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226 The Hunt for Zero Point
U.S. side. Other researchers had petitioned U.S. intelligence agencies
under the Freedom of Information Act for papers relating to Schauberger's
period in Texas, but had been blocked by officialdom, which
would neither confirm nor deny the existence of such records, always
citing the National Security Act of 1947.
In seeking to find something that explained this final sequence of
events in Schauberger's life from the Austrian's side, however, I had
come across a small, almost throwaway reference in the Schauberger
archive that had seemed to act as the trigger for it.
Shortly before the Gerchsheimer approach, Schauberger records that
he was contacted by two aircraft companies, one American, the other
Canadian, and that they both offered him substantial sums of money—
the U.S. company, according to Schauberger, pitched its bid at $3.5
million—for the rights to acquire his propulsion ideas.
Schauberger never referred to either firm by name, but as this period
coincided exactly with the rise of John Frost's shadowy Special Projects
Group and its design of a top secret Mach 3-4 flying saucer for the U.S.
Air Force—Project Y2/Silverbug—the Canadian company could only
have been Avro. No other Canadian aerospace firm at that time was
remotely engaged in such advanced technology work.
I recalled my long phone conversation with Frost's son and his revelation
that his father had once made a secret visit to West Germany in
1953. There, at a "Canadian/U.K. government installation," according
to declassified documents in Canada, John Frost had met with an
engineer who claimed to have worked on a flying saucer project at a site
near Prague in 1944-45. Since Frost was probing in all the right areas, he
would inevitably have come across Schauberger's work; the engineer
whom he debriefed might even have known him personally.
Schauberger rejected both offers because neither company would
meet his twin overarching demands: that his turbine should be used "for
the common good"—i.e. for commercial aviation purposes—and that the
deal should be made public.
This period, of course, also coincided with the period in which
George S. Trimble of the Martin Aircraft company, backed by his counterparts
in other aerospace firms across the U.S.A., was talking up the
conquest of gravity and the impact this breakthrough would have on air
and space flight. The world, they announced, was poised on the brink of
an era in which free, clean energy would be the norm; and one day, they
predicted, it would take us to the stars. In 1955, Trimble had set up
RIAS—Martin's Research Institute for Advanced Studies—-whose
charter had been "to observe phenomena of Nature and to encourage,