[xxi] Paine
proceeded to win two Bronze Stars:
12/13/63 report of SA James Hosty, p. 2;
FBI
- Ruth and Michael Paine Files/
NARA Record Number: 124-10137-10104.
[xxii] An avowed pacifist and a Unitarian, Michael served in the military and worked for Bell Helicopter, with ex-Nazi Walter Dornberger as the supervisor of Paine's division of classified projects for Bell Aerospace: James DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed (New York: Sheridan Square Press: 1992), p. 215, citing the Bell Aerospace roster of corporate officials in Standard and Poor's 1963.
[xxiii] Michael's stepfather, Arthur Young, invented the Bell Helicopter: William Kelly, "Arthur Young and Ruth Forbes Young -- The Crux of the Matter", Conference Abstract, Coalition on Political Assassinations, Opening the Files: JFK, MLK, RFK; Washington, DC, Oct. 18-20, 1996.
[xxiv] Young was proud of the uses of the helicopter in fighting forest fires and MASH evacuations in Korea, but didn't like its conversion into an attack weapon in Vietnam: Interview of Arthur M. Young by William Kelly; see JFK Countercoup, 12/20/09.
[xxv] After Michael flunked out of Harvard in 1949, he increasingly spent time in the barn of the Young place in Paoli, PA, where he experimented with new types of aeronautical vehicles: Interview with Ruth Forbes Paine Young, Commission Document 261 - FBI Lewis Report of 26 Dec 1963 re: Michael Paine, pp. 3-4 www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer
[xxvi] Ruth became active with the East-West Contacts Committee through the Quakers, a society of pen pal correspondence with the Soviet Union that led her to the study of Russian in 1955: FBI memo by SA Kenneth Pettijohn on interview with Wilmer Stratton, p. 3, 1/21/64, Warren Commission Document 435.
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