Jun 2 1971
From The Space Library
DOD spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim told press in Washington, D.C., that cost increase for USN F-14 fighter aircraft was about $2 billion. If tentative plans to produce more than 700 aircraft materialized, cost would increase $2.8 million per aircraft, from $11.5 million to $14.3 million. Earlier, manufacturer Grumman Aerospace Corp. had blamed cost increase on inflation and other factors contributing to poor business conditions. (Witkin, NYT, 6/3/71, 15)
Physicist Dr. Edward Teller criticized DOD secrecy in speech at FMB Hq. at Point Mugu, Calif. He said Soviet development of SS-9 ICBM and expanded ABM system posed threat to U.S. deterrent capability but DOD secrecy made it impossible to reveal details of threat. As result, many in Congress and Nation doubted threat's reality. (FMB Missile, 6/3/71, 1)
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