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"Operation Paperclip" and Underground Bases

"Operation Paper Clip"

According to the U.S. Zone Report of October 1945, 66,500 "prominent Nazis" had been interned in the American Zone as of September 1945. By the end of that year, another 70,000 "prominent Nazis" had been interned in the British Zone. In addition, 156,000 persons were "dismissed" from public service in the British Zone between May, 1945, and September, 1946, and 86,000 applications from other persons who tried to obtain employment in one of the restricted occupations were rejected".

Concerning the fate of German prisoners of war, it should be noted that more German soldiers died or were murdered while in Soviet captivity than were killed or wounded on the Western front from D-Day to the 7 May 1945 surrender. Hundreds of thousands of Germans soldiers and civilians suffered the same fate in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland.

And in the French sector, 40,000 German POWs were coerced into joining the French Foreign Legion. Ironically, these veterans again found themselves facing a communist-inspired adversary as most were sent to French Indochina [Vietnam] to fight against the Vietminh insurgents seeking to "free" the region from French colonial rule.

By 1944, the western Allied "Operation Paper Clip" was under way, named after the clips on the file cards of German scientists. Those engaged hunted "living science," and also pursued German patents and business secrets. They finally succeeded in stealing both.

According to a statement released by the U.S. Department of Defense in February 1950, 24,000 German scientists and technicians were "questioned in detail", and 523 of them were "brought into the U.S.A.". Of these, 362 were "requested" to take steps for the acquisition of U.S. citizenship. These German scientists, according to the manager of Operation Paper Clip, "saved at least $1 Billion in weapons expenditures and at least 10 years in development time already by May 1949."

Although the Americans were the initiators of the intellectual plundering of Germany, it was practiced by all the victors - the United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union.

When World War II came to an end, the experts of the French, the Soviets and the British were just as ready as the Office of Technical Services in Washington [OTS].

The London office of the British Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee said proudly, "The production secrets we take away from Germany are a bigger blow than the loss of East Prussia". Even the prime minister of Australia, Joseph B. Chifley, admitted in a radio address in September 1949 that "the booty of 6,000 German industrial reports and of 46 German scientists given to Australia" possessed a value that could not be calculated in money and now enabled Australian producers to also play a prominent role in industrial world production.

This booty was so great that very soon one was unable to count the documents, and they were measured by weight of paper. The U.S. Air Research and Development Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio in this way received "without doubt the greatest collection of captured secret methods in the world", and it weighed 1,554 tons.

An official of the OTS called this office with the mission to distribute the techno-scientific progress of Germany "the first organization in the world with the purpose to bleed dry the inventive power of an entire people." It disposed of more than 3,000 tons of documents seized in Germany.

So that nobody could come along and denounce all this wholesale robbery and plunder as a war crime, it had to be arranged that all Germans of those times would be continuously defamed and treated as criminals, barbarians, "war criminals," "militarists," "fascists" [with the propaganda-meaning of satanic evil] - so that none of these undesirable people who might hold such opinions should occupy any position from which the public could be reached. That is the reason for Allied control officers at German universities, for Allied writers or assistants in the rewriting of German historical textbooks, and for as many as possible foreign lecturers for history and political sciences at German universities.

And while the certainly not timid Nazis had removed 1,628 university teachers [with pensions], the anti-Nazis in 1945 victimized no less than 4,289 professors and teachers. And they did not receive any pensions. As "Christ und Welt" calculated in 1950, the Nazis removed 9.5 percent of the university personnel. The Allies removed 32.1 percent.

Nearly every third German university professor in the Western sectors was deprived of his teaching or research position by the victors. And in all of Germany, it was every second teacher.

By 1946, 1,028 professors and teachers had come from the eastern territories and from central Germany into the area of the later Bundesrepublik as unemployed refugees, and later on thousands more followed. But in 1946 the denazification had just begun, which ordered, according to Control Council Directive No. 24 of 1 January 1946, the immediate removal of former National Socialists "from all offices and from numerous professions" alone in the American Zone. For example, 373,762 persons by the end of 1946 were found "unsuited for any public function or work in the economy except as laborers" [Zischka, Anton, "War es ein Wunder"] 


 * M. Balfour, "Viermächtekontrolle in Deutschland"

** At the time the author of this article, Udo Walendy, wrote these words, Eisenhower's criminal treatment of German POWs, wherein he deliberately penned them in barbed wire enclosures - an atrocity which, according to James Bacque's "Other Losses" claimed the lives of some 900,000 defeated German men - was unknown to him.
 

