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142 means for the President to deny knowledge of any covert activities. It was decided that more knowledge was needed about the various types of alien craft. Project Sign, created on December 30, 1947 and established at Wright Field, was to investigate disk technical capabilities and performance. There was still the problem of evaluation of the disks that had been recovered. It was decided that the Navy Auxiliary Field in the Groom Mountains in Nevada would be the ideal spot to do the testing. anAa 1948 In August 1948, Project Sign prepared a Top Secret estimate of the situation, which was designated as Air Intelligence Report 100-203-79. General Hoyt Vandenburg, after reviewing the report, ordered the report destroyed. Not all copies of the report were destroyed. In December 1948; at least one still survives, Project Sign was redesignated as Project Grudge, with public version to be known as Project Bluebook. The liaison between Project Grudge and MJ-12 was the Air Force officer in charge of Project Bluebook, Captain Edward Ruppelt. anAN 1949 1949 was also the year that construction started on AEC property on Nellis range of the complex designated to perform testing and evaluation of alien technology. It was also another year that German disks started fly-overs in the United States. As a response to this activity and the general alien problem, the CIA Act of 1949 was enacted, giving the agency more capability to act outside the bounds of established las in order to guarantee that the alien problem remained inside the government. At that point, the CIA office of Scientific Intelligence began to review civilian reports of sightings in order to determine the scope of the suppression effort. It was in n 1949 that the Soviet Union detonated their first above ground nuclear test. It is toa woe ra 1 1 1 taladooa 11 uncertain whether the Soviet effort to produce a nuclear device was aided by the delivery to them of | kilogram of uranium in the 1943 by the United States, or the subsequent delivery of nuclear weapons plans to the Soviets in the same year by President Roosevelt under the lend Lease program. A major who was in charge of the transfer of Lend Lease supplies discovered that at least three assignments of uranium chemicals totalling .75 ton, as well as documents and reports, were transferred to the Soviets. Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were blamed for the Soviet weapons acquisition during the next year, and were summarily executed in order to cover up the technology exchange. President Roosevelt's son, James, wrote a book entitled "A Family Matter" in which he details Roosevelt "bold decision" to share the nuclear technology with the Soviet Union. In 1949, alien craft were often seen hovering over sensitive nuclear installations, especially in New Mexico, and probes known as "green fireballs" were frequently seen all over the state; they were presumably monitoring something to do with radiation. The disk crash at Roswell, New Mexico netted on live alien, named EBE (Extra-terrestrial Biological Entity). It was a name coined by study group member Detlev Bronk. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal became disenchanted with the whole handling of the alien problem. He voice his concern to President Truman, who asked him to resign on March 3, 1949. Within one month, the White House had all 3,000 pages of the diaries of James Forrestal locked up in a white house safe and had sent him to Bethesda Naval Hospital under the care of Dr. Raines. Forrestal's brother decided to take him out of the hospital, fearing for his brothers' life. On the same day his brother was due to pick him up, James Forrestal was found hanging outside of a 16th story windows of the hospital with a sheet around his neck. The sheet broke, and Forrestal fell to his death. By December 1949, the government decided to close Project Grudge and divert efforts elsewhere.