Project Paperclip: Dark side of the Moon

[reprehensor]

Project Paperclip: Dark side of the Moon

Monday, 21 November 2005

Sixty years ago the US hired Nazi scientists to lead pioneering projects, such as the race to conquer space. These men provided the US with cutting-edge technology which still leads the way today, but at a cost.

The end of World War II saw an intense scramble for Nazi Germany's many technological secrets. The Allies vied to plunder as much equipment and expertise as possible from the rubble of the Thousand Year Reich for themselves, while preventing others from doing the same.

The range of Germany's technical achievement astounded Allied scientific intelligence experts accompanying the invading forces in 1945.

Supersonic rockets, nerve gas, jet aircraft, guided missiles, stealth technology and hardened armour were just some of the groundbreaking technologies developed in Nazi laboratories, workshops and factories, even as Germany was losing the war.

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[babylonsister]

1. There's also a documentary out on HBO about Project Paperclip;

I've read on DU it's great. I'm glad this is getting attention.

http://www.hbofamily.com/programs/whole_family/paperclips.html?ntrack_para1=feat_sec1_text

[reprehensor]

2. Haven't seen that...

...but I've seen the 'History Channel' CIA and the Nazis, which was a good introduction.

Hey! I never thanked you properly for that Vanity Fair magazine!

THANK YOU!!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

3. I'll post the title if it comes to me, but a book came out about 2 months

ago about this based on the tranches of documents the intelligence community has been forced to declassify.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

4. It's called "U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis"

see:
http://blog.zmag.org/rocinante/archives/000392.html

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521617944

[reprehensor]

5. Yup. That's on my reading list.

External observations of contemporary US foreign policy might lead one to conclude that collaborating with Nazis wasn't an especially good idea.

[BrotherBuzz]

6. I had one of those scientists as a math teacher...

Interesting, he was first grabbed by the Russians, then defected to the United States where he was able to share with the US what the Russians were up to in the 'Space program'. He was a rocket fuel specialist and even wrote a book on the subject that he was most proud of, but it read like gobbledy-gook because I didn't understand a bit of it.

He retired from the US program in the early seventies and returned to his homeland, Germany, where he taught refresher math college courses to US soliders like me. I learned well from him and aced all my future math classes. Old school approach really worked for me.

[Clara T]

7. In Addition

There were 1,500+ bureaucrats from Nazi Germany as well as Romania, Czech etc. that took positions in the various intelligence agencies.

[reprehensor]

8. It wasn't just bureaucrats...

But you probably knew that.
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/germany/intro/gehlen.htm