Vincent “Bud” Whitehead

Counter-Intelligence AgentHanford, WA

Chicago, ILLos Alamos, NMOak Ridge, TN

EngineerManhattan Project VeteranSpouse to Manhattan Project Worker

Listen to Vincent “Bud” Whitehead’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Vincent “Bud” Whitehead met his wife, Clare, in 1944 at Hanford. Both were from Portland, Oregon and involved in military intelligence. Bud, a civil engineering graduate, was working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers when he was drafted in 1942. He served as a counter-intelligence agent at Hanford.

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