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You Must come to the S.G.M. tonight Wed. 7.30

I write to express my disapproval of the motivations of work conducted by physicists of the University of Otago which has recently come to my notice.

I refer to a "Letter to Nature", Nature Vol. 248, April 5, 1974 concerning experiments in whistler-mode v.l.f. communications at a frequency of 6.8 ktiz.

Though I consider the experimental Alaska to New Zealand communications as interesting and valid scientific work, the motivation is particularly suspect and appears to be a case of direct participation in a programme of US military communications research. This low-budget experiment could easily have been conducted without the formation of an unholy alliance of and sponsorship by the US Office of Naval Research, the US Naval Air Systems Command, the US Air Force and the NZ Universities Grant Committee.

According to Nature, the NZ end of the programme was conducted by R.L. the Physics Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ.