Character Analysis
Lona Cohen
Cohen was the KGB spy/courier who replaced Saville Sax to get a final interview with Ted Hall. She had a super close call when she was stopped for an inspection at the train station while carrying a huge amount of top secret information from Hall, but her quick thinking allowed her to escape unscathed.
Alexander Feklisov
Feklisov was Sam Semyonov's KGB buddy. Go team.
Pavel Fitin
The KGB's chief of foreign intelligence was psyched he could claim to be the one who got an agent (Ted Hall) in Los Alamos.
Zalmond Franklin
Franklin was an old buddy of Clarence Hiskey, but he was also a KGB courier. When he reported to his superiors that Hiskey might be able to help them steal information regarding the atomic bomb, they sent Franklin back in for more info, only to be thwarted by Hiskey's wife and then the FBI.
Peter Ivanov
A KGB agent in San Francisco, because he was watched too closely by the FBI, he asked George Eltenton to try to hook him up with prominent American physicists.
Sergei Kurnakov
Kurnakov was a Soviet journalist based out of New York. Ted Hall and Saville Sax were given his number as someone who would pass on info to the KGB, which is exactly what he did.
Leonid Kvasnikov
Kvasnikov ran the KGB offices in NYC, and he got the job of comparing Hall and Fuchs's reports. He concluded they were thorough and complete, which was good news for the Soviets but bad news for the U.S. of A.
Saville Sax
Sax was Ted Hall's communist roommate who helped Hall figure out how to get information to the KGB. Then he was selected to be Hall's courier until Lona Cohen took over the job.
"Sam" Semyon Semyonov
Semyonov was Harry Gold's KGB contact. He was a super secret agent for the KGB with offices hidden in the Soviet consulate.
Ruth Werner
A KGB spy in England, Werner posed as a German refugee mother of two. She was Fuchs's KGB contact until he transferred to America to work at Los Alamos.
Anatoly Yatzkov
Known to Harry Gold as "John," Yatzkov was Gold's new KGB contact because Semyonov was under too much heat from the feds. They definitely didn't want to risk losing a high-profile source like Fuchs.
Vasily Zarubin
Zarubin was a top KGB agent in New York City when Franklin submitted his report on Hiskey. Zarubin transmitted the information to Moscow, who responded with commands to get more information from Hiskey.