Borden is best known for having written a letter accusing physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer of being an agent of the Soviet Union, an accusation that led to the Oppenheimer security hearing of 1954. Early life, college, and military service

Jul 24, 2023 · In Christopher Nolan’s film, we saw that William Borden was given access to the file that the FBI had maintained on Oppenheimer because Lewis Strauss wanted to revoke his security clearances.

Jul 25, 2023 · A WWII veteran obsessed with the Soviet nuclear threat, William Borden in the early ’50s became the favorite attack dog of Oppenheimer’s enemies.

Jul 21, 2023 · William Borden (played by David Dastmalchian) Born in 1920 in Washington, D.C., Borden (David Dastmalchian) had degrees from Yale and Yale Law.

On November 7, 1953, J. Edgar Hoover was sent a letter concerning Oppenheimer by William L. Borden, former executive director of Congress' Joint Atomic Energy Committee. In the letter, Borden stated his opinion "based upon years of study, of the available classified evidence, that more probably than not J. Robert Oppenheimer is an agent of the ...

Between 1939 and mid-1942, more probably than not, J. Robert Oppenheimer was sufficiently hardened Communist that he either volunteered espionage information to the Soviets or complied with a request for such information.

Jul 21, 2023 · Nolan regular David Dastmalchian plays William L. Borden, who served as the executive director of the United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy from 1949 to 1953.

Aug 14, 2023 · Borden had become concerned with Robert Oppenheimer’s stances on nuclear policy and spent considerable time with the scientist’s security file. In November 1953, Borden sent the FBI a long letter.

Jul 27, 2023 · After writing what came to be known in political history as the "Oppenheimer letter" and effectively starting the investigation that would ruin Oppenheimer's career, Borden would never work...

Jul 7, 2014 · In November of 1953, William Liscum Borden, former executive director of Congress’s Joint Atomic Energy Committee, sent a letter to J. Edgar Hoover, then director of the FBI.