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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 never charged with his crime, creating a mystery that continues to this day. The official explanation for the decision not to prosecute him has been released.<ref>http://cryptome.org/fbi-nsa.htm | + | Hall was never charged with his crime, creating a mystery that continues to this day. The official explanation for the decision not to prosecute him has been released.<ref>[http://cryptome.org/fbi-nsa.htm FBI memo, Belmont to Boardman, February 1, 1956]</ref> |
Hall switched to [[biology]] after the Manhattan Project and eventually settled in [[England]]. | Hall switched to [[biology]] after the Manhattan Project and eventually settled in [[England]]. | ||
Revision as of 16:55, April 24, 2007
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 never charged with his crime, creating a mystery that continues to this day. The official explanation for the decision not to prosecute him has been released.[1]
Hall switched to biology after the Manhattan Project and eventually settled in England.