U.S. BOMBSIGHT SECRET GIVEN TO RED AGENT
(9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. The investigator for the House unAmerican Activities Committee told the press today that information on the secret United States Norden bombsight was given to a Communist agent before the war.
The Norden bombsight was one of America’s closely-guarded pre-war secrets.
Bombadiers during the early part of the war had instructions to destroy it in case their planes were shot down in enemy territory. The investigator added that a Government worker was responsible for giving the Communist agent the bombsight information and that he was still employed at the army’s proving ground. The acting chairman of -the committee, Mr. Karl Mundt, said the worker was a civilian who holds a top-ranking position at the proving grounds.
All information in the case has been turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22822, 17 December 1948, Page 5
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