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Model American Mistaken For Spy And Ruined
Collapsed from chest pains on an airplane galley
floor, a vacationing scientist is suspected as a spy by
a German stewardess. His destruction begins.
BY RICHARD SCAFFIDI
BROKE and
jobless, Emil
Schwarz came to
the United States from
Germany in 1929, a
hopeful young man of
19. During half a cen-
tury of hard work and
continuing education,
he rose to distinguish-
ed heights .in science
and industry. Today
this exemplary citizen,
Emil Schwarz, Ph.D. is
back where he started
? broke and jobless.
But now he's 67 and
battling with despair.
What happened? What went
sour in the land of opportunity?
G. Here is a "Who's Who In -
(4 California," someone who has
received letters of gratitude
8al0 :41 association with the likes of Dr. from the Defense Department
and the' president while
Werner Von Braun. He was not-
it was 10 years before he knew
he had been the subject of major
CIA, FBI, and Air Force Office
of Scientific Intelligence (0S1)
investigations. When he finally
requested this information un-
der the Freedom of Information
Act, he was given an extended
runaround. Then his Social
Security benefits were challeng-
ed.-Then the Internal Revende
Service audited him. Coin-
cidences? ?
The ignorant mistake, which
seems to have initiated the
destruction of Dr. Schwarz had
set an absurd snowball in mo.:
tion. If only It were funny. The
stewardess reported her
suspicions to the captain who, in
turn, radioed word to an Air
Force contact who notified the
CIA which authorized the-OSI
to investigate, also involving the
FBI. -Most of this information
comes from CIA documents and
is not. refuted.
? .An -0S1 agent, posing as a
Pan Am official, together with
the stewardess, visited Schwari.
iris the Berlin hospital, attemp-
ting 'a covert interrogation.
Results were far from in-
criminating but the unsuspec-
ting American did openly admit
corresponding briefly with a top
Soviet scientist; The inquiry was
continued. There is strong
evidence to suggest that Dr.
Schwarz was drugged, his hotel
room broken into, and
documents taken.
Unwittingly you see, Schwarz
checked out of the hospital and
into a hotel "full of cloak and
dagger types," one of Whom
offered him a beer. Schwarz
remembers only how unusually
well and long he slept after that
beer. Ten years later, photostats
of papers from his briefcase
turned up, attached to his 051.
CIA dossier, without explan-
don. The selected documents
are absolutely harmless.
Upon his return to the US. he
was interrogated by two FBI
agents. He thought this was a
matter of routine and suspected
nothing more, even extending
his appreciation for , their
thoroughness and affirming his
strong anti-communist opinions.
The FBI report mentions this,
and adds no damaging con-
clusions.
Why did this not end the
whole business? How did it
progress this far? As Dr.
Schwarz wrote in a recent letter
to the CIA: "Why in God's
name, after your agents dis-
covered to the contrary the
stewardess' tpy accusations
against me, %vita that report to
the FBI' not* recalled as false?"
The 'CIA answer, in effect,-
states that it was a matter of
Dr. Emil Schwarz
procedure and claims no
wrongdoing. The FBI also
pleads "procedure" but cheer-
fully informs Dr. Schwarz. his '
letter will be alded to his "perti-
nent records."
Both agencies disavow any in-
tention of harassment, but con-
sider this: a Social Security
notice of overpayment was filed
against Dr. Schwarz in 1974,
before he knew of his secret
files. The unemployed engineer
requested that rather than stop
his meager checks altogether,
they allow him half payments.
Over a year elapsed add
Schwarz thankfully assumed he
had been granted an entirely
favorable ruling. However, one
week after his formal request to.
open FBI and CIA files on him,
the Social Security claim was
levied again. He is still paying it
off.
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With mounting suspicion, he
wrote to his senator, Nc?ada's
Howard Cannon, asking if Can-
non thought this irregular. No
response from the senator, but
one week later he was notified
of an Internal Revenue Service
tax audit.
And ,he still had to wait the
better part of a year for his
secret files, after repeated re-
quests for them.
The files arrived (with
deletions) 11 years after the
original investigation. When
Emil Schwarz read them he
finally knew beyond doubt that
he had been victimized. His
decade of misfortune suddenly
had an explanation. Small con-
solation.
In order to sue the govern-
ment you must obtain its per-
mission. Schwarz's "Suit Re-
quest" to the Justice Depart-
ment was forwarded to the CIA.
The CIA decided in its own
favor and sent a non sequitur in-
surance form to Dr, Schwarz.
Meanwhile the once-proud
master engineer lives frugally on
his wife's $464 per month in-
come from her job, recalling the
dreams he had 50 years ago.
Continued Next issue: details of
ill:warranted espionage activities
against Dr. Sc.iwanc, liz sabotaged
attempts to live a normal life, and ef:
finis to discover the damaging files
on bine. It al/paints a tragic picture
of the awesome power and
ii-
djneace ebig boreaucracy. ?
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From Who's Who To Who Cares, Part If
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Dr.Enul Schwarz: Bureaucrac
BY RICHARD SCAFFIDI
MISTAKEN for a
spy 12 years
ago, Dr. Emil
Schwarz became a target
of investigations by several
U.S. intelligence agencies
-crippling his life ever
since. (See Dec. 9, Free
Press, p.6) The award-
winning scientist and
engineer, once a model of
his upper ?milddle-class
community, now lives off
his wife's $464 per month
income from her job and
the rapidly fading hope
that the government might
somehow make amends for
the ruin it brought him.
