Аннотация

Based upon some unpublished documents of a number of archives – the State Archive of the Russian Federation, Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Federation, Russian State Naval Archive, National Security Agency Archive, Fort George G. Meade, MD, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, MO, The National Archive (Public Record Office), Kew, Richmond, Surrey, – official documents published by Russian and U.S. governments as well as some most important books by Russian, American and British scholars the article deals with history of Soviet scientific and industrial espionage in the United States throughout World War II. It shows how three principal branches of Soviet intelligence community – Main Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army General Staff (GRU), the First (Intelligence) Directorate of Soviet Navy (GRU Naval) and the First (Intelligence) Directorate of Peoples’ Commissariat of State Security (PU NKGB) – using numerous legal and illegal covers, a host of officers, sources and agents successfully penetrated American scholarly and research institutions, industry and arsenals to provide the USSR government and military-industrial complex with top secret information relating to atomic bomb, numerous state-of-the-art radio-electronic devices, military aircrafts and many other inventions and developments thus providing Soviet researchers and engineers with the data they needed to speed up development and construction of many Soviet arms and weapons used throughout WWII and the early Cold War period.