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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
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PO BOX 1031
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Mesquite, TX 75150
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August 16, 1990
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Annotated from an article in the
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Dallas Morning News on Tuesday, September 4, 1990
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contributed by Ron Barker
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Scientists seek to study Nazi paper.
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Texas A&M researchers interested in coal-to-gasoline process.
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Associated Press
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas --
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Texas A&M University researchers want to resume the study of
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Nazi documents about producing gasoline from coal - a process that
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they say may alleviate the United States' dependency on foreign oil.
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More than 300 rolls of microfilmed documents dealing with the
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process are stored in the university's library, but few have been
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translated or read.
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The documents detail Germany's research and development of 25
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synthetic fuel plants from 1936 through 1945. The plants provided 90
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percent of the Nazis' aviation fuel and 68 percent of the rest of
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its energy needs, the records show.
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Vangard Note...
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After the war, the records were placed under a 30 year
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moratorium from the public to prevent the sudden release of radical
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technology which might disrupt American businesses.
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*******
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Texas A&M researchers began gathering and scrutinizing the
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documents for practical application in 1975, but the project was
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abandoned five years later.
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Arnold Krammer, an A&M history professor, told the `Houston
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Chronicle' that the documents also record the U.S. government's
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short-lived synthetic fuel program.
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Two U.S. plants, built in Louisiana, Mo., using Nazi designs
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and technology, turned out 200 to 400 barrels of gasoline daily for
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as little as 1.6 cents per gallon from 1949 to 1953, according to
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U.S. Bureau of Mines records.
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That project was shut down by President Eisenhower's
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administration, Mr. Krammer, 49, said. "Without question, it was due
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to lobbying by oil companies who didn't want the competition," he
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said.
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Mr. Krammer and other A&M researchers tracked down Nazi Germany
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war documents in diverse locations that included basements in West
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Virginia, the Imperial Museum in London, the National Archives and
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the Library of Congress in Washington and German depositories.
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Most of the documents were captured and stored after the Allied
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victory over the Nazis in 1945. Many of the crates had been stored,
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unopened, since the war.
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As a result, Mr. Krammer said, Texas A&M is the only
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institution with most of the Nazi and U.S. secrets to synthetic
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fuels.
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Mr. Krammer said he hopes the project will obtain funding to
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hire a research team to read, translate and computer index the
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documents. He estimated the project would take five years to
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complete at a cost of about $200,000 annually.
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The chemical process for turning coal into gasoline is known to
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about every chemistry graduate student, he said. But it generally
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has been considered uneconomical.
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He said, however, that Nazi German research might unlock the
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keys to making the process cheaper than pumping petroleum.
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"It is the details that we have in these documents, details of
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where the Germans went wrong, and what worked and what did not
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work," he said.
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Additional Vangard notes
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Chuck Henderson said he heard a local radio broadcast which was
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about the current gas/oil crisis and what was known about
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alternative fuels.
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A caller from Fort Worth said he had access to the Nazi documents
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back in 1957 and had photocopied the them for his own use. He also
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claimed that he had successfully converted coal into gasoline at a
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cost of 10 cents per gallon.
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The man is George Vestal at (817) 497-4208. I called him the
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next day but he was out. He later returned my call and sounded
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slightly manic as if he was hyper stimulated or overly excited. I
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asked him about the radio talk show and what he had. He told me he
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had photocopied ALL THE NAZI DOCUMENTS in 1975 and had figured out
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how to convert the coal to gasoline.
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I then asked him if he had found any information relating to
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electrical or flying machines and he said, "Do you mean
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electromagnetic flying machines, yea, I have all that stuff."
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I told him of my particular interest in the Kugelblitz and that
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we could exchange information if he was interested. He said no way,
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he was going to keep everything he had. I asked him, "Well, what
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do you plan to do with it?" to which he replied, "If I can't get
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something out of it, I'll just keep it to myself." This included
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the coal to gas papers and processes.
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This information was passed around to various KeelyNet and
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Vangard Associates who contributed additional information. A friend
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has a friend who knows Arnold Krammer of A&M very well. He had him
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ask Mr. Kramer about the papers.
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Krammer said that the only papers which were publicly available
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in 1975 were the coal to gas papers and not many people had access
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to them at the time. As to claims that other information had been
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copied, he said impossible, as the crates had not even been opened
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TO THIS DATE. This was before the above article was published.
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So, as far as I am concerned, Mr. Vestal might have some papers
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but not the advanced documents which we are interested in.
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To our knowledge, the papers are under the second 30 year
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moraturium and not available to the public until 2005.
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If you have comments or other information relating to such topics as
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this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or send to the Vangard
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Sciences address as listed on the first page. Thank you for your
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consideration, interest and support.
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Jerry W. Decker.........Ron Barker...........Chuck Henderson
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Vangard Sciences/KeelyNet
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Jerry at (214) 324-8741 or Ron at (214) 484-3189
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