The CIA began Dr. Schwarz's
woes by authorizing the Air
Force Office of Scientific
Investigation (OSI) to in-
vestigate a stewardess' suspicion
that the vacationing Rocketdyne
engineer was a spy. He had ex-
perienced chest pains While on
the plane approaching Berlin in
1965 and asked the stewardess to
be sure he and his important brief-
case were not separated
when he was hospitalized upon
landing. She reported her im-
aginings to the captain. The cap-
tain radioed an Air Force con-
tact. The contact notified the
CIA. The CIA assiencd the OSI
to begin an investigation. The I
OSI proceeded
The dubious spy accusation I
could have been cleared simply;
by confirming Schwarz's:
American citizenship and ex.!
amining the harmless papers in ?
his briefcase. Schwarz would i
have been eager and proud to
do both, but rather than ask, an
OSI agent was assigned to pose
as a Pan Am official and accom-
pany the stewardess to the
engineer's Berlin hospital room
for a covert interroga-
tion.
The "intelligence" agent later
reported, "Tried confirm fact
Schwarz American citizen by
gaining access Schwarz
passport. This proved impossi-
ble as hospital have Schwarz
docs and briefcase under their
control and there no way gain
access to these without breaking
cover."
The investigation escalated
and evidence supports
Schwarz's theory that he was
drugged in a hotel and his
papers stolen to be copied.
Because he WAS a U.S.
citizen and because he was be-
ing investigated by overseas in-
telligence, the FBI took cover.
When the unsuspecting scientist
returned from vacation he was
interrogated for hours by two
agents. Their procedure bears
some attention.
The files on this interroga-
tion, obtained under the
Freedom of Information Act.
contain no damaging facts. A
great deal of "investigation"
consisted of encouraging
Schwarz to criticize communism
and promise to tell officials if he
"ever travels abroad in the
future."
A chilling Orwellian note was
added to his dossier: "(names
deleted) who are generally
familiar with communist ac-
tivities in the northwest section
of the Los Angeles area, in
which area Schwarz resides and
is employed, advised that they
had .no information concerning
Schwarz."
Still, the trusting Dr. Schwarz
had no knowledge of the extent
of any files on him beyond the
defense clearance he had receiv-
ed in connection with his posi-
tion at Rocketdyne. Soon-after
his trip though he was
transferred to a different depart-
ment and eventually laid off,
even though he had just the ex-
pertise required
Then began a frustrating
search for a new job, With his
"Who'... Who" credentials,
many large companies were in-
terested but always rejected him
at the last minute without ex-
planation. The Bendix Corpora-
tion, for example, went so far as
to send a letter addressed "To
You As A New Bendix
Employee." But he was turned
down. When he requested a
reason, the reply was: "Unfor-
tunately we are unable to locate
any earlier record of rnr-
y9 s.Victim
respondence with you as far as
Bendix, Electrodynamics Divi-
sion is concerned."
More than 200 resumes met
with similar results.
Perhaps most telling is the
imposition of an IRS audit and
Social Security benefit attach-
ment levied_ exactly one week
after Schwarz's official request
for his secret files under the
Freedom of Information Act
The files themselves were
nearly a year in coming, in-
volving a classic runaround
which included wrong ad-
dresses, passing the buck, and
deletions.
During this whole trying
period, Dr. Schwarz sought help
and advice, through cor-
respondence, from various
politicians. After all Supervisor
Ernest Debs had once referred
to his life as "a saga of a fine,
upstanding American" citing
"contributions to and services
on behalf of his country."
Congressman Reinecke's
response to Schwarz's problems
was they "will have to be
written off as a bad ?-xperience."
Ronald Reagan: "I assure you
I'm going to continue cam-
paigning on the issues and poin-
ting out the failures of this ad-
ministration." Reagan, by the
way, never answered at all after
his election.
Senator Brooke: "I appreciate
your making this material
available to me and I look
forward to ,eading it at the fi,14
onnortiinity"
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Dr. Schwarz now lives in
Nevada and outlined his woes to
his senator, Howard Cannon,
who responded:
"I can certainly understand
why you would not want
federal agencies to maintain
fiks on your personal cor-
respondence. I trust the agen-
cies will be responsive to your
request.
It is my hope that you and
your age will enjoy living in
Nevada. As you know.
Nevada is located in the sun
bowl region of the United
States which has tremendous
importance for those who have
your kind of interest in the
possibilities of solar energy."
Letters have been sent by Dr.
Schwarz all over the country, to
politicians, industry, media and
anyone the desperate man might
reach for help. Meanwhile he
has been denied his right to sue
the government. You see, his
"Suit Request" was forwarded?
to the CIA, which ruled that
there is insufficient evidence
against itself.
DR. EMIL Schwan is
anxious to hear of any
reader's response to his
story, especially any
help or advice. His ad-
dress is: 350 Desert Inn
Road, No. D201, Las
Vegas, NV 89109
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Communist activities. But
suspicions appairently lin-
gered.
;Why did this not end'
the whole business?".
Schwarz asks 15 years later.
His feelings are best ex-
pressed in a 1977 letter, to
the CIA: "Why in God's
name, after your agenta?dis,'
covered to the contra4,the
stewardess' spy accusations
against me, was that report
to the FBI not recalled as
false?"
The "whole business",
Schwarz referred to in-
volved an apparent cloud of,
suspicion lodged against'
him after his return from
Berlin.
