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'''Theodore Alvin Hall''' (1925-1999) was a teenager hired to work on the [[Manhattan Project]], who passed top-secret details about the "[[Fat man]]" plutonium bomb to the [[Soviet Union]].

'''Theodore Alvin Hall''' (1925-1999) was a teenager hired to work on the [[Manhattan Project]], who passed top-secret details about the "[[Fat man]]" plutonium bomb to the [[Soviet Union]].

Hall was a [[physics]] prodigy who graduated [[Harvard]] at age 18, where he had become a good friend of another [[communist]] sympathizer.  On a vacation back in [[New York]], he visited the Soviet consulate and initiated contact to pass atomic secrets.

Hall was a [[physics]] prodigy who graduated [[Harvard]] at age 18, where he had become a good friend of another [[communist]] sympathizer.  On a vacation back in [[New York]], he visited the Soviet consulate and initiated contact to pass [[atomic]] secrets.

Hall was questioned by the [[FBI]] in 1951 but wasn't charged due to FBI decision that the [[Venona project]] would be inadmissable [[hearsay]] and not worth compromising the program.  <ref>[http://cryptome.org/fbi-nsa.htm FBI memo, Belmont to Boardman, February 1, 1956]</ref>

Hall was questioned by the [[FBI]] in 1951 but wasn't charged due to FBI decision that the [[Venona project]] would be inadmissable [[hearsay]] and not worth compromising the program.  <ref>[http://cryptome.org/fbi-nsa.htm FBI memo, Belmont to Boardman, February 1, 1956]</ref>