Operation Paperclip was “without precedent, entirely unprincipled, and inherently dangerous” (Jacobsen, 2014). It was a tacit conspiracy by officials of the joint military intelligence; the CIA and the FBI. The officials involved were proponents of the belief that the ends justify the means; they were convinced that their cause — obtaining German scientific technology in order to beat the Soviets in an arms race — served a higher purpose than preserving democracy.
Dr. Huburtus Strughold, who came to be known as “The Father of American Space Medicine” was the wartime head of the Luftwaffe’s Institute for Aviation Medicine in Berlin which oversaw the heinous experiments conducted at Dachau; including freezing experiments, seawater experiments and high altitude/ low oxygen experiments. As the director…
Dr. Walter Schreiber headed radical interrogation techniques at Camp King. He was a Major General of the Wehrmacht who introduced lethal phenol injections “as a quick and convenient means of executing troublemakers.” He worked closely with high ranking doctors who conducted freezing experiments at Auschwitz and chemical and bone experiments at Ravensbrueck…
Those who defend Operation Paperclip point to the achievements of those Nazi technological masterminds—in aerospace, rocket and guided missile technology, radar and infra-red sniper technology radiation, submarine warfare, incendiary bombs (including napalm, jellied gasoline) – mostly achievements in warfare technology. What the project’s defenders fail to mention is the evil…
“America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the persecuted, became — in some small measure — a safe haven for persecutors.” (DOJ Report. Striving for Accountability in the Aftermath of the Holocaust, 2006) In 2010, a secret 600-page Department of Justice report by the Office of Special Investigations…
Looking back one wonders where were the mass protests against the importation of Nazi doctors and scientists? These were villains of the worst kind; criminals who had actively planned and devised “scientific” methods of torture, and developed the chemical methods used to exterminate millions of people whom they deemed to…
Of note is the re-publication of Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy (2014; originally published in 1988) by Christopher Simpson who served as a member of the interagency advisory panel for the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The NARA…
Hank P. Albarelli. A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments, 2009; CIA’s Denial of Protecting Nazis is Blatant Lie, Pt. 1, 2, 2010. Tom Bower in The Paperclip Conspiracy, 1987 Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair White-Out: The CIA, Drugs and the…