It cannot be Verified pit
through declassified mate- OUD IMMIGRANT -'Emil Schwarz
rials whether Schwarz was
1965, going from _Berlin to Frankfurt. '
,
labeled a security risk by , ,
the U.S. government, or Congress had re.
cently
whether the engineering passed the Freedom of In-
firms he applied 'at turned' formation Act, and Schwarz
him down because he failed' ',. was curious if any intelli-i
to' gain a federalsec ?,t gence agencies had moni '
clearance. ' thred several letters he sent
But there is strong evi- to a Soviet scientist in the;
dence supporting Schwarz's early 1960s. The letters con-
claim that this security, cerned nen-centroversial'
clearance is the only thing: science,topica, and Schwarz'
the companies involved had was wondered if they had
in common. . ' been opened and read along
The FBI and CIA have way'
since gone on record as de- He received the dedassi,
flying any harassment of fled records several months
Schwarz, but it remains un- or later and, was stunned to
clear exactly how incrimi- find out .about the. under
hating their intelligence cover investigation that
files were during that time took place during his Berlin
Shortly after his FBI in- vacation.
terview, Schwarz Was trans- "Suddenly, everything ,
ferred to a different depart- began to make ' sense; the
ment at Rockadyne and FBI questioning, my layoff
eventually laid off: at Rocketdyne, all the corn-
Still unaware of any OSI, panies that didn't hire me
CIA or FBI investigations, after they said they were in-
Schwarz felt it. would be terested," he recalled,
only a matter of weeks be-', It was too late to try to
fore he could secure anoth- clear his name because his
CIA, FBI and OSI were res-
ponsible for my failure to
find employnaent With oth-
er' cornpanies, after my, lay-
off fromR
, ocketdyne "
Schwarz concluded.
It Was as if he had a rare
disease or a notorious crimi-
nal record.'.,'
Schwarz eventually land-
ed a blue-collar' job, then
moved to Las Vegas in 1970
arid lived off his wife's mea-
ger income. He was still
completely unaware any
agency had ever investigat-
ed him other than the "rou-
tine" questioning by FBI
agents when he returned
from Berlin.
In 1975, Schwarz decided
to write the FBI, CIA and
081 requesting any files
they may have compiled on
him.
to a claim before one can be
filed against it.
Op Oct. 29, the CIA in-
formed Schwarz he must
er engineering position. He engineering days were Over a "Form 95" request, a
never did. '- , : , at age 65. ' ver file
liability claim for
Schwarz spent all of 1967' "But my privacy had damage or injury.
looking for a new job. Doz- been invaded, at the very Form 95 is' the type of
ens of large conipanies said least. They (CIA agents) claim a citizen would file if
he were run over by an
they were interested but al-. broke into My hotel room
ways rejected hini at the' arid my briefcase in Berlin. Army
jeep, not the kind
last minute without expla- Their investigation ended that would involve civil ha-
nation. - up destroying me," Schwarz ' 'bility for violation of consti-
For example, Schwarz re-' said. "The only thing left tutional rights. No matter;
called, a representative' was to sue them," Schwarz had no choice. He
from the Benclix Corp. told He did not have enough
, Schwarg, he was hired and money _to hire a lawyer to
could go to'Work as So-Ori as'piirsuettit,,SdOn,Aug.N 1977,,
certain paperwork was Schwarzr filed a "suit re
completed. quest" to Attorney General
?Schwarz never heard Griffin Bell. The Justice
from Bendix again, except Department must consent
when he asked the person-
nel department what had
happened. "
"Unfortunately, we are -
unable to locate any earlier
record of correspondence
with you as _far as Bericlix;
electrodynamics diVision, is
concerned," was the reply.
Other pronaisei from en-
gineering firms Met with
similar, results. With his -
"Who's Who in California"
credentials, Schwarz deliv-
ered more than 200 resumes
to employers, receiving
plenty of interest but no.
jobs..
"I have no doubt that the
files maintained bS, .the'
reluctantly completed it,
asking for $1 million in
damages.
On April 10, 1979,
Schwarz received his final
correspondence from the
government. John Greaney,
associate general counsel.of
Abe' CIA, said, "The CL
had not taken any actIon to
interfere with, your profes:4
sional career ... This is a fi-
nal denial of your claim
against the CIA."
This letter only fueled
the bitterness and frustra-
tion building up inside'
Schwarz, for four years.
"How can the CIA appoint
itself as judge in a claim
against itself? It is, unjust."
Last fall, Schwarz Went
to his "last hope," the
American Civil Liberties'
Union. To date, he has not
received any response to his?
letters.
And then desperation
turned to hopelessness.
Four months ago
Schwarz began sending
large postcards each day_to
President Carter; Attorney
General Benjaminand a handful of other Jtts-
tice Department officials.
His. Message was clear: "I
would like to invite you to
my suicide Party on Dee. 24,
1979. Sleep on, it. You
helped destroy me."
For weeks, Schwarz sent
a handful of these cards out
in the daily mail. "I wanted
to make the greatest sacri-
_
fice a man Can make," he
explained,
.? "If f killed myself on
Christmas Eve, I thought it
11,41p.s the only way to expose
what had happened. The
, Only way to expose it was to
"die for it. I know I wouldn't
' have died in vain if, they
found out what their bu-
reaneracy did 0 me."
' Schwarz had every inten-
tion of carrying out his
. death threat. The ,lettera
, ,yvere aimed at dramatizing
,
llis plight, to see whether
, anyone would "lift a finger
to save me." No one did.
? ,.. Christmas week came
'. 'Without a response. "After
Tall those letters, they were
.baying, `Go ahead and blow
your brains out, we don't
' are.'
Then Christmas Eve
came and Schwarz decided
I,
pot to pull the trigger. He
as persuaded not to by a
riend.
For now, Schwarz will
pontinue his daily visits to
he senior center on Bonan-
za Road --sipping coffee
-:With friends, enjoying con-
versation, and occasionally
reminiscing about the old
days.
"The days are long?"
Schwarz ?reflected. "I've
kept busy in the past two
Aara writing letters, trying
to right this thing. I3ut it
?O6esn't look like there are
many more ways I can
fight."
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By Chris Broderick
R-J, Staff Writer
, in August 1965.
The Cold War was simmer;
ing near the boiling point.'
The city and in many
waya the_ world ?was di-
' vided by, a concrete swat
'
of distrust and 'fear Called
the Berlin Wall. Anierican
GIs and East Germans pa-
trolled the wall; their un-
easy glances through the
? barbed wire were symbolic
of the global- tension be-
tween democracy and com-
munism.,'
The Mood of the rest 9f
the world WaS ecitially tense.'
