august october civil engineer world war chief foreign intelligence directing espionage german nuclear energy project participated conducted series operations intent place europe allied hands end war rounded german atomic scientists soviet_union personally escorted half necessary little boy atomic bomb pacific island key figure overseeing construction pentagon building war founded construction company built hundreds structures including shopping mall virginia early life born august new_jersey sons william father bank mother worked world war attended princeton_university graduated degree civil engineering worked construction company new_york world war december activated member assigned worked colonel supervising day day construction pentagon building completed reassigned brought aide august charge intelligence effort formed response concerns raised atomic bomb project scientists german nuclear energy project director intelligence responsible progress germans making december sent britain discuss establishment manhattan_project british government coordinating intelligence effort sent spy switzerland meet head german project cocktail party concluded germans long way allied effort travelled rome june interviewed italian scientists german project found documentation office antwerp indicated tons refined sent germany tons remained belgium sent europe orders secure located tons tons missing having shipped france ahead german invasion belgium shipped england ultimately united_states documentation indicated missing sent mission team command reached october inspected arsenal counter needle jumped near barrels inspected found tons belgium released retrieve shipment barrels collected transported supervised loading ship bound united_states april participated occupied found destroyed german experimental nuclear recovered heavy water took custody supervised detention german scientists taken versailles finally country estate farm hall england conversations monitored defect soviet_union july personally escorted half necessary little boy atomic bomb pacific island accompanied captain set car july travelled air california men boarded cruiser uss indianapolis hunters point naval shipyard crossed pacific arriving july days leaving indianapolis torpedoed sunk japanese submarine loss men later life left army year war ended founded maryland firm built hundreds homes schools commercial buildings including shopping mall virginia washington united_states embassy nicaragua married children son david daughters kept quiet exploits war served president local club sang quartet retired died october buckingham choice retirement community maryland age
Robert Furman