The Iowa Boy Who Loved Baseball, Leaked Atomic Secrets to the USSR, and Jump Started the Cold War

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History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Of all the WW2 spies who stole atomic secrets from the Manhattan Project, none were as successfully, or as unassuming as George Koval. He was a kid from Iowa who played baseball, and loved Walt Whitman’s poetry. But he was also from a family of...

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0:57.3	He grew up in a city graduated from high school at age 15.
1:04.9	He was one of the stars of the high school debate team.
1:09.2	He was in the national honor society and he loved baseball.
1:14.2	He was also skilled shortstop and when he was a spy later in life and living in New York
1:19.4	City, he was renowned for being able to reel off the history and stats of every big lead
1:25.8	picture.
1:27.1	So he played bridge.
1:28.5	He belonged to a bowling league.
1:30.5	He was a fan of Walt Whitman.
1:32.8	His life really personified that Cold War battle of the American Dream versus the communist
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