Allen's Troubles With the Soviet Union

The official reports presented some difficulties since they were not supposed to leave the laboratory, but many of the senior staff did take them home for weekend reading. Allen wasn't actually getting any feedback from the Soviet Union on his reports so he was wary about how much was being retained by the military. He thought that way of making sure was to send a couple of samples that he had been given in Chicago of uranium and hoped these would be sent to Russia. And that was where things then became fairly disastrous for Allen. The samples were sent to Russia presumably in a diplomatic bag, but what then happened was that apart from Allen not getting any feedback through Angela was that basically used the standard Soviet tactic to try