This was in April,1955, in Washington, DC. Cornillion is, allegedly, meeting Brown for the first time. The document Brown is reviewing is probably the one we call the Mason Rose Saucer document (linked in the Mason Rose thread in this section). It dates from Brown's "wounded prairie chicken" days in LA, in '51/'52. During this west coast sojurn, between Hawaii and DC, Rose and Bradford Schank, each with deeply hidden WWII histories of their own, and separate careers of their own, were happy to play at being partners with Brown in his chosen role as crank saucer scientist and stock market tips peddler.Dr. Brown looked over Dr. Rose’s paper and smiled saying; “we have made enormous progress since this report was written.
Cornillion goes on to say that Brown needed to be at the Franklin Institute the next week and they would meet again in Philadelphia. This seems important, as the Institute had earlier been proposed as a working partner in the Winterhaven project.
Cornillion continues:
I think Brown was talking about the Cady report of Sept., 1952, here. I will have more to say about that report in a following post, but let's dispose of W*, first.However with respects to my inquiry he told me that he was not at liberty to discuss the issue at that exact moment. Without being specific he explained that he was under oath with official organizations not to discuss the subject with anyone. He did mention that he would inquire about the possibility of collaboration and that I should call him the next day. I told him I was surprised to hear about the security issues because Shank and Rose had informed me that the research had been abandoned. He told me that it wasn’t their fault because they themselves were unaware of Brown’s recent activities.
He immediately explained to me that this subject is now “classified information”. He mentioned that in the past part of the information had become momentarily declassified, -only to become reclassified almost immediately afterwards.
If by W*, Cornillion means the Winterhaven Proposal that Townsend put out in December, 1952 (or early 1953), to my knowledge, that document has never been classified, although that does not mean that the all or part of the work was could not have been funded in a different, more secret guise.That is, -no doubt the point when W*(blacked out)* project information leaked out. The W*(blacked out)* project now deals specifically with dynamic applications of the B/B principle and these applications are now classified..
Winterhaven lays out a plan for 4 separate groups of basic research, to be carried by the National Bureau of Standards, Stanford University, the University of Chicago and the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. The work was proposed by the Thomas Townsend Brown Foundation, located in the Bowen Building, described as "just a few steps from the White House"
The proposal under discussion is here: The Table of Contents is here It is apparent from the Appendix A document, laying out the work that will be done at the Franklin institute, that Townsend worked closely with the Institute research director W.F.G. Swann on preparation of this Part D plan. Swann has a hella impressive resume https://web.archive.org/web/20080224052 ... story.html (and according to the cover letter for this section, he was likewise impressed by Townsend.)