The Long Hand of the KGB From: The Washington Post | Date: May 1, 1994| Author: | Copyright 1994 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

SPECIAL TASKS

The Memoirs of an Unwanted

Witness - A Soviet Spymaster

By Pavel Sudoplatov and Anatoli Sudoplatov

With Jerrold L. and Leona P. Schecter

Little, Brown. 509 pp. $24.95

SPECIAL TASKS shook the historical and scientific communities with its release two weeks ago. It alleged that the greatest names in 20th-century physics - Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi and Robert Oppenheimer - deliberately helped Stalin acquire nuclear secrets.

If true, it would be a serious blow to the moral authority of the scientific community. But before this account becomes history, we should make an ...

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