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Among other notable results: ¶ In the Sixth Congressional District (northeast of Berkeley), Democratic Representative Robert L. Condon was renominated, although he had been 1) barred from an atom-bomb test in Nevada last year by the Atomic Energy Commission as a "security risk," and 2) disowned by the Democratic National Committee...
Sense of Outrage. The finding of "susceptibility to influence" revolved around Oppenheimer's contacts with Dr. Edward U. Condon. Condon is the former chief of the National Bureau of Standards (now director of research and development for Corning Glass Works), who got into a headline row in 1948 with a House investigating subcommittee after the subcommittee called him "one of the weakest links" in the U.S. security chain. Early in the atomic program, Oppenheimer got a job at the University of California Radiation Laboratory for a young physicist with a known Communist background, one Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz...
Professional Status. Condon's name came up again over the Bernard Peters affair. In 1949 Dr. Oppenheimer frankly testified before the Un-American Activities Committee to the dangerous Red tendencies of Dr. Bernard Peters, a physicist (who now denies any connection with Communism). Condon, the board found, wrote Oppenheimer an angry, threatening letter, and, as previously disclosed, also tried to inspire a story that Oppenheimer was 1) losing his mind, and 2) about to embrace the Roman Catholic faith. Instead of showing anger at the Condon letter, Oppenheimer wrote to a newspaper in Rochester, where Peters was teaching...
...Condon's letter, which has appeared in the press, contained a severe attack on Dr. Oppenheimer. Nevertheless, he now testifies that he is prepared to support Dr. Condon in the loyalty investigation of the latter . . . Loyalty to one's friends is one of the noblest of qualities. Being loyal to one's friends above reasonable obligations to the country and to the security system, however, is not clearly consistent with the interests of security...
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