Operation Paperclip casefile
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997
Dossier: Documented Evidence
Case File: 5X067
Compiled by Agent Orange
OPERATION PAPERCLIP
After WWII ended in 1945, victorious Russian and American
intelligence teams began a treasure hunt throughout occupied
Germany for military and scientific booty. They were looking
for things like new rocket and aircraft designs, medicines,
and electronics. But they were also hunting down the most
precious "spoils" of all: the scientists whose work had nearly
won the war for Germany. The engineers and intelligence
officers of the Nazi War Machine.
The U.S. Military rounded up Nazi scientists and brought
them to America. It had originally intended merely to debrief
them and send them back to Germany. But when it realized the
extent of the scientists knowledge and expertise, the War
Department decided it would be a waste to send the scientists
home. Following the discovery of flying discs (foo fighters),
particle/laser beam weaponry in German military bases, the War
Department decided that NASA and the CIA must control this
technology, and the Nazi engineers that had worked on this
technology.
There was only one problem: it was illegal. U.S. law
explicitly prohibited Nazi officials from immigrating to
America--and as many as three-quarters of the scientists
in question had been committed Nazis.
Data-Points:
- Convinced that German scientists could help America's postwar
efforts, President Harry Truman agreed in September 1946 to
authorize "Project Paperclip," a program to bring selected German
scientists to work on America's behalf during the "Cold War"
However, Truman expressly excluded anyone found "to have been
a member of the Nazi party and more than a nominal participant in
its activities, or an active supporter of Naziism or militarism."
The War Department's Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency
(JIOA) conducted background investigations of the scientists.
In February 1947, JIOA Director Bosquet Wev submitted the first
set of scientists' dossiers to the State and Justice Departments
for review.
The Dossiers were damning. Samauel Klaus, the State Departments
representative on the JIOA board, claimed that all the scientists
in this first batch were "ardent Nazis." Their visa requests were
denied.
Wev was furious. He wrote a memo warning that "the best
intrests of the United States have been subjugated to the efforts
expended in 'beating a dead Nazi horse.'" He also declared that
the return of these scientists to Germany, where they could be
exploited by America's enemies, presented a "far greater security
threat to this country than any former Nazi affiliations which
they may have had or even any Nazi sympathies that they may
still have."
When the JIOA formed to investigate the backgrounds and form
dossiers on the Nazis, the Nazi Intelligence leader Reinhard
Gehlen met with the CIA director Allen Dulles. Dulles and Gehlen
hit it off immediatly. Gehlen was a master spy for the Nazis and
had infilitrated Russia with his vast Nazi Intelligence network.
Dulles promised Gehlen that his Intelligence unit was safe in
the CIA.
Apparently, Wev decided to sidestep the problem. Dulles
had the scientists dossier's re-written to eliminate incriminating
evidence. As promised, Allen Dulles delivered the Nazi Intelligence
unit to the CIA, which later opened many umbrella projects stemming
from Nazi mad research. (MK-ULTRA / ARTICHOKE, OPERATION MIDNIGHT CLIMAX)
Military Intelligence "cleansed" the files of Nazi refrences.
By 1955, more than 760 German scientists had been granted
citizenship in the U.S. and given prominent positions in the
American scientific community. Many had been longtime members of
the Nazi party and the Gestapo, had conducted experiments on
humans at concentration camps, had used slave labor, and had
comitted other war crimes.
In a 1985 expose in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Linda Hunt wrote that she had examined more than 130 reports on
Project Paperclip subjects--and every one "had been changed to
eliminate the security threat classification."
President Truman, who had explicitly ordered no comitted
Nazis to be admitted under Project Paperclip, was evidently
never aware that his directive had been violated. State Department
archives and the memoirs of officials from that era confirm this.
In fact, according to Clare Lasby's book Operation Paperclip,
project officials "covered their designs with such secrecy that
it bedeviled their own President; at Potsdam he denied their
activities and undoubtedly enhanced Russian suspicion and
distrust," quite possibly fueling the Cold War even further.
