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As ‘Oppenheimer’ movie debuts, FBI’s secret search for lesbians in Manhattan Project revealed

Published by The Seattle Times SEATTLE — In 1943, thousands of workers began arriving at remote outposts in Washington, New Mexico and Tennessee where American ingenuity would be pressed to its limit in a secret and frantic push to build the first atomic bomb. One particular group of eight women at Hanford in Eastern Washington […]

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Jul 29, 2023 - 20:00

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As ‘Oppenheimer’ movie debuts, FBI’s secret search for lesbians in Manhattan Project revealed

Published by
The Seattle Times

SEATTLE — In 1943, thousands of workers began arriving at remote outposts in Washington, New Mexico and Tennessee where American ingenuity would be pressed to its limit in a secret and frantic push to build the first atomic bomb. One particular group of eight women at Hanford in Eastern Washington and Los Alamos in New Mexico would have been among the forgotten, if not for the FBI’s feverish hunt for private details about their lives. The government that had recruited them to the elite Manhattan Project was now trying to strip them of vital security clearances by proving they were lesbians. T…