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Re:Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project by yodon on Sunday November 24, 2019 @10:15AM (#21620858)
The British during WWII had probably the most successful counter-espionage program in history, because they understood the personal motivations of the people who were interested in spying on them and used those motivations to their advantage. There are many books on the subject, my favorite of which is [0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Double-Cross-Story-D-Day-Spies/dp/030...

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Re:Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project by mcguire on Sunday November 24, 2019 @10:44AM (#21621011)
On the other hand, the British intelligence community was riddled with Soviet agents because of their trust in "the right sort of people" like Kim Philby.
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Re:Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project by yodon on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @10:50AM (#21703172)
While true, that was a post-War phenomenon, very different from the state of British counter-intelligence during the war.
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Re:Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project by MobileVet on Sunday November 24, 2019 @01:17PM (#21622204)
Read or listen to ‘The Company’ for a fantastic look back at spying during the Cold War. It introduced me to Philby
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Re:Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project by dboreham on Sunday November 24, 2019 @11:52AM (#21621576)
And Anthony Blunt.
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Re:Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project by SiempreViernes on Sunday November 24, 2019 @12:56PM (#21622049)
I guess this means that counter espionage is invariably shit? Because the Brits graciously donated Klaus Fuchs[1] to the project, and that was after having him interned at first.

To be fair tough, Fuchs made important enough contributions that the Manhattan project might well have been too late to bomb japan before the war ended.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs

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Re:Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project by alko4141 on Sunday November 24, 2019 @02:40PM (#21622774)
I think mister Philby disagrees with you.
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