A good example of how these dossiers were changed is the case
of Wernher von Braun. A September 18, 1947, report on the German
rcoket scientist stated, "Subject is regarded as a potential
security threat by the Military Governor."
The following February, a new security evaluation of Von
Braun said, "No derogatory information is available on the
subject...It is the opinion of the Military Governor that he may
not constitute a security threat to the United States."
Here are a few of the 700 suspicious characters who were
allowed to immigrate through Project Paperclip.
ARTHUR RUDOLPH;
During the war, Rudolph was operations director
of the Mittelwerk factory at the Dora-Nordhausen concentration
camps, where 20,000 workers died from beatings, hangings, and
starvation. Rudolph had been a member of the Nazi party since
1931; a 1945 military file on him said simply: "100% Nazi,
dangerous type, security threat..!! Suggest internment."
But the JIOA's final dossier on him said there was
"nothing in his records indicating that he was a war criminal or
and ardent Nazi or otherwise objectionable." Rudolph became a US
citizen and later designed the Saturn 5 rocket used in the Apollo
moon landings. In 1984, when his war record was finally
investigated, he fled to West Germany.
WERNHER VON BRAUN;
From 1937 to 1945, von Braun was the technical director
of the Peenemunde rocket research center, where the V-2 rocket
--which devasted England--was developed. As noted previously, his
dossier was rewritten so he didn't appear to have been an
enthusiastic Nazi.
Von Braun worked on guided missles for the U.S. Army and was
later director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. He became
a celebrity in the 1950s and early 1960s, as one of Walt Disney's
experts on the "World of Tomorrow." In 1970, he became NASA's
associate administrator.
KURT BLOME;
A high-ranking Nazi scientist, Blome told U.S. military
interrogators in 1945 that he had been ordered 1943 to
experiment with plague vaccines on concentration camp prisoners.
He was tried at Nuremberg in 1947 on charges of practicing
euthanasia (extermination of sick prisoners), and conducting
experiments on humans. Although acquitted, his earlier admissions
were well known, and it was generally accepted that he had indeed
participated in the gruesome experiments.
Two months after his Nuremberg acquittal, Blome was interviewed
at Camp David, Maryland, about biological warfare. In 1951, he
was hired by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps to work on chemical
warfare. His file neglected to mention Nuremberg.
MAJOR GENERAL WALTER SCHREIBER;
According to Linda Hunt's article, the US military tribunal
at Nuremberg heard evidence that "Schreiber had assigned doctors
to experiment on concentration camp prisoners and had made funds
available for such experimentation." The assistant prosecutor
said the evidence would have convicted Schreiber if the Soviets,
who held him from 1945 to 1948, had made him available for trial.
Again, Schreiber's Paperclip file made no mention of this
evidence; the project found work for him at the Air Force School
of Medicine at Randolph Field in Texas. When columnist Drew
Pearson publicized the Nuremberg evidence in 1952, the negative
publicity led the JIOA, says Hunt, to arrange "a visa and a job
for Schreiber in Argentina, where his daughter was living."
On May 22, 1952, he was flown to Buenos Aires.
HERMANN BECKER-FREYSING and SIEGFRIED RUFF;
These two, along with Blome, were amoung the 23 defendants
in the Nuremberg War Trials "Medical Case." Becker-Freysing was
convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for conducting
experiments on Dachau inamtes, such as starving them, then
force-feeding them seawater that had been chemically altered
to make it drinkable. Ruff was acquitted (in a close decision)
on charges that he had killed as many as 80 Dachau inmates in a
low-pressure chamber designed to simulate altitudes in excess of
60,000 feet. Before their trial, Becker-Freysing and Ruff were
paid by the Army Air Force to write reports about their
grotesque experiments.
