Theodore Alvin Holtzburg was born October 20th 1925 in Far Rockaway located in New York. He was born into a devout jewish family, after a small while the family moved to Washington Heights in upper Manhattan for reasons unknown. He was quite the smart boy and graduated from high school when he was just fourteen. As Theodore was growing up he was affected by the Fascism in Europe and like many others that were Jewish were sympathetic to the socialist party. While still a boy he and his brother changed their last names to Hall. This was an effort to acquire a job as some employers were not hiring on basis of being Jewish, which was leading the people hiring to believe the jewish people were all tied to the Socialist Party. Which went against
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This test was a success and Theodore’s friend had gotten in touch with him. This man’s name was Saville Sax, he had left-wing connections in other countries. Theodore and his friend Saville met up with a Soviet spy located in New York City. At the meeting they Theodore passed on information that would eventually go on to the Soviet Union to help their bomb efforts. They passed on information on bomb design, and other important information. After the war Theodore kept in contact with the Soviet Union and his ring of spies and continued to relay important information about bomb secrets that would want to kept secret by the U.S. government. He moved to Chicago and earned his doctorate in physics at the University of Chicago. Along with that he worked in the biophysics laboratory, still keeping intermittent contact with the other agents. In 1951, suspicion arose with Theodore and his friend Saville. The pair of them were interrogated by the FBI in 1951. This suspicion came from decrypted messages transmitted by the Soviets. No charges were ever brought on those two on the basis of not enough information to convict the pair of doing any illegal activities. Soon after the interrogation Hall severed his ties to the left wing political groups and moved his family away from their current residence to New
This test was a success and Theodore’s friend had gotten in touch with him. This man’s name was Saville Sax, he had left-wing connections in other countries. Theodore and his friend Saville met up with a Soviet spy located in New York City. At the meeting they Theodore passed on information that would eventually go on to the Soviet Union to help their bomb efforts. They passed on information on bomb design, and other important information. After the war Theodore kept in contact with the Soviet Union and his ring of spies and continued to relay important information about bomb secrets that would want to kept secret by the U.S. government. He moved to Chicago and earned his doctorate in physics at the University of Chicago. Along with that he worked in the biophysics laboratory, still keeping intermittent contact with the other agents. In 1951, suspicion arose with Theodore and his friend Saville. The pair of them were interrogated by the FBI in 1951. This suspicion came from decrypted messages transmitted by the Soviets. No charges were ever brought on those two on the basis of not enough information to convict the pair of doing any illegal activities. Soon after the interrogation Hall severed his ties to the left wing political groups and moved his family away from their current residence to New