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Originally posted by antar
I am so discouraged with the cover ups and the disinformation and the outright withholding of information on the part of nasa. It is criminal.
You need not take anything said personal like people are calling your friends nazis.
Originally posted by OptionToChoose
O M G!!!
Is this still going on? What grade is this? . . . Mods?? . .somebody . . ? ...
I had to click back to page one to remember what the actual topic was about.
Originally posted by mikesingh
OTC, wanna join me?
I'll pick up the tab!
Originally posted by IgnoreTheFacts
reply to post by IgnoreTheFacts
hhhhhhmmmmmm, drunk post. But I fear I just drank myself sober so back to the conspiracy at hand.
Nasa has no need to delay the shuttle because of too much attention from ATS (its laughable to even consider it) because, as it has been alleged before, they have myrid secret craft to hanlde the size and scope of their secret space program, right?
John, your conspiracies are starting to contradict each other, pick one and stick with it. Or at least try to remember what you rambled about in other threads so you don't say something that proves yourself wrong in another post.
Originally posted by DrTellerwuzright
I do agree with you that NAZI, however, shouldn't necessarily be used with reckless abandon, because of the history there. We don't necessarily need to be reminded of a dark time in history.
The Nazi Scientists of America
"Intelligence and government officials faced a delicate moral quandary in 1945—whether it was worth it to give American homes to men who had invented weapons to kill American soldiers, men who in some cases subscribed to beliefs that hundreds of thousands Americans had died to eradicate. In the end they decided it was, if these men could help the United States defeat the Soviets."
—Christine Gibson is a former editor at American Heritage magazine.
Originally posted by IgnoreTheFacts
Nasa has no need to delay the shuttle because of too much attention from ATS (its laughable to even consider it) because, as it has been alleged before, they have myrid secret craft to hanlde the size and scope of their secret space program, right?
Originally posted by zorgon
Caption: After the war, 118 German rocket scientists worked together at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
And it's equally ridiculous and offensive to portray NASA as some kind of Nazi division.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
You didn't mention in your post, perhaps it was in one of the cited outside sources...'Operation Paperclip'?
ever heard of 'Operation Overcast' also?
We may conclude that FDR's response is the official one. Perhaps newsworthy, certainly available to posterity, possibly baldly political. Perhaps he simply changed his mind. The historical fact is, by July 1945, the Joint Chiefs of Staff had approved the entry of three hundred fifty German scientists into the country. Artillery experts, submarine architects, chemical weapons technicians and designers and—most importantly—Dr. Wernher Von Braun and his entire V2 rocket staff. Von Braun, who of course went on to found the American space program, was certainly a Nazi, as were Dr. Herbert Axster, Dr. Arthur Rudolph, and SS officer Georg Richkey.
They called it Operation Overcast, and never was a deed more aptly-named and better-left hidden.
The unfinished Pacific war trumped other concerns. On July 6, 1945, the Joint Chiefs of Staff approved Operation Overcast, to “exploit … chosen, rare minds whose continuing intellectual productivity we wish to use” to “assist in shortening the Japanese war.” The Joint Chiefs’ order allowed for 350 specialists, excluding known or alleged war criminals, to be brought temporarily to America. They would be shipped back to Europe as soon as they completed their work.
The first Overcast scientists arrived in America in September. The Pacific War was over by then, but by early the next year 150 were working across the country, at locations like Wright Field in Ohio, Sands Point in Long Island, the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, and Fort Bliss, Texas. The project should soon have ended, but the scientists knew too much about America’s defense system to be sent home, and the United States didn’t want to free them to help the USSR anyway. Despite a federal immigration law that banned Nazis, President Harry S. Truman in September 1946 authorized Operation Paperclip, as a successor to Overcast. The Paperclip plan was to import up to 1,000 more scientists and technicians, on the condition that “No person found … to have been a member of the Nazi Party and more than a nominal participant in its activities, or an active supporter of Nazism or militarism, shall be brought to the U.S. hereunder.” The job of deciding which activities were “nominal” went to a panel of State and Justice Department experts.
Originally posted by Essan
I really do think this current topic of conversation is both disingenuous and unnecessary - and, indeed, potentially very offensive and insulting
Originally posted by weedwhacker
That is a pretty picture...obviously a fish-eye lens, so lots of distortion as to perspective...but, from what source? I mean, something that Black, yet here is a pic of it...I can only assume, much like the B-2 and F-119, that the existence of this will be announced soon...