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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pasadena, the FBI arrested a mild-mannered, chess-playing, Russian-born physicist named Sidney Weinbaum, 52. He was charged with committing perjury and fraud in concealing his past membership in the Communist Party in filling out job questionnaires. A wartime theoretical physicist at Bendix Aviation, he became a senior research engineer in CalTech's jet-propulsion laboratory in 1946, has had only a research fellow's job at CalTech since 1949, when Army Intelligence withdrew his clearance to do confidential work. The FBI did not link him to Spy Courier Gold, or to espionage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Smaller Ones | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

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