[ScaniaBoy]

https://www.unz.com/article/was-robert-oppenheimer-a-soviet-agent/

I have read Sudopltov’s book and others realted to Oppenheimer. It appears that Oppenheimer (and many other of the top nuclear scientists) were not controlled agents. He might not even have been aware of being surrounded by Soviet agents, but in the end he would not have cared, because he felt he had the right to divulge the physics of the bomb to the world. Is that a person who should have a security clearance?

[Nifster]

Exactly

[sauropod]

Excellent question.

[Rockingham]

I recall an interview with the late Soviet defector Vasili Mitrokhin in which he described Robert Oppenheimer as a Soviet agent, but that the claim was edited out of his published work as too provocative. Mitrokhin's typewritten notes from his reading of the KGB archives are now on deposit with Churchill College at Cambridge in Britain, with portions though still classified and unavailable even to qualified researchers.

Due to limited information and differences in spy craft and terminology between the Soviet Union and the US, the distinction between source and controlled agent can be murky and confusing. Mitrokhin's account was to the effect that Oppenheimer knowingly provided secret information about the A bomb to a man whom he knew to be a Soviet agent. That would make Oppenheimer guilty of espionage under US law, a Soviet spy in common meaning.

[NorthMountain]

he felt he had the right to divulge the physics of the bomb to the world. Is that a person who should have a security clearance?

NO!!!!!!