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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 FBI memo, Belmont to Boardman, February 1, 1956]</ref>
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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 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 01:50, July 18, 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 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. [1]

Hall switched to biology after the Manhattan Project and eventually settled in England.

References

  1. FBI memo, Belmont to Boardman, February 1, 1956