In Southeast Asia, ?Amer-
ican B-52s thundered into'
Neth Vietnam as Presi.,1
dent Lyndon Johnson
launched a new war strate-:
gY of escalation, In Moscow,'
two Kremlin 'newcomers
named Leonid' Brezhnev
, and Aleicsei Kosygin began
changing the course of post-
Khruschev Russia, stepping
up military aid to the Third,
Wend.
And in the United States
a burgeoning civil rights
movement endured bloody
"growing pains: A riot in the
1? Watts area of Los Angeles
left 35 dead and, $200 mil-
lion in property destroYed.
'! Memories of those , days
tare viVid in. the. mind of
:E.tpil Schwarz, a 64-year-old
German immigrant who has
lived in Las Vegas since
1970. It was August 1965 in
Berlin, When Schwarz's
'proud American dream be.
gan to shatter into a thou-
sand pieces. ,
- His story is, a complex
and tragic one. A monu-
mental victim of circum-
'stances, Schwarz was a mani
:caught in the wrong place at
? _P*isely the wrong time.
Mistaken for a cOnirnu-'
"nist spy by U.S, intelligence
agents, Schwarz eventually,
lost his job and coin-
, pletely unknown to him -7.=
reportedly was branded a
security 441. According to
Schwarz;' he became virtu-
ally blacklisted and thus
unemployable in aviation
engineering.
More than 2+30 of his Joh,
applications' met rejection
after the bizarre case of mis-
taken identity in. Berlin,
which Schwarz says was no.'
coincidence.
This was a man who had
been listed in "Who's Who
in California" and "Leaders
in American Science" fel.
his engineering accomplish-
ments. For Schwarz, the
land of opportunity turned
? into a maze of confusion..
Today, Schwarz sits in,
his small Las Vegas apart-
ment more consumed and
frustrated than ever about? ,
what he describes as a mas-
sive, insehsitive bureaucra:
,
He admits to being in
poor health, recovering .
from a recent heart attack.
It is becoming more and
more of a struggle for him to
make the daily morning pil-,,
grimage to the Las Vegas.
Senior Citizens Center,
where he has been a coffee-
table regular' for the past
two years. 1
Besides his wife Bernice,
,there is only one thing in
Sclivvarz's life which keeps
him going, giving him' a
sense of purpose. It is an ob-, .
Session over the fact he was
once a model American
With a prestigious, reward-'
ing job, and a cloud of suspi-
cion "destroyed" himi in one
sweeping blow, ,
"I came into this country
broke and jobles% And
ending up- just as bad- 50
years later; Schwarz said.,
MEMORIES - Emil Schwarz, who says he
was mistaken for a spy 15 years ago in Ber-
lin and subsequently ruined, is shown in the
study of his Las Vegas apartment, where
some of his awards and honors from better
days are displayed. ? ?
R-4 Photo by Rene Germanier
-
"Nobody will ever know the
'anguish and anger I have
gone through in the past 10
years."
Others may be able to
cast aside old frustrations
or misfortunes, but
Schwarz feels like a man be-
trayed. ,
Ironically, what keeps
.Schwarz going is a wisp of
?hope that justice somehow
. will be served and his long-
standing claim for damages
' against the government will
be resurrected. Schwarz
still believes America is
where, a single cause can be
championed from obscurity
to victory. -
Indeed, Schwarz's story
began in obscurity, on Aug.
Vacationing from his po-
sitiOn as senior Manufactur-
ing engineer with a large
California aerospace firm,
Schwarz settled back com-
fortably in his airplane seat.
He wag on a Pan Am airli-
ner bound for Berlin: It was
his first visit to his home-
land since leaving Germany,
411929.
Schwarz Had been Jobk-
ing forward to this trip for a
? long time. Since arriving in
the United States at age 19,
he had worked at Mere than
, 20 jebs all across the conn-
try from a machinist in
?Chicago to a 'gunsmith #1
Des Moines, Iowa. ,'
.7. Schwarz figured his long
? struggle had finally ended
after he established himself
; as an award-winning aeros-
pace engineer for Rocket-
dyne,' a diviSion of- North
American Aviation in Los
Angeles. '
After all, his life had been
a classic by-the-bootstraps
, success story. He had
worked his way iip the free
enterprise ladder, picking
up' a host ,of honorary
awards, career accomplish-
ments and self-taught aca-
demie achieVements alnng
the way. ,
There were his honors
from the American Rocket
Society, AmeriCan Institute
of Aeronautics and Astro-
nautic% California Acade-
my of Science, his doctorate
in philosophy, and other
achievements.
? There were his, listings in.
the 1964 "Who's Who in
California," "Leadera in
American Science," and
"The National Register of
Prominent Americans "
And letters of appreciation
from the Defense Depart-
rrient, Dr, Werner Von,
- Braun, congressmen and
senators and even two pres-
idents. And there was his
self-taught doctorate de-
gree in philosophy.
Yes, it was a proud mo-
ment for Schwari. He had
planned to reunite with
childhood friends to tell
them of his wonderful suc-
cess in his new home, the
United States,
As his plane approached
Berlin, Schwarz suddenly
collapsed with chest pains
onto the galley floor. Fear-
ing a heart attack, a Pan
Am stewardess revived him
with oxygen and told him
he would be taken to the
hospital as soon as they .
landed, Schwarz said he did
not want to be separated
from his briefcase because'
it contained important doc-
uments.
."The briefcase docu-
ments were important ? to
Me," Schwarz reniembered.
It contained many of the
personal commendations,
newspaper articles, honor
certificates and letters he
had compiled over the years
to show his friends. '
The stewardess became
suspicious. Perhaps it was
the Defense Department
letterheads pr Schvvarz's
old business card from his
engineering days at Vard
Corp. in California. The
card indicated the company
was involved with missiles,-
. ,
aircraft, helicopters and nu-
clear components.
