Youve come tonight to what i think is going to be a Wonderful Program that we are putting on in cooperation with the Norwegian Embassy. Because this is, the story were going to be hearing tonight is about a world war ii, very important and famous and dramatic as you will hear world war ii raid into norway conducted primarily by norwegians. It was an obvious thing to partner up with the Norwegian Embassy. So id just like to say a few words by way of introduction to our friends here from the Norwegian Embassy. Specifically, jon oyslebo whos minister counselor at the royal Norwegian Embassy. Hes been here serving in washington for about ten months on this particular tour. He served here previously a decade or so ago, i believe. His immediately preceding tour was in oslo at the Foreign Ministry where hes been a number of times, but hes also served in good diplomatic fashion in countries as varied as mozambique, poland, switzerland and morocco. Jon and, indeed, the entire Norwegian Embassy
Questionsy get some focusing on the current russia. Ties with he has taught extensively, including at the university of of then history u. S. Intelligence, diplomatic oftory, cold war, history science. U. S. Army veteran. Balkans where he assisted in both civilian and military intelligence activities. So were just delighted to have you as our speaker, as the first speaker. Please help me welcome vince houghton. [applause] thank you, peter. Thank all of you for coming here today. To get to talk about the atomic spies and nuclear intelligence, this is my field. This is also my passion. I try to do everything i can to talk about this to anyone who wants to listen. So it is nice to have people to listen. I really fell in love, probably a weird word when you talk about the Nuclear Annihilation of the United States. But i fell in but i fell in love with the intricacies of the weapons system that is the worst the world has ever seen but the same time might be primarily responsible for us not
Lot have been looking at a of the treaties over the last five years and i found quite a few inequities on the part of the federal government to live up to treaties. I guess all of us are aware that this. Are days in here, roald burley was talking about a treaty made by the u. S. Government with his greatgrandfather. I believe you mentioned that the lands in oklahoma are actually in over ship of the tribes with certain restrictions. But i have a question that i would like to ask all of you and i would like to give the spec to you too. If individual families on these lands and have deeds to these lands, and over the years there have been Oil Companies drilling on these lands and they never received one penny of revenue from all of this drilling, then what is the next step to get this rectified. If they are on their land and they just took the land without considering the familys what is it that can be done . What do you recommend . For a quickime response. Get a lawyer. [laughter] i grad
Research centered on u. S. Scientific and technological intelligence, specifically nuclear, in the Second World War and the cold war which makes him ideally suited to deliver todays talk. He also got his masters degree focusing on the relationship between the u. S. And russia. So you may get some questions focusing on the current difficulties with russia. Hes taught extensively, including at the universityon the diplomatic history, cold war and history of sciences. He is a u. S. Army veteran, served in the balkans where he assisted in both civilian and military intelligence activities. So were just delighted to have you as our speaker, as our first speaker. So please help me welcome vince houghton. Thank you peter. Thank all of you for coming here today. Getting a chance to talk about the atomic spies, about nuclear intelligence, this is my field this is also my passion. I try to do everything i can to talk about this to anyone hop wants to listen. So its nice to actually have people w
Union you ever had. The answer to the question is they asked for tons of enriched uranium. Of course the white house agreed because diplomacy carried the day. But groves got in the middle of it. Groves went berserk, as you can expect, went to george marshall. Groves was one person as a onestar general that could walk into George Marshalls office screaming and throwing stuff and not get courtmartialed for it. He went into the office screaming bloody murder. Convinced marshall of the stupid idea. Then convinced stimson this is a really stupid idea. Groves got in the middle, slowed it down and eventually conceded as a compromise to give them one kilogram of enriched uranium. 2. 2 pounds which you cant do a whole lot with. This is like 10 refined uranium, too. You couldnt even make a Nuclear Reactor out of this. You need about 80 , 90 refinement of uranium to make a bomb. So, yes, he was very much they were very much looking to please the soviets because they were allies, but there was no