Soviet "nuclear" spy in London, was an Austrian physicist.

The authors of the book, published in the United Kingdom in July, say that to learn the name of the Soviet spy in Britain, which for several years, passed information to the USSR's nuclear program in London. This Engelbert Broda, an Austrian physicist who worked in Kavendishskoy lab in Cambridge, where during the Second World War to conduct research on projects related to nuclear weapons. On this June 10, writes The Times and The Daily Telegraph.
One of the authors of the book "Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America" - Alexander Vassiliev, a former Soviet journalist during the 1990's has been a short-term access to the archives of the Soviet secret service KGB. He made the necessary statements, and then emigrated. This book cites abundantly documents the KGB, including a cable from London, Moscow tale about the recruitment of new agenta.Broda came to the UK in 1938, after the annexation of Austria by Germany. He said local authorities that a student, a physicist and is going to continue teaching in Bristol. In fact, more likely, he fled Nazi persecution from the authorities, who arrested him twice in Berlin, apparently, he had already established a contact with SSSR.Mi-5 followed Brody, listened to his telephone calls and letters perlustrate, but not able to prove his relationship with the Communists. In 1941, the Austrians offered a job in Cambridge. Soon, he gained access to nuclear secrets, !
not only Britain but the United States, but less than a year after beginning work Broda, who gave the KGB code name "Eric", passed the first piece of information to Moscow.
For her work Broda money requested. In the years 1942-45 "Eric" three times a week, traveled to London. When he wanted to know the agent of the KGB that he could meet with him, he did check the phone book, which is the public telephone booth. Among the documents that he was able to convey - photocopy paper from a "Manhattan Project", the U.S. nuclear program.
In 1948, suspects that soon it may be disclosed, Brod returned to Austria, where, until the end of life worked at the University of Vienna. According to The Daily Telegraph, espionage Brody helped the Soviet Union to conduct its nuclear tests in 1949, several years after the first U.S. trials.