A brief history of OPERATION PAPERCLIP...(ongoing🧵)
Operation Paperclip was created to prevent (or win) Nuclear, Biological, Chemical World War III.
Starting in May 1945, more than 1,600 Nazi scientists were brought to America to continue their weapons work for the U.S. government.
The Joint Chiefs endorsed Paperclip as the lesser of two evils—that if we didn’t recruit these Nazis, the Soviets would.
They developed rockets, aviation & space medicine, chemical & biological weapons, and many others at a feverish and paranoid pace that defined the Cold War
PAPERCLIP was governed out of an office in the Pentagon's “E” ring by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), a subcommittee of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), which remains one of the least known and least studied U.S. intelligence agencies of the 20th Century.
Initially, the idea of bringing these odious characters into the U.S. was met with distain.
While details were being sorted out, 58 Nazi scientists were brought to a secret U.S. Army Air Forces facility in Heidelberg to continue work they'd been doing for the Reich.
Among them: Dr. Konrad Schäfer (l), Dr. Siegfried Ruff (c), Dr. Hermann Becker-Freyseng (r).
In Berlin, Ruff directed the German Experimental Station for Aviation Medicine.
At Dachau KZ, Ruff supervised medical murder experiments authored by Schäfer and Becker-Freyseng.
Dr. Theodor Benzinger directed the Experimental Station of the Air Force Research Center, Rechlin under
Hermann Göring and was an officer with the SA (Stormtroopers).
His Nazi war crimes were so deeply buried by the U.S. gov't that when he died, his NTY obit read: "Dr. Theodor H. Benzinger, a medical researcher who invented the ear thermometer and a device to measure calorie loss, died on Tuesday at a retirement home in Bethesda, Md. He was 94."
The obit went on to say:
"Dr. Benzinger worked at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda from 1947 to 1970. He studied temperature regulation and helped create the related field of biothermodynamics. And he held patents on 40 inventions, the most famous the ear thermometer, which he developed in 1964..."
In truth, at the end of World War II, Dr. Benzinger was arrested and thrown into the prison at Nuremberg, to face trial.
When the U.S. Army Air Forces decided they wanted him for OPERATION PAPERCLIP, Benzinger was secreted out the back door of the prison and taken to America.
To be continued...
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