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time cryptographic successes ofRoom 40, he derived his nickname
from a distinctive eye-twitch.HALL, THEODORE.The youngest nuclear physicist to work on the
Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico, Dr. Ted Hall was
identified in thevenonatraffic as a Soviet spy codenamedmlad
(‘‘Youngster’’). Educated at Harvard, Hall was suspected of having
continued to spy after World War II but theFederal Bureau of In-
vestigationfailed to obtain a confession from him when he was in-
terrogated in Chicago in 1952. In 1960 Hall moved to Cambridge,
England, to take up a research appointment, but made no admissions
regarding his involvement in espionage. It was not until he died in
December 2000 that his widow and daughter confirmed his covert
role for theNKVD.
HAMBLETON, HUGH.A Canadian citizen andKGBagent, Hugh
Hambleton joined NATO as an analyst in Paris in 1956 and subse-
quently continued to spy for the KGB during a long university career.
An economist by training, Professor Hambleton met Soviet leader
Yuri Andropov in Moscow in 1975 to be thanked for his lifetime ded-
icated to espionage. In 1980 Canadian authorities dropped charges of
espionage against him on the grounds that he had not committed an
offense in Canada, but warned him that he might face arrest if he
traveled abroad. He was finally arrested in London in July 1982 and
sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for having betrayed NATO se-
crets in Belgium.
HAMBRO, SIR CHARLES. Educated at Eton, Charles Hambro
fought with the Coldstream Guards during World War I and was dec-
orated with the Military Cross. With strong family connections in
Norway, he was invited to join the Scandinavian Section ofSpecial
Operations Executivein 1940 and in May 1942 became ‘‘CD,’’ a
post he relinquished toColin Gubbinsin September 1943 to run the
Tube Alloysinvestigation of the German atomic project.Hugh Dal-
tonrecalled in his memoirs that ever-charming Hambro had also
been chairman of the Great Western Railway and ran his own mer-
chant bank at the time of his appointment. After the war, Hambro
was appointed a director of the Bank of England and continued on