LETTER TO THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ATTENTION: (Sanitized)FROM B.G.H. VANDERJAGT

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: July 29, 1956
• Content Type: LETTER

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THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
WASHINGTON , 25,D. C.
Dear Sirs :
Attention
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I could not help reading the enclosed article in the Sunday Evening
Star to call your attention to the fact ( if the reports about the con-
tents are right ) that whereas the Soviet Nhgazine,T,ahich I will try to
buy and even to subscribe, contains scientific articles to begin- with,
we-have only illustrated in the good old way(and which failed thusfar)
that we-have motor cars and refrigerators.
Both magazines will shun political propaganda-,thus. it falls outside
your domain,t hat is to say in a theoretical point of view.
But ............. I have an item which might interest the Russian
scientists,of which there are many; The REASON OF GRAVITY.
It started in the issue of the communications paper of some dutch
engineers in September 1955-It was discussed on November 5 th 1955 in
Rotterdam and could not be refuted.At the same time nobody had ever heard
this reason before and could have not answered the question.
On November 10 th 1955 I asked Professor Fred Singer.Neither he or
the 250 engineers and scientists attending the lecture could answer the-
question.
Then I asked the Naval Research Iaboratories.Its director wrote me
in all honesty that scientists had not found the answer yet.It took 4
month to answer my question.
I asked the General Electric Compa.ny.They called it a monumental
question,but did not know the answer.
I asked Mr.Cyru.s Eaton who has the most magnificent connection in
scientific circles.Neither he or his friends could answer the questions
and when I sent them the solution could say that I was -ong.
The Central Intelligence Agency with some 10000 or more employees
at its disposition could neither say that I was wrong.
I asked. Glen Martin in Baltimore.They sent me a few days--ago an
explanation and. the basis on which they calculated. the missile.Which war
wrong,but no answer on the question.
In Mechanical Engineering appeared another matelite by Chrysler.
Thus I asked the ASME of which I am a member.It took three letters and
two with return postage to hear that they had sent my question to
Chrysler.
From Chrysler I received also a letter with some description but not
with the reason,thdts I sent mine and on which I could not get an answer
yet.
After all,the reason of gravity and makes that we fall down interests-
or rather must interests us all.
What about such an article in our magazine in Russia ? It is not
politics and the Russians scientists might be interested a--- in it would
appear also the meaning of time and space and........ money.The Russians
ought to be pretty dumb if they could not come to some different conclu-
sions as rather Karl Marx or to soften the impact,Mr.Adam Smith and
Ricardo proposed.Though here is ? 1Y,.TgAp,^t annlied science involved.
No CHANGE IN CLASS.
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The magazine America is a Government issue and I dont know which
Agency it issues.Probably some newsmen are involved who understand less-
about all these affairs as anybody else and certainly they would not
accept such an article without somebody telling them intelligently that
it might be worthwhile to do it.
My english had anyhow to be translated into Russian thus this would
not be of great inconvenience.
Mr.Vannevar Bush wrote me that, just before--he left the Carnegie
Institute that anyhow he was too old and wanted t'o retire to study any-
thing new.I have my doulats about the National Science Foundation.But to
place a most efficient article it had certainly to be a kind of team
work.I know at least one American University which could give a hand,
the University of Pittsburgh,via Its Professor O.L.Reiser.Though I
would not care one letter d,-it is perhaps better not to place any special
name under the article,which might be discussed in Egyptian scientific
papers and which might come to the conclusion that their hero Nasser
who is distinctly somewhat Soviet minded does not know what he is talking
about but what might lead easely to another world war if we let him go
away with it and it is only one step to loose the Panama Canal.
The Nasser affair must convince at least somebody that our present
tactics of motor cars and refrigerators are not so efficient after all.
The letters of the above companies are at your disposition.
The reason for the General Electric was political.On D.y 23 th 1956
they issued a News Letter -. POLITICAL HELPLESSNESS OF BUSINESS HURTS
EVERYBODY.-
At the end of this "wailing " letter appeared the sentence by Edmund
Burke :" The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil,is for good
men to do nothing.
I am not saying that the Government Agencies are really bad.They do
or at least try to do something.However the results have been Korea,
Mossadegh and now Nasser.And not only that but also some Senatorial
Comitt^es in order to save our souls from reco-ing red in our very home.
I myself are a bad man.,writing such letters,but I would feel myself
worse if I did not.
Very truly yours,
B.G.H.Van jag
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Magazines With Missions
Two brand-new, brightly colorful,
slickest- of -paper magazines make
their debut this week simultane-
ously in the United States and the
Soviet Union. One, the publication
of the United States Information
Agency and called "America," will
go on sale on Russian newsstands
for 5-.rubles-the equivalent of $1.25
per copy at the official rate of
exchange. The other, "USSR,"
published in Washington and
printed in the United States for the
Soviet Union, goes on sale here,
mail subscriptions getting first
preference, for a subscription rate
of $1.00 for six months or $1.80
for one year. Single copy price,
20 cents.
Published and distributed by re-
ciprocal agreement between the
governments of the United States
and the Soviet Union, both maga-
zines follow the same picture-maga-
zine t rrmat, make generous use
of color, and include 65 pages. Both
are rich in illustrations and eye-
catching layouts, and both include
a variety of subject matter gener-
ally angled to acquaint readers with
life in the other country. Both ap-
pear to shun overt politic-7-prop-a-'
gan a
__''USSR" reports on the Soviets'
new jet transport, the TU-104: ma-
jor 5-year plan construction proj-
ects under way; concrete slab con-
struction' ballet; tznicum educa-
tion; training for Olympics, which
the Soviet Union hopes to win;
chess; nuclear theorg; women ath-
letes. g1or Xiirchatov, one of Rus-
sia's top nuclear physicists, explains
more simply, and in more detail
than has appeared in any American
publication coming to The Star's
attention, how thermonuclear re-
actions to produce power) might
be confined in strong magnetic
fields.
"America" tells of the imposing
New York skyline; primeval forests;
the easy home life of the average
American mother; the Philadel-
phia Symphony; roiling. fertile
farmlands with their well-kept
buildings and machinery; modern
architecture: unsegregated sports
competition; Benjamin Franklin;
1956 automobiles (with the stress
on variety in styles and colors);
astronomy.
"America" is a revival project-
the rebirth of a similar magazine
published for three years until July,
1952. The deepening frigidity of
the cold war forced its suspension.
"USSR" marks the first such ven-
ture on the part of the Soviet
Union in the United States.
"America" is printed in West Ber-
lin, and the ,printing quality is ex-
cellent, with color registry and
hue of startlingly high accuracy.
"USSR," printed in the United
States, presents color generally be-
low acceptable magazine standards
here, with the important exception
of several pages obviously given
special attention.
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