DR. OPPENHEIMER QUESTIONED
Met At Airport By F. 8.1. Agents
(Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK. Aug: 29. Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist, arrived by plane from Puerto Rico tonight ana was questioned for 20 minutes by three men identified by an airport official as agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Dr. Oppenheimer, who was barred from atomic' secrets by the Government because of questions involving his loyalty, had been on holiday in the Virgin Islands with his wife and two :■ . - - • An JTB.I.' Spokesman said the bureau could' not "givte'-ouVliny information at this' time” Whirl queried about the airport Incident. Dr. Oppenheimer left the airport In a private car before reporters could talk to him.. One of the leading scienists in the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, Dr. Oppenheimer was denied access to Government secrets by the Atomic Energy Commission on June 29.
•The commission’s 4-1 vote against him followed the finding of a special three-man security board which decided that, while he was loyal and discreet, he also was a security risk. Mcfst of the allegations against Dr. Oppenheimer concerned associations with known Communists.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27442, 31 August 1954, Page 11
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