Roland Perry, an internationally renowned information scientist, clearly pointed out with a large number of facts that Victor Rothschild is the mysterious "fifth man".
Victor used his connections in Cambridge to get an important position in the key research department of Bolton Dunn, a British defense science and technology laboratory. The work carried out by Bodendang Laboratory is a top secret project, mainly the research on chemical and biological weapons, and these research results will eventually be applied to the manufacture of germ warfare weapons. The goal of the biological and chemical weapons research program is to weaponize and mass-produce in three years, which will be the last weapon against Germany. Once Hitler has truly formed the strength to land in Britain, Britain will not hesitate to use chemical and biological weapons as a killer weapon against Germany.
Of course, this kind of research work is also making antidote while inventing poison. The development of chemical and biological weapons and vaccines goes hand in hand. Victor paid close attention to the key data of these two aspects, quietly collected the data of Maryland Institute of Bacteriological Warfare and the actual test results of Mississippi. The work carried out by Borden Laboratory is one of the top secret projects in the whole war. Within four months after Victor arrived in Bodendang Laboratory, the KGB of the Soviet Union received a large number of experimental data, and the pace of Soviet biochemical weapons research followed closely. Victor's "intelligence assets" appreciated rapidly in the Soviet Union.
During the war, Victor's scientific research interests mainly focused on the research field of weapons of mass destruction. Judging from the value of "intelligence assets", the more weapons that can kill opponents on a large scale in war, the greater the research difficulty and potential impact, and the more countries want to get them at all costs. This kind of intelligence constitutes an "excellent asset" with great value-added potential. Victor is never short of money, and economic benefits are not his pursuit. His vision is to turn these "excellent assets" into important international geopolitical chips, and the consideration of the transaction is to support Israel's founding in Palestine.
Compared with chemical and biological weapons, the atomic bomb is a bigger "excellent asset", and Victor will certainly not ignore its value.
Core secret
At the beginning of World War II, Victor discovered the strategic value of the atomic bomb in future wars. At that time, he strongly suggested Churchill to strengthen the research on the atomic bomb, so Churchill set the focus of British scientific research at that time as follows: first, developing radar to solve the urgent need of early warning of German air strikes, and second, developing atomic bombs.
Victor was an important participant in the whole project during the development of the atomic bomb.
Sir William Axe is mainly responsible for the secret development of the British atomic bomb. The research work is carried out in ICI, the imperial chemical company, and the project code is "Pipe Alloy".
194 1 10 In June, Victor joined the core committee, supervised all the steps of the research and development of the atomic bomb, and exerted his influence extensively in Britain, helping Sir William Axe obtain various research grants from the government. During the whole World War II, Victor was the most familiar, knowledgeable and knowledgeable expert in British and American intelligence systems.
194 1 At the end of the year, shortly after the Pearl Harbor incident, two top scientists from Columbia University came to Britain and proposed that Britain and the United States should integrate resources for nuclear weapons research. Everyone agrees that the atomic bomb must have been successfully developed before the Nazis. Prime Minister Churchill was very concerned about the research progress of the atomic bomb, and he listened to Victor introduce the research progress of the atomic bomb almost every day.
At the moment, Victor is in a special and advantageous position. He is authorized to consult all confidential documents and experimental data. When he was studying at Cambridge University, he had rich knowledge of nuclear physics. When reading confidential papers carefully, he kept consulting some heavyweight scientists to make sure that he fully understood all the details. Victor soon became a top authoritative expert in the field of atomic bomb research. When he knew all the details, he even began to directly propose amendments to various experimental problems in the development of atomic bombs.
Victor not only knows the research details like the back of his hand, but also has a comprehensive and systematic grasp of the progress and covered links of the overall atomic bomb project in Britain and the United States. This puts him in a very favorable position in the whole field of atomic bomb research, and analyzes and integrates other information to form a comprehensive report detailing the overall progress of atomic bombs. Victor's "intelligence assets" at this time are enough to have a vital impact on the course of the whole war.
1933 Rudolf Pailes, a Jewish nuclear physicist who immigrated to Britain, has theoretically proved that nuclear chain reaction is possible, so it is feasible to build a reactor to make fuel for atomic bombs. Then, Pierce and Sir Mark Oliphan of Birmingham University verified the feasibility of this technology and put forward a set of design schemes. This scheme was quickly accepted by Victor, and then he made a detailed analysis and research on this scheme.
