On this day, June 23, in 1959, convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs was released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to East Germany, where he resumed a scientific career.

Fuchs, a German-born British physicist, was interred in Canada at the outbreak of World War II, but later released and sent to the United States to work on the atom bomb.

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