作者：阿Q
Q：我一个老资格GOON党前辈对我这样描述老钱，说他贡献大，而且忠诚。我当时并不以为然，可也没什么根据来反驳他这个说法。
贡献大，对土GOON来说很成立，没有老钱，火箭不容易成功。虽然老钱当时偷回来的技术在美国已经算落后好几年的，但对土GOON来说却是难得的宝贝疙瘩。
现在看到这段儿美国杂志上的片段，对老钱的忠诚就了解的更多了。这厮其实是想继续在美国混下去的，但因为安全许可的调查没通过，无法继续。他申请入美国籍也没有结果，失落以后的唯一选择就是回中国去。
移民局当时要把老钱给递解出境，只是美国政府方面不愿意他把相关技术带回去便宜了土GOON而已。在老钱闲置了5年以后，美国政府也认为他所了解的技术已经落后失去敏感的保密价值，加上还可以顺便用老钱换回韩战中的几名战俘，于是老钱这个想入籍美国而没有得逞的失落分子，就摇身一变成为爱国者，“忠诚”起来了。
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Quote from Aviation Week （摘自美国航空周刊）
"He was seeking U.S. citizenship at the time. 钱学森那时正申请美国公民
Apparently insulted, Qian first responded to the loss of his security clearance by trying to return to China, but he was stopped by the government, which wanted to keep his knowledge of U.S. secrets inside the U.S. Then both sides changed their minds. The immigration service sought to deport him, regardless of the fears of other agencies, and Qian tried to stay, apparently determined to clear his name.
Qian’s attempt to stay almost certainly proves he wasn’t, in fact, interested in working for China. By that time he could have best done so by going home with his expertise and U.S. secrets. Without a security clearance, it was unlikely he could achieve much for China by staying in the U.S.
The immigration service won its case against Qian, but the government still hesitated to send him back. After years in limbo, the scientist himself decided again to go home and sought help to do so from the Chinese government, which secured U.S. agreement as part of negotiations over Korean War prisoners.
His reluctant return was hardly a patriotic act, but that was, and still is, overlooked in the official Chinese view of history. As recently as 2003, the Xinhua news agency, recounting his story, reported blandly: “In 1955, six years after the founding of New China, Qian Xuesen returned to the motherland.”
It turned out that some of the U.S. fears of sending Qian back may have been exaggerated. First, the secrets that he knew were at least five years old by the time of his return, and that was an era of rapidly changing technology.
Second, no single scientist or engineer can have more than a fraction of the knowledge needed to design space launchers or missiles. So he could only be a leader, not a one-man rocket builder. Indeed, his role turned out to be that of administrator of the Chinese space program. Moreover, Chang wrote that in many cases he told his questioning comrades that the technical answers they needed had already been published; they needed only to look up the right book, often an American one."