GENERAL REINHARD GEHLEN;
It was five years after the end of WW2 but one of Hitler's
chief intelligence officers was still on the job. From a walled-in
compound in Bavaria, General Reinhard Gehlen oversaw a vast
network of intelligence agents spying on Russia. His top aides
were Nazi zealots who had committed some of the most notorious
crimes of the war. Gehlen and his SS united were hired, and
swiftly became agents of the CIA when they revealed their massive
records on the Soviet Union to the US.
Gehlen derived much of his information from his role in one
of the most terrible atrocities of the war: the torture,
interrogation and murder by starvation of some four million
Soviet prisoners. Prisoners who refused to cooperate were often
tortured or summarily executed. May were executed even after they
had given information, while others were simply left to starve
to death. As a result, Gehlend and members of his organization
maneuvered to make sure they were captured by advancing American
troops rather than Russians, who would have executed them
immediatly.
Two months before Germany surrendered in 1945, the Gehlen
organization made its move. "Gehlen and a small group of his most
senior officers carefully microfilmed the vast holding on the USSR
in the military section of the German army's general staff. They
packed the film in watertight steel drums and secretly buried it
in a remote mountain meadow scattered throughout the Austrian Alps.
General William Donovan and Allen Dulles of the CIA were
tipped off about Gehlen's surrender and his offer of Russian
intelligence in exchange for a job. The CIA was soon jockeyeing
with military intelligence for authority over Gehlen's
microfilmed records--and control of the German spymaster. Dulles
arranged for a private intelligence facility in West Germany to
be established, and named it the Geheln Organization. Gehlen
promisd not to hire any former SS, SD, or Gestapo members;
he hired them anyway, and the CIA did not stop him. Two of
Gehlen's early recruits were Emil Augsburg and Dr. Franz Six,
who had been part of mobile killing squads, which killed Jews,
intellectuals, and Soviet partisans wherever they found them.
Other early recruits included Willi Krichbaum, senior Gestapo
leader for southeastern Europe, and the Gestapo chiefs of Paris
and Kiel, Germany.
With the encourgement of the CIA, Gehlen Org (Licio Gelli)
set up "rat lines" to get Nazi war criminals out of Europe so they
wouldn't be prosecuted. By setting up transit camps and issuing
phony passports, the Gehlen Org helped more than 5,000 Nazis
leave Europe and relocate around the world, especially in South
and Central America. There, mass murderers like Klaus Barbie
(the butcher of Lyons) helped governments set up death squads
in Chile, Argentina, El Salvador, and elsewhere.
KLAUS BARBIE;
Known as the Nazi butcher of Lyons, France during World War 2,
Barbie was part of the SS which was responsible for the and death of
thousands of French people under the Germany occupation.
HEINRICH RUPP;
Some of Rupp's best work was done for the CIA, after he was
imported in Operation Paperclip. Rupp has been convicted of bank
fraud. He was an operative for the CIA and is deeply involved in
the Savings and Loan scandals. A federal jury has indicated they
believe testimony that Rupp, the late CIA Director William Casey
- then Reagan's campaign manager, and Donald Gregg, now U.S.
Ambassador to South Korea, flew with George Bush to Paris in 1980,
during the election in which Bush was on the ticket with Ronald
Reagan. The testimony states that three meetings were held on
October 19 and 20 at the Hotel Florida and Hotel Crillion.
The subject? According to the court testimony, the meetings were
to sabotage President Jimmy Carter's reelection campaign by
delaying the release of American hostages in Iran. The hostages
were released on January 20, 1981, right after Reagan and Bush
were sworn into office. Iran was promised return of its frozen
assets in the United States and the foundation for the Iran-
Contra deal was set into motion.
LICIO GELLI;
Head of a 2400 member secret Masonic Lodge, P2, a neo-fascist
organization, in Italy that catered to only the elite, Gelli had
high connections in the Vatican, even though he was not a Catholic.
P2's membership is totally secret and not even available to its
Mother Lodge in England. Gelli was responsible for providing
Argentina with the Exocet missile. He was a double agent for the
CIA and the KGB. He assisted many former Nazi high officials in
their escape from Europe to Central America. He had close ties with
the Italian Mafia. Gelli was a close associate of Benito Mussolini.
