Tuesday Talk: Spy for No Country. Dave Lindorff, journalist and author

Teenage Los Alamos physicist Ted Hall was first publicly exposed as an atomic spy in 1995 when the US National Security Agency decided to start releasing the Soviet wartime spy cables they had intercepted going between the Soviet spy service in NYC and KGB headquarters in Moscow. One of the first decrypted cables from October 1944 mentioned the young Hall by name and described his offer to be a volunteer spy in the Manhattan Project.  When the electrifying news broke in the British media, the Cambridge community response was largely supportive of Ted, including in the Cavendish Lab where he had worked since 1962.