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s.nsa 1 last Robert Donovan i booh, "Eisenhower The Inside fStory, a behind-the-scenes account of the Administra tion to be published in Juno by Harper Brothers. By Robert Donovan I am able to disclose gome Important new facta concerning the famoui Oppenheimer case. One of these pieces of evidence ehalleng the public record of the case a It now stands. On Nov. 7.

1953. William L. Borden, former executive secretary of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, sent a let-Edgar Hoover saying that "more probably than not J. Robert Oppenheimer ia an agent of the Soviet Union." The letter started the most celebrated of all the security cases that have arisen under the Eisenhower admin lstration. Dr.

Oppenheimer. a man of ex traordlnary intellect and personality, was and still is the director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. A former professor at the University of California, he directed the laboratory at Los Alamos that produced the first atomic bomb. After the war Oppenheimer became chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission. In 1953.

when the case broke wide open, he was a consultant to the commission, but the use of his services had dwindled almost to zero. The Borden letter set forth a number of slatements about Op- DR. J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Who Suggettad He Quit? pcnhcJnicr. On the public record is the following letter from Oppenheimer to Strauss dated Dec.

22. which was the day after the meeting: "You put to me a possibly de- sirable alternative that I request termination of my contract and thereby avoid explicit consid- eration of the charge Under the circumstances this course of action would mean that I am not fit to serve this government, that I have now served for some twelve years. This I cannot do." Not on the public record until I now is a bit of unpublished material that strongly suggests that Oppenheimer himself not Strauss first brought up the idea of resigning. Nichols prepared minutes of the Sirauss-Oppcnheimcr-Nich- ols meeting- immediately afterward, and his minutes contain the following line: "Dr. Oppenheimer raised the question of resigning prior to Mr.

Strauss' discussing this alterna- tive." As the Oppenheimer case final- ly turned out, many of the accusations in the Borden letter werel dismissed as invalid by a three-man investigating board headed by Gordon Gray. The board said that "we have come to a clear conclusion that he is a loyal citifeil. Nevertheless, the board recommended in a two-to-one vote that Oppenheimer's clearance not be restored. The first of sev- eral considerations was that the scientist's "continuing conduct and associations have reflected a serious disregard for the require-1 ments of the security system." Ladejinsky Affair Had Comic Overtones! a i Carload pt Mhase Sa at iiisiu 0g L-Zl Aia-COKDITIOMIO rooo sr fA rl penhelmer's background that had long been familiar to the government. For Instance: "He was contributing substantial monthly Sums to the Communist party (before May, 1942) His wife and younger brother were Communists He had no close friends except Communrsts Among the allegations In the letter was this: "He has worked tirelessly from Jan.

31, 1950, onward to re tard tiie United States H-bomb program." Order 'Blank Wall' Until Hearing Held After Bordens letter arrived, the FBI prepared an inch-thick summary report on Oppenheimer. It Is said that the full Oppenhbim-er dossier, when stacked up, rises four feet, six inches above the floor. (Such a dossier, of course. Includes all material received, and ia not evaluated.) The FBI summary went to the White House on Nov. 30, and to government departments, including Lewis L.

Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. He has since been violently attacked by Oppenheimera friends for his role in the case. Strauss had been generally familiar with the material contained in the FBI summary since 1947, At that time, as a commissioner of the AEC, be had joined in the unanimous vote to clear Oppenheimer for the General Advisory Committee. At the Pentagon, the FBI summary shocked Secretary of Defense Wilson, who had not been familiar with the old allegations. He asked the President's permission to terminate Oppenheimers clearance to military installations.

Eisenhower called a meeting Dec. 3, summoning Wilson, Strauss, Attorney General Brownell and Robert Cutler. Had there been a formal hearing on Oppenheimer, the President asked. No. In that case, said Eisenhower, a hearing must be ordered.

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Dont settle for lcm. LESS than How even r6 PH I ICO 1166 The Oppenheimer case was one of the-few security cases in which President Eisenhower became in- volved. Another was the Ladejin-sky affair. It was so mixed up that it had comic overtones. Wolfe Ladejinsky had a distinguished record as a land-reform I expert under Gen.

MacArthur in Japan. He had been cleared by the State Department loyalty ma-l chinery. All of a sudden Secre- tary of Agriculture Benson ruled! that he was a security risk and) could not serve in the Tokyo Embassy. Two weeks later, Harold I E. Stassen employed Ladejinsky to supervise the American-support-1 ed land-reform program in South Viet Nam.

The inside story was that Benson had thrust the Ladejinsky I matter at Eisenhower, but had unintentionally given him incomplete information. The President was under the impression that Benson was hiring a new employe, and not one who had been in the government for nineteen years and as trying to transfer back to the Department of Agriculture from the State Department. Neither did he know of Ladejinsky anti-Com-munist writings. On the basis of I what he was told, Eisenhower recounted later, he said to Benson that the case would scare" him. In the end, to the relief of the White House, Benson announced that he was expunging the secur- ity risk label from the departments records on Ladejinsky.

Among the voices raised in criti- cism of the loyalty program after the Ladejinsky case was that of former Sen. Harry F. who was a member of the Subversive Activities Control Board. His criticism was the more surprising because he had been identified with the Right Wing in the Senate'. Cain blasted the handling of the Ladejinsky case and said the program had swung too far on the side of injustice." Eisenhower was irked.

He thought Cain, as a Republican, should have discussed these issues privately with the Administration before airing his view publicly. One of the results of the Ladejinsky case ws a change in the government security rules. Thereafter, a person cleared by one LOOK-ALL SIZES OF PHILCO 2-DOOR MODELS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS SALE the meanwhile, he continued, "blank wall" should be placed between Oppenheimer and govern ment secrets. Accordingly, on Dec. 10, the AEC voted unanimously to in stitute its regular procedure to de termine the truth or falsehood of the charges.

Soon after that Strauss invited Oppenheimer to his office for a talk. Gen. Kenneth Nichols, then general manager of the AEC, was present. Strauss told Oppenheimer about President Eisenhowers order. Never in Public Record Before Now During- the conversation, the question arouse as to whether Oppenheimer might quiet the whole matter down by resigning, instead of going through the ordeal of hearing.

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