**The X-line, or the group working on stealing nuke know-how in the 40s was only one program. CPUSA underground apparatus operated as an arm of the KGB for 27 years, from 1921 (prior to restoring diplomatic relations) to 1948, had 800 to 1200 people involved, and as Hayden Peake, the curator of CIA’s Historical Intelligence Collection said, "No modern government was more thoroughly penetrated." [http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/review/2000/summer/re2-su0.htm] | **The X-line, or the group working on stealing nuke know-how in the 40s was only one program. CPUSA underground apparatus operated as an arm of the KGB for 27 years, from 1921 (prior to restoring diplomatic relations) to 1948, had 800 to 1200 people involved, and as Hayden Peake, the curator of CIA’s Historical Intelligence Collection said, "No modern government was more thoroughly penetrated." [http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/review/2000/summer/re2-su0.htm] |