There has been an interesting string of messages on the Cosmic-Token and I want to share them with you. If anyone has any comments we welcome them. Three in a row here but of course you are all welcome to read more of the thread found here
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"by Linda Brown » Mon Dec 24, 2012 7:51 pm
Its my thought that whoever started that rumor about my Dad and the charge of homosexuality was actually using the FBI to throw a cover of obscurity over Dad. At the time the FBI was infiltrated very much by agents who were Soviet based....and later the early CIA was just as badly compromised. Dads group would have known that.
It seems to me that " rumor" was generated to misdirect the interest that the German spies ( and later the Soviet agents) into following up on what Dad was actually doing. They would have gotten wind of that report through the FBI.... It does not originate or exist at all in the NAVY records so I have believed for a long time that it was " planted" with the FBI so that the spies embedded in that organization would pick up on it. They would almost immediately discount Dads effectiveness because they would KNOW that Dad would never be placed in a position of upperlevel security with the possibility that he could be blackmailed. A charge of homosexuality in those days guaranteed that you would not be allowed in classified areas. They would have turned thier interest off.... which I think is exactly what Dad was counting on.
But the odd thing is that the FBI followed him all the way to Vegas doorstep and then dropped their interest in him THEN. At least for a few years. Did the agents from other countries do the same thing?
I have the mental image of Dad walking in one door marked VEGA but then disappearing through another door that was afforded to him....But by whom.... whoever it was.... Beau Kitselman was working with " them" too.
It was just two years later that he was asked to fly into the middle of the war in Germany... He was NOT a part of the military then and yet he went and he was working with an organization at the time that obviously had the wherewithall to get him where he needed to be.... with a good back up network too.... Mainly English....There is much to be learned about that entire adventure but I am sure that the man who accompanied Dad would not be given orders to "shoot him in the head" if it looked like they would be captured unless Dad was a very important link in the security of that operation.
So Dad went completely "black" ... was injured and sent home and did not get bacl into this life until he had successfully taken his entire family and
stashed" them on a remote tropical island.
There is alot going on here folks and we just don't have enough information yet.
But getting back to your comment Cat..... yes.... I think the " coke bottle" story was just Dads way of TRYING to share some information with his son in law. But the travesty of all of that is that George just never thought to say.... "but wait Townsend.... How could you just be allowed to walk away like that?.... in the middle of a war?.... because you and some dumb Admiral got in a fight over bottles being left on a field?"
George just said that Dads response was that he was upset.... that the Navy that he was having to deal with... was not the Navy that he had always loved... and he wanted nothing to do with it.....
Much more happening there. Linda
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by Minoo » Mon Dec 24, 2012 9:47 pm
It seems that George thinks in a very linear fashion. Point A always leads to point B. Always has, always will, end of discussion. Has it occurred to you that you were stashed with him for that very reason? There's a certain amount of built-in protection with someone who doesn't acknowledge the existence of "otherness."
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by re-rose » Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:12 pm
How was that resignation letter worded, again, Linda? "for the good of the Navy" But wasn't there something in it about avoiding court martial? I had the impression it might have had something to do with a strong clash with his superior officer.
Here are my two random bits of knowledge about what was going on then. I don't yet know how if or how they are related.
I have seen correspondence in your files that indicate the Navy wanted Townsend's equipment which was then running at UP. If he happened not to want to do that, he might have chosen to resign.
As for the second item, in addition to the Radar and Materials school, which we know Townsend headed, there was also very secret EW/ASW lab in Norfolk. I'm sure he had a hand in what was being developed and tested there.
By the end of 1942, the Battle of the Atlantic was beginning to turn in our favor. We had the Germans beaten on the surface, and would soon force Hitler to call off the U-boats while he still had some left. But everything that enabled this to happen in the Atlantic would have also been of vital importance in the Pacific theatre. Perhaps some of the technology that came out of that secret lab was ready to be taken to Vega for further development, or to the Army Radar Command on Wonderland Avenue, for implementation.
For now, all possibilities seem open.
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