march july atomic spy soviet_union worked manhattan_project briefly stationed facility tennessee worked laboratory new_mexico august february provided testimony helped convict sister brother law executed activity served half years prison early life career born manhattan new_york_city parents jewish immigrants russia austria respectively attended graduated attended graduate married years old joined shortly entered april son daughter worked fort california mississippi ordnance plant jackson mississippi july assigned secret manhattan_project wartime project develop atomic weapons stationed facility tennessee weeks august sent laboratory new_mexico order pass security clearance disguised omitted details communist associations friends write glowing references married sister agent soviet_union ussr working september suggested consider recruiting brother law wife september reported moscow young intelligent capable politically developed people strongly believing cause communism wishing best help country possible undoubtedly devoted soviet_union david wrote wife certainly glad community project espionage friends russians mind recommended sister law superiors use apartment safe house photography realized david working manhattan_project recruited soviet espionage behest november began pass nuclear secrets ussr directly soviet official new_york_city according project time 1970s wife given code names david calibre wasp turned requests work nuclear tests bikini wanted discharged army february returned manhattan brother ran small machine shop known february pregnant second child came close gas apartment caught fire extinguished blaze suffered severe burns taken skin suffered second degree burns right hand aware intelligence agencies discovered theoretical physicist ussr war confession found american contacts man named brooklyn new_york gold passed information soviet agent performing role pass information controllers ussr gold fbi trail led allegedly gold captured allegedly gave finance escape mexico instead went money seek legal advice trial aftermath arrested fbi espionage june quickly implicated explicitly denied sister involvement testified grand jury testimony august february weeks trial changed testimony claim notes testified sister husband court immunity agreement exchange testimony government allowed stay children named indicted told court kind hero worship want hero fail subsequent testimony related detail secrets passed soviet_union falsely attributed passing cross section drawing bomb soviets acknowledged passing sketches gold described work poured component explosive lenses bombs trinity nuclear test bombing nagasaki matter difficulty prosecution wanted testify open court secrets given definition longer secret decided concept trial limited discussion weapons world war fearing seen prototypes future weapons result surprise defense motion testimony alleged secret atomic bomb federal judge spectators news reporters leave room began secrets minutes later judge invited news reporters asking use discretion reporting testimony defense attorney attempted convince jury clients concerned issues national security failed testimony later seen crude words scientists examined worthless remained sealed testified stolen given russians proximity claimed supplied proximity testimony trial claimed wanted revenge machine shop business failure attempted discredit character testimony sentencing hearing attorney repeatedly told court client deserved pat testimony argued light sentence years encourage follow example sentenced years prison released half years reunited wife march months executions wrote letter attorney deliver president asking sentences prison terms opportunity confess wrote die shall live rest life dark shadow conscience described testimony act wrong country family explained viewed consequences choice hurting dear took deliberately believe outcome god mercy change awful sentence month admitted stolen bomb laboratory years tossed denied having stolen later years release family lived new_york_city assumed years lived street queens new_york sworn testimony interview new_york_times reporter stated lied oath extent sister involvement plot order protect wife trial testified notes russians saying frankly think wife don remember explained wife important sister mother father mother children roberts asked differently replied role husband espionage ring remains matter dispute group academic historians sought release grand jury proceedings indicted objected government release testimony district judge declined order release testimony surviving witnesses withheld consent located grand jury testimony finally released july mentioned involvement sister delivery atomic secrets russians died july death publicly announced family discovered october new_york_times called nursing home living assumed
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