2-25-96. The Wash Post has a Page One lead about "atomic bomb spy" Theodore Alvin Hall, who, as a young physicist at Los Alamos provided the Soviets with Manhattan Project secrets. Hall's role was revealed by gradual code-cracking of cables under the Venona program. Though discovered, for unknown reasons Hall was never charged and went on to a distinguished career at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, England, where he now lives in retirement. Interviewed for the article he neither confirms nor denies he was the spy code-named "Mlad." He suggests it may be worth investigating why the US has kept silent about the case. The detailed story correlates Hall's role with the well- known atomic bomb spies; gives amazed responses of security officers then at Los Alamos; and lays out the long-term, never-give-up, FBI tracking and NSA cracking. For Unicorn and Bell: Hall was assigned to the Los Alamos "Gadgets" division and specialized in implosion devices. (With Hall, it's worth wondering if this ancient revelation and the recent 20-year-old NSA-spy have anything to do with the future of IC budgets -- teasing release of "if you knew what we know.") TED_hal