Robert Furman
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Robert Ralph Furman was a civil engineer who during World War II was the chief of foreign intelligence for the Manhattan Engineer District directing espionage against the German nuclear energy project
Robert R. Furman
Alsos Mission
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The Alsos Mission was an organized effort by a team of British and United States military, scientific, and intelligence personnel to discover enemy scientific developments during World War II. Its chi
Robert Furman
…chief of foreign intelligence for the Manhattan Engineer District directing espionage against the German nuclear energy project. He participated in the Alsos Mission, which conducted a series of operations with the intent to place all uranium in Europe into Allied hands, and at the end of the war rounded up German…
British and American members of the Alsos Mission dismantle the experimental nuclear reactor that German scientists had built as part of the German nuclear program in Haigerloch.
Alsos members Goudsmit, Wardenburg, Welsh and Cecil
Boris Pash (right) during Operation Harborage in April 1945 in Hechingen
Alsos Mission personnel returned from Stadtilm on an RAF Dakota, indicating the bipartisanship of its activity.