He was also closely affiliated with Roberto Calvi, head of the
scandal-ridden Vatican Bank. Calvi was murdered. Gelli's secret
lodge consisted of extremely important people, including armed
forces commanders, secret service chiefs, head of Italy's financial
police, 30 generals, eight admirals, newspaper editors, television
and top business executives and key bankers - including Calvi.
Licio Gelli and others in P2 were behind the assasination of Pope
John Paul 1.
The central figure in Europe and South America that linked the
CIA, Masonic Lodge, Vatican, ex-Nazis and several South American
governments, the Italian government and several international banks
was Licio Gelli. He, with Klaus Barbie and Heinrich Rupp, met with
Ronald R. Rewald in Uruguay to arrange for the Argentine purchase
of the French-made Exocet missile, used in the Falkland Island
attack to kill british soldiers.
Who is Gelli and why was he so important?
To understand Gelli, one must understand the complex post
war years of Europe. The biggest threat to Europe in pre-war times
was Communism - it was the great fear of Communism that gave birth
to the Fascists and the Nazis. Though both sides were dreaded,
the Fascists represented right-wing government, while the Communist
represent left-wing government. It was the right-wing that the
United States and the Catholic Church desired over Communism
- because Communism would destroy the capitalistic system. This is
why the CIA and the Vatican had go through with Operation Paperclip.
The Nazis had massive amounts of Soviet intelligence, had
infilitrated Communist partisans, and were in no way going to be
given up to the Soviet Union.
Gelli worked both sides. He helped to found the Red Brigade,
spied on Communist partisans and worked for the Nazis at the same
time, a double agent. He helped establish the Rat Line, which
assisted the flight of high ranking Nazi officials from Europe
to South America, with passports supplied by the Vatican and with
the full acknowledgment and blessing of the United States
intelligence community. While on one hand, the U.S. participated
in the war crime tribunals of key Nazi officials and maintained
an alliance with the Communist Soviet Union, secretly, the U.S.
was preparing for the cold war and needed the help of Nazis in
the eventual struggle the U.S. would have with the Soviet Union.
Gelli's agreement with U.S. intelligence to spy on the Communists
after the war was instrumental in saving his life. He was
responsible for the murder and torture of hundreds of Yugoslavian
partisans.
The Vatican provided support to Nazis and Fascists because
the Communists were the real threat to the Church's survival. The
Italian Communists would have taxed the Church's vast holdings
and the Church has had a dismal experience with Communist
governments throughout the world - where religious freedom was
stamped out.
Gelli was well connected with the Vatican from the days of the
Rat Line and he worked for American intelligence, as well. Gelli
formed the P-2 Masonic Lodge-which did not follow the direction of
any Grand Lodge-and it was supplied with a sum of $10 million a
month by the CIA. Its membership was a Who's Who in the intelligence,
military and Italian community. So prominent was Gelli's influence,
that he was even a guest of honor at the 1981 inauguration of
President Ronald Reagan.
Gelli used blackmail in order to gain prominent members of
his P-2 lodge, its membership is estimated at 2400 members,
including 300 of the most powerful men in the Western World..
He was a close friend of Pope Paul VI, Juan Peron of Argentina,
Libyan Dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi, and many high officials in
the Italian and American governments - he is also reported to
have had some financial dealings with the George Bush for
President campaign.
Gelli and his P-2 lodge had staggering connections to banking,
intelligence and diplomatic passports. The CIA poured hundreds of
millions of dollars into Italy in the form of secret subsidies
for political parties, labor unions and communications businesses.
At the same time the Agency continued its relationship with far-
right and violent elements as a back-up should a coup be needed
to oust a possible Communist government. This covert financing was
exposed by the Prime Minister of Italy in a speech to Parliament.