Combine this circum-
stantial evidence with the
Cold War atmosphere of
nervousness blanketing
Berlin, and it is understand-
able why the stewardess
told the Pan Am captain a
man lying unconscious in
the back of the plane may
be some sort of spy.
According to,
CIA records
on Schwarz dating back to
the incident, which were
obtained through the Free-
(lord of Information Act, the
captain notified the Air
Force about their suspi-
.;
mons, Air Force officials
contacted the CIA, ivirich
authorized the Air Force
Office of Scientific Intelli-
gence (OSI) to investigate.
Keep in mind Schwarz
was completely unaware
any investigation had been
launched. He would not
know for 10 years. ,
, The night of Aug. 21, an
OSI agent posing as a Pan
Am employee joined the
stewardess in visiting,
Schwarz in the hospital.
Declassified CIA records
show the undercover agent
questioned Schwarz about
his visit to Berlin, but
Schwarz was still , woozy
from his seizure and was
difficult to understand.
The CIA agent subse-
quently cabled this report
tb his supervisors: "Tried to
confirm fact Schw,arz
American citizen by gaining
access Schwarz passport.
This proved impossible as
hospital (officials) have
Schwarz documents and
briefcase under their con-
trol and there no Way gain
access to these without
breaking cover."
Schwarz returned to the
United States a short time
later and was questioned by
two FBI agents when he ar-
rived,
"I was told it Was com-
pletely routine and suspect-
ed nothing more. I even
,thanked them for their
thoroughness," he said.
A copy Of the FBI inter-
view, also gained through
the Freedom of Information
Sunday, February 3, 1936,?Las Vegas Review-clotirna1-11/
Act, shows Schwarz was
asked about his trip, What
business he had in Berlin,
and whether he had any ties
to the Communist Party.
The interview report, dated
Nov, 23, 1965, also con-
tained background checks
conducted by the FBI on
Schwarz.
There was nothing in any
of the released FBI and CIA
reports on Schwarz that
could be considered solid
evidence linking him with
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18 Exile in Las Vegas
The fascinating story of a
brilliant rocket scientist who
blames the CIA for the cur-
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Exile in Las Vegas
by Robin Jenkins
Emil Schwar? was a rocket scientist and a philosopher who
worked on America's space program. He claims he's been
harrassed from his profession by the CIA, and there is reason
to attribute authenticity to his claim. The question arises:
is Emil a spy, or an innocent victim of the system?
"Over the door of the Department
of Justice, are these words: 'The United
States wins its point whenever justice is
done to its citizens in the courts," wrote
Dr. Emil Schwarz on a series of post
cards that, last December, he sent to:
President Carter, Stanfield Turner, Di-
rector of the C.I.A.; Benjamin Civaletti,
Attorney General; and John Greaney,
Associate Counsel General.
These post cards were a desperate
attempt to draw attention to his plight.
They also read, "I would like to invite
you to my suicide party-24 December
1979. Sleep on it. You HELPED de-
stroy me."
Again, no one listened.
He is now seventy years-old, and in
poor health, having recently suffered
two heart attacks. He is understandably
depressed after living through fifteen
years of professional and legal rejection,
but the love of his wife, who supports
them on a meager income, and the hope
that justice will be done to him keep
him alive.
Until fifteen years ago his life was a
classic Horatio Alger story.
He came from Germany in 1929,
the beginning of the Depression. In Ger-
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many he had served apprenticeships as
a machinist and as a gunsmith. A few
days after he arrived in this country he
found a job with a tool-manufacturing
company. But as the Depression deep-
ened, Emil found himself in the position
of many other American men: he had to
exist as a hobo for over five years.
(When he recalls the desperation of
Christmas in 1929, he says, "It wasn't
as bad as 1979.") "But," he says with a
sparkle in his eyes, "I am a genius."
When the Depression lifted, in 1934, he
was hired by the Peter Boller Machine
Works, where he astounded people with
mechanical inventiveness. He invented
what was at that time, the world's largest
floor-scrubbing machine, which was
used to clean the Civic Opera House in
Chicago. He invented a spaghetti ma-
chine, and the first hamburger-patty
machine, which enabled the famous
White Tower hamburger chain of Chi-
cago to become a great success. He
developed a rocking bed for heart patients
with sluggish blood, which was used in
the Henrotin Hospital. For Brunswick,
the bowling-alley company, he made a
machine for putting paper around the
little chalk squares that are used with
cue sticks. He refused to build that
machine, since it would have put hun-
dreds of girls out of work. "My philoso-
phy is to help people, to make life
easier through my inventions, not to put
people out of work."
He became known as "the guy who
comes up with the answer."
"For many years, I only slept two
hours a night, and even then, the wheels
would spin. I would wake up my wife
and say, 'Honey, get a pencil."
Then began a series of jobs with
engineering firms, auto makers, and
when World War II came along, air-
craft makers. He worked on jet engines
from the J-13 to the J-75, and the B-29
bomber. He went from company to
company on special request, enjoying
the fame of resident genius. In the 1960's,
when his troubles began, he had done
intricate work on rocket engines at Cape
Canaveral; he had also been employed
at Viking Industries, Vard, and Rocket-
dyne, the top aerospace development
names in the United States.
Not only was he interested in science,
he was also interested in people. He and
his wife took in homeless children. One
baby boy was given to them by a bar-
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Science.
tender after his mother had left him on
the bar, for good. They adopted another
little boy from a foster home, and took
in three other small children after their
single mother had drowned.
Emile became known in the places
where he worked as a self-styled psy-
chologist and philosopher. He had the
answers to human problems as well as
to engineering problems. People started
calling him Dr. Schwarz, so one day
he said to his wife, "Honey, I should
get a degree in psychology and philos-
ophy." He began self-study courses in
these fields through the Neotarian Col-
lege in Kansas City, and earned the
initials Ps.D. and Ph.D..
