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Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies

Feb 5, 2002

0h 57m

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New Secrets Behind One of the Greatest Intelligence Losses in U.S. History

Overview

Chronicling the lives and covert activities of the so-called "atom spies" in the 1940s, including the big one that got away, Theodore Alvin Hall.

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Documentary

History

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PBS

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Cast

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Liev Schreiber

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Robert Louis Benson

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John Earl Haynes

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Sam Cohen

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Joseph Albright

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Harvey Klehr

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7.4

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