He indicates that more than 600 people in Italy still remain on
the payroll of the CIA. Licio Gelli was an ardent Nazi and a
perfect asset of the CIA. As part of Reinhard Gehlen's
intelligence team, he had excellent contacts. Licio was the go
between for the CIA and the Vatican through his P2 Lodge.
Project Paperclip was stopped in 1957, when West Germany
protested to the U.S. that these efforts had stripped it of
"scientific skills." There was no comment about supporting
Nazis. Paperclip may have ended in 1957, but as you can see
from Licio Gelli and his international dealings with the CIA
in Italy/P2, and Heinrich Rupp with his involvement in October
Surprise, the ramifications of Paperclip are world-wide. The
Nazis became employed CIA agents, engaging in clandestine
work with the likes of George Bush, the CIA, Henry Kissenger,
and the Masonic P2 lodge. This is but one of the results of
Operation Paperclip. Another umbrella project that was spawned
from Paperclip was MK-ULTRA.
A secret laboratory was established and funded by CIA
director, Allen Dulles in Montreal, Canada at McGill University
in the Allen Memorial Institute headed by psychiatrist Dr. Ewen
Cameron. For the next several years Dr. Ewen Cameron waged his
private war in Canada. What is ironic about Dr. Cameron is that
he served as a member of the Nuremberg tribunal who heard the
cases against the Nazi doctors.
When it was at its height in drug experiments, operation
MK-ULTRA was formed. This was the brainchild of Richard Helms who
later came to be a CIA director. It was designed to defeat the
"enemy" in its brain-washing techniques. MK-ULTRA had another arm
involved in Chemical and Biological Warfare (CBW) known as
MK-DELTA. The "doctors" who participated in these experiments
used some of the same techniques as the Nazi "doctors". Techniques
used by Dr. Cameron and previous Nazi scientists include electro
shock, sleep deprivation, memory implantation, memory erasure,
sensory modification, psychoactive drug experiments, and many
more cruel practices.
Project Paperclip brought us MK-ULTRA. Paperclip ultimately
brought in key players involved in the Assassination of Pope 1,
October Surprise (sabotage of Carter's peace talks), and a great
many other things still classified to this day. The results of
Project Paperclip were devastating, and very far reaching. I
guess that is what you would expect from collaborating with
Nazis.
This research shows that the OSS/CIA that was formed in the
National Security Act, the same agency that employed hundreds of
Nazis, has been in alliance with the Vatican through various
Agency connections such as Licio Gelli. The CIA/Vatican alliance
that Assassinated Pope John Paul 1, JFK, and hundreds of dictators
of 3rd world countries is the Illuminati.
The Bavarian Illuminati has been around for centuries in one way
or another. It's presence in the 20th century is the direct result
of the Nazis. The Nazi connections to the occult and the Bavarian
Thule Society were parallel to the American members of 33rd degree
Freemasonry. When the Operation Paperclip was successfully
executed, the Nazi element of the Bavarian Thule society was fused
with the American members of Freemasonry to create the Illuminati.
Operation Paperclip, MK-ULTRA, October Surprise, and George Bush
are all facets of the Illuminati, a group whose ideals are rooted
in the occult, and dedicated to world domination.
Soon after the American Revolution, John Robinson, a professor of
rural philosophy at Edinburgh University in Scotland and member of a
Freemason lodge, said that he was asked to join the Illuminati. After
studying the group, he concluded that the purposes of the Illuminati
were
not compatible with his beliefs.
In 1798, he published a book called "Proofs Of A Conspiracy," which
states:
"An association has been formed for the express purpose of rooting out all the religious establishments and overturning all the existing governments.... The leaders would rule the World with uncontrollable power, while all the rest would be employed as tools of the ambition of their unknown superiors."
The CIA and the Vatican have rooted out all the religious establishemntsin the world. The CIA has overthrown and set up dictators under their control all over the world. The CIA and the Vatican have fullfilled the purpose of the Illuminati. The CIA and the Vatican _are_ the Illuminati.
Dossier compiled by Agent Orange
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