Anybody interested in Project Paperclip should probably stay away from the Jacobson book

[Monte Davis]

I liked some of Blowback, but also found in it some of the tacit "Nazi
magic" attitude I object to in l'affaire von Braun: in Simpson's book, that
our stance toward the postwar USSR was corrupted by a relative handful of
Germans with their own _parti pris_ and axes to grind; in von Braun's case,
that we don't have to think about our own vast moral failure in
missile/nuclear strategy, or the Cold War origins of the space race --
because hey, there were NAZIS providing a technical leg up at White Sands
and Huntsville.

In both cases, there were so many other, broader causes at work that when I
ask myself: "Would US choices and policies have been materially different
if Paperclip had never existed?" the answer is "no."


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
> wrote:

> I enjoyed, if that is the right word, Christopher Simpson's "Blowback."
>
> Thomas
>
> Am 04.03.2014 10:11, schrieb Mark Thibodeau:
>
>  Here is what some "serious" conspiracy minded people think of Ms
>> Jacobson and her work...
>>
>> http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=37827
>>
>> YOPJerky
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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>>  -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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