[0413-2300] ENORMOZ: THE LUBYANKA ATOMIC DOSSIER – Companion Dossier (PDF)

Description

When the British MAUD Committee finalized its secret technical evaluation confirming that an atomic weapon could be engineered before the end of World War II, a parallel race began in the shadows. Operating inside the British Secret Registry, Cambridge spy John Cairncross slipped the classified findings into the hands of Soviet intelligence station chief Anatoly Gorsky. Within days, covert diplomatic channels ferried the stolen specifications from wartime London across the Arctic convoy routes to the Lubyanka in Moscow. This comprehensive Companion Dossier reconstructs the clandestine machinery of Project Enormoz, detailing how Lavrentiy Beria and foreign intelligence director Pavel Fitin funneled Western nuclear calculations directly to physicist Igor Kurchatov. Through transcribed operational records, technical breakdowns of gaseous diffusion designs, and the historic Kremlin decree that launched Laboratory No. 2, this dossier offers an unvarnished examination of the twentieth century’s most consequential espionage pipeline. Readers will track the precise flow of stolen secrets that bypassed years of costly experimentation, ultimately compressing Moscow’s path to the atomic bomb and reshaping the geopolitics of the emerging Cold War.