Burke, David. The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage. London: Boydell and Brewster, 2008.Melita Norwood's activities as a Soviet spy first came to public attention in September 1999, with the publication of Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West (London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1999). Click for some of the extensive reportage during the UK/s "spy fever" in September 1999.
Burke, David. The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage. London: Boydell and Brewster, 2008.
According to Chris Hastings, "British Spy Melita Norwood Helped Speed Up USSR's Atomic Bomb Programme," Telegraph (London), 3 Sep. 2008, the author was a friend who interviewed Melita Norwood "extensively in the years leading up to her death in 2005." Burke claims that "Norwood, a committed Communist who began spying for Moscow in the 1930s, handed over technical information which provided Russian scientists with a crucial breakthrough. Her contribution allowed them to overcome problems, which blocked the development of their nuclear reactors and led directly to the USSR exploding its bomb in 1949 -- years earlier than would otherwise have been the case."
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