Hi.
I wonder how DoD employees were issued security clearances and who had a need to know?
Did FBI, OSS, or DIA do all the “leg work?”
In ‘74 my BI was a damn colonoscopy.
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At the Hanford Site where they made the Plutonium, most of the workers didn’t know what they were involved with. Most people just worked on specific tasks that couldn’t be pieced together to the whole.
Most of the workers lived on site, and all of their household repairs, etc. were taken care of by government workers. That gave the government access to search their living quarters for any spies. I heard they even bugged some homes.
I did some work out there and mentioned it to my mom.
“Oh - one of our friends worked at Hanford during the war. Making airplane wings for bombers!”
“Um - no mom - if he was at Hanford he was working on the atom bomb.”
“No - I remember it was airplane wings. Because of all the electricity from the big dam for the aluminum.”
“Well, I believe you (mom had an amazing memory) and that is no doubt what he told you, and he may even believed that he was involved in making airplane wings - but he wasn’t.”