The OMEGA File - RAND CORPORATION (Pt.22)

In January 1946 industrialist Donald Douglas approached the Army Air Force with a plan for government and industry to work together on long range strategic planning. This was called Project RAND, a name coined by Arthur Raymond from Research And Development. Much of their first government money went to the von Braun team. [McDougall, Walter al. ..."the Heavens and the Earth, A Political History of the Space Age," Basic Books, New York, 1985, p. 89.]...

(Note: RAND Corp. was also involved in expanding some of the upper levels of the Dulce, New Mexico underground biogenetics research facility, according to Thomas Castello. - Branton)