Fwd: Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says

[Bruce Appelbaum]

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> Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
> That's not my department says Wehrner von Braun.
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> The German rocket scientists who came to the US were all brought in not quite legally and despite their participation in war crimes were never prosecuted.
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> Bruce 
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>> "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."
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>        --- Thomas Pynchon
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> On Nov 15, 2010, at 5:25 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
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>> Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says
>> By ERIC LICHTBLAU
>> Published: November 13, 2010
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>> WASHINGTON — A secret history of the United States government’s
>> Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials
>> created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their
>> collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes,
>> often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad.
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>> 600-page report, which the Justice Department has tried to keep secret
>> for four years, provides new evidence about more than two dozen of the
>> most notorious Nazi cases of the last three decades.
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>> The report also examines the case of Arthur L. Rudolph, a Nazi
>> scientist who ran the Mittelwerk munitions factory. He was brought to
>> the United States in 1945 for his rocket-making expertise under
>> Operation Paperclip, an American program that recruited scientists who
>> had worked in Nazi Germany. (Rudolph has been honored by NASA and is
>> credited as the father of the Saturn V rocket.)
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>> The report cites a 1949 memo from the Justice Department’s No. 2
>> official urging immigration officers to let Rudolph back in the
>> country after a stay in Mexico, saying that a failure to do so “would
>> be to the detriment of the national interest.”
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>> Justice Department investigators later found evidence that Rudolph was
>> much more actively involved in exploiting slave laborers at Mittelwerk
>> than he or American intelligence officials had acknowledged, the
>> report says.
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>> Some intelligence officials objected when the Justice Department
>> sought to deport him in 1983, but the O.S.I. considered the
>> deportation of someone of Rudolph’s prominence as an affirmation of
>> “the depth of the government’s commitment to the Nazi prosecution
>> program,” according to internal memos.
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>> [...]
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html
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