"Bob Wolf" followed up on the story at the time. He spoke to an ACC consultant who was presented as "an expert on National Electronic Space Command matters for the Department of the Air Force."

That individual said: (T)here is NO INFORMATION ABOUT TRANSISTOR RESEARCH actually available nor that is bonafide nor provided by Bell Labs PRIOR TO July - August - Sepetember of 1947.
It didn't exist, because the materials concepts used by Bell and the associated research resulting in the fabrication of the Transistor came from the Roswell, New Mexico crash site of the "extraterrestrial craft" discovered jointly by the Air Force and Army there in mid 1947