09-12-2013, 08:44 AM
Don't quite know what to make of this story....new to me...post it for what it may be worth...or not worth.
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JOE KENNEDY JR KILLED BY NAZI SABOTEURS, ACCORDING TO RUSSIAN ROCKETRY HISTORIAN By Michael Ravnitzky , mikerav@verizon.net
I was reading the NASA translation of volume two of the history of the Soviet rocketry program by Boris Chertok, when I saw the following story:
During their third meeting, Stalin gave Pashkov a very delicate assignment.
As everybody knows, Joseph Kennedy, the older brother of future U.S. President John F. Kennedy, was a captain in the U.S. Army Air Force. At the end of the war, he was the commander of a sabotage group that was assigned to destroy an industrial site, which according to intelligence information was involved with the development of new types of aircraft technology. To carry out this assignment, Joseph Kennedy received an airplane packed with explosives. Several miles before reaching the target, the crew was supposed to switch the aircraft into automatic control mode on course to dive toward the target. The crew was supposed to bail out and parachute into an area where underground resistance members were waiting for them. Several miles before the bail out zone, however, the airplane exploded under mysterious circumstances. The crew perished and the sabotage was not carried out.
During this period, the Kennedy brothers father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. , was the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. He went to the USSR Ambassador to Great Britain Mayskiy and also to Churchill and Stalin requesting assistance in an investigation of the causes for the explosion. Stalin sent Pashkov to meet with Kim Philby and, if necessary, to call in additional agents to uncover the causes for the loss of the American sabotage group. Thanks to the efforts of the agents and Philby personally, the assignment was fulfilled. The individuals who had placed a detonator with a timing mechanism on the aircraft during its preparation were identified as intelligence agents of Nazi Germany.
Source: Rockets and People, Volume II: Creating a Rocket Industry, by Boris Chertok, Edited by Asif Siddiqi, NASA History Publication SP-2006-4110, at pages 174-175. Published in 2006.
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or
http://tinyurl.com/m2pczwp
JOE KENNEDY JR KILLED BY NAZI SABOTEURS, ACCORDING TO RUSSIAN ROCKETRY HISTORIAN By Michael Ravnitzky , mikerav@verizon.net
I was reading the NASA translation of volume two of the history of the Soviet rocketry program by Boris Chertok, when I saw the following story:
During their third meeting, Stalin gave Pashkov a very delicate assignment.
As everybody knows, Joseph Kennedy, the older brother of future U.S. President John F. Kennedy, was a captain in the U.S. Army Air Force. At the end of the war, he was the commander of a sabotage group that was assigned to destroy an industrial site, which according to intelligence information was involved with the development of new types of aircraft technology. To carry out this assignment, Joseph Kennedy received an airplane packed with explosives. Several miles before reaching the target, the crew was supposed to switch the aircraft into automatic control mode on course to dive toward the target. The crew was supposed to bail out and parachute into an area where underground resistance members were waiting for them. Several miles before the bail out zone, however, the airplane exploded under mysterious circumstances. The crew perished and the sabotage was not carried out.
During this period, the Kennedy brothers father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. , was the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. He went to the USSR Ambassador to Great Britain Mayskiy and also to Churchill and Stalin requesting assistance in an investigation of the causes for the explosion. Stalin sent Pashkov to meet with Kim Philby and, if necessary, to call in additional agents to uncover the causes for the loss of the American sabotage group. Thanks to the efforts of the agents and Philby personally, the assignment was fulfilled. The individuals who had placed a detonator with a timing mechanism on the aircraft during its preparation were identified as intelligence agents of Nazi Germany.
Source: Rockets and People, Volume II: Creating a Rocket Industry, by Boris Chertok, Edited by Asif Siddiqi, NASA History Publication SP-2006-4110, at pages 174-175. Published in 2006.