If you haven’t done so, you should read about Operation Paperclip, how the USA rounded up and brought back quite a few Nazi Scientists, most notably Werner Von Braun and his team that developed the V1 and V2 rockets.
I am familiar with that.
The top 3 at NASA were all “not an ardent” former Not Sees. Von Braun, Debus, and some other guy whose name escapes me.
Less well known, while rocket scientists were part of a Paperclip operation, the US government also imported a metric crapload of propaganda specialists, and chemical and biological warfare specialists. A lot of them ended up at Edgewood Arsenal and elsewhere.
The deployment of L.S.D., first at the CIA, and through government contracts at major universities, has the hallmarks of a destabilization operation. This was throughout the 1950s. It was then “mainstreamed” and flooded in the civilian population at large in the 1960s, particularly California. The whole “Hippie” phenomenon was a government operation, or repurposed anyway.