tierney@fortune.UUCP (09/05/84)
#R:drutx:-102700:fortune:17300013:000:1234 fortune!tierney Sep 4 13:36:00 1984 > George Racey Jordan, who was in charge of the US Lend Lease operation > at Great Falls, Montana. In this book, he recounts how everything we > sent to the Soviet Union during WWII and shortly after, went by him. > He began to get worried early on about the kind of classified > information we were sending them, and started keeping a diary, > complete with photostats of EVERYTHING that went out. > What his diarys reveal is astounding. We sent them (in addition > to the hundreds of millions in military hardware): > - a special shipment of briefcases that were sent through by orders > of Henry Dexter White. Acting against orders, General Jordan > opened these briefcases and found documents and plans with words > he had never seen nor heard of before, like "heavy water" and > "uranium" and "fission". Keep in mind, this was before the > nuclear age. One of the documents had a hand written memo on > White House stationary from Henry Dexter White that said "From > Hiss." CAN YOU PROVE THIS ASSERTION???????? If you can't you have no business putting it here. This is serious stuff you are dealing with, may I suggest you place this article in net.rumor? Charlie