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Minutes. Involving the manipulation of pathogens to give them a new aspect or ability such as making viruses more transmissible or dangerous to humans. Despite all we have learned about the potential risks of this method of research, this is the first congressional hearing on the subject since the pandemic began. Today we will discuss what gain of function research entails, how gain of function research is defined and with that the definition of gain of function research is applied consistently ...

Function research according to the National Institutes of health. This involves the genetic modification of viruses and pathogens to increase strength and transmissibility. We hear about National Security concerns but also how gain of function research has been used to identify and mitigate potential buyers to tatians that could have resulted in pandemic potential viruses and mutations that could have resulted in pandemics. The hearing is one hour and 45 minutes. I call this meeting to order. I ...

Get started. I called this meeting of the Senate Homeland security and Government Affairs subcommittee on emerging threats and spending oversight to order. I want to thank senator hassan for allowing this bipartisan hearing to occur. Welcome to each of our panelists. Thank you for joining us. The purpose of this hearing by the subcommittee on emerging threats and spending oversight is to discuss, as our name implies, the emerging threat posed by gain of function research. We will hear from a pan...

And operation paperclip the secret Intelligence Program that brought nazi scientists to america the scientist that came from world war ii. And then a discussion on the pope francis and musjerks luni and then the monuments men. And now, operation paperclip the secret Intelligence Program that brought nazi scientists to america and the author annie jacobsen. The Program Brought scientist to the United States despite the fact they were accused of war crimes. This is 55 minutes. Good evening, everyb...

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All this and much more on booktv on cspan2 this weekend. For the full schedule, visit booktv. Org. Annie jacobsen is next on booktv. The author recounts the u. S. Governments clandestine program to employ german scientists following world war ii. The program, dubbed operation paper clip, brought several scientists and their families to the United States despite the fact many were accused of war crimes. This is a little under an hour. [applause] thank you so much. Good evening, everybody. I am an...

Specifically the art museum in berlin which is one of the areas things to go through in the world room by room. There is no provenance attached to any of those works of art. It is just artists, title, thats it. You dont know if it came from prussian state. You dont know which state or municipal gallery it came from. You dont know anything then thats the principle artist. Museum of germany. It is very very weird. Comments . Let me just contrast that with france. France had this socalled Art Colle...

About operation paper clip and im going to tell you about what the program was. Im going to tell you a little bit about how i became interested in writing and researching and reporting pacing paper clip, and then im going to end by telling you some very what think are interesting ways in which the story gets reported. To start with, my book, these gentlemen are 21 of approximately 1600 german scientists who came to america to work for the u. S. Military and intelligence agencies of the war. I fo...

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