[crypt2k]

It's interesting that the (supposedly) quoted Boeing rep. isn't issuing flat-out denials of the basic validity of the claimed research.

Boeing simply doesn't know. I'll bet they would like to have Podkletnov perform a demonstration for them, but the Russian technology transfer authorities are getting involved. On the other hand, Boeing might like to perform the experiments themselves, but may not have the complete "blueprints" to be sucessful, requiring Podkletnov to become involved, again under the authority of the Russians.

[ProbableCause]

This is another thing that makes me skeptical of the whole thing, besides just the ideas presented. If the Russians had designed somthing, even rudimentary, along these lines, I really doubt they'd let this guy tell foreigners about it, expecailly ones like the Boeing corp. I remeber a show on PBS once (I can't remeber exactly which) where a CIA guy spoke about his efforts at obtaining classified Soviet information, and what it took to do so. "The Russians KNOW how to keep a secret" he said, wistfully.