Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away | Ann Hagedorn

[@terencewinters2154]

Great book . Great researcher. I've lived over a lot of the same ground as the author and the spy.

[@no1reallycaresabout2]

Found this topic esp fascinating bc of the Dayton connection and bc a mole for Section 31 in DS9 is probably named after Koval

[@huntar141]

I live about 20 minutes from the Dayton Site & the Mound Site. Goerge penetrated it as well. Its great running into the old cats that used to work there at the local bar! Many great stories

[@superpoptart01]

Crescent Cafe?

[@terencewinters2154]

The one criticism is that the book is before the oak ridge overlap with seborer was discovered.

[@James_Bowie]

Elected as representative of the Young Communist League and yet he's given a security clearance to work on aspects of the Manhattan Project. Sounds about right. Puts me in mind of a bunch of Saudis who took jet aircraft flying lessons without wanting to know how to take off and land. Nothing interesting there.

[@pepkep]

You're judging history through some sort of 20/20 hindsight. Communism wasn't wanted here but was tolerated because Nazis were more dangerous. The Cold War changed that. And no one had hijacked planes and flown those planes into buildings before 9/11.

[@peterjones4180]

But, but, but, according to the democrats Mccarthy conducted a witch hunt, nothing to see here just move on.

[@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry]

You do realize that in bureaucracies no one gets promoted by being the bearer of bad news? This is particularly so if the top bananas have personalities like J. Edgar Hoover. And she did make a salient point about American complacency; the two very much go hand in hand.

[@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry]

@@peterjones4180 McCarthy was whipping up paranoia to advance his own political fortunes, and cut his own throat by pissing off the top Army brass, people who could hardly be described as ""Democrats", especially when their boy, Eisenhower, was president. I guess you missed her point about how while J. Edgar was persecuting KNOWN communist screen writers and dog-catchers, people like Koval were infiltrating strategic areas precisely because they could blend in so well with their targeted group. If you were climbing the ladder at "the Bureau", would you be looking for needles in the haystack (needles which might well make your superiors appear incompetent if revealed), or would you go for the low-hanging fruit that the media would eat up?

[@peterjones4180]

@@pepkep Actually it was the Soviets that were ALWAYS more dangerous, Stalin helped put Hitler into power because he saw in him a geopolitical opportunity to start a new war in Europe to enable the attempted invasion and occupation of Europe by the Soviet Union that was tried but had failed in 1919/1920. As Stalin told the politburo "our greatest enemies are the democratic capitalists, he (Hitler) will socialize the country and make it easier for us when we take over". Stalin understood who Hitler was and what the National Socialists goals were, however by training the German Army in the Soviet Union in military disciplines forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles and by supplying all materials possible to enable the rebuilding of the Wehrmacht so as to foment a new German war of revenge against France and Britain, in which all parties would fight each other to military and economic exhaustion as at the end of WW1, thereby enabling a successful invasion of Europe by the Soviets when the west was fatally weakened. Stalins invasion of Finland, the Baltic States and Poland were simply initial moves in that plan, which the FDR white house and to a much lesser extent the British fell over themselves to assist. Stalins plan came off the rails however when Germany won a quick victory, that destroyed his plan and left the Soviets open to attack by a far from exhausted Germany, rather than an exhausted Germany being invaded by the Soviet Union. By far the most sensible strategy would have been to allow both socialist states to fight each other to exhaustion and then attack when Germany was bogged deep in Soviet territory. By aiding the Soviets the west guaranteed the Soviets would achieve many of their goals.

[@bharnden7759]

I was expecting Ted hall. Venona caught him.

[@CosmosNut]

This was difficult to watch and listen to, I am not her audience at all. IMO not the best production values, c'mon folks you can easily improve on this. Checking out after what seems like an hour but it's only less than 10 minutes.

[@-danR]

It's one of the more egregious examples of "You're Not Getting A Free Book Outa Me" Syndrome; for which my reaction is basically, "you're not getting a sale outa me, then". I'll wait til it winds up in a local library. The real questionable thing, though, is the title of ISM's skirting KZbin's rules about clickbait. The KZbin surfer's immediate impression is that we are going to get a presentation (well or poorly, that's not the point in the identification of clickbait) about a given spy who got away, and Atomic Spies, by everyone's expectation, are among the most seductive of spy-personnel. She is actively avoiding a coherent storytelling on the chap, and presenting a vaguely coherent narrative on the research and assembly of her book, and the Museum can hardly have been unaware of that unpalatable fact when they reviewed the finished product and thought up a title. But "How I wrote a book about an Atomic Spy" probably got rejected as likely getting a quarter the web traffic when viewed in YT's right sidebar.

[@deoglemnaco7025]

My daddy and his daddy before him were both spies

[@sgtcwhatley]

I am very interested in this topic and I'm sure the book is well written however she is a terrible public speaker, the constant "uhs" and "ums" drove me crazy.

[@michaelfuchs1467]

You don't say? It drove me totally nuts. Uhm.. aaah.. Polonium... Ehm... Los.. Eh.. Alamos.. That Eh.. Ahh.. Umm... Claus.. Ehh... Fuchs.. There... Where... Uuhhh.. Mmm.. Which.. If.. Mmm.. Aaahhh.. Who... Umm... Scientist... Mmm... Ahhh... Aff-aff.. Eh.. Ter.. Holy goat 🐐 I had to stop it. 😳

[@gerickson9552]

Right there with you…..I don’t want to have a critical spirit but I’m really struggling sticking with this interview………

[@phincampbell1886]

Ah, it's so uncomfortable when a speaker is at the stage in their development that the feedback appropriate to their evolution is of the nature of such as will be a blow to receive and feel harsh to have to deliver! It's especially cruel-seeming when the medium it's coming from is online and so in the form of impersonal, cold-feeling written words. But it's a not unfair lesson for her, if audience reception feedback is relevant to her ongoing career, that it was your impression that she ummed and erred a deal too much. Maybe this kind of interview structure is/was new to her, or some such thing, and she can combine our input with her personal knowledge, of factors that might be in play for her, unknown to us, that led to creating what you found to be a stilted delivery, and refine her skills by reflecting upon the entirety of it all, and we can be comforted by knowing that taking the time to type our comments to be sure she knows about what we thought of her, wasn't regretfully only a negative or hurtful contribution, but instead was helpful, and served to generate a net positive that wouldn't have existed had we just moved on without commenting upon disliking the shortcomings we found her to possess here.

[@bryanbuchan8197]

The author takes forever to quit quoting what others say about her book.She uses the word "I" every few sentences.Brutal Brutal seminar

[@spiritualdeath101]

Monotonal voice too harsh on the ear - zero intonation. I notice this on youtube - too much tension in the vocal chords - need to loosen-up the voice before narrating. Singers & actors have warm up before going on stage.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

maybe too much coffee - spikes the cortisol stress

[@mikejudge942]

Algorithm

[@richt6353]

How many times she says "AH" in her talk?? Terrible interview!

[@jamietinker]

Come on people you’re all being overly judgmental. Just listen or not and move on

[@lindabrown3893]

Blqah blah etc. Do better ISM... I couldn't even get through half of this.

[@theodoremoran2186]

Tell the story! don't tell about writing the book. This is a terribly poorly organized presentation!

[@TecnamTwin]

This is not a good video. I clicked on it to learn about this mysterious spy. And by now good, I mean it sucks.