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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