Academic Talent Quotes
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.
