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James P. Murray

Security OfficerLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

James Murray was a security officer at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. He led a plainclothes operation under the pseudonym Paul Sheridan, and suspected J. Robert Oppenheimer of having communist sympathies. 

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