Operation Paperclip case file
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
interests 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 immediately. Gehlen was a master spy for the Nazis and had infiltrated 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 references. 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 committed 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 committed 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 rocket 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 devastated 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 missiles
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 among 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 inmates, 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 immediately. 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 jockeying 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 promised 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 encouragement 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 assassination 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
infiltrated 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 Kissinger, 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 establishments in the world. The CIA has overthrown and set up dictators under their
control all over the world. The CIA and the Vatican have fulfilled the purpose of the Illuminati. The CIA and the
Vatican _are_ the Illuminati.
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