During these years he was also col-
lecting honors. He was lauded by the
American Rocket Society, The Ameri-
can Institute of Aeronautics and Astro-
nautics, and the California Academy
of Science. He is listed in the Who's
Who in California, The Who's Who in
Nevada, Leaders in American Science,
and The National Register of Prom-
inent Americans.
Another facet of Dr. Schwarz's vor-
acious appetite for learning and partici-
pation in life is his interest in public
affairs. For many years he has read
newspapers with the consciousness of
an inventor of answers."! see a problem
in the news, and I write to the person,
I don't care who it is: Ronald Reagan,
the Peace Corps, President Kennedy,
Barry Goldwater, the LA. Times, or
anybody; and I give a suggestion on
how to solve the problem," he says with
a chuckle. He has many albums full of
such correspondence.
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"I would never have talked
about dassffied work. That
would be unethical. I know
a lot of top scientists, like
Dr. Werner Von Braun, the
famous German-American
rocket engineer, and we
know where to draw the line.
Scientists meet all the time.
We are professionals. There
is nothing wrong with it."
Unfortunately it was this interest in
life that made him politically suspect
and turned his American dream into a
beaurocratic nightmare.
In 1965 the Cold War was burning
hotly, but Dr. Schwarz didn't have that
in mind when he sent a newsclipping
from a California paper to Professor
M.V. Keldysh, the President of the
Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R. It was
an article about the orbiting of the
Cosmic Spaceship, Voshod II. "This is
how we in America learn of the out-
standing achievements in science," he
wrote. "I also wanted to meet him,"
said Dr. Schwarz. "I have read many of
his works, and consider him an expert
in the field."
"Did it ever occur to you," I asked,
"that the U.S. government would think
you were spying if you met such a man,
considering the nature of your work,
and his?"
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"No," answered Dr. Schwarz, "it
never occurred to me."
"What would you talk about, it you
did meet him?"
"Oh, it would just be one guy to
another. I mainly just wanted to see
him. I would never have talked about
classified work. That would be unethical.
I know a lot of top scientists, like Dr.
Wernher Von Braun, the famous Ger-
man-American rocket engineer, and we
know where to draw the line: Scientists
meet all the time. We are professionals.
There is nothing wrong with it."
As a scientist, Emil is apolitical.
"I'm not at war with the Russians, I
never have been," he says. His associ-
ation, if you can call it that, with the
Russians began in 1935, when the
Russian Academy helped him with an
engineering problem by giving him a .
formula for cooling fins for a 1-8 horse-
power engine.
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same time. ney are in me air :
scientists are thinking about the same
things. Emil cites a good example of
this phenomenon:
In the early I YOU s, Zinn naa several
ideas which were ahead of their time
in the United States. One of them was
that a glider-sled could be used for a
moon landing. It would circle the moon
within its gravitational pull and eventu-
ally the velocity would run down and it
would land. Dr. Pickering, of the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory at the California
Institute of Technology wrote to Emil,
"A glider type vehicle would not be
feasible, in any case, since there is no
air on the moon." Emil scoffed at this
reply. "If it traveled all the way through
the vacuum of space, why would it need
air to land? The gravitational pull is the
factor, not the atmospheric blanket"
He sent his paper on the subject to
scientists in England and Germany, and
from them he received concurring view-
points. He also sent this paper to tile
Soviet Academy, but he got no reply.
In 1965 he wrote, "I expected and re-
ceived no answer in the American circles,
but I had hoped (for) and highly valued
your opinions." (When he went to
Germany in 1965, he was hoping to
meet Von Braun to find out if Keldysh
was going to be at the upcoming Space
Congress in Athens.) "I couldn't give
this idea away," he says, "and now the
He would bring an album
full of artides about himself
and show the people how
a person could really make
it big in America.
If you were going to send a pigeon
into flight, how would you do it? (He
lifts his hands.) You don't just make it
go on its own, you give it a lift. This is
the same thing you must do with a rocket
I suggested a hydraulic booster to be put
fifty feet in the ground. That way you
save five tons of fuel on gravitational
pull. You have more fuel?you stay up
longer. Then I wondered, how do the
Russians send 'em up? Not on the ocean
like us, they must do it inland. The way
to do it would be to use a rocket sled
set at a thirty-five degree angle?a
lunging launching pad I discussed this
at a symposium. You have two rockets,
one a booster, pushing the other at a
terrific speed It's not a use of fuel but
a pushing?you save fuel and you can
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It is no accident that the same in-
ventions and scientific theories develop
in different places of the world at the
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put more up. Later, I saw a science
program on television that showed the
Russians using that same process.
Mrs. Schwarz remembers the program.
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military-industrial complex:
I hate ideas to be wasted As an
engineer-scientist, I want to see things
proven. The case with Pickering is lyp-
ical of what the big companies do to
scientists. Rather than give them credit,
they say, "Not feasible." My ideas
aren't government secrets: I make them
available to the Defense Department
by registering them with the American
Inventors Council in Washington, D.C..
Like my bomb shelter?if the United
States doesn't want it, the Russians can
use it?I wish I could build my inven-
tions myself but I don't have the money.
It's like my invention of front stop-
lights for automobiles. They would be
a safety feature so the pedestrian could
see ([a car was going to stop when it
comes toward you. The auto companies
say they're too expensive, but they'll
probably be putting them on someday.
My wife and I have been stopped by
the police several times for using them
on our car. They say they're illegal.
He laughs.
"Suppose one of your defense ideas
got into the hands of the Russians, and
they used it against the United States.
How would you feel; how do other
scientists feel about that situation?
Guilty?"
"No?because it could be invented
by any number of people at the same
time. This is a terrible thing. I hate to
see what is coming and I know it is.
