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The fact that the parachutists who take the documents from Wolff in Destination Moon get away in time to make available the radio control details of the trial rocket to the enemy is amazing in itself and I feel is a glaring plot hole in Destination Moon. How do they manage to get out of the security area in time so that their controllers (apparently thousands of miles away) get all the details necessary to take full control of the trial rocket?

Are there any explanations out there that could fit into the otherwise tightly knit story?

They have only to read out the key specifications (e.g. frequency,encoding,password,...) and transmit this with a mobile short wave radio (with heavy batteries and tubes of course) from a mountain top.

The rest of information may they have got sometimes before, because the enemy operations seems to run for a while already.

If that was the case, why couldn't have Wolff done it himself since he had direct contact with Miller (he conveys other information apparently without the use of spies being parachuted down to the security area).

Also before they discovered Wolff, they had made no progress beyond having a list of employees working at the Atomic Center as shown in one of the earlier panels.

I think the reason they needed the papers was that they were complex plans not conveyable over radio or similar media??