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Vesco." 5 Add to this Vesco's c l a i m s f o r " fuel-air bombs" and the<br />

story - Vcsco's detailed references to scientists, companies and<br />

laboratories notwithstanding - became a l l too easy to dismiss once<br />

again.<br />

But then came the German reunification and the resulting<br />

declassification of documents by the American, British, and German<br />

governments. The truth is not merely incredible, but staggering, and<br />

it poses host of historical problematics, as we shall see.<br />

A. The Missiles<br />

A Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee (CIOS)<br />

report, number XXXII-125, running to more than one hundred and<br />

fifty pages, details not only "an experimental model of an additional<br />

thrust unit which was to be fastened to either the A4(V-2) or the A-<br />

9 to give an additional range," 6 but also various "America Raket"<br />

projects for a guided missile with a range of 3,500 miles. 7 These<br />

latter rockets, the report notes, with less than complete reassurance,<br />

"probably never progressed beyond the drawing board stage." 8 But<br />

additionally, there was a V-3 weapon, "a larger version of the V1<br />

with an incendiary warhead instead of the (high explosive) normally<br />

used. Very little information is available concerning V3 control<br />

systems." 9 What, indeed, was this "incendiary warhead" A<br />

thermite bomb A fuel-air bomb An actual atom bomb The report<br />

is unclear.<br />

As if this were not enough, a lengthy section of the report<br />

concerns a whole range of guided missiles being developed under<br />

the direction of Dr. Wagner for the Henschel firm. These included<br />

the HS-293-B, a rocket power glider with a wire guidance<br />

5<br />

Keven McClure, The Nazi UFO Mythos, Core 2: "Renato Vesco,<br />

Feuerball and Kugelblitz, p. 5, internet published book,<br />

www.magonia.demon.co.uk/abwatch/naziufo/naziufo3.html.<br />

6<br />

"German Guided Missile Research, Combined Intelligence Objectives<br />

Sub-Committee, G-2 Division, SHAEF (Rear), APO 413, XXXII-125, p. 5.<br />

7 Ibid., p. 6.<br />

8 Ibid.<br />

9 Ibid., p. 7<br />

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