basless theory

[cj hurtt]

recently someone put forth the idea of a free day. well here is my baseless theory.

i was reading "war as background in gravity's rainbow" by kachig toloyan the other day and came across this passage:

"Traveling to the front lines in April, 1945, he [major robert staver, commander of the u.s. army rocket scavenger branch] captured a document known as the Osenberg list. Like the documents from Blizna, these were thrown by retreating German troops into the toilet of a building whose toilets had malfunctioned because they were overworked in flushing away shredded documents."

the essay goes on to explain that the osenberg list listed 15,000 people involved with the v-2 project. and not only their names but also their weaknesses and sexual predilictions. staver then uses this list to create one of his own. a list of people he wants to recruit for the u.s. he has names, places, and how to entice/blackmail them.
so naturally i thought of pokler. and what i was wondering was, could a case be made for the idea ( as far as gr goes) that pokler was being led by the nose as part of a u.s. german collaboration? what i mean is, perhaps some in the german govt   saw it as beneficial to let the allies have some of their scientists. if the allies were going to "win" the war then it would behoove all involved (ig farben, brit steel, standard oil) that the brains would be getting the dough they needed to finish their work.
just a wollgathering and not anything more.
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