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Welcome to the companion Web site to
"Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies,"
originally broadcast on February 5, 2002. The program
chronicles the lives and covert activities of the so-called
"atom spies" in the 1940's, including the big one that got
away, Theodore Alvin Hall. Here's what you'll find online:
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Read Venona Intercepts
Released by the National Security Agency, these once
top-secret messages, encoded by their Soviet senders and
decrypted by Venona codebreakers, reveal compelling,
behind-the-scenes details of Soviet espionage.
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Family of Spies
In a series of interviews alternately gushing and
reserved, embittered and accepting, the sons of the
Rosenbergs, Ted Hall's wife and elder daughter, and
other family members of Venona-era spies offer their
views about their spying relatives.
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20th-Century Deceptions
Mata Hari. Alger Hiss. Kim Philby. Aldrich Ames. Their
names stick in our collective consciousness, though
whether famously or infamously depends on whose side
you're on.
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Decipher a Coded Message (Hot Science)
Learn some of the tricks codebreakers use to solve
ciphers, then use your new talents to make sense of what
looks like a bunch of gibberish.
Plus
Resources and
a
Teacher's Guide
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