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J. Robert Oppenheimer (view source)
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But Oppenheimer insisted that what he had told Pash about the three contacts was actually just “a cock-and-bull story.”<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 137 (PDF 147)</ref> "This whole thing was a pure fabrication except for the one name Eltenton," testified Oppenheimer, who called his previous story "a piece of idiocy" that was "wholly false."<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 149 (PDF 159)</ref> Asked "You lied to him?" Oppenheimer answered "Yes." Asked under oath for an explanation of why he had lied, the brilliant physicist testified, “Because I was an idiot.”<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 137 (PDF 147)</ref> Despite this incident, Oppenheimer was still meeting with Chevalier a decade later, including once in Paris,<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 150 (PDF 140)</ref> where, again, presumably "the FBI found it difficult to monitor his conversations."<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,935123,00.html THE ATOM: A Matter of Character]," ''Time'', June 14, 1954</ref>
But Oppenheimer insisted that what he had told Pash about the three contacts was actually just “a cock-and-bull story.”<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 137 (PDF 147)</ref> "This whole thing was a pure fabrication except for the one name Eltenton," testified Oppenheimer, who called his previous story "a piece of idiocy" that was "wholly false."<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 149 (PDF 159)</ref> Asked "You lied to him?" Oppenheimer answered "Yes." Asked under oath for an explanation of why he had lied, the brilliant physicist testified, “Because I was an idiot.”<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 137 (PDF 147)</ref> Despite this incident, Oppenheimer was still meeting with Chevalier a decade later, including once in Paris,<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 150 (PDF 140)</ref> where, again, presumably "the FBI found it difficult to monitor his conversations."<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,935123,00.html THE ATOM: A Matter of Character]," ''Time'', June 14, 1954</ref>
Sergei Leskov, science correspondent for ''Izvestia'', a Moscow newspaper in which the Russian government holds a controlling stake, reported in 1994 that Russian government officials informed him
{{cquote|that as well as Klaus Fuchs, who was imprisoned for espionage in Britain for 14 years, and "Perseus," an unidentified agent who has been mentioned frequently in recent years, there were 10 agents of similar caliber working in the West. Six worked in the United States, four in Britain. They were significant figures who remain unknown to the FBI to this day.<ref>Sergey Leskov, "An Unreliable Witness," ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=VAwAAAAAMBAJ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]'', July/August, 1994, p. 36</ref>}}
===Policy influence===
===Policy influence===