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cco: Mr. Ladd OLA “4-74 tosses SSIFIED BY. on DEOLASSIY off ye i tau May 9, 1951 > bl © Re: Rudolph Emat Pelerls Reference is made to our memorandum #836 dated April 17, 1951, , It will be noted tat who supplied information coneerning the alle rehip of Mra, hudolph Ernst Peierls in the British Oommuniet Party, stated + such information was, in all lity, phate if his source were not it nignesnave- Wie now identified this Y individual as . a physicist employed in the Los Alamos Solentifie La poratory. aa advised ue that he had no contact at Los Alams with Mr. and Mra. Rudolph Ernst Peierls. He also declared that he had never heard anything indicating t*at Mr. and Mre. Pelerls had pro-~Gommnist syapathies. With respect oD sv0t0 that +e hed known this individual as a f Alamos, and that he has no reason to believe had pro-Commnist sympathies nor has he any information tha} was formerly a member of the Communist Party. ec: Legal Attache, Lendon, England J aA OS ot My Foreign Service Desk 2 RAR BE tee: sue 100~344156 é= teeter nom & @ MAY 1 neg BA AATIGN CONTAINED HEREIN 1S UNC Pee EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN OTs: SWIGE, 25