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-- I had no way to know that my
beloved bosses were active members of the infamous Rosenberg
ring. I learned this much later, -- two years after my
immigration to the States. I also learned then that in my ignorance I was in a
good company with the FBI…
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Firdman’s account, as a leading Soviet computer scientist, of his long association and employment with Joel Barr, alias Joseph Berg, and Alfred Sarant, alias Philip Staros, in the upper echelons of USSR military R&D, after their escapes from the FBI and relocation in Leningrad, Russia, is at once intimate and objective.
From Brian's list on the idealistic spies Joel Barr, Alfred Sarant, and Julius Rosenberg.
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