>there was one person who complained a lot and this was a former Manhattan Project person that I was working with my husband in the lab. And he was probably the one who put a little note in my personnel file that I was thought to be a communist agent.
OK, I'll bite: We seem to be led to infer that those former MP people who stuck around the national labs postwar (and post O-hearing) maintained a tendency to red-bait (at least while they weren't busy walking on water in the eyes of their AEC/DoE successors)? Is that the intended inference to draw at least from those close to the action?
Quite aside from red baiting/woman hating among the old guard at Los Alamos, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI had a bug up their butt about NOW, suspecting that the woman's movement MUST be some kind of commie plot.
Hoover wasted a bunch of FBI time investigating NOW/ERA/women's movement people for "un American" (COMMY!) activities starting in the mid 1960s & continued to do so up until his death in the 1970s. While Hoover & his long term partner Clyde Tolson were both queer as $3 bills, Hoover hated "swishy" looking men with a passion and hated "uppity women" just as much.
Enjoyable interview thank you..from Linda Marple , Cheryl’s sister❤️
>there was one person who complained a lot and this was a former Manhattan Project person that I was working with my husband in the lab. And he was probably the one who put a little note in my personnel file that I was thought to be a communist agent.
OK, I'll bite: We seem to be led to infer that those former MP people who stuck around the national labs postwar (and post O-hearing) maintained a tendency to red-bait (at least while they weren't busy walking on water in the eyes of their AEC/DoE successors)? Is that the intended inference to draw at least from those close to the action?
Quite aside from red baiting/woman hating among the old guard at Los Alamos, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI had a bug up their butt about NOW, suspecting that the woman's movement MUST be some kind of commie plot.
Hoover wasted a bunch of FBI time investigating NOW/ERA/women's movement people for "un American" (COMMY!) activities starting in the mid 1960s & continued to do so up until his death in the 1970s. While Hoover & his long term partner Clyde Tolson were both queer as $3 bills, Hoover hated "swishy" looking men with a passion and hated "uppity women" just as much.
Great interview!