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Arthur Aleksandrovich Adams

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Arthur Aleksandrovich Adams Veteran

Birth
Eskilstuna, Eskilstuna kommun, Södermanlands län, Sweden
Death
14 Jan 1969 (aged 83)
Moscow Federal City, Russia
Burial
Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russia Add to Map
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(Russian: Артур Александрович Адамс)

a Soviet spy, who passed to the Soviet Union critical information about the American Manhattan Project.

Adams was born to a Swedish father and a Russian Jewish mother. Following the death of his father, Adams's mother with her children returned to Russia, where she died in 1895. Adams entered a military navy school in 1896. In 1903 he graduated from a school of mining technology in Kronshtadt. His wife, Dorothy, was an aunt of American book editor Robert Gottlieb.

(Russian: Артур Александрович Адамс)

a Soviet spy, who passed to the Soviet Union critical information about the American Manhattan Project.

Adams was born to a Swedish father and a Russian Jewish mother. Following the death of his father, Adams's mother with her children returned to Russia, where she died in 1895. Adams entered a military navy school in 1896. In 1903 he graduated from a school of mining technology in Kronshtadt. His wife, Dorothy, was an aunt of American book editor Robert Gottlieb.


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