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'''Louise Bransten''' (b. 1908) was "a wealthy [[San Francisco]] [[Communist]]" [http://books.google.com/books?id=M8p00bTFvRkC&pg=RA2-PA232&lpg=RA2-PA232&dq=louise+bransten&source=web&ots=0AqXBNSOjU&sig=Tkrf6gNx-rovUhdNjLRzId6WEW8#PRA2-PA232,M1]
'''Louise Bransten''' (b. 1908) was "a wealthy [[San Francisco]] [[Communist]]" [http://books.google.com/books?id=M8p00bTFvRkC&pg=RA2-PA232&lpg=RA2-PA232&dq=louise+bransten&source=web&ots=0AqXBNSOjU&sig=Tkrf6gNx-rovUhdNjLRzId6WEW8#PRA2-PA232,M1] formerly married to [[Richard Branston]].
[[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], who was later to head the [[Manhattan Project]] which designed and constructed the [[atomic bomb]], first contact with [[KGB|Soviet intelligence]] occurred in the home of Louise Branston on December 6, 1941, the day before the [[Japanese]] [[attack on Pearl Harbor]].<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), p. 175.</ref> Branston was hosting a party to raise money for [[Spanish Civil War]] refugees. At the time Branston was being divorced from her husband Richard, and was the mistress of the KGB West Coast Rezident [[Grigory Kheifetz]], who met with Oppenheimer again later that month.
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