George Abramovich Koval (Russian: Жорж (Георгий) Абра́мович Кова́ль, Zhorzh Abramovich Koval, December 25, 1913 – January 31, 2006) was an American who acted as a Soviet intelligence officer for the Soviet atomic bomb project. According to Russian sources, Koval's infiltration of the Manhattan Project as a GRU (Soviet military intelligence) agent "drastically reduced the amount of time it took for Russia to develop nuclear weapons."
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25 December 1913 Sioux City, Iowa
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Died |
31 January 2006 (aged 92) Moscow, Russia
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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