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Document 1, set #2:
"Was
Robert Oppenheimer a spy?"
Merkulov
to Beria, Oct. 2, 1944, excerpt from Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence
Operations Changed American History by Jerrold and Leona Schecter,
p. 316. Based upon information from NKVD agent Kheifets and CPUSA
head Browder, Merkulov, the head of the NKVD, informs Beria, chairman
of the Special Committee on the Atomic Bomb, that Oppenheimer has
been cooperating with Soviet intelligence since 1942. |
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