Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Alfred Sarant" in English language version.
The subject was a member of the ROSENBERG espionage ring. In 1950 he deserted his wife and disappeared with CAROL DAYTON, the wife of BRUCE DAYTON. He has not been heard from since that time.
In March 1944, the FBI obtained copies of the New York County Committee of the CPUSA's membership records, probably through an illegal burglary. The records included the names of Rosenberg, Barr, and Sarant, along with their addresses and party aliases. Quick action on this intelligence would have prevented the group from making some of its most important contributions to the USSR, including the SCR-584 radar, proximity fuse, and P-80 designs, all of which were passed after March 1944.
In July 1959, Sarant and Barr attracted attention at the highest levels of the Soviet military when they completed a working prototype of a digital computer based on off-the-shelf components, including germanium transistors. The UM-1, intended as an airborne computer to control navigation and weapons systems, was small enough to fit on a kitchen table, was light enough for one person to lift, and required about the same power as a light bulb.
In 1950, Carol Dorothy abandoned her husband and two small children to help her lover and next-door neighbor escape from the FBI. Over the next three decades, he became a star of Soviet microelectronics. She became an Iron Curtain housewife. She had four more children. Then she came back.
Map showing route and means used by Alfred Sarant when he fled the USA to Moscow. [...] Sarant was given a new identity, Filip Georgiyevich Staros. He and Dayton were stashed in a luxury apartment in Warsaw for six months, before being sent to Moscow, where they were surprised to be reunited with Joel Barr. Josef Berg (Barr) and Filip Staros (Sarant) were soon sent to Czechoslovakia, where they took on leadership positions working on Soviet defense technology systems.
Meanwhile, the FBI's net was finally tightening. On July 17th, 1950, Rosenburg was arrested. On July 19th, Sarant's house in Ithaca was searched. He did not wait around to see if they dug up anything incriminating. Sarant left his wife - her efforts at befriending the Bethes not leading to much beyond a few cordial house parties — and leaves town. But he doesn't leave alone: Together with the wife of a Cornell physicist, he takes on the assumed identity of Mr. and Mrs. Dayton and flees to Mexico on August 9, 1950.
LIBERAL[ii] has safely carried through the contracting of "Kh'YuS"[iii]. Kh'YuS is a good pal of METR's[iv]. We propose to pair them off and get them to photograph their own materials having given a camera a camera for this purpose.- [iii] Kh'YuS: i.e. HUGHES, probably Joel BARR or Alfred SARANT
Please carry out a check and sanction the recruitment of Alfred SARANT[i], a lead of ANTENNA's[ii].
An interesting example of the type of material found in the reports would be in Special Report #6, 28 April 1948, which summarizes or gives the text of a significant number of LIBERAL/ANTENNA translations. [...] The translation of New York to Moscow No. 628, 5 May 1944 (paragraph 4), is important to the story of the development of the Rosenberg case. As of April 1948 the Arlington Hall VENONA unit had not been able to decrypt the first twenty-four groups of that message. Lacking this critical context, Mr. Gardner translated the message as giving a description of ANTENNA. When those missing twenty-four groups were decrypted see the reissue of the translation on 27 June 1950 it was shown that the message was in fact about Rosenberg's description of his friend Al Sarant, whom he recruited for the KGB.
The tale pieced together by Dr. Kuchment finally revealed that Filipp Georgievich Staros, a high official in the secretive world of Soviet military research, and Alfred Sarant, an American engineer who fled the United States after the arrest of his close friend Julius Rosenberg in 1950, were one and the same.
Sarant/Staros died of a heart attack in the USSR in 1979.
He died in Moscow in 1979, and his ashes were buried at the Bolsheokhtinsky Cemetery in Leningrad.
In March 1944, the FBI obtained copies of the New York County Committee of the CPUSA's membership records, probably through an illegal burglary. The records included the names of Rosenberg, Barr, and Sarant, along with their addresses and party aliases. Quick action on this intelligence would have prevented the group from making some of its most important contributions to the USSR, including the SCR-584 radar, proximity fuse, and P-80 designs, all of which were passed after March 1944.
Meanwhile, the FBI's net was finally tightening. On July 17th, 1950, Rosenburg was arrested. On July 19th, Sarant's house in Ithaca was searched. He did not wait around to see if they dug up anything incriminating. Sarant left his wife - her efforts at befriending the Bethes not leading to much beyond a few cordial house parties — and leaves town. But he doesn't leave alone: Together with the wife of a Cornell physicist, he takes on the assumed identity of Mr. and Mrs. Dayton and flees to Mexico on August 9, 1950.
Map showing route and means used by Alfred Sarant when he fled the USA to Moscow. [...] Sarant was given a new identity, Filip Georgiyevich Staros. He and Dayton were stashed in a luxury apartment in Warsaw for six months, before being sent to Moscow, where they were surprised to be reunited with Joel Barr. Josef Berg (Barr) and Filip Staros (Sarant) were soon sent to Czechoslovakia, where they took on leadership positions working on Soviet defense technology systems.
In July 1959, Sarant and Barr attracted attention at the highest levels of the Soviet military when they completed a working prototype of a digital computer based on off-the-shelf components, including germanium transistors. The UM-1, intended as an airborne computer to control navigation and weapons systems, was small enough to fit on a kitchen table, was light enough for one person to lift, and required about the same power as a light bulb.
The tale pieced together by Dr. Kuchment finally revealed that Filipp Georgievich Staros, a high official in the secretive world of Soviet military research, and Alfred Sarant, an American engineer who fled the United States after the arrest of his close friend Julius Rosenberg in 1950, were one and the same.
