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that trumps Radosh’s source.
What evidence? A Congressional
investigation, quoted on p. 124 of American
Betrayal:
I quote the March 3, 1950, testimony
of Donald
T. Appell, former FBI agent and investigator for the House Committee on
Un-American Activities, regarding uranium shipments to the USSR in 1943: “As to
the shipment of uranium and heavy water, two specific shipments of uranium
oxide and nitrate and shipments of heavy water have been completely documented
to include even the number of the plane that flew the uranium and heavy water
out of Great Falls.”
The note is: “Hearings into the
Transfer of Atomic Material to the Soviet Union During World War II,” 1149.
A third documented uranium shipment
to Stalin went overland in July 1944.
Just as with my “second front”
debate, the FDR-Stalin cables, my discussion of ex-POWs in Stalin’s clutches,
my non-“19” Hopkins dossier, Radosh has completely and missed or purposefully
ignored my documented evidence − and then aggressively attacked me for
it.
OUT OF CONTEXT DISTORTIONS AND/OR SLOPPINESS
Radosh writes:
“She refers to
Lend-Lease as “the plunder of atomic secrets … spirited out of the country on a
U.S.-government sponsored flight. The reference is to a shipment of uranium to Russia in 1943, allegedly
orchestrated by Harry Hopkins as Agent 19.” (Emphasis added,)
In
fact, the quotation of mine Radosh cites happens not to relate uranium at all.
It’s not about Harry Hopkins. It’s not about “Agent 19.”
I
endeavor to be brief, but I must reproduce the whole citation to prove Radosh’s
sloppiness.
In fact,
my reference to “plunder” relates to an extensive listing of items recorded by
Maj. George Racey Jordan, US Army “expediter” of Lend-Lease. Jordan claimed he
discovered the following items in a US government-sponsored flight to Russia as
it was about to take off from the Lend-Lease hub in Great Falls, Montana.
The list
included (p. 123 of American Betrayal) :
Road
maps … pinpointing American industrial sites (“Westinghouse,” “Blaw-Knox”).
Maps of the Panama Canal Zone. Documents related to the Aberdeen Proving
Ground, “one of the most ‘sensitive’ areas in the war effort.” Folders stuffed
with naval and shipping intelligence. Stacks of papers on oil refineries,
machine tools, steel foundries, and the like. Groups of documents on stationery
from the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and State, “trimmed close to the
text,” Jordan noted, perhaps to save weight—or remove “Secret” or
“Restricted” stamps (or both). Folders from the State Department Jordan claimed
were marked “From Sayre”—that would be Francis Sayre, who hired Alger
Hiss—and “From Hiss,” Soviet spy Alger Hiss himself. Engineering and
scientific treatises that “bristled with formulae, calculations and
professional jargon.” Something very, very interesting I will describe a little
farther down attached to a thick map bearing the legend that Jordan recorded as
“Oak Ridge, Manhattan Engineering District” (remember, this was taking place
sometime in the winter of 1943–44, before the invention, or public
knowledge, of the atomic bomb). He also found a carbon copy of a report from “Oak
Ridge” containing a series of “outlandish” words Jordan made a note to look up
later: “cyclotron,” “proton,” “deuteron.” There were also “curious” phrases, he
wrote, “energy produced by fission” and “walls five feet thick, of lead and
water, to control flying neutrons.”
Then,
Jordan writes, “For the first time in my life, I met the word ‘uranium.’ ”
[I
comment:] Why, in all of our inherited historical legacy, has there been no
room for this wartime witness to the plunder of atomic secrets just as they were
being spirited out of the country on a U.S. government-sponsored flight?
Plenty of “plunder” here, to be sure. But no uranium
shipment. No Hopkins. No “19.”
Radosh continues:
What evidence? A Congressional
investigation, quoted on p. 124 of American
Betrayal:
I quote the March 3, 1950, testimony
of Donald
T. Appell, former FBI agent and investigator for the House Committee on
Un-American Activities, regarding uranium shipments to the USSR in 1943: “As to
the shipment of uranium and heavy water, two specific shipments of uranium
oxide and nitrate and shipments of heavy water have been completely documented
to include even the number of the plane that flew the uranium and heavy water
out of Great Falls.”
The note is: “Hearings into the
Transfer of Atomic Material to the Soviet Union During World War II,” 1149.
A third documented uranium shipment
to Stalin went overland in July 1944.
Just as with my “second front”
debate, the FDR-Stalin cables, my discussion of ex-POWs in Stalin’s clutches,
my non-“19” Hopkins dossier, Radosh has completely and missed or purposefully
ignored my documented evidence − and then aggressively attacked me for
it.
OUT OF CONTEXT DISTORTIONS AND/OR SLOPPINESS
Radosh writes:
“She refers to
Lend-Lease as “the plunder of atomic secrets … spirited out of the country on a
U.S.-government sponsored flight. The reference is to a shipment of uranium to Russia in 1943, allegedly
orchestrated by Harry Hopkins as Agent 19.” (Emphasis added,)
In
fact, the quotation of mine Radosh cites happens not to relate uranium at all.
It’s not about Harry Hopkins. It’s not about “Agent 19.”
I
endeavor to be brief, but I must reproduce the whole citation to prove Radosh’s
sloppiness.
In fact,
my reference to “plunder” relates to an extensive listing of items recorded by
Maj. George Racey Jordan, US Army “expediter” of Lend-Lease. Jordan claimed he
discovered the following items in a US government-sponsored flight to Russia as
it was about to take off from the Lend-Lease hub in Great Falls, Montana.
The list
included (p. 123 of American Betrayal) :
Road
maps … pinpointing American industrial sites (“Westinghouse,” “Blaw-Knox”).
Maps of the Panama Canal Zone. Documents related to the Aberdeen Proving
Ground, “one of the most ‘sensitive’ areas in the war effort.” Folders stuffed
with naval and shipping intelligence. Stacks of papers on oil refineries,
machine tools, steel foundries, and the like. Groups of documents on stationery
from the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and State, “trimmed close to the
text,” Jordan noted, perhaps to save weight—or remove “Secret” or
“Restricted” stamps (or both). Folders from the State Department Jordan claimed
were marked “From Sayre”—that would be Francis Sayre, who hired Alger
Hiss—and “From Hiss,” Soviet spy Alger Hiss himself. Engineering and
scientific treatises that “bristled with formulae, calculations and
professional jargon.” Something very, very interesting I will describe a little
farther down attached to a thick map bearing the legend that Jordan recorded as
“Oak Ridge, Manhattan Engineering District” (remember, this was taking place
sometime in the winter of 1943–44, before the invention, or public
knowledge, of the atomic bomb). He also found a carbon copy of a report from “Oak
Ridge” containing a series of “outlandish” words Jordan made a note to look up
later: “cyclotron,” “proton,” “deuteron.” There were also “curious” phrases, he
wrote, “energy produced by fission” and “walls five feet thick, of lead and
water, to control flying neutrons.”
Then,
Jordan writes, “For the first time in my life, I met the word ‘uranium.’ ”
[I
comment:] Why, in all of our inherited historical legacy, has there been no
room for this wartime witness to the plunder of atomic secrets just as they were
being spirited out of the country on a U.S. government-sponsored flight?
Plenty of “plunder” here, to be sure. But no uranium
shipment. No Hopkins. No “19.”
Radosh continues:
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