Oppenheimer admitted in sworn testimony to lying to security officers, to having an affair with a known Communist while he was director of Los Alamos, and to appointing people he knew were Communists to key positions at the lab.
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Chevalier says JRO never paid any dues, and it was only 6 or 7 people, they took no orders, and did not think of themselves as CP members. He is impressively vague on what it was or wasn't: "We both were and were not." I rank that as fellow traveler, personally.
For me all this comes down to is 1) JRO wasn't perjuring himself in any real way when he claimed he wasn't a CP member, and 2) they never took any orders/discipline so who cares anyway? Beyond that I think it just becomes kind of academic semantics.
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I recall Bird & Sherwin + others also making the "ultimately, why does the CP membership matter in the end now" point. That's the line I take when teaching the topic with the more relevant question being "why did it matter then?"
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