Welcome to our new podcast, Stories, A History of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.
Each week we’ll take a look at the history of the area, one story at a time.
This week, it’s the story of the Holston Defense employee who passed plant secrets to the Russians during World War II, leading to an FBI investigation, spying charges and a trial in Greeneville, Tennessee.
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