Clarence Francis Hiskey, born Clarence Szczechowski, was a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was identified as Soviet espionage agent.
15 Facts About Clarence Hiskey
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Clarence Hiskey became active in the Communist Party USA when he attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin.
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Clarence Hiskey became a professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee, Columbia University and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
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Clarence Hiskey was identified as a Soviet agent while working on the Manhattan Project, providing sensitive nuclear information to the Soviet Union.
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Clarence Hiskey was neither arrested nor indicted and later fled to the Soviet Union.
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Clarence Hiskey was removed from the Manhattan Project by drafting him into the Army, and stationing him in Canada for the duration of the conflict.
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In 1948, the House Un-American Activities Committee established that Clarence Hiskey was an active member of the CPUSA and had attempted to recruit other scientists to pass secret atomic data to Soviet intelligence.
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Immediately after seeing Adams, Clarence Hiskey flew to Cleveland, Ohio, where he contacted John Hitchcock Chapin.
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Chapin, through the urging of Clarence Hiskey, agreed to take over Hiskey's contacts with Adams.
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Chapin admitted to investigators that Clarence Hiskey had told him that Adams was indeed a Soviet agent.
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Edward Manning was another Chicago Met Lab employee Clarence Hiskey attempted to recruit.
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In testimony before HUAC and Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Clarence Hiskey repeatedly refused to answer questions about his Communist associations and espionage, and in 1950, he was cited for contempt of Congress.
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Clarence Hiskey resigned his position as associate professor of analytical chemistry on the faculty of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and joined the International Biotechnical Corporation, later becoming director of analytical research for Endo Laboratories.
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In June 1953, Clarence Hiskey was subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations.
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The subcommittee did not call Clarence Hiskey to testify in public.