Secret of Secrets

Biggest single military aviation secret of the U.S. is its famed superaccurate Norden bombsight. Pictures and descriptions of it have been rigorously withheld from press and public. It has been the prime example, the clear-cut case of the kind of thing that patriots would hardly mention for fear of damaging the country. Last week the U.S. was given another lesson on the subject of what is a military secret.

Opening the trial of 16 alleged spies in Manhattan this week United States At torney Harold M. Kennedy solemnly told the jury he would show7 that the Nazis had. got the secret from one of the defendants: German-born Herman Lang. Defendant Lang was in a position to get it: he was final inspector of the sights in the Carl L. Norden Inc. plant in Manhattan. Furthermore, Prosecutor Kennedy charged it had been turned over to Germany in 1938. Apparently the Nazis have had it for three years during which it has remained a secret of secrets in the U.S.

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