It seems that three countries were cooperating on the project to build a flying saucer.

These countries were Great Britain, the United States and Canada. The project to build the saucer was known by various names but the most popular seems to be Project Y.

In order to hide what they were really doing, they let it leak out that that were working on a saucer type aircraft, but the aircraft they showed was the AVRO Car. This was a silly looking, saucer shaped craft that had a large fan under it so it could hover (but not too well) and was a small craft. Pictures abounded of this thing swaying back and forth trying to hover and different laughing pilots sitting in the cockpit.

The truth of the matter is they were really working on the AVRO plane, a vehicle that they hoped would fly over 2,500 mph.

If the public would have ever know the truth at the time, they would have been astounded.

The facts seem to indicate that the plane was being constructed in Canada by a British engineer named John Frost along with other engineers such as Ray Gibson of AVRO. The project was supposed to build a saucer aircraft with the best performance possible but it changed during experimentation into a sleek plane. AVRO was a British company that had a subsidiary in Canada. One of the things that was to make this plane revolutionary were small jet nozzles which were designed to give the aircraft increased thrust making the plane fly faster. The goal was Mach 5 or fives times the speed of sound. This seemed impossible in the early fifties. 

AVRO had injected over five million dollars into a secret project including 2 million from the U.S.

Today this would have been chump change, but in the early 1950s this was serious money.

On 3 December 1954, "The Leader Post", Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, ran a front page headline declaring "Saucer project cost too large". The Canadian defence department had cancelled the project stating it was impractical at the time. Some of the engineers thought that the plane could have eventually attained at least some of its goals and were remorseful at the cancellation.

Were these engineers just disappointed at the cancellation of a project that they had invested years of their lives in or did the project actually show some promise? Some people have said that the AVRO plane has some similarities to our stealth aircraft.

Of course the SR-71 Blackbird, a plane that even today holds many of the world's speed records did come out in the sixties but how many know that the A12 was a plane that looked almost exactly like the SR-71, was a little faster and first constructed in 1962 and had its engine tested as early as 1958?

Was the A12 built from lessons learned in building the AVRO plane? We may never know the answer. The A-12's speed is classified but a speed over Mach 3 is admitted to, very close to the 2,500 mph of the AVRO project.

During WWII, Germany had become the undisputed leader in highly advanced aircraft technology. The Me-262 jet interceptor, Horten flying wings, and the Me-163 rocket powered aircraft were decades ahead of allied designs.

Under the direction of Dr. Walter Dornberger, the man in charge of operations at Peenemünde, and Dr. Wernher von Braun's boss, a secret saucer program was started at the BMW/Heinkel factory in Dresden in 1943.

This design team was headed by Dr. Richard Miethe, who worked for the BMW rocket division in Berlin. These discs had been originally built in Germany in the fall of 1943, with the first flight occurring during the spring of 1944.

After the close of WWII, many German aeronautical engineers were sent to White Sands Missile Range under "Operation Paperclip". The remaining group of scientists, were captured by the Russians. The Soviets reached the German plant in Breslau before the Americans, and quickly dismantled many factories, rebuilding them in Russia.

Its clear now that the Soviet Union had it's own saucer program [derived from captured German scientist] which explains many of the over-flights in the United States. Dr. Richard Miethe was sent to Fort Bliss, and later worked at Wright Patterson AFB.

Eventually, Dr. Miethe went to work for John C. Frost of the Avro Aircraft Company [a subsidiary of Hawker Siddeley in Malton Ontario Canada. Mr. Frost was a gifted aircraft designer from England, who headed up Avro's "special projects group" in 1952. Avro was currently working on at least 16 different "Flying Saucer" proposals, including project "Y" and project "Y2" [aka Project Silverbug]. Project Silverbug was a design for a supersonic VTOL flying disc.

By 1953, John Frost and his team had completed most of the "paper studies" on these highly unusual aircraft. The only problem facing Mr. Frost, was the overwhelming costs involved in the development of these designs. It quickly became clear that only one country was capable of providing the necessary "financial backing" to "foot the bill" for Avro's flying saucer programs.

USAF Lt. General Donald L. Putt had been briefed on the incredible performance specifications of these aircraft, and visited the Avro Canada plant on 16 September 1953.

Not wanting this incredible technology to be acquired by any other nation, the U.S.A.F. officially took over and financed Avro's saucer program in late 1954.

