QIAN XUELIN (OR XUESEN) HANDWRITTEN NOTES

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• Document Release Date: October 28, 1998
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And I-Es Pupil in the Pentagon
I N 1949 THERE WAS a bril-
liant Chinese professor of jet
propulsion at the California Ingti-
tute of Technology who had an
eager young specialist in high-
speed air dynamics among his
graduate students.
The Chinese scientist was so far
in the forefront of technological
pioneering, and so trusted, that he
was made director of the rocket
section of the United States Na-
tional Defense Scientific Advisory
Board: But in the turbulent outset
of loyalty-security scares, he was
arrested in 1950 on charges of
being a Communist, and was ord-
ered deported . to Communist
China. Then, before the order
could be carried '-..t, it was de-
cided he knew too ,:,any secrets to
ho deported; finally in 1955 he was
t '. to China in an exchange of
nationals. In China he was be-
lieved to have had a major share in
developing China's first nuclear
bombs..
That was Prof. Tsien Hsue
ahen. He had the rank of Air'Force
colonel in World Wartl and
laded a scientific mission sent to
explore the advances in missilery
made by Hitler's scientists. Tsien
later was one of the braintrusters
assigned to predict how the next
'war might be fought. Their report,
"Toward New Horizons," became
a major seedbed for many subse-
quent American military ad-
vances.
Taien's deportation "was a tre-
mendous loss for us, and a great
gain for China," said one former
student last week. He is Richard
D. Delauer, now the Pentagon's
search and engineering. In that sor of jet propulsion at Caltech,
Richard D. DeLauer,
the United States can supply to
the nation which it now embraces
as a "friend" with "parallel" global
security interests - the People's
Republic of China.
"What a. perceptive guy Tsien
was," Delauer said admiringly.
Delauer, a nonbureaucratic type of
scientist from California where he
knew Ronald Reagan as governor
and Defense Secretary Caspar W.
Weinberger as a Reagarrassociate,
is a veteran of the early days of
American ballistic missile and jet
aircraft development. He most re-
cently was executive vice presi-
dent of TRW; the engineering
conglomerate.
Delauer recalled admiringly that
in 1949 Tsien at an academic
party at Caltech told Delauer's
wife and a friend, "Look girls, I
would like to sell you a ticket to
the moon." They thought he was
drunk or unbalanced. Tsien,
Delauer said, "wrote one of the
first papers on the application of
nuclear energy to controlled rocket
''f scientist with the title of un- . flight."
secretary of defense for re- Tsien, who was Goddard profes
feft;ITa a Haue-alien
space physics tee uitencaect to
to Hong Kong. It was charged
th4t the papers contained valuable
security information and - that
their real destination was Shang-
hai U.S. prosecutors charged that
Taien became a Communist before
he arrived in the United States as
a graduate student in 1935; Tsien
denied he ever was a Communist.
Delauer said that after Tsien
was barred from the Caltech cam-
pus and any access to his own se-
cret research, he nevertheless con-
tinued it for a time "by remote
control - with graduate students
who met him off-campus." Said
Delauer sadly, "It was a disaster."
When Tsien finally was deport-
ed, Delauer saia, "All of us could
envision masses of bright students
taught by Tsien," challenging a
hostile United States with their
own . scientific breakthroughs
China's "Cultural Revolution" was
devastating for its progress,
Delauer said, but "it was a big
I tak for us. It destroyed a whole
decade of faculty and students-"
Delauer last saw Tsien in 1952,
and understands that Tsien is now
in the class of "elder statesmen" in
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STATEMENT BY QIAN XUELIN
? LED EFFORT TO DEVELOP
APPLICATION OF SYSTEM
SCIENCE TO STUDY OF
PARAPSYCHOLOGICAL
PHENOMENA
? '"RESEARCH IN SOMATIC
SCIENCE MAY LEAD TO A
NEW SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
IN THE 21ST CENTURY...
THAT MAY BE A GREATER REVOLUTION THAN THOSE OF
QUANTUM PHYSICS AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
IN THE 20TH CENTURY."
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