Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 10 1131-10-p039

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Extract From my addmecr % W-0 Pecearch (entke ontario PROJECT MAGNET =~ * EN Oe THE RECORDS INDICATE THAT THE FIRST CANADIAN GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION WAS THROUGH A PROJECT IDENTIFIED AS MPROJECT MAGNET", IT WAS SET UP IN DECEMBER 1950 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. WILBERT B. SMITH, CHIEF OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS BRANCH. MR. SMITH WAS ALREADY INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED IN HIS FIELD, HELD A NUMBER OF PATENTS AND HAD RECEIVED SEVERAL AWARDS FOR HIS WORK...