This allowed the Air Force to "farm out" its own saucer program on foreign soil, while at the same time keeping the project strategically close to the United States.

By 1955, Dr. Miethe had completed construction of the disc shaped aircraft he had originally built in Germany in 1944.

These were the exact aircraft reported as "flying Saucers" in the U.S. during 1947.

The first test flight of this USAF/Avro disc occurred in Malton in 1955, with additional test flights taking place at Edwards AFB
 

"Operation Paperclip" and Underground Bases

There are a couple of Project Paperclip memoranda [circa 1947] in the historical archives of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in Washington, DC.

Project Paperclip Operation brought large numbers of "ex"-Nazi scientists, engineers and technicians to the USA in the years after WW II, where they were salted into a wide variety of military, civil government and espionage agencies, corporations and other organizations.

The Project Paperclip memos requested such prominent names as W.O. Schumann, Walter Dornberger and Eugen Sänger to be made available, the first being the pre-eminent authority in the world on extremely high powered electrical fields, and the last two perhaps the two biggest names in rocket science in the world at that time.

The memos also explicitly asked for Xaver Dorsch and three other men to help with the U.S. Military’s Underground Plant Program.

Xaver Dorsch was head of the Todt Organization during the last years of WW II and was in charge of Hitler’s frantic program of major underground base construction during the closing stages of WW II.

Hitler took command of the OT away from Albert Speer and gave it to Dorsch on 14 April 1944.

Dorsch was invited to submit proposals for a scheme to move German industrial facilities into "concrete factories" or underground facilities to protect them from Allied bombing.

Göring also ordered Dorsch to undertake the construction of underground aircraft hangars for the Luftwaffe.

Dorsch was put in charge of the armaments ministry's building office and served as general commissioner for construction industry matters, as well as retaining his existing post as the head of the OT.

He was thus in charge of virtually all the Third Reich's building projects in the final year of the war.

Hitler's directive to build bombproof factories gave Dorsch the authority he needed to take control of the whole German construction industry and by September 1944 he controlled a workforce of 780,000 people, mostly forced labourers from abroad, who were engaged in construction projects within the Reich.

Dorsch avoided prosecution following the war and was commissioned by the United States Army to write a 1,000-page study of the Organisation Todt, which was published in 1947.

In 1987, Lloyd A. Duscha, the then-Deputy Director of Engineering and Construction for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, gave a talk at a conference entitled "Underground Facilities for Defense – Experience and Lessons".

In the first part of his talk he stated that:

"After World War II, political and economic factors changed the underground construction picture and caused a renewed interest to 'think underground'. As a result of this interest, the Corps of Engineers became involved in the design and construction of some very complex and interesting military projects".

A big part of the "renewed interest to 'think underground' was due to the discovery in 1945 of the elaborate underground facilities the Nazis had constructed during WW II.

No doubt, one of the “political … factors [that] changed the underground construction picture” was also Project Paperclip, though it went unmentioned by name by Lloyd Duscha in 1987.

A little further on he said:

"Although the conference program indicates the topic to be ‘Underground Facilities for Defense – Experience and Lessons,’ I must deviate a little because several of the most interesting facilities that have been designed and constructed by the Corps are classified".

Subsequently Mr. Duscha went into a discussion of the Corps’ involvement in the 1960s in the construction of the large and elaborate NORAD base buried deep beneath Cheyenne Mountain, in Colorado.

And then he said:

“As stated earlier, there are other projects of similar scope, which I cannot identify…”

The request for the Nazi personnel in the Project Paperclip memos was made under the authority of the American military’s USAFE-A2 Command, which is a military alpha-numeric designation still in use in the present day, having to do with the U.S. Air Force’s European compartmentalized and sensitive Intelligence operations.

By logical inference, the USAFE-A2 Command is the arena of many Top Secret and classified operations and programs, and has been for more than half a century.

Among its many responsibilities are: International Transfers of Technology, Goods, Services and Munitions, Disclosure of Classified Military Information to Foreign Governments and International Organizations, Visits and Assignments of Foreign Nationals, and Disclosure of Military Information to Foreign Governments and International Organizations.

Interestingly, the USAFE-A2 Command includes OSS [Operations Support Squadron] units. The espionage acronym OSS is reminiscent of the WW-II era OSS espionage agency of the USA, the Office of Strategic Services. Does a remnant of the WW-II era OSS live on within the bowels of the USAFE-A2 Command, shielded within its secretive structure from public scrutiny?

