Blood, Sweat & Rockets: Seeing Red

Norco 80

LAist Studios

True Crime

3.7 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Horrified that his new rocket design will become the vehicle for a nuclear warhead, Malina leaves JPL… just in time for the Red Scare to ramp up. Malina flees to France, but the FBI is hot on his trail. And one of Malina’s former Aerojet colleagues seems more than happy to tell them about Malina’s communist past.

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0:43.3	L.A. LAIS Studios I had other friends in Hollywood, one of them was very close friend, a girl named Saki, who was a big chum.
0:55.0	We were in art school together and so forth.
0:58.0	This is Lillian Wunderman, the first wife of Frank Molina.
1:02.0	We heard from her in a previous episode.
1:04.0	This is from an interview I did with her in December 1999.
1:09.0	She and her mother were politically involved, the same way that I was.
1:15.6	One day I had a call, I was home, the Katya I just mentioned.
1:22.6	Kacha was a German scientist at Caltech, who was friends with Lillian.
1:30.6	Calls me or called the house.
1:35.9	And said Lillian, get out of there as fast as you can.
1:37.2	The FBI is coming.
1:41.3	I can't tell you anymore and hung up.
1:48.5	She took a terrible chance in calling me. And Frank was away, I believe. I think he was on another one of his trips. That's another thing. He was always gone. He was never home.
1:53.5	Lillian puts down the phone. It's in 1945. Her heart's pounding at this point because she has
1:59.9	serious reasons to be afraid.
2:02.6	And I was thinking to myself, oh my God, there are two
2:06.6	cartons of books and material upstairs,
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