrants. As a young man he became interested in Socialism which eventually led him to contacts within the Communist movement. Nickname: City of Brotherly Love Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Official website: http://www. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Socialism is an ideology of a social and economic system in which the means of production are collectively owned and administered by all of society. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ...

After leaving school Gold worked for the Pennsylvania Sugar Company as a laboratory assistant. He lost his job in 1932 as a result of the Depression. After a variety of menial jobs, Gold studied chemical engineering at Drexel Institute (1934-36). Gold was recruited into espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union in 1935 by Thomas Lessing Black. He eventually found work with Brothman Associates. Thomas Lessing Black was an American who worked as a chemist during World War II and was engaged in industrial espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union starting in late 1933 or early 1934. ...

In 1940 Gold was activated for Soviet espionage by Jacob Golos, but he was not a recruited agent of the rezidentura. This changed in late 1940 when Soviet Case Officer Semyon Semenov appropriated Gold from Golos (Gold confession, KF-AS, p.196). Gold became a formally recruited Soviet agent at this time, and was assigned the covername GUS, or GOOSE. Semyonov remained Gold's control officer until March 1944. Russian-born Jacob Golos (birth name Jacob Rasin orJacob Raisin) (died 1943) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet secret police operative in the USSR an longtime senior official of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) involved in icovert work and cooperation with Soviet intelligence agencies. ... The NKVD (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (help· info))(Russian: НКВД, Народный комиссариат внутренних дел) or Peoples Commisariat for Internal Affairs was a government department which handled a number of the Soviet Unions affairs of state. ... Semyon Semenov, NY Rezidentura X-line, 1938 - 1944 Semyon Markovich Semenov, (1911–1986): graduated from the Moscow Textile Institute in 1936 with a specialty in power engineering. ...

In 1950, Klaus Fuchs was arrested in England and charged with espionage. Fuchs confessed that while working in the United States during the Second World War he had passed information about the atom bomb to the Soviet Union. Fuchs denied working with other spies except for a courier who collected information from him. When initially showed photographs of suspects, including Gold, he failed to identify him as the courier, but did so after subsequent prompting.[1] Klaus Fuchs ID badge photo from Los Alamos. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ...

Under interrogation, Gold admitted that he had been involved in espionage since 1934 and had helped Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union by way of Soviet General Consul Anatoli Yakovlev. Gold's confession led to the arrest of David Greenglass. His testimony resulted in the arrest, trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, though in later trials he was revealed to be a somewhat unreliable witness. Control panels and operators for calutrons at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. ... Anatoli A. Yakovlev (whose real name was was Yatskov) General Consul of the Soviet Unions legation in New York City in the 1940s. ... David Greenglass (b. ... The Rosenbergs Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (1915-1953) and Julius Rosenberg (1918-1953) were American Communists who captured and maintained world attention after being tried, convicted, and executed for spying for the Soviet Union. ...

Harry Gold was sentenced in 1951 to thirty years imprisonment. He was paroled in May 1966, after serving just over half of his sentence.

See also

• Atom Spies
• Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
• Klaus Fuchs

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References

• Harry Gold testimony, 26 April 1956, part 20, 1020, both in “Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States,” U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act, 84th Cong., 2d sess.
• Robert Lamphere and Tom Shachtman, The FBI-KGB War (New York: Random House, 1986)
• Williams, Robert Chadwell, Klaus Fuchs: Atom Spy, Harvard University Press 1987 ISBN 0-674-50507-7