One of the two Project Paperclip memoranda is signed by H.M. McCoy, Colonel, Air Corps, Deputy Commanding General, Intelligence [T-2], while the other is signed by Geo. F. Schulgen, Brigadier General, U.S.A., Chief, Air Intelligence Requirements Div., Office of Ass’t Chief of Air Staff-2.

This is intriguing because Colonel H.M. McCoy is a well known figure in post-WW II U.S. military UFO investigations.

In the immediate post-WW II period he worked out of Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio, where he interfaced with both the Project Paperclip operation, and directed the U.S. Air Force’s major UFO investigation Project SIGN, which subsequently morphed into Project GRUDGE in 1949, with McCoy remaining as director.

Brigadier General George Schulgen also worked out of Wright Patterson, and had involvement with both Project Paperclip and the U.S. Air Force’s UFO investigations.

Schulgen both received and wrote high level Top Secret memos on the UFO issue in 1947.
 


The recovered UFO wreckage from the so-called Roswell crash in New Mexico in 1947 has been reported by many to have been transported to Wright Patterson AFB

In Joseph Farrell’s fascinating book, "The SS Brotherhood of the Bell", he avers that the Nazis made almost science fiction-like technological breakthroughs during WW II, having to do with exotic, high-energy mercury plasmas, and the engineering of the vacuum or aether, with implications for UFO-like antigravity technology, new generations of scalar weaponry, time travel and more, based on a nonlinear conception of physics, a vorticular physics of the internal rotational stress of space itself.

Farrell makes an intriguing case that R&D work on this technology centered on construction of a device known as The Bell [Die Glocke].
 


This project has also been earlier discussed in the books, "The Hunt for Zero Point", by British aerospace writer, Nick Cook, and "The Truth About the Wunderwaffe", by Polish military journalist, Igor Witkowski.

The evidence indicates that the Bell R&D project was under the command of a Top Secret SS cell called FEP [Forschungen Entwicklungen, Patente - research development section patents]. This FEP-SS Cell, oddly enough, was under the direction of a Kriegsmarine Admiral Wilhelm Rhein, which clearly inticates some degree of involvement of the German war-time Navy in the Bell project. However, the actual work on the "Bell" project itself was apparently directed by an SS General Emil Mazuw, about whom very little is known, albeit that he was one of the highest ranking Nazi officers in the Third Reich.
 

Another important figure, SS General Hans Kammler, also is reported to have had a high-level connection to the Bell project. Kammler was no ordinary SS officer. He was in charge of concentration camp design and construction during the war. He was also tasked with the construction of production facilities for secret weapons programs, and with moving V-1 and V-2 missile production underground to the Mittelwerk facility in the southern Harz mountains near Nordhausen in the last year of the war.

During the war Kammler was in charge of special construction projects for Albert Speer, special buildings for Hermann Göring, and for most of the last year of the war was in charge of the V-2 project, taking it over from SS General Walter Dornberger. This is the same V-2 program for which Wernher von Braun was the principle rocket scientist and engineer. At war’s end SS General Hans Kammler seems to have vanished into thin air, along with the Bell itself. There is speculation that the both of them were perhaps secretly flown away to the USA and/or South America, or even another, unknown destination.

Part of Farrell’s thesis is that near the end of WW II and in the following years, a powerful Nazi faction established an extremely secretive, extremely well funded, international organizational network to continue the exotic, high-tech R&D centered on the scalar, anti-gravity and time engineering breakthroughs they had made during WW II.

The work is hypothesized to have continued after WW II, in part with the connivance of Operation Paperclip in the USA, but also elsewhere in various other countries of the world, including Russia, Egypt and Argentina, and presumably others, operating from within the military-industrial-espionage complex of the USA and other countries. Within the USA, this sprawling network had a number of nodal points, notably in Virginia, Texas, New Mexico, Florida and Alabama.

The two Project Paperclip memoranda in the NASA historical archives in Washington, DC are completely consonant with Farrell’s thesis - Project Paperclip was part and parcel of the post-WW II continuation of the Nazi agenda under official USA government and military auspices.

Winfried Otto Schumann, best known today for discovering the Schumann magnetic resonances in the ionosphere, was one of the pre-eminent high voltage, high current electrophysical scientists and engineers in the world in the first half of the 20th century.

W.O. Schumann's name is on both of the Project Paperclip memos in question.

