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AEC chairman Lewis Strauss, a long-time Oppenheimer adversary, rendered the final verdict denying his security clearance. Oppenheimer's clearance was revoked by a 2–1 vote of the panel. Gray and Morgan voted in favor, Evans against. The board rendered its decision on May 27, 1954, in a 15,000-word letter to Nichols.
In the end, Strauss ensured that Oppenheimer's security clearances are revoked—simply to embarrass him. The hearing ended just a day before the clearances were set to expire regardless, and his ...
[51] [52] Those in the U.S. government who had long held suspicions about Oppenheimer's judgment and loyalties used these stances as additional fuel, and by the end of 1953 the wheels were in motion that would lead to the Oppenheimer security hearings the following year and the resultant loss of Oppenheimer's security clearance.
Years later, at the Atomic Energy Commission hearing that revoked the security clearance of Oppenheimer in 1954, Oppenheimer recalled how Tatlock had called him to visit because “she was still ...
In 1954 Evans served as one of three panel members at the security clearance hearing of J. Robert Oppenheimer. He was the only member who voted to allow Oppenheimer to retain his security clearance. Evans died on August 2, 1957, at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He had suffered a stroke at his summer home in Fishing ...
Read more:Robert Oppenheimer was wrongly stripped of security clearance, U.S. says But by the late 1990s, nearly 20 years behind schedule on his book, Sherwin’s attitude toward the project ...
The board ultimately voted 2–1 to strip Oppenheimer of his security clearance. [ 3 ] In 1969, Robb represented Barry Goldwater in his libel suit against Ralph Ginzburg and Fact magazine, which had claimed that Goldwater was mentally unstable.
The film also chronicles Oppenheimer’s tense relationship with bureaucrat Lewis Strauss (Downey), who engineered a push to remove Oppenheimer’s postwar security clearance during the McCarthy era.