The Truth About Oppenheimer: Why Did Both J. Edgar Hoover & Einstein Despise Him?
A new movie is not going to tell the truth about Oppenheimer, the fact he was a spy that passed on atomic secrets to Stalin for example, will be absent.
If I were to believe "what everyone knows" about President Harry Truman I would believe he was a tough Cold War fighter. That he cleaned up all the security lapses with his loyalty oaths program (because a spy wouldn't lie, right?), that McCarthy imagined spies were still in the government. Once again the facts do not match what we are taught.
Memos and urgent appeals to remove J. Robert Oppenheimer from first the government and then later the atomic program by J. Edgar Hoover began in 1941. Sadly the FBI had used illegal wiretaps that could not be entered in court to prosecute him. The tapes showed that not only was Oppenheimer a secret member of the Communist Party, but by wiretapping the Soviet Commisar it was discovered he was a spy.
First FDR ignored the information. Next Truman. Next Eisenhower, an FDR appointee during World War 2.
Democrats for decades have spun the story that the atomic bombs were used on Japan to scare Stalin. The only problem with that is that we did next to nothing to remove spies from the government! Stalin knew all about our atomic bombs. Truman looked at the memos from the FBI - and gave Oppenheimer Q security clearance. That meant he had access to every aspect of our atomic program. It wasn't too long that the Soviets had their own atomic bombs. We executed the Rosenbergs as spies for giving far less information than Oppenheimer had at his disposal. The Cold War was giving us a serious black eye.Letter from Boris Merkulov (USSR People's Commissar for State Security) to Lavrenty Beria (USSR People's Commissar for Internal Affairs), 2 October 1944
2 October 4 [1944] TOP SECRET
1107/M URGENT
Copy # 2
PEOPLE'S COMMISSAR FOR INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE USSR
GENERAL COMMISSAR OF STATE SECURITY
Comrade BERIA, L.P.
In accordance with your instruction of 29 September 1944, NKGB USSR continues measures for obtaining more detailed information on the state of work on the [problem of uranium] [handwritten] and its development abroad.
In the period 1942-1943 important data on the start of work in the [USA] [handwritten] on this problem was received from our foreign agent network using the contacts of Comrade Zarubin and Kheifitz in their execution of important tasks in line with the executive committee of the Comintern.
In 1942 one of the leaders of scientific work on [uranium] in the USA, Professor Oppenheimer while being an unlisted (nglastny) member of the apparat of Comrade Browder] [handwritten] informed us about the beginning of work.
On the request of Comrade Kheifitz, confirmed by [Comrade Browder,] [handwritten] he provided cooperation in access to research for several of our tested sources including a relative of [Comrade Browder] [handwritten].
Due to complications of the operational situation in the [USA,] [handwritten] dissolution of the [Comintern] [handwritten] and explanations of Comrades Zarubin and Kheifitz on the Mironov affair it is expedient to immediately sever contacts of leaders and activists of the [American Communist Party] [handwritten] with scientists and specialists engaged in work on [uranium.] [handwritten]
NKGB requests the consent of the leadership [Instancia].
PEOPLE'S COMMISSAR OF STATE SECRUITY USSR
Commissar of State Security First Rank
Signed/ MERKULOV
Handwritten note by Beria Correct . 2 October 1944
Printer 3 copies
No.1 Comrade Beria
No.2 Sec. NKGB
No.3 Dept. NKGB
Einstein took the stand at hearings to denounce Oppenheimer - he couldn’t mention he had seen the proof Oppenheimer gave Stalin the atomic bomb, but he made it clear how he felt.
EX-SPY SAYS OPPENHEIMER, OTHERS GAVE ATOMIC SECRETS TO SOVIETS
J. Robert Oppenheimer and other U.S. scientists gave the Soviets information on their efforts to build the first atom bomb, a retired Russian spy says in his memoirs quoted in Time magazine.
The information passed on during World War II "significantly altered the direction of Soviet nuclear research," says Pavel Anatolievich Sudoplatov, who plotted the assassination of Leon Trotsky for Josef Stalin. Excerpts from "Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - a Soviet Spymaster" appear in the April 25 issue of Time.
Soviet Spy Reveals Oppenheimer As Spy
Here is the trailer for the upcoming movie:
The film is based on the book American Prometheus which does not admit he was a spy.
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