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Monday, March 01, 2010
Communist spy Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years in UK prison
On March 1, 1950, German-British atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a UK court for passing British and American nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.
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biography
of Fuchs and his
confession
from PBS.
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