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2006-08-20 Science & Technology

WWII secret interrogators break their silence

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-08-20 12:03|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Thanks much for the post Moose. Almost seems surreal in an era of almost weekly intelligence community "leaks"...know all-tell all, etc. We owe these patriots a huge debt.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-20 12:11|| 2006-08-20 12:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Cool, I really hope Bies publishes a book. Sounds like these guys interrogated the Paperclip scientists. A few of them were chemists, one of whom, I'm 99% certain, was my thesis advisor at Cornell. He's 80-ish, Austrian, and his specialty happens to coinicide with what you'd need to know to design nerve agents.

He told me he "refused" a commission in the US Army in the 50s, spent 2 years as a sergeant in technical intelligence, and observed some rather bizzare things. He's been tucked away in prestigious posts, contributing to American medical advances for the last 50 years, and he's as nice as could be -- but damn, am I curious about what he was up to before 1952.

Posted by ST 2006-08-20 17:10|| 2006-08-20 17:10|| Front Page Top

#3 They're not as secretive, but the Army Counterintelligence Corps retirees tend to have interesting stories along these lines too.

Posted by lotp 2006-08-20 17:24|| 2006-08-20 17:24|| Front Page Top

#4 60 years and some still believed in keeping the secret. My how times have changed. Truly American heroes one and all God bless them

Posted by djohn66 2006-08-20 20:45|| 2006-08-20 20:45|| Front Page Top

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