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Line 1: − [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], who was later to head the [[Manhattan Project]] which designed and constructed the [[atomic bomb]], first contact with [[KGB|Soviet intelligence]] occurred in the home of Louise Branston on December 6, 1941, the day before the [[Japanese]] [[attack on Pearl Harbor]].<ref>Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schecter, Leona P. Schecter, ''Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness -- A Soviet Spymaster'', Little Brown, Boston (1994), p. 175.</ref> Branston was hosting a party to raise money for [[Spanish Civil War]] refugees. At the time Branston was being divorced from her husband Richard, and was the mistress of the [[KGB]] West Coast [[Rezident]] [[Grigory Kheifetz]], who met with Oppenheimer again later that month.+ + + + + + + + + + + + Line 8:
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'''Louise Bransten''' (b. 1908) was "a wealthy [[San Francisco]] [[Communist]]" <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=M8p00bTFvRkC&pg=RA2-PA232&lpg=RA2-PA232&ots=0AqXBNSOjU&sig=Tkrf6gNx-rovUhdNjLRzId6WEW8#PRA2-PA232,M1</ref> formerly married to [[Richard Branston]]. Louise Branston chaired the Committee of the American Russian Institute, a [[communist front]] organization.
'''Louise Bransten''' (b. 1908) was "a wealthy [[San Francisco]] [[Communist]]" <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=M8p00bTFvRkC&pg=RA2-PA232&lpg=RA2-PA232&ots=0AqXBNSOjU&sig=Tkrf6gNx-rovUhdNjLRzId6WEW8#PRA2-PA232,M1</ref> formerly married to [[Richard Branston]]. Louise Branston chaired the Committee of the American Russian Institute, a [[communist front]] organization.
[[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], who was later to head the [[Manhattan Project]] which designed and constructed the [[atomic bomb]], first contact with [[KGB|Soviet intelligence]] occurred in the home of Louise Branston on December 6, 1941, the day before the [[Japanese]] [[attack on Pearl Harbor]].<ref>Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schecter, Leona P. Schecter, ''Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness -- A Soviet Spymaster'', Little Brown, Boston (1994), p. 175.</ref> Branston was hosting a party to raise money for [[Spanish Civil War]] refugees. At the time Branston was being divorced from her husband Richard, and was the mistress of the [[KGB]] West Coast [[Rezident]] [[Grigory Kheifetz]], who met with Oppenheimer again later that month.
==Early life==
Louise Rosenberg Bransten was born October 10, 1908, at [[Berkeley]], [[California]]. She was independently wealthy through inheritance and received, in the late 1940s, an income of approximately $40,000 annually. She was formerly married to [[Richard Bransten]], alias Bruce Minton, a former editor of the [[Communist Party USA]] publication New Masses, who was expelled from the [[Communist Party]] because of differences over the expulsion of Earl Browder as head of the party.<ref name=HCUA>The shameful years; thirty years of Soviet espionage in the United States, HCUA, January 8, 1952</ref>
==UN Conference==
During the organizing conference of the United Nations in San Francisco in the spring of 1045, Louise Bransten entertained [[Dmitri Manuilsky]], the head of the delegation from the Ukraine. Manuilsky a member of Stalin's inner circle and principal spokesman for the Comintern.<ref name=HCUA/>
==New York contact==
Louise Bransten later moved from San Francisco to New York City. Shortly after moving to New York, she established contact with
[[Pavel Mikhailov]], who at the time was head of Red Army Intelligence' activity in the New York area.
Bransten, also married [[Lionel Berman]], a Communist Party official.<ref name=HCUA/>
==References==
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