I mean, if you're going to rise to the top of your field, you maintain the party line and that is what I found was the case with Paperclip.Īnnie Jacobsen's last book, Area 51, explores the history of the secretive American military base. It's almost like someone who is a hedge fund manager in the United States trying to take the line that they don't believe in capitalism, you know? That they're just trying to earn a living for their family. You have to be a Nazi ideologue to move up that chain of command so high. And that's where it becomes very tricky and very nefarious. And it happened on a number of levels, from the bureaucrats in Army intelligence who were asked to sort of re-write the dossiers, on up to the generals in the Pentagon who flatly said we need these scientists, and we're going to have to re-write some history. government to whitewash the pasts of these scientists who we very much knew were ardent Nazis. There began a propaganda campaign by the U.S. government's efforts to mask the scientists' past That is really where Paperclip began, which was suddenly the Pentagon realizing, "Wait a minute, we need these weapons for ourselves." They had no idea that Hitler was working on a bubonic plague weapon. One example was they had no idea that Hitler had created this whole arsenal of nerve agents.
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