Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joseph Weinberg: "In 1950 Dr. Oppen heimer told an agent of the FBI that he had not known Joseph Weinberg to be a member of the Communist Party until that fact became public knowledge. Yet on Sept. 12, 1943, Dr. Oppenheimer told Colonel Lansdale that Weinberg was a Communist Party member." Continued the commissioners: "The work of military intelligence, the FBI, and the AEC-all, at one time or another, have felt the effect of his falsehoods, evasions and misrepresentations. Dr. Oppenheimer's persistent and willful disregard for the obligations of security is evidenced by his obstruction of inquiries...
...into circulation in March 1954. At that time, Sunde was already in jail. Now it was the prosecutor's turn to laugh. As he reconstructed the affair, the Soviet embassy, anxious to help Comrade Sunde, had taken the passports and police cards he had given the Russian agent, had stuffed them into an envelope with the money, planted the lot in Sunde's flat, and then sent him word of what they had done. But the comrades made one slight mistake: they forgot to enclose old kroner...
...purpose of this letter is to state my own exhaustively considered opinion, based upon years of study of the available classified evidence, that more probably than not J. Robert Oppenheimer is an agent of the Soviet Union...
...Oppenheimer declined to cross-examine Borden, on the ground that what he had submitted was not evidence but his own conclusions. On that point Security Board Chairman Gordon Gray agreed, asserting that the board "has no evidence before it that Dr. Oppenheimer . . . has been functioning as an espionage agent...
...insurance men thought that Erwin, who had gained his experience in the stable business of life insurance, had been out of his depth in the risky casualty business. In his eagerness to expand two-year-old General American, Erwin had taken on too much risk business. Said one insurance agent: "If you were running truckloads of nitroglycerine over the rough road to Acapulco. General American would insure you." The company's loss ratio was estimated to be running as high as 70% (v. a normal ratio...