HER SON, THE ATOMIC SCIENTIST: MIRRA BIRENS, YULI KHARITON, AND MAX EITINGON'S SERVICES FOR THE SOVIETS.

New evidence sheds fresh light on the decades-long controversy whether Dr Max Eitingon, a pioneer of psychoanalysis in Europe and Palestine, collaborated with Soviet intelligence. This paper focuses on the hitherto overlooked figure and connections of his wife Mirra, and especially the impact of her son Yuli Khariton's career as a top nuclear physicist in the USSR's scientific and defence establishment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]