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Important War Secrets Losi By America
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Received Friday, 10.10 a.m.NEW YORK, Sept. 30. According to a ScrippsHoward newspapers despatch from Washington, the official records showed that a "minimum figure" of 89 important American ^ military, industrial and scientifie war . secrets had been revealed to Russia through Communist spies. f The despatch said that this figure did not cover losses \ known only to high Government officials, or secrets stolen but not missed. The atom bomb informatio?i was said to be only a small part of the "take" by a spy network which, the despatch said. originally sought radar secrets, information on new propellants and conventional explosives, and then information on the atom bomb, proximity fuses and jet propulsion. Representative John McDowell, acting chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, said that Russian '♦agents must have succeeded in getting at least 100 military secrets from the United States during tbs war.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 October 1948, Page 5
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