Security file on J. Robert Oppenheimer [microform], 1947-1964.

ArchivalResource

Security file on J. Robert Oppenheimer [microform], 1947-1964.

1947-1964

Memoranda, correspondence, and clippings. The files (bulk dates, 1953-1959) primarily consist of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Justice Department, and Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) memoranda documenting the investigations of Oppenheimer for security clearances in 1947 and 1954, and the subsequent removal of that clearance. The memoranda concern background investigations, as well as physical and telephone surveillance. The correspondence describes the investigations to Justice Department and AEC officials, as well as FBI recommendations. The clippings concern coverage of Oppenheimer's activities in the popular press. Correspondents include Allen Dulles, John Foster Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover, Kenneth D. Nichols, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Lewis L. Strauss.

4 microfilm reels.

eng, Latn

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8236137

Related Entities

There are 9 Entities related to this resource.

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xb349g (person)

J. Robert Oppenheimer: Physicist (quantum theory and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley in theoretical physics, 1929-1947; director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1945; chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1952; director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1947-1966....

United States. Department of Justice

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6md9phz (corporateBody)

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice in the United States, and is equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department was formed in 1870 during the Ulysses S. Grant administration, and administers several federal law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigat...

Hoover, J.Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kk98z7 (person)

Director of the FBI. From the description of Typed letter signed : Washington, D.C., to Arthur William Brown, 1941 Sept. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269555861 John Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) served from 1924 to 1972 as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). As its first director, Hoover molded the FBI into his image of a modern police force. He promoted scientific investigation of crime, the collection and analysis of fingerprints and the hiring and ...

Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65r5k8g (person)

John Foster Dulles (1888-1959), was the fifty-third Secretary of State of the United States for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He had a long and distinguished public career with significant impact upon the formulation of United States foreign policies. He was especially involved with efforts to establish world peace after World War I, the role of the United States in world governance, and Cold War relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Dulles was born on February 25, 1888 ...

Strauss, Lewis L

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ht2t5p (person)

Secretary to Herbert Hoover, 1917-1919; chairman, United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1953-1958; secretary of commerce, 1958-1959. From the description of Lewis L. Strauss miscellaneous papers, 1918-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868921 Government executive, financier. From the description of Reminiscences of Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86158380 Executive...

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cv85zh (corporateBody)

This collection of transparencies was used by representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.) during a presentation before the Alaska House State Affairs Committee, April 4, 1970, in Juneau. At the time of the presentation, the A.E.C. was planning a second underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island in 1971, code-named CANNIKIN. Testimony was heard from several groups against a second test as well as adverse testimony about the first test which took place in October, 1969 and was code n...

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mw65wc (corporateBody)

The FBI established this classification when it assumed responsibility for ascertaining the protection capabilities and weaknesses of defense plants. Each plant survey was a separate case file, with the survey, supplemental surveys, and all communications dealing with a plant insofar as plant protection was concerned, filed together. On June 1, 1941, and January 5, 1942, the Navy and Army, respectively, assumed responsibility for surveying defense plants in which they had interests. Thereafter, ...

Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vd730m (person)

Allen W. Dulles, nephew of Robert Lansing, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State, and brother of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, was a lawyer, foreign-service officer, and intelligence official. He served with the United States Office of Strategic Services in Bern, Switzerland during World War II, during which he penetrated the German Foreign Ministry Office and the "July 1944" anti-Hitler conspirators. In 1947 he helped draft the National Security Act, which created the Central Intelligenc...

Nichols, Kenneth D. (Kenneth David), 1907-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63f4t31 (person)

Army officer. From the description of Reminiscences of Kenneth D. Nichols : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122308356 ...