Soon. It is something I don't want to
live through."
We all- share this foreboding. It's
even more absurdly frightening now
than it was in 1965 because there are
more weapons.
In the summer of 1965, the Schwarzes
came into a little extra money through
the sale of a piece of property. Emil
hadn't been back to Germany since
emigrating, thirty-one years before.
Now his German family members were
dead; but he reasoned, in his inimicable
Schwarzian style, that if he put an ad in
the newspaper of his home town, he
could meet lots of old friends of the
family. He would t:iring an album full of
articles about himself and show the
people how a person could really make
it big in America. And that is what he
did. But before he left, he thought he
would try to get a visa to the U.S.S.R.,
and maybe he could meet the esteemed
Professor Keldysh.
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asthma attack). She gave him oxygen
and tried to comfort him. Schwarz didn't
want to lose his briefcase, which con-
tained his album of newsclippings, and
so he asked her not to separate it from
him, because it contained "very import-
ant papers." The stewardess, according
to one F.B.I. report concerning both
0.S.I. (Office of Scientific Intelligence)
and C.I.A. reports, also claimed that
Schwarz, in his delirium, spoke in Ger-
man, and said (she wasn't sure he said
this, but she believed he said it) that he
"was meeting a Russian diplomat in
East Berlin." Someone (one report says
it was the "medical man" but Schwarz
insists it was the stewardess) looked
through Schwarz's wallet and found an
old business card from Vard Industries
that had the heading, "missiles, aircraft,
helicopters, and nuclear components."
The stewardesi relayed this information
to the captain of the plane, and he be-
came alarmed, and so relayed it to the
Air Force Office of Scientific Intelli-
gence.
Dr. Emil Schwarz?a formal portrait
It was then that a series of bizarre
episodes, linked to espionage, began.
He sent his passport to the Soviet
Embassy in Washington, and since
take-off time for the trip was nearing,
and he had received no answer about his
visa application, he called the Embassy
itself. F.B.I. agents reported the incident
as Schwarz told it to them, a few months
later.
The first call was made in the morning
and he was rudely and abruptly referred
to another number where he could obtain
the desired information. The person that
he was to ask for at this number was
PIETRO (phonic). SCHWARZ told
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him that his application had been denied
and his passport was being returned to
him.
So Schwarz gave up the idea of going
to Russia at that time.
The holiday began in Saarbruecken,
Germany, Schwarz's birthplace, where
the people hung banners in his honor.
He enjoyed what he thought, ironically
enough, was going to be a lifelong
pleasant memory of a tribute to his
success in America. After three weeks
of festivities and sightseeing, he decided
to go to Berlin to sightsee there.
Just before the plane landed, he had
a seizure, which the stewardess thought
was a heart attack (it turned out to be an
The sleuth was on!
A the cab driver who took
Emil from the hospital to
his hotel said?and Emil
thought it was a joke?
"The cloak and dagger guys
are in there."
The sleuth was on!
As the cabdriver who took Emil from
the hospital to his hotel said,? and Emil
thought it was a joke?"The cloak-and-
dagger guys are in there."
For several hours after the seizure
he was semiconscious. There are differing
accounts of what he said at that time.
One C.I.A. report says he told the stew-
ardess that the diplomat he was sup-
posedly meeting had told him not to
come to East Berlin via West Berlin.
Emil disclaims this statement. That
night, according to one C.I.A. report,
an O.S.I. agent posed as a Pan Amer-
ican Airline Official and came to the
hospital with the stewardess, under the
pretext of helping Emil to rearrange
his travel plans, but really to interrogate
him. They also had a "technical man"
on duty to break into Schwarz s luggage,
if they thought it necessary. The report
says:
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Schwarzes came to Las Vegas in 1968.
To hide.
It wasn't until 1977 that Emil was
able to get enough information about
the formerly classified reports to be
sure that he had lost his security clear-
ance. Then the details began to fit to-
gether. He remembered the strange men
who had bought him a beer one night in
Berlin. He now believes that beer was
drugged because he slept exceptionally
well and the next morning found the
lock on his briefcase broken. And there
was the odd interview he had been put
through by F.B.I. agents shortly after
his return from the European trip. Their
pretext that time was that they thought a
bomb had been planted near the hotel
in which he stayed, in order to kill him
because he was a top scientist. He told
the agents he doubted the bomb was
meant for him because the explosion
took place in a dentist's office adjacent
to the hotel. The real reason was to
question him about his feelings toward
communist ideology. They told him it
was simply routine and Schwarz thanked
them for their thoroughness and interest
in him?just as he had thanked the "air-
line official."
DURING VISIT SCHWARZ NOT
ENTIRELY COHERENT BUT INDI-
CATED HE HAD PLANNED SEE
SON, DIPLOMAT EAST BRLN PM
21 AUG AND HAD PLANNED
ARRANGE MEET WITH HEAD
SOVIET ACADEMY SCIENCE IN
NEAR FUTURE. THIS POINT
MOST HAZY AS SCHWARZ MADE
NO CLEAR REFERENCE TO TIME
OR PLACE OF MEET WITH HEAD
SOVIET ACADEMY SCIENCE.
SCHWARZ ALSO INDICATED HE
WELL CONNECTED WITH WHITE
HOUSE BUT AGAIN THERE LACK
CLARITY ON THIS POINT AS
SCHWARZ USED MIXTURE
GERMAN AND ENGLISH EX-
PRESS HIMSELF.
Schwarz says he said no such things.
The thing to keep in mind while con-
sidering the conflicting stories is that
Schwarz was delirious, and his import-
ant connections consisted of his in-
nocuous letters about public affairs to
people in high places. After his papers
were searched and photocopied (those
photocopies are part of the secret re-
ports) it was determined that Schwarz
had nothing classified. He had only
personal papers. Officials at Rocket-
dyne, the company he was working for,
were asked to search for missing docu-
ments, and they determined that nothing
was missing.
