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Subject: Re: Albert Einstein vs Robert Oppenheimer !

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:47:28 05/10/05

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On May 09, 2005 at 13:16:09, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On May 09, 2005 at 10:05:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On May 09, 2005 at 00:05:13, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>This is a very interesting game
>>>
>>>http://www.chessbase.com/news/2005/games/einstein01.htm
>>
>>
>>I actually met Oppenheimer.  I was giving a talk on parallel programming at Los
>>Alamos in the 80's, and he showed up to listen.  Talked with him for a good
>>while after the primary talk was over...  He walked with me thru the Los Alamos
>>museum that had interesting info about him, including letters from the president
>>of the US dictating the security requirements he had to live under to avoid (a)
>>letting secrets about the manhatten project leak out;  (b) him getting hurt or
>>killed by accident.
>>
>>was most interesting...
>
>
>Just two questions to our eyewitness of history. Excuse me if I become too
>personal.
>
>1. Was Chris right with his mention of you being into deeper relations with the
>CIA?

No idea what that means.  I've never worked with the CIA whatsoever.  Obviously
plenty of people I have known probably did, since the CIA, NSA, etc were all big
Cray customers..


>
>2. Do you know some details (from your experience and the known practice) about
>the so called Frank Olson case. He was into bio-war-weapons also for the CIA and
>fell out of the window of a big hotel in NY in the Fifties? Since you're
>normally not the man to believe in conspiracies, would you assume that such
>letal accidents could have been a secret method for traitors or members who
>talked too much? I saw a report about Olson's son to bring light into his
>father's fate. Olson's widow and the kids were invited by the President... Was
>that the proof for something fishy in the affair?



No idea, as I said, no known direct connection to any CIA projects for me.


>
>3. If you want to remain anonymous, Bob, you can write under pseudo, say 'Karl'
>and nobody could identify you.
>
>Thanks for any answer that makes sense.
>
>[That is not at all off-topic for computerchess, since I'm just making a study
>about the background of the 1997 Deep Blue II vanishing!]
>
>'Gustav'


Nothing unusual about that.  Every Cray I used in chess tournaments "vanished"
right after the tournament ended...



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