In Oppenheimer Red Hunt, FBI Missed Real Atomic Spies
Author Kai Bird discusses controversy around towering nuclear scientist in latest SpyTalk podcast
Of the many ironies in the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the FBI searched for reds under the beds of virtually every suspected communist in the famed nuclear scientist’s circles, only to fail to catch the real atomic spies stealing A-bomb secrets for the Soviet Union.
Oppenheimer himself, who sympathized with many…
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