Welcome to the companion Web site to "Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies,"
originally broadcast on February 5, 2002. The program chronicles the lives
and covert activities of the so-called "atom spies" in the 1940's,
including the big one that got away, Theodore Alvin Hall. Here's what
you'll find online:
· · Read Venona Intercepts
Released by the National Security Agency, these once top-secret messages,
encoded by their Soviet senders and decrypted by Venona codebreakers,
reveal compelling, behind-the-scenes details of Soviet espionage.
· · Family of Spies
In a series of interviews alternately gushing and reserved, embittered and
accepting, the sons of the Rosenbergs, Ted Hall's wife and elder daughter,
and other family members of Venona-era spies offer their views about their
spying relatives.
· · 20th-Century Deceptions
Mata Hari. Alger Hiss. Kim Philby. Aldrich Ames. Their names stick in our
collective consciousness, though whether famously or infamously depends on
whose side you're on.
· · Decipher a Coded Message (Hot Science)
Learn some of the tricks codebreakers use to solve ciphers, then use your
new talents to make sense of what looks like a bunch of gibberish.
Plus Resources and a Teacher's Guide
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/
