www.SantaFeSpyTour.com

Santa Fe: City of Spies...
And the target - Los Alamos!

Tour the spots that changed the course of history!

CONTACT

CURRENTLY SCHEDULED TOURS
I think we've probably had our last tour for this year, with the weather getting  colder.
But feel free to inquire (above)

Actually, somebody inquired about December 16-23, so let me know if you're also interested
in that  period,and maybe we can  put a sufficient-sized group together

"Even as a Santa Fe resident and journalist, I didn't know the full story of international espionage
centered on our lovely town. Especially, if you've seen Oppenheimer, this is a must." 

____________________________________________________

Tuesday, November 14

"A wonderful tour - adds a whole new dimension to downtown Santa Fe"

November 10, 2023

Biggest group ever - October 29, 2023
Fellowship of the Desert (Albuquerque, NM)

"A wonderful tour. We all had a great time"

 

(Tour group  Oct. 23)

(Tour group Saturday, Oct. 21)

(Tour group Sunday, October 15)

 

Tour comments:

"It was a great afternoon!  Everyone enjoyed themselves.  Thank you ..so much"
-Marcy Gonzales, Jubilee at Los Lunas

SANTA FE SPY TOUR IN THE NEWS Santa Fe New Mexican August 4, 2023 Did nice interview on KSJE Radio , Farmington NM          (New Mexican 6-17-11) Walking tour focuses on Santa Fe espionage  ...Jim Terr, known for his satirical songwriting, has been taking tourists on a 50-minute walking tour of Santa Fe sites that figured in espionage of the Manhattan Project in 1945 and Edward Lee Howard's defection to the Soviet Union in 1985.  The $15 tour [leaves from in front] of the Haagen-Dazs Shop, 56 E. San Francisco St., which was once Zook's Pharmacy and served as a "safe house" for the Soviet agent who planned the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940, according to former CIA officer E.B. Held.  Terr's tour is based on Held's recent A Spy's Guide to Santa Fe and Albuquerque and stories by New Mexican staff writer Tom Sharpe. Terr, who began leading the tour last Sunday, said so far he's had "small but enthusiastic crowds." He said he will continue to lead the tour daily until Sunday, then decide whether to cut back to fewer days per week.  For more information, visit www.santafespytour.com.

 

Book links Trotsky assassin to Plaza pharmacy,        now Haagen-Dazs shop Tom Sharpe | The New Mexican A drugstore on the Santa Fe Plaza figured in the assassination of Leon Trotsky, says a new book by an intelligence professional.  E.B. Held's A Spy's Guide to Santa Fe and Albuquerque, published this month by The University of New Mexico Press, tells how Zook's Drugstore served as a safe house for a Soviet secret agent 70 years ago.  The author says a Lithuanian-born, Argentina-raised, French-educated KGB agent named Josef Grigulevich used the store at 56 E. San Francisco St., now the site of the Haagen-Dazs shop, as his base for the assassination of the Russian revolutionary in Mexico City nearly 1,200 miles away...    Tom Sharpe | The New Mexican The most significant acts of espionage in history took place at the close of World War II in Santa Fe.  True, the roots of the atomic-spy story are in Los Alamos and dozens of other places, but Santa Fe was where the brilliant but philosophically tortured physicist Klaus Fuchs turned over the secrets to the atomic bomb to bread-for-the-masses, traveling communist Harry Gold 64 years ago.  Many local places figured in the Manhattan Project in general and the Fuchs-Gold story in particular. Here is a tour of some of the landmarks...   Join us for the SANTA FE SPY TOUR Researched - authoritative - fascinating

 

GOOD CLEAN SPY TOUR FUN  

 

September, 2023

"Fascinating  history!"

August, 2023

"Enjoyed the tour  - bringing real locations to this bomb story was so enjoyable to me that I went home, took the 109 E. Palace book I had on my bookshelf, and finally began to read it -  already on Chapter Two! Thank you for the walk around Santa Fe and sharing your knowledge while pointing out important meeting spots of spy trysts." "Jim, we learned a lot, thank you!"

May, 2023

Tour group October 30, 2021   Comments: "Fun afternoon."  "Great day, fabulous tour."

Stephen AmbroseTours group 10-29-22

  

  

 
Posing in front of the statue of Archbishop Lamy,
in the tradition of KGB agents who visit Santa Fe (as explained on tour)

 

SCHEDULE / DETAILS
(subject to change)

Walking tour by appointment. (Almost any starting time from 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. is good.) Please e-mail here (Not currently being offered daily; only by appointment or when scheduled Tour usually embarks from outside Häagen-Dasz® ice cream shop at the SW corner of the Santa Fe plaza (56 East San Francisco St., corner of Lincoln Ave). Price is $15 per person. Must have a minimum of six (6) people or $90 to do a tour, since I drive over from Las Vegas, NM to do it. PLEASE BRING A HAT, UMBRELLA, WATER, AND WHATEVER ELSE YOU MIGHT NEED TO BE COMFORTABLE. Tour is around 50 minutes long.

** Please calibrate your time with the Spitz Clock (which figures in our spy story!)
or some other reliable time reference, and please arrive early)

 

 

RECOMMENDED: Santa Fe Walkabouts offers customized guided tours
of scenic New Mexico. Let's hike, mountain bike, or drive on back country roads!
Let's go Walkabout! www.santafewalkabouts.com

Thanks to The Santa Fe Traveler

tourist tourism walking tour Los Alamos atomic bomb secrets A-bomb Atomic bomb  Manhattan project Santa Fe espionage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walking tour will embark at 4:30 pm Saturdays & Sundays from outside Häagen-Dazs® ice cream shop at the SW corner of the Santa Fe plaza (56 East San Francisco St., corner of Lincoln Ave) - and by appointment.

Reservations not required for regularly-scheduled tours, but group size may be limited, so PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY!**

Cost is $15 per person (children under 12, accompanied by parent or guardian, are free).

No videotaping please. We assume no liability whatsoever, including for accidents, exhaustion, bad weather or other acts of God.

PLEASE BRING A HAT, UMBRELLA, WATER, AND WHATEVER ELSE YOU MIGHT NEED TO BE COMFORTABLE AND STAY UP WITH THE GROUP. THANK YOU! Tour is less than an hour in length.

In the event of CANCELLATION, we will notify you by phone.

Coming soon - similar tour but slightly different: The Manhattan Project Tour !