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

[rich]

whats the line in Underworld (paraphrasing): "we bomb'em, we fuck'em, we
love'em"


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>>  -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
>
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