External links related to Joel Barr & Alfred Sarant

• Biography of the composer Elie Siegmeister, Joel Barr's teacher and friend
• Computing in the Soviet space program -- includes quotes about Staros (Sarant) and Berg (Bar)
• Interview with Antonin Svoboda, a Czech scientist who helped Sarant and Barr design the Soviet bloc's first automated anti-aircraft weapon
• NSA monograph "The Venona Story"
• Official government website for Zelenograd, the cyber-city Sarant and Barr conceived
• Article about the proximity fuze, a technology that Julius Rosenberg illegally transferred to the Soviet Union
• Looking for the Future, Leon Wofsy's memoir that includes descriptions of the Communist scene at City College of New York during the era when Joel Barr, Julius Rosenberg and other members of their espionage ring attended CCNY
• Made in the USSR, Von Hardesy's article about the Soviet project to clone the B-29 bomber. Intelligence from Barr and other members of the Rosenberg espionage ring almost certainly facilitated this project.
• Recording of Benny Goodman playing at a concert in Moscow that Barr attended
• Article about the EKBM-24-71 microcalculator, a copy of a Japanese calculator, that Sarant and Barr created. It was one of the first microcalculator's built int he USSR and the first product incorporating Soviet-built very large scale integrated circuits (VSLIs).
• Biography of Olivier Messiaen, the pioneering French musician who Barr studied under in Paris
• PBS "Red Files" interview with FBI agent Robert Lamphere who led investigations of Barr, Sarant and the Rosenbergs
• Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (McCarthy Hearings 1953-54), including testimony from Alfred Sarant's wife, Louise Sarant, Joel Barr's girl friend, Vivian Glassman, and others about Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant
• Morton Nadler, a CCNY Communist engineer met Alfred Sarant and Joel Barr in Prague in 1955 and declined their attempts to recruit him to join them in the Soviet Union
• A tribute to the SCR-584 radar. Barr and Sarant provided detailed plans for manufacturing the SCR-584 to the KGB during World War II
• Excerpts and Summaries from the Rosenberg trial transcript (including Max Elitcher, David Greenglass, Harry Gold, Elizabeth Bentley, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg)
• National Security Agency's declassified "Venona" decrypts
• Department of Expert Systems (ES) of the Institute for Automation & Control Processes (IACP), established in Vladivostock by Alfred Sarant (Filip Staros)
• КОРАБЕЛЬНЫЕ АВТОМАТИЗИРОВАННЫЕ СИСТЕМЫ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ (Russian language document on the history of ship automation, mentions that the Uzel fire-control computer created by Filip Staros was the first digital computer used on Soviet submarines)
• Computer Museum article about Philip Staros (Alfred Sarant) (in Russian)
• 1966 photograph of Philip Staros (far right)