Engineering Communism by Steven T. Usdin

Barr disappeared from his Paris apartment the day after David Greenglass was arrested, and fled to Czechoslovakia without taking his belongings. Barr worked for a while in late 1946 with Sperry Gyroscope Company on secret military radar systems, but was fired in 1947 after the United States Air Force refused him a security clearance.īarr then moved to Europe, studying engineering in Sweden and music composition in Paris with Olivier Messiaen. When the war ended the two founded Sarant Laboratories, and sought defense contracts, but the company soon failed, after which the two split up. Barr and Sarant gave the USSR over 9,000 pages of documents detailing over 100 weapons systems.

He and Sarant then found employment with Western Electric and worked on a highly secret radar bombsight. Barr was discovered by counterintelligence to be a Communist and was fired. Feklisov regarded the pair as the most productive members of the group.īoth Barr and Sarant were trained and employed as electrical engineers and worked on military radar. In turn, he recruited Sarant and the two shared an apartment and were allowed to function as a team by their KGB Case Officer, Alexander Feklisov.

Alfred did not hesitate in helping his friend and in the meantime the Center approved a bona fide approach.' īarr was recruited into espionage by Rosenberg. Barr asked Sarant to borrow some secret documents to which he had access because he, Barr, needed them for his personal use. Before we recruited him though, he had to pass a test. I must admit that Sarant had the makings of an undercover agent he was a cautious young man, yet full of resolve, with progressive ideas. Joel and Alfred were good friends and spent a lot of time together. They in turn persuaded Alfred Sarant to join the network. In 1941 they were recruited as Soviet spies by Jacob Golos. Julius Rosenberg signed on with the corps as a junior engineer two months later. The Army Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, hired Barr as an electrical engineer in July 1940.

He attended City College of New York with Julius Rosenberg and later worked with Rosenberg and Alfred Sarant at the United States Army Signal Corps laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey during World War II. Joel Barr (Janu– August 1, 1998), also Iozef Veniaminovich Berg and Joseph Berg, was part of the Soviet Atomic Spy Ring.īorn Joyel Barr in New York City, to immigrant parents of Ukrainian Jewish origin.

Engineering Communism by Steven T. Usdin