Schwarz had no real evidence that he
had been under investigation until eleven
years later, one year after the Freedom
of Information Act was passed. But
during those years he suffered loss of
prestige and financial ruin. After his
project with Rocketdyne was finished,
he began to look for a new job. For
reasons unknown to him, he became
unemployable. He endured what he
calls, "a ten-month-job-seeking night-
mare." He sent out over two-hundred
resumes. The companies always showed
strong interest in hiring him at first, but
at the last minute they would tell him
they had never heard of him.
An incident with the Bendix Corp-
oration is typical. They sent him a
letter welcoming him as a new employee;
he even went for a physical and to a
company indoctrination. When he heard
nothing further from them, he called
their personnel department, only to be
told they had no record of ever con-e-
sponding with him. Two years after
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It wasn't until 1977 that
Emil was able to get enough
information about the form-
erly classified reports to be
sure that he had lost his
security dearance. Then the
details began to fit together.
sending out the resumes, Emil happened
to meet an official from one of those
companies. He asked this man to tell
him what was going on. The official
checked into the matter and told Emil
that his file had been removed from the
central security headquarters. That is
why he had suddenly become a persona
non grata.
"Nobody will ever know the anger
and anguish I have gone through," he
said. Finally, Emil found a blue-collar
job, but it was an embarrassment "What
if somebody I knew should see me work-
ing as a janitor? I would die of embarrass-
ment if somebody should say, 'Dr.
Schwarz, what are you doing here?"
He wanted to hide. That is why the
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trnil, as a "death blow," words which
put him into a state of suicidal despair.
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Emil has tried many times to enlist
the help of the American Civil Liber-
ties Union, but they do not answer his
letters. It could be that they don't con-
sider this to be a precedent-setting case.
Local legal-aid attorneys are currently
prevented from taking the case because
a law, recently passed by Congress,
forbids them to deal with fee-generating
Bernice and Emil Schwarz leaving Germany
after their tragic vacation.
In 1977 he wrote to the C.I.A., "Why
in God's name, after your agents dis-
covered to the contrary the stewardess's
spy accusations against me, was that
report to the F.B.I. not recalled as false?"
He ran into a beaurocratic rubber
wall.
John Greaney, counsel for the C.I.A.,
responded, "I am sorry to learn from
your letter that you feel employees of
this Agency engaged in misconduct
against you. This allegation is totally
without foundation."
Emil decided to sue, only to learn
that the government cannot be sued
without its consent. The Attorney Gen-
eral's office referred his petition for suit
back to the C.I.A. for investigation.
The C.I.A. is its own judge as to whether
or not it can be sued. .
Apparently only to humor Dr. Schwarz.,
Greaney? sent him an insurance form to
fill out Schwarz filled it out and sent it
back. Greaney replied, "This claim does
not provide additional facts to those
submitted in your correspondence of 11
June 1977. I informed you on 7 July
1977 that the C.I.A. had not taken any
action to interfere with your professional
career . . . This is a final denial of your
claim against the C.I.A." There were
the words that, for months, haunted
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cases.
"The Civil Liberties Union was getting
aggressive, and this is Congress's way
of tying their hands," I was told by a
local attorney.
Emil was referred to a local fee-gen-
erating lawyer who said he would take
the case, if Emil would pay him three
thousand dollars first, and twenty-three
thousand over the next three years. Emil
went tt another attorney, who is quite
well-known in Las Vegas, and this
attorney "lost" Emil's copies of the
C.I.A., F.B.I., and O.S.I. reports. Shortly
thereafter, Emil noticed a car darting
in and out of traffic to move near his car
and then to move away from it. The
passenger in the other car was pointing
a movie camera at Emil.
Whether we see him as a
menace to national security
or as a naive inventor de-
pends upon where we are
coming from. It has to do
with our integration into
the rest of the world and
with our reactions to cur-
rent catch phrases . . .
The story of Emil Schwarz raises
some serious questions about the roles
of science and technology in a world-
culture which on one hand, mechan-
ically developed enough to travel through
space, and on the other hand, divided
by the tribal brutality of our cave-man
ancestors.
Albert Einstein was caught in the
same political insanity and had plenty
to say about it
Nationalism is an infantile sickness.
It is the measles of the human race
Politics is a pendulum whose swings
between anarchy and tyranny are fueled
by perenially rejuvenated illusions.
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I believe that the horrifying deterior-
ation in the ethical conduct of people
today stems primarily from the mechan-
ization and dehumanization of our
lives?a disastrous byproduct of the
development of the scientific and tech-
nical mentality. Nostra Culp& I don't
see any way to tackle this disastrous
shortcoming. Man grows cold faster
than the planet he inhabits.
Nationalism coupled with the dehuman-
ized mentality. The illness of our age.
The mechanized treatment of sci-
entists is one of the things Emil is most
bitter about:
The scientist is used by company
after company, nation after nation, and
then thrown away. Look at what they
did to the German scientists that came
here with Von Braun to work at NASA.
After the Americans were trained, they
threw them out, laid them off after
twenty-jive years, gave preference to
American veterans; and Russia did the
same thing in 1960, but at least they
bought them houses in Germany.
He is also bitter because his last
productive years were taken away from him
without a trial for any wrongdoing.
Whether we see him as a menace
to national security or as a naive in-
ventor depends upon where we are
coming from. It has to do with our
integration to the rest of the world and
with our reactions to current catch
phrases, such as "military superiority,"
and "the race for space." Emil is a
typical scientist in that he doesn't care
who gets there first. He just wants to be
working on the innovation. What the
innovation is and how it's used depends
largely upon the direction of mankind's
collective conscience.
Science, like art or history, does not
spring from a vacuum. It is the product
of what is surrounding the maker. The
circum-stance.
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