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...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. In 1943 the Army notified Lomanitz that he was to be drafted. Dr. Condon wrote Oppenheimer about this, as Oppenheimer put it, "in a great sense of outrage." Oppenheimer protested Lomanitz draft call (to no avail), and later tried to get Lomanitz released from the Army to return...
...late as 1949, just before Lomanitz and another Oppenheimer friend, David Bohm, were to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Oppenheimer met them on a sidewalk in Princeton, N.J., (by chance, he testified), and discussed what they would say to the committee. Oppenheimer says he told them to tell the truth, but on the stand both refused to say whether they had been Communists on the usual constitutional grounds that their answers might tend to incriminate them...
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