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It wasn't supposed to happen so quickly.
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This photo of George Koval and an unknown woman appears in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's files on the Soviet spy. According to the FBI…
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From left to right: Ernest O. Lawrence, Enrico Fermi, and Isidor I. Rabi. This photo was most likely taken at the Nuclear Physics Conference i…
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This photo of George Koval, from Sept 1929, appears on a page of his FBI file. Several pages prior, there's reference to photos from Central H…
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George Koval graduated from Central High School in Sioux City in 1929.Â
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The front of one of the sections of George Koval's FBI files is shown here. The intelligence agency's documents on Koval run in the thousands …
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George Koval, a 1929 Central High School graduate and later a spy who leaked secrets of the Soviet Union, was noted for his leftist political …
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Jared McNett is an online editor and reporter for the Sioux City Journal. You can reach him at 712-293-4234 and follow him on Twitter @TwoHeadedBoy98.
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