The plan was quickly transferred to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union showed great concern and interest in the development of atomic bombs. At that time, Hitler's pressure on the Soviet Union was increasing. After the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet-German battlefield was in a stalemate, and the information on the development process of the atomic bomb had a fatal temptation to the Soviet Union.
Kapicha and other Soviet physicists are at a standstill in the study of atomic bombs. At this time, new ideas from Victor, such as showers after a long drought, inspired Capicha and others, and immediately accelerated the development of the atomic bomb. In the United States, Fermi proposed that plutonium can be used in atomic bombs according to Pierce's chain reaction theory, and built the world's first nuclear reactor in the Chicago experiment in 1942.
Fermi's idea was questioned by Pierce and others in Britain. In this case, in order to thoroughly understand whether plutonium can become the fuel of the reactor, Victor must visit almost all national defense science and technology research departments and extensively interview researchers from all walks of life to understand the key technical links of the whole atomic reactor. But such a high-profile investigation of the details of the atomic bomb is bound to arouse suspicion.
Victor designed a perfect solution quickly and calmly.
Victor first wrote a report to Guy liddell, executive vice minister of B Department of British Intelligence Bureau 5. Victor pointed out in his report that the entire national laboratory and cooperative institutions in the commercial field are indifferent to safety awareness and cannot effectively prevent the infiltration of German spies. He suggested that it is urgent to strengthen safety management and firmly establish a sense of alarm. Liddell thought Victor's report was very reasonable, so he put Victor in charge of the safety of the whole national defense cutting-edge scientific research project. This position is exactly what Victor wanted. He got the sword on the side, so that he can check the "safety status" of all the projects he cares about completely reasonably and legally. Victor became the "safety inspector" of all sensitive projects in Britain.
1942, he visited the University of Birmingham, "casually" looked at the progress of Pierce and Frick's laboratory, and then "incidentally" looked at Oliphany's work in another office. Oliphane was studying radar at that time Olivan mentioned in his memoir 1994: "This is the only time I have seen him (Victor). Victor wants to know all the progress of this project. He visited the whole laboratory, read every research report and absorbed all the details in these reports. He is not an expert, but he doesn't pretend to know everything, but keeps asking a lot of questions, taking notes and then talking to him. " The discussion revolved around various problems faced in scientific experiments. He is a very clever man, and I like Sir Rothschild very much. "
In fact, this kind of security inspection by the Fifth Intelligence Agency has gone far beyond the scope of general security protection. Victor is actually learning the details of all the projects, especially the technical details. When Oliphane wasn't looking, he took a 3-inch diameter magnetron from Oliphane's office. This kind of magnetron has three magnetic poles to generate short wave, which is the cutting-edge equipment of radar. That night, Victor made an accurate drawing of all the details and parts of the device at his home in Cambridge. Victor's painting skills are quite good. The stereoscopic pictures he draws according to his own observation and understanding are far easier to understand than the photos taken by the camera. Soon, this beautiful stereo photo appeared on the desk of KGB.
The next morning, Victor sent someone to send the magnetron back to Olivia with a note saying, "Maybe you should strengthen your safety management. It was very nice talking to you. Your loyal friend, Victor Rothschild. "
Oliphan broke into a cold sweat when he received the note, because the magnetron was lost and he couldn't find it. Oliphane has no doubt about Victor's actions. In a sense, he is even grateful, because with Victor's position and responsibility, he can report and criticize the security vulnerabilities of Oliphane's team, which will bring great trouble to Oliphane's laboratory, but Victor just wrote a note to remind him kindly, which is really flattering him. Oliphane dare not neglect, reply immediately, strengthen safety management immediately, and ensure that all experimental equipment is not registered and taken away.
Later, Soviet physicists reported that Victor's information greatly shortened their research time. Many years later, the Soviet Union admitted that the first atomic bomb exploded in 1949 was only a copy of the American design, which was an unprecedented new idea for them and helped Soviet nuclear physicists understand the most basic principles of atomic reactors. At that time, in Britain and the United States, even senior government officials and chief scientists, including Churchill, were afraid that no one could understand all aspects of the atomic bomb in a comprehensive and detailed way like Victor.
Victor has now become an indispensable source of strategic intelligence information in the Soviet Union. He finally made a proposal to the Soviet Union.
-Excerpt from Currency Wars 2: Gold Power in the World.