Sources
Memo for Dr. Welsh: Conference with Frutkin - Fragments (29 May 1963)
StubOne-page White House (EOP) memo by R. W. Hale on NASA's Arnold Frutkin, who opposed a public announcement or Executive Order on space-fragment recovery and said DOD and the Air Force wanted to use NASA 'for a cover'.
Claims in this source
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| Claim | Verdict | At | Relation |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA's Frutkin said in 1963 that DOD and the Air Force wanted NASA as a 'cover' for fragment recovery | Documented | p1 | asserts |
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- Hale's paraphrase of Frutkin's views, not Frutkin's own words.
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