[1017-2300] BLIND SPOT IN THE REDOUBT – Companion Dossier (PDF)

Description

In the autumn of 1943, as the Army Corps of Engineers and the FBI locked horns over jurisdiction, the most secretive scientific endeavor in human history left its perimeter wide open. Blind Spot in the Redoubt: Companion Dossier reconstructs the catastrophic institutional blind spots that enabled Soviet penetration of the Manhattan Project. Built from declassified FBI file 100-17828, War Department courier manifests, and cross-referenced MI5 registries, this dossier reveals how atomic secrets walked out of the Woolworth Building and into Soviet hands without a single alarm sounding. Trace the timeline from J. Edgar Hoover’s fixation on domestic communist front groups to the unstitched seam between British security clearances and American counterintelligence. Every page presents documented facts: Klaus Fuchs’s sanitized transit papers, Semyon Semenov’s consular rendezvous schedules in Manhattan cafeterias, and Lt. Col. John Lansdale Jr.’s redacted personnel rosters. Designed with archival precision, this primary-source dossier features authentic investigative layouts, organizational charts, and timeline reconstructions. It exposes how bureaucratic inertia, severed paper trails, and inter-agency rivalry granted Moscow the blueprint for the atomic bomb.