Joint Chiefs of Staff Quotes
… chosen rare minds whose continuing intellectual productivity we wish to use.
The reason that the report was secret was that almost all of the 1600 scientists they were bringing into the United States were Nazis, and many of them were War Criminals who had perpetrated many of the worst atrocities ranging from murder, unwilling experimental subjects, torture and use of slave labor. It was illegal to being in such people so identities were forged in many cases. In the worst of cases, they military got the secret authority to bring in 100 Nazis annually without any explanation or paperwork. Had the public or even the Congress known, at the time, it would have been a major scandal. One justification was that the Russians were also secretly brining in the Nazi scientists they could capture. The war criminals were happy to work for the Russians or us else the alternative was to be tried as war criminals. Ironically, the Russians and the Americans both propagandized against each other for using Nazi scientists while both were doing it. However, the propaganda people may not have known that their own nation was doing the same thing.
Joint Chiefs of Staff, Exploitation of German Scientists in Science and Technology in the United States, Secret Report for Operation Paperclip & Operation Overcast, 1945
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She had just defeated the previous board chairwoman, Linda Holloway,who had voted with the majority the previous year to revise the standards so that evolution would not be included. See Linda Holloway {603677}.
The military security people were so used to ferreting out communists in the 1930s that they had a hard time adjusting to the fact that the security risks or people who might have German connections or backgrounds. Many immigrant scientists were recruited for work on the Manhattan project to build the atomic bomb and they only did security clearances. The military security people kept checking on any communist background they might have had as opposed to possible connections with fascist organizations. By the end of the war they had adjusted but then had to go back to looking for communists as the Cold War evolved.
This quotation split the liberal thought and the feminists of the day. On the one hand he compared women to savages in their intellectual development. However, he clearly attributed that fact to the lack of opportunity for both.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) is the body of the most senior uniformed leaders within the United States Department of Defense, that advises the president of the United States, the secretary of defense, the Homeland Security Council and the National Security Council on military matters. The composition of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is defined by statute and consists of a chairman (CJCS), a vice chairman (VJCS), the service chiefs of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and the chief of the National Guard Bureau. Each of the individual service chiefs, outside their JCS obligations, work directly under the secretaries of their respective military departments, e.g. the secretary of the Army, the secretary of the Navy, and the secretary of the Air Force.
