CHARGE AGAINST MR HOPKINS
RELEASE OF ATOMIC DATA TO RUSSIA WASHINGTON, December 2, A Congressional investigation was ordered to-day into charges that the late Mr Harry Hopkins, who was President Roosevelt’s closest cbnfidant, helped to get trunk loads of atomic secrets and materials during the war. Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the joint Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee, ordered' the investigation after a radio broadcast yesterday in which Mr George Jordan, a former major in the United States Air Force, said that he saw cargoes of atomic data and material being sent to itussia by aeroplane.
, Mr Jordan cleared Soviet lendlease shipments at Great Falls, Montana, on the aerial supply route to Russia. \
Mr Jordan said that Mr Hopkins had ordered him by telephone to rush two shipments of' uranium to Russia. Mr Jordan also linked Mr Hopkins with several suitcases which he said passed through Great Falls in the custody of Russian couriers. Mr Jordan said that he had opened several of them and had found one crammed with “top atom bomb secrets from the Oakridge, Tennessee, project.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 46, 5 December 1949, Page 3
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