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The Spy Who

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Klaus Fuchs is sure his espionage has gone undetected. So when authorities unearth a similar spy ring in Canada’s nuclear project, Fuchs doesn’t consider that he could be next.

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0:00.0	Wonderry Plus subscribers can binge full seasons of the Spy Who early and add free on Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.
0:17.8	September 1945, Ottawa, Canada.
0:22.6	In an interrogation room, a Royal Canadian Mountain Police Officer is questioning Israel Halperin.
0:29.8	Halperin is a mathematics professor at Queen's University and a communist.
0:35.0	I ask you again, why have I been detained?
0:39.7	Professor Halperin, we have been through this.
0:42.4	A cipher clerk stationed at the Soviet embassy has defected.
0:46.8	Based on the information he is supplied,
0:48.6	we have uncovered a communist spy ring operated here in Canada.
0:52.8	And how is that relevant to me?
0:55.3	Sir, you are a communist.
0:59.1	Halperin goes to interject, but the police officer cuts him off.
1:02.7	And you are friends with some of those involved.
1:08.1	Halperin is one of five people named as spies by the Soviet defector.
1:12.8	All of them were arrested this morning.
1:15.8	The police believe together they've been involved in stealing atomic secrets for the Soviet Union.
1:21.7	So, Mr. Halperin, once more, have you ever been part of a spy organization? No, have you ever knowingly met with a member of
1:31.1	Soviet intelligence? No. Have you ever passed information to such an individual? No, no, and no.
1:38.4	I am a mathematician. I study the underpinnings of the world, not its frivolous politics.
1:44.5	Release me at once!
1:47.1	The officer sighs.
1:49.1	He has interviewed stubborn men before, but few quite so belligerent as Halperin.
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