From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rudy Lambert
Rudy Lambert
Rudolph Carl Lambert was an American citizen and head that Lambert was an official in the Communist
of the California Communist Party Labor Commission and Party (Tr. pp. 139, 140, 877)."
also headed of its security section in the 1940s. Lambert
first fell under FBI scrutiny in connection with its Comin-
tern Apparatus investigation. Lambert is named in a 1945
References
San Francisco KGB cable intercepted and deciphered by • United States Atomic Energy Commission, In the
the Venona project discussing information about urani- Matter of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Washington,
um deposits in Western states. D.C., 27 May 1954.
Lambert figured prominently in the U.S. Atomic En- • United States Atomic Energy Commission, Decision
ergy Commission’s investigation and decision to relieve in the Matter of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer,
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Director of the Manhattan Washington, D.C., 29 June 1954.
Project at Los Alamos, of his security clearance because of • Comintern Apparatus Summary Report,15 December
documented close associations which Oppenheimer re- 1944, FBI Comintern Apparatus file, serial 3702.
peatedly denied, yet ultimately admitted to. In a subsec- • Sixth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee
tion review ’As to "character"’ on 29 June 1954 in the De- on Un-American Activities, 1951, 233. [1]
cision in the Matter of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Commis- • John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding
sion wrote, Soviet Espionage in America (New Haven: Yale
"(3) In 1943, Dr. Oppenheimer indicated to Colonel University Press, 1999), pgs. 72, 232, 324.
Lansdale that he did not know Rudy Lambert, a Persondata
Communist Party functionary. In fact, Dr. Name Lambert, Rudolph Carl
Oppenheimer asked Colonel Lansdale what
Lambert looked like. Now, however, Dr. Alternative names
Oppenheimer under oath has admitted that be Short description
knew and had seen Lambert at least half a dozen Date of birth
times prior to 1943; he supplied a detailed
Place of birth
description of Lambert; he said that once or twice
he had lunch with Lambert and Isaac Folkoff, Date of death
another Communist Party functionary, to discuss Place of death
his (Oppenheimer’s) contributions to the
Communist Party; and that he knew at the time
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