-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy ----- As always, Caveat Lector. Om K ----- <A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:545444">Nazi's recruited by Australia, US & Britain</A> ----- Subject: Nazi's recruited by Australia, US & Britain From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The UnaPoet) Date: Mon, 16 August 1999 06:12 AM EDT Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Australia Recruited Nazi Scientists - Newspaper SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) - Nazi scientists, including members of Adolf Hitler's elite SS, were secretly brought to Australia after World War Two to work on government defense projects and research, an Australian newspaper said Monday. The Sydney Morning Herald said the scientists were brought to Australia as part of a plan by the United States and Britain to prevent Russia from recruiting German scientists. The newspaper said thousands of previously classified Australian documents showed 31 Nazi Party members were recruited between 1946 and 1951. ``Some were given security clearances for weapons development and rocket research.'' The newspaper did not name any of the scientists and the Australian government was not immediately available for comment. The Herald said least 127 scientists were brought to Australia at a time when Germans were barred from entering the country. It said 31 were Nazi Party members and 12 belonged to other Nazi groups. Six were members of the SS -- Hitler's brownshirt stormtroopers. The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center in Israel had confirmed that seven of the 127 scientists matched the names of suspects wanted by the U.N. War Crimes Commission, but could not say for certain they were the same people, it said. ``We do not yet possess enough details to be able to verify whether they are the same persons admitted to Australia,'' said Efraim Zuroff, director of the center, according to the Herald. The Herald said Australia was invited by Britain to ``bid'' for German scientists in a top-secret cable dated September 18, 1945. The British government cable said Britain had decided to recruit ``a limited number of German scientists and technicians...on defense research work in order to develop military potential at Germany's expense,'' it said. A cable from the Australian High Commission in London 11 months later said Britain had selected 120 German scientists, the newspaper said. A High Commission cable two months later warned that Russia was about to abandon an agreement not to recruit scientists with Nazi backgrounds and was kidnapping scientists, it said. ``Both the U.S. and UK are planning to prevent this moving of German scientists and technicians eastwards since it would increase significantly the war potential of Russia,'' it said. Scientists brought to Australia under the scheme, code-named ``Operation Matchbox,'' included the head of the top-secret Messerschmitt jet aircraft factory and a nuclear physicist engaged in atomic research for the German army, said the Herald. It said two of the scientists worked on Australia's guided-missile rocket tests at Woomera in the 1950s, 10 worked in government defense laboratories, while others worked for the government's top scientific organization. ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
