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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
100-190625-1641 Ltr. from War Dept. (John Lansdale, Jr.) to the Director dated 6-6-45.
Inclosed for your info. is an extract of copy #3 of the Manhattan Engineer District Monthly Intelligence Summary for May 1945.
ESPIONAGE Activity re X-Metal
ADASTRA RESEARCH—NYBO—Ref. April Summary, pg. 5 Reported by the Pasadena Branch Office that the subj. Company is apparently owned by John W. Parsons [Jack Parsons] and that there is an undetermined association in the business with Parsons of E. S. Forman. Both the forementioned gentleman are employed on DSM work at the Institute of Technology. Forman is employed on DSM work at the Institution in a subordinate position on the mechanical aspect of detonator firing control, and info. would indicate that he has little knowledge of the Project. Parsons is doing explosive work at CIT not related to DSM work, and he reportedly has been doing research in that field for a number of years. It appears that Parsons obtained the pound of x-nitrate for experimental purposes. Case RUC 24 May to NYBO where case is pending.
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