Talk:Grigory Kheifets

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Old talk[edit]

This article was copied in its entirety from Conservapedia in the original text written by me, Nobs01 (under the name RobSmith) and does not include alterations made by others on that site. nobs (talk) 03:32, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Conservapedia user page userbox confirms this, so I've removed the tag. – Toon 17:53, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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The author of Conservapedia's copyright policy confirms that the author still holds the copyright to the article. I have undeleted the article. @harej 22:57, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This article is a complete travesty[edit]

I think it's ridiculous that this article has remained on Wikipedia. It makes several ludicrous and serious allegations against Oppenheimer (seriously, Oppenheimer knew that Fuchs was spying for the Soviets?? Who knew!) which are completely unsubstantiated by any of the major works on Oppenheimer or the Manhattan Project and are stated almost exclusively on the basis of quotes by the Schecters and Sudoplatov which have been thoroughly discredited (for instance, see Bird & Sherwin, pg. 1901-191 footnotes). I strongly recommend deleting this article if it cannot be amended. Shoddy scholarship of this kind has no place on Wikipedia. I am at least removing the Oppenheimer section for now

Update: If you want to obtain the most authoritative information on this topic, I would recommend the recent book "Spies" by Haynes, Klehr and Vassiliev. The book has a detailed chapter which discusses the Merkulov and Kheifets letters procured by the Schecters. The chapter clearly says that absolutely no corroboration of these letters has been found in Kheifets's own testimony after he returned to the Soviet Union or in the Venona transcripts. You would think that material of such importance would at the very least be corroborated by Kheifets himself. But no such evidence exists. The book quite clearly says that as of 2008, there is absolutely no ambiguity or the slightest hint of Oppenheimer transmitting secrets; the authors emphatically end the chapter saying that the case is closed.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashujo (talk • contribs) 00:31, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]