The responsibility of prohibiting Antara from gaining employment was distributed among various US Federal Govt contractors.
These contractors either worked with the Department of Defense or the Department of Energy, providing material and components for national security research.
As of now, it was Honeywell that was allegedly thwarting Antara's employment.
The US Govt bureaucrats usually decided which US Govt contractor would prevent Antara's employment and foreign travel.
"The White House was always kept informed, as were the Indian tycoons. Officially, if challenged, the US Govt would hold the lease family responsible for failing to solve the 9/11 attacks and identifying the culprits. (The lease family included Antara's in-laws as well as Close Female Relative's in-laws, they could have provided 9/11 investigation inputs as well.)"
The decision to use US Govt contractors was taken, especially from the field of defence and space, after the lease family's insistence on unmanned space flights. Was there something BT had known from Zinoviev or any other source (say the German 'Society for Space Travel') that he had held back? Hence, Indian men and women started taking an interest in space travel, to show that it was an exhausting but safe initiative.
ii. The lease family's response: "There was nothing complicated about insisting on unmanned flights. NASA was a profligate, expensive venture and the US Govt kept behaving as if it didn't owe any debts to the financier. Why not pay up and settle your debts, then take your citizens and other country's citizens to space?"
iii. As with the Reading and Leeds Festival, the British had got involved. A dancing duo in Britain, originally from the Indian subcontinent, mocked the lease family's stance on unmanned flights. Antara had taken a much-delayed Spicejet flight in Nov 2010, after hearing of her father's death.
The British dancing duo were given the Spice Times Award in Dec 2010, to show how behind-the-times the lease family had become.
"The pressure on the lease family would be felt all over Bengal for it was about the Russian emigres in the United States, those who fled the Bolshevik Revolution and what they knew of Kolkata. Hopefully, Piyali-Somnath's family in Asansol were aware of the tactics of the Alamo Girl."
August 24, 2025.
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