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{{Cquote|My name is [[Pavel Anatolievich Sudoplatov]], but I do not expect you to recognize it, because for fifty-eight years it was one of the best-kept secrets in the [[Soviet Union]]. ...My Administration for Special Tasks was responsible for [[sabotage]], [[kidnap]]ping, and [[assassination]] of our enemies beyond the country's borders. ...I was responsible for [[Trotsky]]'s assassination and, during [[World War II]], I was in charge of [[guerrilla warfare]] and [[disinformation]] in [[Germany]] and German-occupied territories. ... I was also in charge of the Soviet [[espionage]] effort to obtain the secrets of the [[atomic bomb]] from [[America]] and [[Great Britain]]. I set up a network of ''illegals'' who convinced [[Robert Oppenheimer]], [[Enrico Fermi]], [[Leo Szilard]], [[Bruno Pontecorvo]], [[Alan Nunn May]], [[Klaus Fuchs]], and other scientists in America and Great Britain to share atomic secrets with us.<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), pg. 3.</ref> ...In developing Oppenheimer as a source,[[Vassili Zarubin]]'s wife, Elizabeth, was essential.<ref>''Special Tasks'', pgs. 189-190.</ref>}}

{{Cquote|My name is [[Pavel Anatolievich Sudoplatov]], but I do not expect you to recognize it, because for fifty-eight years it was one of the best-kept secrets in the [[Soviet Union]]. ...My Administration for Special Tasks was responsible for [[sabotage]], [[kidnap]]ping, and [[assassination]] of our enemies beyond the country's borders. ...I was responsible for [[Trotsky]]'s assassination and, during [[World War II]], I was in charge of [[guerrilla warfare]] and [[disinformation]] in [[Germany]] and German-occupied territories. ... I was also in charge of the Soviet [[espionage]] effort to obtain the secrets of the [[atomic bomb]] from [[America]] and [[Great Britain]]. I set up a network of ''illegals'' who convinced [[Robert Oppenheimer]], [[Enrico Fermi]], [[Leo Szilard]], [[Bruno Pontecorvo]], [[Alan Nunn May]], [[Klaus Fuchs]], and other scientists in America and Great Britain to share atomic secrets with us.<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), pg. 3.</ref> ...In developing Oppenheimer as a source,[[Vassili Zarubin]]'s wife, Elizabeth, was essential.<ref>''Special Tasks'', pgs. 189-190.</ref>}}

In 1941 Elizabeth Zarubina was a captain in the KGB. After her husband's posting to [[Washington D.C.]], she traveled to [[California\\ frequently to cultivate the Oppenheimer family through [[social]] contacts arranged by [[Gregori Kheifets]]. Kheifets then introduced Elizabeth to Oppenheimer's wife, [[Kitty Harris]], who was sympathetic to the Soviet Union and [[Communist\\ ideals, and the two worked out a system for future meetings.<ref>Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schecter, Leona P. Schecter, ''Special Tasks'', pg. 190.</ref>

In 1941 Elizabeth Zarubina was a captain in the KGB. After her husband's posting to [[Washington D.C.]], she traveled to [[California]] frequently to cultivate the Oppenheimer family through [[social]] contacts arranged by [[Gregori Kheifets]]. Kheifets then introduced Elizabeth to Oppenheimer's wife, [[Kitty Harris]], who was sympathetic to the Soviet Union and [[Communist]] ideals, and the two worked out a system for future meetings.<ref>Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schecter, Leona P. Schecter, ''Special Tasks'', pg. 190.</ref>

Zarubina and Kheifetz persuaded Oppenheimer to share information with 'antifascists of German origin,' which provided a rationale for taking Klaus Fuchs to [[Los Alamos]]. Oppenheimer agreed to hire, and promote these people, provided he received confirmation of their opposition to [[Nazism]] before they came to the project. Elizabeth Zarubina gave a code word—in fact, a code sentence—to a member of Oppenheimer's circle to pass to Oppenheimer. Its use could identify someone friendly to their cause: 'My escape from Germany was similar to the escape of Lise Meitner.'  

Zarubina and Kheifetz persuaded Oppenheimer to share information with 'antifascists of German origin,' which provided a rationale for taking Klaus Fuchs to [[Los Alamos]]. Oppenheimer agreed to hire, and promote these people, provided he received confirmation of their opposition to [[Nazism]] before they came to the project. Elizabeth Zarubina gave a code word—in fact, a code sentence—to a member of Oppenheimer's circle to pass to Oppenheimer. Its use could identify someone friendly to their cause: 'My escape from Germany was similar to the escape of Lise Meitner.'