print email comment close Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/ Description: Companion to a PBS NOVA program that "chronicles the lives and covert activities of the so-called 'atom spies' in the 1940's." Features information about "translations of Soviet cables decrypted back in the 1940s by the Venona Project," the U.S. government's effort to intercept messages from Soviet military intelligence. Also includes transcripts of "interviews with the closest relatives of some of America's most notorious atomic spies," biographical information about 20th century spies, and a teacher's guide. Publisher: WGBH Science Unit Extra Keywords Theodore Alvin Hall, Julius Ethel Rosenberg, Mata Hari, Alger Hiss, Harold Kim Philby, Aldrich Ames, Agnes Smedley, Moe Berg, Jon Pollard, Manhattan Project Library of Congress Subject Headings: Cold War Espionage Spies -- Biography Spies -- History LII Database Information: Record 8077 created by Maria Brandt on 10/30/2003 Last modification on 11/06/2003 Published: 10/30/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/8077