CSPAN2 Brian Crim Our Germans February 20, 2018
Scientists and more importantly, at that point they thought, get the equipment and the rocket in particular to study it and keep it out of the hands of maybe potential enemies of the future. Like the soviet union. It is first based on fear and the idea that we needed to understand how far they have gone and what theyve done with the weaponry. And later became, what can we do with these scientists and this material . Intelligence operatives conceived of ways to bring them back to the United States or possibly deal with them in countries during occupation. Paperclip was first an idea among intel...