Show THIS atik WA wi ellul dy i US S lugs behind science in two world wars wu wo have 4 bagh urlce for or the corn ncy w li I 1 c 11 preceded them are we about to pay an even higher price palco a third time that is tho the iafe ufe or death question that our top political and military loaders leaders ore are pon poni i derieg this athla week in washing ton our survival as a nation and your own personal survival could hinge bingo on the answer russian scientists have placed in the hands of the communist dictators the intercontinental missile which we at the present tune time can neither defend against nor match in retaliation it no longer needs to be a military secret that we had ample warning of this as far back as 1940 1048 1 I can now report from personal knowledge that story for publication it Is a shocking story that lays bare the chug complacency that lulled us into a false and dangerous sense of unwarranted security this Is the story names are withheld to protect even now those who took part in one of the most daring and successful espionage efforts of our time shortly af after ter the end of world war 11 II a well known manufacturer of planes for our military went to germany to talk with some of the scientists waw wap had worked on let jet planes and missiles mis silea for hitler two of germanys germanas Germ anys best scientists in that field returned with hun to work on the development of similar projects in this country there was no question after two years of their loyalty to america they volunteered to go behind the iron curtain to find out what russia was dolha our officials knew and approved of the plan the two returned to germany and soon were IM than we later president truman announced that it would take russia two years to perfect an atomic bomb but a few weeks later russia exploded one now comes the mile inter con tin ballistic missile followed by sputnik it does not pay to underestimate ones enemy now that we have been shaken out of some of our complacency isn t it time for a crash program in an effort to catch up ported by russia to work with other lither german and russian scientists the fact that they had worked in the united states was pot not known to the russians for six months they probed the secrets of russian progress in tile the science of military weapon development then one day in 1940 they slipped back into berlin A friend not knowing of their work in russia jokingly remarked to them that he fie had heard that russian agents were looking for two cs escaped coped german scientists could they lie he asked be you it could they conceded so without going back to their hotel they headed directly for the airport and were whisked out of germany and back to the united states tates their report was the most comprehensive and reliable we had had from back of the iron curtain it included a statement that even then russia had jet planes that were much faster than ours I 1 mentioned this in a news letter to business friends in 1048 1040 they scoffed at the idea it was absurd they ed cd to believe that a ni na tion dominated by communists could match the unfettered genius of scientists under our democratic ocra tic free enterprise system arid and so the report went unheeded the tv 0 scientists went back to work for the U S aviation firm then alien three years later chinese pilots in russian hussian migs demonstrated in korea that russia did hive have faster jets |