As my wife Sherry and I stated in our Conspiracies and Secret Societies: The Complete Dossier (Visible Ink Press, 2006), Operation Paperclip was not made public until after the first astronauts had set foot on the Moon in 1973. The eminent Dr. Hubertus Strughold, the "father of space medicine," was one of the prominent physicians who entered the United States under Operation Paperclip. In 1977, the Aeromedical Library at the USAF School of Aerospace medicine was named after Dr. Strughold.
Operation Paperclip also allowed entrance to the United States to Reinhard Gehlen, Nazi Intelligence mastermind, who helped Allen Dulles restructure the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon"; Otto von Bolschwing, infamous for Holocaust abuses; and the SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny. In 1984, Arthur Rudolph, who had been awarded NASA's Distinguished Service Award in 1969, left the United States rather than face charges for Nazi war crimes.
Long before Operation Paperclip was finally disclosed, the general public was well aware of the participation of such individuals as Dr. Wernher von Braun and Dr. Hermann Oberth, widely recognized as the "father of modern rocketry," as having been integral to the success of the United States space program.
Late in 1958, after the peculiar malfunction of the Juno II rocket, von Braun was quoted in West German newspapers as saying that the rocket had strangely gone off course, as if it had been "deflected." On January 1, 1959, he told a reporter for Newes Europa that "we feel ourselves faced by powers which are far stronger than we had hitherto assumed….More I cannot say at present. We are now engaged in entering into closer contact with these powers and in six or nine months' time it may be possible to speak with more precision on the matter."
Who exactly were the far stronger "powers" on whom von Braun placed the blame for the malfunction of the Juno II?
The rocket scientist's enigmatic reference recalled an earlier comment by his mentor, Dr. Oberth, who protested the accolades for the Germans' brilliant accomplishments in pioneering rocket designs by stating: "We alone cannot take the credit for our record advancement in rocket technology. We have been helped by people from other worlds."
Just who were these mysterious people "from other worlds" who had served as the tutors that enabled Nazi scientists to create a technology unparalleled on Earth?
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