Author Annie
Jacobsen presents a slideshow about her book, Operation Paperclip, and
takes questions from the audience. Paperclip was the secret Pentagon
program to smuggle more than 1,600 Nazi's into the US at the end of
World War II.
In Germany the Nazis had a concentration camp called Dora where 40,000
Jews, French resistance fighters, homosexuals, communists and other
prisoners of war (including a black American GI) were brought to build
the V-1 and V-2 inside a mountain tunnel called Mittelwerk. By the time
the slaves were liberated by the allies, over 25,000 had perished at the
hands of the Nazi rocketeers.
Hitler's military liason to von Braun's rocket team was Maj. Gen. Walter
Dornberger. Several times Dornberger and von Braun met with Hitler
requesting more money and more slaves so they could step up the rocket
production effort. Hitler was anxious to use the rockets to terrorize
European cities like London, Paris and Brussels toward the end of the
war as
the Nazi army began to lose. Dornberger and von Braun showed Hitler
films of the V-2 rocket launches to prove they were making
significant progress.
Dornberger came to the U.S. along with von Braun's rocket team during
Operation Paperclip. According to author Jack Manno in his book Arming the Heavens: The Hidden Military Agenda for Space, 1945-1995,
Dornberger was appointed as a vice-president at Bell Aviation
Corporation in New York and served on the first 'military oversight
committee' that ensured that NASA was controlled by the Pentagon from
the
first days. It was Dornberger who first came up with the idea of
'missile defense' as an offensive program that would have nuclear
powered satellites orbiting the planet and able to hit targets on Earth.
Kurt Debus, the chief of V-2 launch operations in Hitler's Germany,
later became Chief of Operations for NASA at Cape Canaveral. When
tourists converge on the Kennedy Space Center they will pass by a
portrait of the former German SS member that hangs in the entrance in
honor of Debus's service as the center's first director.
In a book called The Hunt for Zero Point, respected
military journalist Nick Cook talks much about the "black" (the
Pentagon's secret) budget. For 15 years Cook had been a defense and
aerospace writer for Jane's Defence Weekly, which some consider
the bible of the international weapons community. Cook spent 10
years researching secret military programs in the U.S. and believed
that well over $40 billion a year is spent on these programs outside the
purview of Congress. Cook states, "It [black programs] has a vast and
sprawling architecture funded by tens of billion of classified dollars
every year. The height of its powers was probably in the Reagan era. But
it has not stopped since then. In fact, under the Bush administration
it [had] something of a resurgence. Stealth technology is a primary
example...research into anti-gravity technology...has been going on for
quite some time."
Cook traced the roots of the U.S.'s secret programs back to the Nazi
scientists brought to the U.S. after WW II in Operation Paperclip. He
states, "We know the size and scope of Operation Paperclip, which was
huge. And we know that the U.S. operates a very deeply secret defense
architecture for secret weapons programs...it is highly
compartmentalized...and one of the things that's intrigued me over the
years is, How did they develop it? What model did they base it on? It is
remarkably similar to the system that was operated by the Germans -
specifically the SS - for their top-secret weapons programs."
"What I do mean," says Cook, "is that if you follow the trail of Nazi
scientists and engineers who were recruited by America at the end of the
second world war, the unfortunate corollary is that by taking on the
science, you take on - unwittingly - some of the ideology...What do you
lose along the way?"
~ See a string of posts on this subject (from this blog) posted at https://space4peace.blogspot.com/search?q=operation+paperclip+
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