Thursday, March 21, 2019

Delmar The Spy That Got Away Essay -- manhattan project, george coval,

INTRODUCTION This research paper is about the Soviet spy, George Koval, codename DELMAR who penetrated the Manhattan Project. The purpose of this research paper is to identify lessons learned based on George Kovals activities with the Manhattan Project and not repeat the same Counterintelligence failures in the future. George Koval managed to hem in capture and operate virtually unsuspected for the entire length of his espionage life against the U.S. and so little is known about him. Analysis of his activities should prove to be extremely valuable to the intelligence community. BACKGROUND On Christmas day in December 1913, in Sioux City, Iowa, George Koval was born to a family of Judaic immigrants from Belarus, then sort of the Soviet Union. George Kovals father, Abraham was a carpenter and his mother, Ethel Koval was a convert to Socialism. George Kovals parents maintained correspondence with members of their extended family in the Soviet Union. In the 1920s, they got elusive with an American society to help with the resettlement of Jews in the Soviet Union, a commie organization. This organization was called Idishe Kolonizatzie in Sovetn Farband (IKOR). Since 1928, IKORs main focus had been Jewish resettlement in Birobidzhan, a city near the border of Manchuria that Stalin promoted as a secular Jewish homeland. Abraham Koval was the secretary of the Sioux City IKOR branch in the 1920s. The Koval family held strong Communist beliefs that were instilled in George Koval from an early age. While attending gamy school at Central High School, known locally as the castle on the hill in Sioux City, Iowa, George Koval joined the Young Communist League, and in August 1930 was its delegate to the Iowa co... ...ded over to the GRU (military intelligence) Museum the Gold Star medallion and Hero of Russia certificate and document bestowed on Soviet intelligence police officer George Koval. Kremlin.ru. President of Russia. Retrieved 2009-06-2 0.Srebrnik, Henry (2001). Gennady Estraikh Mikhail Krutikov, Yiddish and the Left Diaspora, Ethnicity and Dreams of Nationhood North American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project Oxford Legenda Press.Walsh, Michael (May 2009). George Koval Atomic Spy Unmasked. Smithsonian.Nora Levin, 1988, vol. 1. The Jews in the Soviet Union Since 1917. Cited from George Koval FBI inquiring file, in Andrey Shitov, Op. Cit.Vladimir Lota, Red Star, July 25, 2007 His Name Was Delmar.https//www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/cias-analysis-of-the-soviet-union-1947-1991/

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