Recovery of H bomb seen as fluke by lead diver
UPI reports Navy Lt Cmdr J Brad Mooney, coordinator of deep diving gear, says the Palomares H bomb recovery was largely a fluke. The two man Alvin sub located the device off Spain after a fisherman tip, enabling an 80 day, 250 contact sonar search and a 90 minute lift from 2500 feet with no radiation found.
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Mooney
Semo
Alvin
CIA Used Aid Mission As Front in Viet Nam
Michigan State University disclosed that its South Viet Nam aid mission, run 1955 to 1959, was used by the CIA as a front during Ngo Dinh Diem era. The school fired agents and ended the program in 1959 after Ramparts magazine alleged CIA involvement and cover up.
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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Robert McAfee Brown
Jessica Mitford
U.S
Diem
Federal Bureau of Investigation
John Hannah
Department of the Army
MSA
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Wright Patman
D-Tex
New York Foundation
J. M. Kaplan Fund
Patman
Mu Gia Pass Sealed by Massive B52 Bomber Attack
Washington reported the first B52 strike on Communist North Vietnam sealed the Mu Gia Mountain Pass on the Ho Chi Minh trail to South Vietnam. The mission dropped 700 tons of bombs, totaling 1,400 weapons, and defense officials awaited further evaluation while noting the pass’s strategic importance.
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Nape
Polish Church 1000th Anniversary Marks Tense Era
In Warsaw Polish Catholic bishops led a millennium Mass in Gniezno to mark Polish Christianitys 1000th anniversary amid a government effort to divert crowds with civic programs. Observers fear a deeper church state clash while Pope Wyszynski faced travel bans and visa denials for foreign bishops. The crisis followed a December letter urging German dialogue on WWII tensions.
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UPI
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Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
Gniezno
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Wladyslaw Gomulka
Wyszynski
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Britain
Soviet Officers Buy Gyroject Bullets in San Jose
Two Soviet military officers Col. Vsevold S. Tovna and Lt. Col. Nicolai A. Burmistrov bought thirty rocket type bullets for a gyroject pistol at a San Jose shop last week during a vacation. They learned state law bans gun sales to aliens but ammunition can be purchased.
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UPI
Vsevold S. Tovna
Nicolai A. Burmistrov
Washington
Frank Schilling
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