From canon materials, The U.S. government was just coming into awareness of the Project and Bruce in particular. A Cabinet level meeting going on as departments began to share information the day the War began.
I would say that the Council had been very capable of compartmentalizing information within itself. So much so that employees within the company were fed deliberate mis-directions and plausible reasons. "Oh, all these V-150 hulls? They are for some U.S. Defense project. I hear it is for anti communists in Viet Nam or something".
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