Fox, a German, was born in a Protestant activist family in191and lived in a small town near darmstadt, Germany. 193 1 year, Fox moved his family to Kiel, studied at Kiel University, and then joined the German * * * Production Party. At the beginning of 1933, they went underground to avoid the fascist stormtroopers in Kiel. 1933, Fox arrived in Paris by bus, from where he went to England.
In Britain, because of his outstanding talent, Fox passed the defense of his doctoral thesis at 1936 and began to work in the laboratory of the famous professor Max Bohr. With the beginning of World War II, Fox, an alien from the "enemy country", was detained and was not released until the beginning of 1940.
German scientist Bo Bairras is also an anti-fascist. He is engaged in atomic bomb research at Birmingham University in England. He invited Charles to work in his laboratory. In the project code-named "Silver Carp Alloy", Fox solved a series of important and complicated mathematical problems in the uranium bomb project.
1942, Fox became a British citizen and was ordered to supervise the research progress of the German atomic bomb. At the same time, the British Secret Intelligence Agency also provided him with relevant information for his analysis. These tasks of the Secret Intelligence Agency further consolidated the trust that Charles kept secret for the "Silver Carp Alloy" project.
During this period, Charles actively contacted the Soviet embassy and began to provide confidential information to Sonia, the joint director of the General Intelligence Bureau of the Soviet General Staff. Sonia pretended to be a servant of German expatriates.
1943, Charles was invited by Americans to participate in the development of the "Manhattan" atomic bomb. In February of the same year, Charles arrived in America as a member of the British delegation. There, Lamond, a spy of the Soviet Secret Service in new york, established contact with him. Within five months, Lamond met with Charles regularly in new york and got important information from him.
1in August, 944, Lamond lost contact with Charles. Afterwards, it was discovered that Charles had been transferred to the laboratory in Los Alamos.
In the process of restoring contact, Lamond visited Charles Crisgeller, Charles's sister, three times. As a result, united states secret service paid attention to Lamond and Charles, which brought quite serious consequences to other foreign intelligence agents known to Charles and Lamond.
I resumed contact with Charles in February 1945 and 65438+, and then I continued to receive extremely important information from him about the development of atomic bombs. Lamond always goes to Santa Fe near Los Alamos to meet Charles and get information from him. At a regular meeting, Charles said that he participated in the experiment of the first atomic bomb in June 1945 and made a detailed analysis of this experiment.
1June, 946, Charles left Los Alamos and returned to England. He was appointed as the head of the theoretical physics department of Harur Atomic Bomb Research Center and was warmly welcomed. Here, he soon began to develop the British atomic bomb.
In Britain, the information obtained from Charles about the development of the atomic bomb is of great value, which saves a lot of money and time for the Soviet Union and greatly shortens the time limit for solving related key problems.
During the cooperation between the two sides, when Charles asked the Soviet agent why he was still single, he replied that he knew what kind of danger he was taking. "I thought about it more than once," he said. "I know very well that I am taking great risks in helping the Soviet Union and meeting you. It can be said that I am walking in a minefield full of mines. If I take a wrong step in cooperation with you, even a small step will have fatal consequences for me. Personally, I am always ready to sacrifice myself, but to be honest, I don't want my wife and children to feel sorry for me. "
1On August 29th, 949, the successful explosion of Soviet plutonium bomb was a real reward for Charles, who knew the value of this victory very well. However, this excellent spy of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Agency has no time to be happy.
The American counterintelligence agency has begun a detailed investigation into Lamond betrayed by the traitor Guzenenko. Charles was under suspicion because his name and the name of his sister Chris Geller appeared in the notebook of convicted Canadian professor Gary Perian.
MI5, the British anti-espionage agency, obtained indirect evidence from the FBI, so it began to conduct a detailed investigation on Charles. Uria Scarton, an experienced prosecutor and psychologist in MI5, deliberately created an atmosphere of distrust among Charles' colleagues, while the FBI fabricated false evidence and lied that Lamond had betrayed Charles. Charles couldn't bear the pressure of the tricks of MI5 and the FBI, so he "collapsed". He finally admitted that he had cooperated with Soviet foreign intelligence agencies.
Fokerman said in the book Spy that Skardon knew everything about Charles, but he couldn't prove it to the court because the case involved "the top secret of western intelligence". Now we know that this has something to do with Winona's action plan, which aims to decipher the secret messages sent by the Soviet Union to the central government from the Secret Intelligence Service of new york's Foreign Intelligence Agency during the war.
Therefore, the prosecutor bravado, claiming that "MI5" has enough evidence to prosecute Charles, and the next step is to listen to his confession.
Charles is not a professional agent. He knows nothing about the intrigues used by the investigators in the trial. You know, it was this Skardon who was at a loss when interrogating Ji philby. However, Charles, who is naive and ignorant in criminal investigation and law, seems helpless.
Charles was caught in a painful wait. He waited for the severest sentence. When the court adjourned, his defense lawyer Ke Ben came up to him and asked him what kind of sentence he hoped to get. "The death penalty." Charles answered calmly. The defense lawyer said, "No, it's 14 years in prison." Charles can't believe this. After his arrest, he sentenced himself to death.
Charles escaped death because he sold state secrets to allies, not enemy countries. However, if Britain agrees to hand him over to an American court, he can't escape the electric chair. You know, the Americans sentenced the Luxembourg couple to death only because they were a little skeptical.
When Charles went to prison, he experienced the same feelings as other people who were sentenced for espionage, such as Ben and Mr. and Mrs. Dachinik. Only the British anti-espionage agency didn't pester him, because he had completely confessed his "crime", but admitted that it was to maintain peace and prevent the outbreak of nuclear war.
No one will doubt Charles' true heroism, even his colleagues who once accused him of betraying his country and pursuing glory have gradually changed their views. They began to understand that if the Soviet Union had no atomic bomb at 1949, Truman and other war maniacs in the United States would dare to drop the atomic bomb "at least to scare" a city of the Eastern Group. They may have used nuclear weapons in the Korean War, but now the whole world thinks that the Soviet Union has this terrible weapon, and American hegemony has come to an end. The era of nuclear containment has arrived.
After spending nine and a half years in a British prison, Charles left Britain in 1959 and moved to East Germany, where he was not only regarded as a great scholar, but also an active fighter of socialist Germany. There he got married. Charles lived a happy life for the next 30 years. He works hard in his favorite field of theoretical physics. His happy family life is the compensation he deserves for being forced to be single for a long time.
It must be pointed out that Charles may have a grudge against the Soviet foreign intelligence agencies, because the Soviet foreign intelligence agencies did not care about him after he was released from prison, nor did they express their due thanks for his loyal cooperation for more than ten years, at least before his death.
Charles died on 1988. He had been waiting for nearly 30 years when the Soviet Union acknowledged his achievements. Charles was awarded the Medal of National Friendship only after his death.