I have always wondered if there is more to the story on how David Greenglass got assigned to Los Alamos in the first place. Julius' spying didn't start with the Manhattan Project. An engineer by training, he was already running a substantial industrial espionage ring when DG got sent to help make the bomb. Granted: internal security was pretty leaky at the time, but Julius, Ethel, and David were all Red as could be, had been for years, had more incriminating associations than you can count, and should have triggered some kind of alarm had they been checked at all. Assigning the brother and brother in law of a Russian spy couple to the Manhattan Project is pretty darn-tootin' coincidental.
Coincidences do happen, but does anyone know if there is a backstory on this?
“I have always wondered if there is more to the story on how David Greenglass got assigned to Los Alamos in the first place”
I’ve had the same question. But of course, that would make me sound like McCarthy...
