Hughes ordered Meier to take the anti-nuclear crusade to foreign countries. Hughes told the CIA to vacate his hangars and pulled out of the Glomar Explorer “Jennifer Project” operation – but he kept the money. Hughes was mad North-by-Northwest, the Hughes’ patents on oil drill bits was the primary source of income for the enterprise by now. Toolco was the cash cow by far, making HHH an oilman. Nuclear energy would be the prime competitor, in his view.
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