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John Young <jya@pipeline.com>Mon, 26 Feb 1996 00:01:56 +0800
2-25-96.
The Wash Post has a Page One lead about "atomic bomb spy"
Theodore Alvin Hall, who, as a young physicist at Los
Alamos provided the Soviets with Manhattan Project secrets.
Hall's role was revealed by gradual code-cracking of cables
under the Venona program.
Though discovered, for unknown reasons Hall was never
charged and went on to a distinguished career at Cavendish
Laboratory, Cambridge, England, where he now lives in
retirement. Interviewed for the article he neither confirms
nor denies he was the spy code-named "Mlad." He suggests it
may be worth investigating why the US has kept silent about
the case.
The detailed story correlates Hall's role with the well-
known atomic bomb spies; gives amazed responses of security
officers then at Los Alamos; and lays out the long-term,
never-give-up, FBI tracking and NSA cracking.
For Unicorn and Bell: Hall was assigned to the Los Alamos
"Gadgets" division and specialized in implosion devices.
(With Hall, it's worth wondering if this ancient revelation
and the recent 20-year-old NSA-spy have anything to do
with the future of IC budgets -- teasing release of "if you
knew what we know.")
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Brad Dolan <bdolan@use.usit.net>Mon, 26 Feb 1996 00:41:25 +0800
On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, John Young wrote:
> 2-25-96.
>
> (With Hall, it's worth wondering if this ancient revelation
> and the recent 20-year-old NSA-spy have anything to do
> with the future of IC budgets -- teasing release of "if you
> knew what we know.")
>
Lipke's neighbors indicate his income didn't match his lifestyle.
FINCEN at work?
bd