There's some good evidence that Oppenheimer was actively being used by the Soviets in like the early 1940s. There were a bunch of people who actually were active Soviet spies at Los Alamos during this period. After the war, he becomes a big and ardent opponent of the development of the hydrogen bomb. He speaks publicly about how the hydrogen bomb should not be developed because it'll lead to an arms race instead.

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