| FUCHS | Klaus -, physicist convicted in 1950 of passing information to the Soviet Union about the development of the atomic bomb in the US |
| KLAUS | Physicist convicted in 1950 of passing information to the Soviet Union about the development of the atomic bomb in the US (5,5) |
| KLAUSFUCHS | German-born physicist who, in the 1940s, gave secret American, British and Canadian atomic research information to the Soviet Union (5,5) |
| WATEN | Born in Russia and growing up in rural WA, whose account of a visit to the Soviet Union was From Odessa to Odessa: The Journey of an Australian Writer (1969) |
| STAGINGROUTE | Chain of airstrips used for the delivery of Lend-Lease military aircraft from Montana (by way of Canada and Alaska) to the Soviet Union in WWII, Northwest ___ ___ |
| GOLDMAN | Emma ____, anarchist deported by the USA to the Soviet Union in 1919 |
| KALININGRAD | Russian port, formerly a main German naval base on the Baltic, ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945 (11) |
| OUDH | Historic region of N Central India merged with Agra (1877) to form the modern state (1950) of Uttar Pradesh (4) |
| MALTA | Country with the smallest national capital in the European Union (about 9,000 people) |
| TASS | They made up stories of Swedes defecting to the Soviet Union |
| KIM | India-born English double agent who defected to the Soviet Union in 1963 (3,6) |
| EIMI | 1933 book by e e cummings about a trip to the Soviet Union |
| BEIRUT | Where Kim Philby lived before defecting to the Soviet Union in 1963 (6) |
| BURGESS | Guy, double agent who defected to the Soviet Union in 1951 (7) |
| IDIOTS | "Useful __," how Lenin is said to have described Western visitors to the Soviet Union (6) |
| HISTORICAL | Chap's initially convicted in court case after earlier involvement of nothing from the past |
| EXMEROMOTU | European Union about to further Middlesex after backing of its own accord |
| TREASON | Betrayal of one's country as by yielding vital information to the enemy |
| PRESSRELEASE | Urge one to deliver official information to the media (5,7) |
| RATON | Give incriminating information to the police (about a person) (3,2) |