N Korean scientists defect ("Operation Weasel!")

The Weekend Australian ^ | April 19, 2003 | Martin Chulov and Cameron Stewart

[ellery]

Bravo! Your move, Kim Jong Il.

[martin_fierro]

All your weasel are belong to us!

[JohnnyZ]

This is hilarious!

[evad]

Is this believable ?

[Ga Rob]

I'd say very!!

[Happy2BMe]

No wonder Kim Il Has been coming out with all these (last ditch effort) threats and wet dreams!

As you said - BRAVO!

[ellery]

ping

[Mo1]

Those countries involved were responsible for arranging and providing consular support and protection to the defectors once they were smuggled from North Korea into China.

into China??

Is this for real?

[ellery]

The level of detail sure seems to boost its credibility! Brilliant!

[Calpernia]

Operation Paperclip NK style :)

[ellery]

I know -- seems amazing. This administration is going to go down in history as one of the most brilliant foreign policy teams ever.

[ellery]

What was operation paperclip?

[Beck_isright]

But according to the American left, no one would want to leave the communist utopia of North Korea. This story just can't be true.

[Mo1]

I know -- seems amazing. This administration is going to go down in history as one of the most brilliant foreign policy teams ever

If this turns out to be true, I believe you are 100% correct .. WOW

[Calpernia]

Operation Paperclip - Our Intel takes the Brains away from the ones that mean us harm :)

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/history/VonBraun/Moving.html

On June 20, 1945, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull approved the transfer of von Braun's German rocket specialists. This transfer was known as Operation Paperclip because, of the large number of Germans stationed at Army Ordnance, the paperwork of those selected to come to the United States were indicated by paperclips.

They arrived in the United States at New Castle Army Air Base, just south of Wilmington, DE. Afterwards, they were flown to Boston, and then taken by boat to an Army Intelligence Service post at Fort Strong in Boston Harbor. Later, with the exception of von Braun, the men were transferred to Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland to sort out the Peenemunde documents. Those documents would enable the scientists to continue their rocketry experiments where they had left off.

Finally, von Braun and the 126 Peenemunders were transferred to their new home at Fort Bliss, Texas, a large Army installation just north of El Paso, under the command of Major James P. Hamill. They found themselves in a strange situation as they began their new lives in America. Because they could not leave Fort Bliss without a military escort, they sometimes referred to themselves as "PoPs", Prisoners of Peace.

While at Fort Bliss, they were tasked to train military, industrial, and university personnel in the intricacies of rockets and guided missiles and to help refurbish, assemble, and launch a number of V-2's that had been shipped from Germany to the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico. Further, they were to study the future potential of rockets for military and research applications.

During this time, von Braun mailed a marriage proposal to 18-year old Maria von Quirstorp. On March 1, 1947, he married her in a local Lutheran church. In December 1948, his first daughter, Iris was born at Fort Bliss Army Hospital.

[Gefreiter]

Wait a minute, I'm confused....I thought we only had the resources to focus on Osama....? Or has the left misled me again?

[Maigrey]

It looks like the Moronic cowboy strikes again. hehehehehe

[ellery]

Wow! That's great -- thanks! (pardon my exclamation point abuse -- I'm exhilarated by this news!!!!) :-)

[ellery]

Well, the leftists just HAVE to get it right next time. ;-0

[Southack]

The North Korean "depth" in their strategic sciences might not be great enough to continue every aspect of their programs with these defectors gone.

Time to mess with their heads by cancelling or delaying the scheduled talks with them in China now, if for nothing else to see if they really can restart their reactor and process weapons grade material still...