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446 posted on 02/24/2021 12:48:27 PM PST by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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https://www.history.com/news/what-was-operation-paperclip

In a covert affair originally dubbed Operation Overcast but later renamed ****Operation Paperclip,**** roughly 1,600 of these German scientists (along with their families) were brought to the United States to work on America’s behalf during the Cold War. The program was run by the newly-formed Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), whose goal was to harness German intellectual resources to help develop America’s arsenal of rockets and other biological and chemical weapons, and to ensure such coveted information did not fall into the hands of the Soviet Union.

Although he officially sanctioned the operation, President Harry Truman forbade the agency from recruiting any Nazi members or active Nazi supporters. Nevertheless, officials within the JIOA and Office of Strategic Services (OSS)—the forerunner to the CIA—bypassed this directive by eliminating or whitewashing incriminating evidence of possible war crimes from the scientists’ records, believing their intelligence to be crucial to the country’s postwar efforts.

One of the most well-known recruits was Wernher von Braun, the technical director at the Peenemunde Army Research Center in Germany who was instrumental in developing the lethal V-2 rocket that devastated England during the war. Von Braun and other rocket scientists were brought to Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico, as “War Department Special Employees” to assist the U.S. Army with rocket experimentation. Von Braun later became director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, which eventually propelled two dozen American astronauts to the Moon.

Although defenders of the clandestine operation argue that the balance of power could have easily shifted to the Soviet Union during the Cold War if these Nazi scientists were not brought to the United States, opponents point to the ethical cost of ignoring their abhorrent war crimes without punishment or accountability.
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NIKK-(And what are we hearing about the countries performing evil operations on many in the tunnels all over the world..ask yourselves, where did this practice come from?...NAZI’S)
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NIKK....AND who was let into our country around Joe McCarthy’s time? The media has written Joe as the villain when it was our government officials who let the EVIL DOER’S in. Alan has conveniently forgotten or has he? Many of these Nazis were put into colleges to teach Evil to our youth. Where are we today? Fighting good and evil.


455 posted on 02/24/2021 1:13:32 PM PST by STARLIT (Its not the destination, Its the JOURNEY"..Emerson)
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To: Lakeside Granny

How terribly obnoxious the left is. Blatant and proud


456 posted on 02/24/2021 1:15:37 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is -- tell the storm how big your God is!)
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