Alfred Sarant was part of the Rosenberg spy ring that reported to Soviet intelligence.
17 Facts About Alfred Sarant
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Alfred Sarant was recruited as a Soviet espionage agent by Barr.
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Joel and Alfred Sarant were good friends and spent a lot of time together.
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Barr asked Alfred Sarant to borrow some secret documents to which he had access because he, Barr, needed them for his personal use.
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Alfred Sarant did not hesitate in helping his friend and in the meantime the Center approved a bona fide approach.
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The Venona project transcript of 14 November 1944 reported to Moscow that Alfred Sarant had been successfully recruited.
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In 1946 Alfred Sarant moved to Ithaca, New York, where he worked at Cornell University in the physics laboratories.
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Alfred Sarant knew socially several prominent physicists, including Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman.
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Two days after Julius Rosenberg's arrest on 17 July 1950, the FBI interviewed Alfred Sarant but did not arrest him, although it possessed decrypted MVD cables that clearly identified Alfred Sarant as a member of the Rosenberg ring.
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Three days later Alfred Sarant ran away with Carol Dayton, the wife of his close friend and neighbor, Bruce Dayton; Alfred Sarant and Dayton abandoned their children and spouses.
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In Mexico City, Alfred Sarant sought assistance from officials at an obscure Polish trade office, guessing correctly that they were intelligence officers.
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Alfred Sarant was assigned a new identity, Philip Georgievich Staros, claiming a Canadian background to explain his accent.
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From Moscow, Barr and Alfred Sarant were resettled in Czechoslovakia and put to work as electrical engineers.
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Alfred Sarant was the scientific director of Zelenograd until Nikita Khrushchev's forced retirement.
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In 1969 Alfred Sarant received a state honor for the UM-1, a computer that was widely used in Soviet industry.
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Alfred Sarant led the team that created the Uzel, the first digital computer installed in a Soviet submarine.
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Alfred Sarant's cover name in Soviet intelligence and in the Venona project is "Hughes".