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===Communist Party membership===
 
===Communist Party membership===
But Oppenheimer “was not simply a casual Popular Front liberal who ignorantly bumped up against the [[CPUSA]] in some of the areas in which it operated," according to John Earl Haynes, a Soviet espionage expert in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress:<ref>Patricia Villamil, "2009-2010 Kluge Staff Fellow," [http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/newsletters/KlugeNewsletteFall2009.pdf ''Newsletter'', the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Vol. 2, No. 2 (November 2009)], p. 6</ref> "He was, in fact, a concealed member of the CPUSA in the late 1930s," writes Haynes, Emory University Professor Harvey Klehr and ex-[[KGB]] agent Alexander Vassiliev.<ref>[[#refHKV09|Haynes, Klehr, Vassiliev 2009]]: 58</ref> “Robert Oppenheimer was a member of a so-called closed unit of the Communist Party's professional section in Berkeley, from 1938 to 1942,” agrees Gregg Herken, a former senior Historian at the Smithsonian Institution.<ref>Gregg Herken, [http://www.brotherhoodofthebomb.com/bhbsource/documents.html Documents], Brotherhood of the Bomb</ref> Stanford University historian Barton Bernstein, an expert on Oppenheimer, concurs that "it seems to me far more likely than not from the amalgam of evidence that Oppenheimer was a member, at least covert, for a few years."<ref>Charles Burress, "[http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-04-23/news/17423704_1_communist-party-oppenheimer-uc-berkeley The Oppenheimer Riddle: New evidence of Communist membership debated by scholars of Berkeley scientist]," ''The San Francisco Chronicle'', April 23, 2004</ref>
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But Oppenheimer “was not simply a casual Popular Front liberal who ignorantly bumped up against the [[CPUSA]] in some of the areas in which it operated," according to John Earl Haynes, a Soviet espionage expert in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress:<ref>Patricia Villamil, "2009-2010 Kluge Staff Fellow," [http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/newsletters/KlugeNewsletteFall2009.pdf ''Newsletter'', the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Vol. 2, No. 2 (November 2009)], p. 6</ref> "He was, in fact, a concealed member of the CPUSA in the late 1930s," write Haynes, Emory University Professor Harvey Klehr and ex-[[KGB]] agent Alexander Vassiliev.<ref>[[#refHKV09|Haynes, Klehr, Vassiliev 2009]]: 58</ref> “Robert Oppenheimer was a member of a so-called closed unit of the Communist Party's professional section in Berkeley, from 1938 to 1942,” agrees Gregg Herken, a former senior Historian at the Smithsonian Institution.<ref>Gregg Herken, [http://www.brotherhoodofthebomb.com/bhbsource/documents.html Documents], Brotherhood of the Bomb</ref> Stanford University historian Barton Bernstein, an expert on Oppenheimer, concurs that "it seems to me far more likely than not from the amalgam of evidence that Oppenheimer was a member, at least covert, for a few years."<ref>Charles Burress, "[http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-04-23/news/17423704_1_communist-party-oppenheimer-uc-berkeley The Oppenheimer Riddle: New evidence of Communist membership debated by scholars of Berkeley scientist]," ''The San Francisco Chronicle'', April 23, 2004</ref>
    
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====Berkeley cell====
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