The Space Base Case

Last June, U.S. Attorney Myles J. Lane, speaking at the annual communion breakfast of the 165th Infantry Regiment of the New York National Guard, was quoted by the press as having charged that classified information about studies relating to “sky platforms” had been transmitted by spies to Soviet Russia “before some of our own top people knew about the project.” Artificial satellite vehicles moving in orbits high above the earth would be of great military value, he indicated, because they could be used as launching bases for guided missiles.