U.S. Army Worker Betrayed Top Secret to Communist Agent

Grey River Argus, 17 December 1948, Page 5

U.S. Army Worker Betrayed Top Secret to Communist Agent

(Rec. 10.55). WASHINGTON. Dec. 15. An investigator for the Un-Ameri-can Activities Committee told the press to-day that information on the secret United States Norden bomb sight was given to a Communist agent before the war. The Norden bomb sight, he said, was one of America’s closely-guarded pre-war secrets .The American bombardiers, during the early part of the war, had instructions to destroy the bomb sight in the case of their planes being shot down in enemy territory. The investigator added that a United States Government worker was responsible for giving to the Communist agent the bomb sight information, and that this worker was still being employed at the U.S. Army’s provingground. The acting-chairman of the Committee, Representative Karl Mundt, said that this worker was a civilian who holds a top-ranking position at the proving grounds. All of the information in the case has been turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.