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Phil Balla's avatar

Let's be specific, J L.

The U.S. didn't just get Nazis "swept under the rug." Its classified program, "Operation Paperclip," from 1945 on brought 1,600 of them as physicists, chemists, doctors, and engineers to staff corporate America.

Rather similarly to how, from 1991 on, the U.S. State Department coordinated U.S. financial interests and recent Ivy League grads to invest in the Soviet Union's former nomenklatura, and so float the thievery, rape of resources, and other floating of the new oligarchy there.

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J L Graham's avatar

I was aware of the importation of former NAZI scientists, which, I suspect on a case by case basis, was questionable at best. I think it is different from ignoring behavior that undermined both human rights and national interests by Americans who got a pass for being right-wing and rich.

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