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...activity in missiles, rockets and outer-space vehicles has spawned a whole galaxy of new magazines. Last week a team of space journalists announced that they will try to establish still another publishing constellation. Erik Bergaust, 33, editor of Missiles and Rockets (paid circ. 23,091), and four of his top associates are leaving Wayne Parrish's American Aviation Publications to form their own publishing house...
Since Parrish started Missiles and Rockets in 1956 industry sales have risen from $1.2 billion a year to an estimated $7 billion. Operating on the Wayne Parrish rule that each $1 billion industry segment deserves its own publication. Bergaust decided that "the business is big enough for us all." This week he will offer a five-day-a-week industry newsletter called Space Business Daily (cost: $125 a year). Later he expects to launch other publications in the field of space-age ground support, electronics and propulsion...
Norwegian-born Erik Bergaust has had a bent for missiles since the age of twelve when he blew up his parents' apartment in an Oslo suburb with black powder rocket propellant. After serving in the Norwegian underground during World War II. Bergaust in 1946 became aviation editor of an Oslo newspaper. He joined Parrish's publications in 1956, quickly won a reputation for pro-Army bias and for exclusives on advanced military developments. To Publisher Parrish, Bergaust's resignation was no surprise. Said Parrish: "Mr. Bergaust went into orbit about the time of Sputnik...
...that he 1) included secret information on the U.S. missile program in documents sent to unauthorized civilian businessmen and newsmen (as well as-although the charges did not say it-to several Alabama Congressmen), 2) had violated national-security laws by sending three secret documents to Managing Editor Erik Bergaust of Missiles and Rockets magazine, and 3) had lied under oath in denying that he had distributed secret material...
...last December, according to the court-martial charges, Colonel Nickerson wrote his memorandum against the Wilson order, sent it to William F. Hunt of Reynolds Metals Co. and John A. Baumann of Radio Corp. of America (both employed at Redstone), Editor Bergaust of Missiles and Rockets, and to Washington Columnist Drew Pearson. "We took one look at it," said Bergaust later, "and decided we didn't want the stuff around. So we mailed it back to Nickerson, registered. Fortunately, we kept the receipt...