Williams Robert C. Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy

Harvard University Press, 1987. — 288 p.On January 27, 1950, a passenger got off a train in London's Paddington Station and nervously shook hands with a man waiting on the platform. The passenger, Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs, thirty-eight years old, was dark haired and balding. About five feet eight inches tall, he had a sallow complexion and wore wire-rimmed glasses. His clipped English speech was overlaid with a strong German accent. The man he had arranged to meet, William James Skardon, a counterintelligence officer assigned to Scotland Yard, was Britain's top spycatcher. Together the two men walked a few blocks to the War Office, where Fuchs dictated a long statement, which Skardon wrote down and Fuchs signed. In it, Fuchs confessed that from 1942 to 1949, while working on British and American nuclear weapons, he had deliberately and systematically given atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union.