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When General Trudeau read my full report, he asked me to speak to the scientists who consulted with us as part of a brain trust and develop a technical discussion, as speculative as we needed it to be with no restrictions whatsoever, in which we integrated what we had in our Roswell files with what intelligence we had on the types of testing the Soviets were conducting. "Don't worry about how it's going to be circulated, Phil, " General Trudeau assured me. "| want to show it to only a few members of the House and Senate Defense appropriations committees and they've promised to keep it confidential. " | told my wife that I'd be home late in the morning for a change of uniform and then | was going over to Capitol Hill for a meeting. Then | ordered up a couple of sandwiches, put a new pot of coffee on, and settled in at the office for a long night. "The present design and configuration of our ICBMs is adequate, "| wrote onto my legal pad, crossed out the sentence, and then wrote it again. "However internal changes are necessary, especially within the warhead capsule. " What | would recommend would be nothing less than radical. We needed an entirely new navigational computer system that would take advantage of the transistorized circuitry now coming into development and projected for the marketplace by the late 1960s. | suggested we model the missile's on board computer on the design of an actual dual hemisphere brain with one hemisphere or lobe receiving global positioning data from orbiting satellites. The other hemisphere will control the missile functions such as thrusters, positioning changes, and booster stage separation. It will receive data through a low frequency transmission from the other lobe. The control lobe will also transmit missile flight telemetry to the positioning lobe so that the two computers will function together in tandem. This, | reasoned, would make the system more difficult to jam. If our global positioning satellite detected a threat from an incoming antimissile missile, it would relay that information to the warhead, whose control computer would direct the thrusters to fire so as to take evasive action before the final target approach. In as much as | believed it was through the application and amplification of low frequency brain waves that the EBEs navigated the craft that we found at Roswell, our implementation of this technology might enable us also to use our brains to control the flight of objects. We could use some form of a brain wave system to navigate our ICBM warhead final stage vehicles if their on board radar detected a threat from an antiballistic missile. We could also use this system to home in on incoming enemy warhead launchers even if they were capable of taking some evasive action. lf we designed the missile the way | suggested, by the time it had been locked into its final trajectory, its detonation would be set so that even if it were knocked off course it would still explode and cause enough collateral damage that it would count as a hit. Enough of our ICBMs could get through, we reasoned, so as to overwhelm not only the Soviet guided missile forces but pose a realistic threat to their population centers. Meanwhile, the technology we developed for changing the flights of our incoming ICBMs could be applied as a template to our own antimissile missiles so as to neutralize any Soviet missile threat. My conclusion: "An appropriation of $300 million must be requested for the coming FY 1963 as a urgent crash development appropriation. " "Colonel, " Brown's assistant said. "We understand the urgency of your request last year and we appreciate your reasons for fighting for it now. " "But the Defense Department is simply not going to allow the army to go forward with an antimissile missile at this time. Not in1963, " Mr. Brown said. "When?" | asked. "At a time, " the army colonel said, "when the impact of our deploying this system will be greater than it is now. The Russians know we have a bead on the type of satellites they're putting up and we can take them out ina heartbeat, much faster than they can take out ours. " 86 "| know you want this right away, General, "| said. "Can | have the rest of the day to work on it?" "You can have until tomorrow morning, " he said. "Because after lunch tomorrow you and | are meeting with the Senate subcommittee and | want to read them this report. " | read my own notes from the envelope handed over by Harold Brown and looked back at him.