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...Haakon Chevalier incident: "It is not clear today whether the account Dr. Oppenheimer gave to Colonel Pash [of military intelligence] in 1943 concerning the Chevalier incident or the story he told the Gray board last month is the true version. If Dr. Oppenheimer lied in 1943, as he now says he did, he committed the crime of knowingly making false and material statements to a federal officer. If he lied to the board, he committed perjury...
...silence the criticism that Oppenheimer had been punished because he was not "enthusiastic" about the H-bomb. Like the Gray board, the AEC gave great weight to Dr. Oppenheimer's untruthfulness about security matters, e.g., his admitted lies about the approach made to him by Communist-tainted Haakon Chevalier, who told him that a mutual acquaintance had a way of getting information to the Communists...
...security matters. What he said in the hearing caused the board to comment, mildly enough, that Oppenheimer was even now being "less than candid." The most telling example of Oppenheimer's past capacity for untruths was drawn out in cross-examination about his relationships with his good friend Haakon Chevalier, a linguist who was once a professor at the University of California...
Security Board Counsel Roger Robb*: Would you begin at the beginning and tell us exactly what happened? Oppenheimer: Yes. One day ... in the winter of 1942-43, Haakon Chevalier came to our home. It was, I believe, for dinner, but possibly for a drink. When I went out into the pantry, Chevalier followed me or came with me to help me. He said: "I saw George Eltenton [a Russian-trained scientist] recently." [He said that] Eltenton had told him that he had a method ... of getting technical information to Soviet scientists. He didn't describe the means. I thought...
...That Haakon Chevalier, well-known translator of French literary works, approached Oppenheimer, either directly or through Frank Oppenheimer, in 1943 "for the purpose of obtaining information regarding work being done at the Radiation Laboratory for the use of Soviet scientists." Although, Nichols said, the request was refused, Oppenheimer did not report it until several months later, did not name himself as the person to whom the approach was made, and at first refused to identify Chevalier as the man who sought the information...