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Supposedly there were actual communists within the CIA that fed information to the USSR. Don’t recall specific names, though.
Aldrich Ames in CIA and Robert Hanssen in FBI, though they worked much later and neither was a communist (Hanssen might be or at least antiimperialist, but he never admitted that). Hanssen pissed the pigs so much they given him 15 life sentences.
In the Manhattan project, beside Rosenbergs there were at least three other Soviet spies:
All that said, it is actually still unknown and most likely exaggerated how much all those agents improved the Soviet nuclear project, most likely the data they provided served mostly to compare with western projects because Soviet nuclear project had no real problems with theory or engineering, they were mostly restricted by the amount of enriched uranium and plutonium they could produce because in the first piles it went really slow, and USA had significant time advantage in that.
Even the wiki on the Rosenbergs backs up the idea that the spying likely didn't accelerate development that much of at all
Like basically everywhere else, the major limiting factor was access to uranium. Not technical knowledge.