[0:04:19 - 0:04:26] The main rumored to have developed a revolutionary propulsion system, perhaps even conceptual flying saucers for the
Nazis.
[0:09:12 - 0:09:24] Henry Kissinger was born in 1923 in Germany to a Jewish family and emigrated to the US in 1938 to escape
Nazi persecution.
[0:09:37 - 0:09:48] The CIC, essentially the Army's FBI, played a key role in post-war Europe securing
Nazi technology, hunting war criminals, and safeguarding military secrets.
[0:10:49 - 0:11:00] The timing of this assignment places Kissinger right in the middle of what was in the eyes of the US Army, a treasure trove of
Nazi rocket scientists and researchers.
[0:11:00 - 0:11:13] Oberammergau was a crucial location for counterintelligence operations and the development of Operation Paperclip, the American program which secretly imported 1500 plus
Nazi scientists.
[0:11:39 - 0:11:48] Kommler was infamous, not only for Israel and designing concentration camps, but for overseeing the
Nazis' most advanced weapons programs.
[0:12:19 - 0:12:24] They reportedly considered his discoveries more important than
Nazi nuclear research itself.
[0:13:14 - 0:13:23] His credentials, relocation to Oberammergau, fluency in German, and his prior experience in arresting and questioning ranking
Nazis in Benchheim.
[0:13:23 - 0:13:34] All of this would lead any reasonable person to believe that Kissinger was at least peripherally involved in managing the transition of these
Nazi scientists and their secrets into US custody.
[0:13:34 - 0:13:50] Whether Kissinger knew about experimental propulsion or otherworldly technology remains speculative, but there is a distinct possibility that he could have been trusted with interrogating, translating, and negotiating these secrets with
Nazi scientists as part of their passage to freedom in the United States.
[0:17:35 - 0:17:45] For those shaping policy, it was just as existential as the fight against
Nazis, only now with the added threat of weapons capable of ending civilization itself.
[0:25:03 - 0:25:12] All of this on top of his CIC work in Germany, managing the transition of
Nazi scientists, and possibly their exotic propulsion research.
[0:38:31 - 0:38:46] His time within the counterintelligence court during and after World War II positioned him within an intelligence network that was deeply involved in early crash retrievals, and the exploitation of
Nazi scientific expertise through programs like Operation Paperclip.