"I won't draw you a diagram," he added, as Haynes and Klehr noted in their paper. "Oscar was in New Mexico - you know what I mean," Communist Party member and lawyer Isidore Needleman told one of the informants. He eventually settled in Moscow, where he died in 2015.Ĭonversations from SOLO files hint - albeit cryptically - that Seborer may have been up to something while at Los Alamos. was reaching a new high, and Seborer secretly fled the country in 1952 with his brother, sister-in-law and mother-in-law. Related: 7 Technologies That Transformed Warfareīy the beginning of the 1950s, anti-Communist fervor in the U.S. His superior officers repeatedly reported Seborer as a "security risk," but this seemingly arose from his associations with known Communists rather than suspicions of spying, according to the study. Navy, but signs began to surface that all was not well. After the war, he worked as an electrical engineer for the U.S. Army in 1942 he transferred to Los Alamos in 1944 and was assigned to the Manhattan Project for two years, according to the journal article. Seborer trained as an engineer and enrolled in the U.S. Nevertheless, they learned that his family - Jewish immigrants from Poland - was "part of a network of people connected to Soviet intelligence," and some were known members of the Communist Party. Mentions of Seborer were scant and "easily overlooked" in the vast mountain of files, Klehr and Haynes said. To date, only the SOLO files up to 1956 have been released, and many open questions remain about Seborer's activities as a spy and what happened to him after he later defected to the U.S.S.R., the researchers wrote. The operation, which ran from 1952 to 1980, centered on two brothers in the U.S. The researchers named Seborer as the fourth Los Alamos spy, based on the 2011 declassified FBI documents, as well as partial records from a decades-long initiative called Operation SOLO. They published their findings online in the latest issue of the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence. A fourth spy was proposed in the early 1990s based on clues in KGB officers' memoirs, but those clues were found in 1995 to be part of a Russian misinformation campaign to protect another active agent, Klehr and Haynes wrote in a new study. Klehr, formerly at the Library of Congress, and Haynes, an emeritus professor at Emory University in Georgia, previously collaborated on books about communism and Soviet-era spying, such as "Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America" (1999) and "Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America" (2010), both released by Yale University Press.īefore this discovery, the three spies known for bringing atomic secrets to the Soviets from Los Alamos were David Greenglass, Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall.
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