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Under pressure from Condon and others, Oppenheimer wrote a letter to the editor that "retracted some of the testimony," stating that "Dr. Peters has recently informed me... that I was wrong in believing... that he had ever held a membership in the Communist Party."<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 213 (PDF 223)</ref>

Under pressure from Condon and others, Oppenheimer wrote a letter to the editor that "retracted some of the testimony," stating that "Dr. Peters has recently informed me... that I was wrong in believing... that he had ever held a membership in the Communist Party."<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 213 (PDF 223)</ref>

Oppenheimer "was very much influenced [in 1942]... by the influence of Dr. Condon," according to Groves. Condon, Groves testified, "did a tremendous amount of damage at Los Alamos in the initial setup."<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 166 (PDF 176)</ref> Groves testified that he believed that Condon was "responsible for the rules&mdash;that tended to break down compartmentalization" at Los Alamos, thus making it difficult to control the diffusion of secrets and prevent espionage. Just before the [[Trinity explosion]], the Soviets scheduled a scientific conference in Moscow. The [[Kremlin]] invited several U.S. scientists to attend&mdash;a fact that a member of the [[State Department]] tried to keep secret from the Army, according to Groves.<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 173</ref> Among those invited was Condon, but the U.S. government revoked his passport to prevent him from attending. Condon "made a terrific battle to go," testified Groves:

Oppenheimer "was very much influenced [in 1942]... by the influence of Dr. Condon," according to Groves. Condon, Groves testified, "did a tremendous amount of damage at Los Alamos in the initial setup."<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 166 (PDF 176)</ref> Groves testified that he believed that Condon was "responsible for the rules&mdash;that tended to break down compartmentalization" at Los Alamos, thus making it difficult to control the diffusion of secrets and prevent espionage. Just before the [[Trinity explosion]], the Soviets scheduled a scientific conference in Moscow. The [[Kremlin]] invited several U.S. scientists to attend&mdash;a fact that a member of the [[State Department]] tried to keep secret from the Army, according to Groves. Among those invited was Condon, but the U.S. government revoked his passport to prevent him from attending. Condon "made a terrific battle to go," testified Groves:

{{cquote|That battle was so unrealistic and so completely lacking in appreciation of what was the best interest of the United States that you couldn't help but feel that either he was such an utter fool that he could not be trusted, or else that he put his own personal desires above those of the welfare of the country and therefore he was in effect disloyal, even if it was not a case of deliberately going out to aid the enemy.<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 173 (PDF 183)</ref>}}

{{cquote|That battle was so unrealistic and so completely lacking in appreciation of what was the best interest of the United States that you couldn't help but feel that either he was such an utter fool that he could not be trusted, or else that he put his own personal desires above those of the welfare of the country and therefore he was in effect disloyal, even if it was not a case of deliberately going out to aid the enemy.<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 173 (PDF 183)</ref>}}