WWII secrets

[Doug Millison]

" [...] He told his handlers to expect a new Nazi weapon: a rocket 
that would roar 50 miles into the stratosphere and slam two tons of 
warhead into some shocked city block. But to spymasters practiced in 
the art of deception, Kolbe was simply the man who knew too much. 
[...] Washington seemed taken aback by Kolbe's warning that Germany 
would soon
deploy a rocket that would slam Allied targets with radio-controlled frequency.
Kolbe ticked off locations of factories where components were being 
built; but OSS
gurus couldn't find the plants. In a later dispatch, Kolbe passed 
along what Allied troops later confirmed: The rockets were being 
built underground. On Sept. 8, 1944, the Nazis fired the world's 
first operational liquid-fuel rocket, the V-2. More than a thousand 
more would pummel England. Captured V-2 technology provided the 
foundation for the superpowers' space programs. Kolbe said other ''V 
weapons'' were in the works, but the report Dulles sent Washington 
intimated that such talk might be propaganda. In January 1945, 
however, Germany successfully tested a prototype of an 
intercontinental ballistic
missile designed to reach North America."

more at
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/secret_history/part1.htm