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Atomic Pile
Sherwin, Martin J. | May 23, 1994 issue

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This article presents information on the book "Special Tasks," by former K.G.B. agent Pavel Sudoplatov. In the chapter called "Atomic Spies" some of the Manhattan Project's most distinguished scientists, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard and Niels Bohr, are accused of collaborating with Soviet agents by passing along vital secrets that helped the Soviets build their first atomic bomb. Not a single document of proof is produced. Factual errors abound, and the names of the four accused are frequently linked to convicted spies such as Klaus Fuchs and Bruno Pontecorvo, implying conspiracy merely by juxtaposition. The book was written with Sudoplatov and his son by American journalists Jerrold and Leona Schecter.

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SPECIAL Tasks (Book); BOOKS; SUDOPLATOV, Pavel; ESPIONAGE; SCHECTER, Jerrold; SCHECTER, Leona; SPIES
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