Santa Fe: Assassins, Spies and the Manhattan Project Tour｜United States

Step into Santa Fe's past and explore its extraordinary connection to the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. Begin your journey at the back-room office where gate passes were issued and transportation was arranged to take arriving scientists and their families “up the hill” to Los Alamos.

Stand near the bridge where German physicist Klaus Fuchs met American chemist Harry Gold in 1945 to deliver atomic secrets taken from Los Alamos. Walk part of the very route used by Edward Lee Howard, a fired CIA operative turned Soviet informer, during his escape to Moscow in 1985.

Along the way, learn about spy craft techniques used to coordinate meetings, confirm identities, and transfer information between spies and their couriers during the Manhattan Project and Cold War. Hear true stories and genuine facts associated with Santa Fe's extraordinary connection with important historical events.

Several anecdotes and vintage images will bring out the human side of a critical and dangerous period in American history.