From: Raw Story
By John Byrne
Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:51 EST
It’s long been known that Nazi scientists helped
the U.S. in its quest to secure its military might and space program at
the height of the Cold War. Wernher von Braun,
for example, a Nazi rocket scientist, led a team that helped the U.S.
develop the vehicle employed for the first nuclear missile test, and
aided efforts to launch first Western satellite in 1958. Hundreds of
Nazi scientists were given citizenship between 1945 and 1955. But what’s
been unknown — until today — is the extent to which former Nazis were
employed to test LSD and other interrogation techniques on captured
Soviet spies.
According to a book released this week by journalist Annie Jacobsen, U.S. intelligence hired Third Reich scientists in capacities stranger and more nefarious than anything reported before.
“Under Operation Paperclip, which began in May of 1945, the
scientists who helped the Third Reich wage war continued their
weapons-related work for the U.S. government, developing rockets,
chemical and biological weapons, aviation and space medicine (for
enhancing military pilot and astronaut performance), and many other
armaments at a feverish and paranoid pace that came to define the Cold
War,” Jacobsen writes. Her book is titled Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America.
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