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In Oppenheimer Red Hunt, FBI Missed Real Atomic Spies: “Despite all this surveillance and intelligence, they were completely unaware of Ted Hall, Klaus Fuchs and any of the other spies ... And there were at least three or four of them at Los Alamos. And so, it was an intelligence failure as usual in this business.”

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Post Link  In Oppenheimer Red Hunt, FBI Missed Real Atomic Spies  “Despite all this surveillance and intelligence, they were completely unaware of Ted Hall, Klaus Fuchs and any of the other spies ... And there were at least three or four of them at Los Alamos. And so, it was an intelligence failure as usual in this business.”  In Oppenheimer Red Hunt, FBI Missed Real Atomic Spies posted on Jul 31 2023 21:25:04 UTC (updated on Mon Jul 31, 2023 22:46) by  Jeff Stein   via   SpyTalk Share Of the many ironies in the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the FBI searched for reds under the beds of virtually every suspected communist in the famed nuclear scientist’s circles, only to fail to catch the real atomic spies stealing A-bomb secrets for the Soviet Union. Oppenheimer himself, who sympathized with many communist causes, such as racial integration and support for leftists in the Spanish Civil War, was under close watch by Army counterintelligence agents and the FBI throughout his stewardship