Interestingly, W.O. Schumann was granted a U.S. Patent on 29 September 1942, at the height of WW II, Patent No. 2,297,256 entitled "Tube Control".

The patent application was filed in April of 1939 in Germany. The title of the patent says that the patent is "Vested in the Alien Property Custodian". From the standpoint of Joseph Farrell’s research on the SS Nazi "Bell," Schumann’s "Tube Control" patent pointedly has to do with vacuum-arc electrical discharges within a mercury plasma contained within a tube.

Joseph Farrell reports that mercury plasma and very high energy electrical fields are both said to be integral to the operation of the Nazi Bell; and Project Paperclip was "ordering" W.O. Schumann as of 16 June 1947, just three weeks before the famous Roswell UFO crash in New Mexico.

A coincidence? Was the recovered Roswell crash wreckage  also "Vested in the Alien Property Custodian", like W.O. Schumann’s "vacuum-arc mercury plasma Tube Control" patent?

Walter Dornberger, Werrnher von Braun’s commanding officer at Peenemünde, and head of the V-2 missile program until Hans Kammler took it over in the last year of the war, is also listed in this memo.

Dornberger was brought to the USA and went to work for Bell Helicopter, in New York State. That seems a strange destination for a ballistic missile expert.

However, Bell Helicopter was for a period of time a leading company in the R&D effort for the U.S. Air Force’s planned manned space program, the Dyna-Soar boost-glide rocket plane, during the 1950s and early 1960s.

Most people do not know, or do not remember, that in that period there were two, parallel manned space programs under development, one at NASA, the Mercury and Gemini programs, the other at the Air Force, the Dyna-Soar program.

Even fewer people know that Neil Armstrong, purportedly the first man to walk on the Moon, was in astronaut training in the U.S. Air Force’s Dyna-Soar manned space program, before he left that program and became a NASA astronaut.

As regards Dornberger’s odd placement at Bell Helicopter, was he placed there to get him out of the public eye, away from von Braun and the other Paperclip personnel, perhaps in order to run a compartmentalized program safely removed from the publicity glare of the manned space program and the USA’s miliary agencies’ ballistic missile programs?

Jospeh Farrell mentions the central role played by the Allgemeine Electricitäts Gesellschaft [A.E.G.] in the R&D of the Bell.

Two specialists with an AEG affiliation are requested by the Paperclip memos:

Dr. Orthenhuber, with an expertise in homing systems, and also Professor Bladenbeck, with an expertise in guided missiles and infrared homing.

Others requested are:

Dr. Wolfgang Braun, with expertise in radar tracking devices,
Dr. W. Pfister, with expertise in navigation and theoretical electronics
Dr. Ing. Max Knoll, specialist in cathode ray tubes and electron optics

Max Knoll, a German electrical engineer, obtained his doctorate in the Institute for High Voltage Technology.

In 1927 he became the leader of the electron research group there, where he and his co-worker, Ernst Ruska, invented the electron microscope in 1931.

 In April 1932, Knoll joined Telefunken in Berlin to do developmental work in the field of television design. He was also a private lecturer in Berlin.

After World War II, Knoll joined the University of Munich as extraordinary professor and director of the Institute for Electromedicine.

He moved to the USA in 1948, to work at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University.


Dr. Kurt Franz, theorist in high frequency technique
Dr. W. Wessel, specialist in theoretical physics and electrostatics of ion fields
Hans Bomke, specialist in theoretical physics and high frequency techniques
Prof. O. Scherzer, specialist in electron optics

Otto Scherzer was a German theoretical physicist who made contributions to electron microscopy.

He studied physics at the Munich Technical University and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich [LMU] from 1927 to 1931.

At LMU his thesis advisor was Arnold Sommerfeld, and he was granted his doctorate in 1931. His thesis was on the quantum theory of Bremsstrahlung. 

From 1932 to 1933, Scherzer was an assistant to Carl Ramsauer at the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft, an electric combine with headquarters in Berlin and Frankfurt-on-Main. There, he did research on electron optics.

In 1935, Scherzer moved to the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt.In 1936, he became an extraordinarius professor and director of the theoretical physics department. 
 
From 1939 to 1945, Scherzer worked on radar at the communications research headquarters of the German Navy [Nachrichtenmittel-Versuchskommando der Kriegsmarine]

 In a communication with Sommerfeld, dated 2 December 1944, Scherzer reported war damage in Darmstadt and commented on his work on radar.

From 1944 to 1945, Scherzer was head of radar finding research [Arbeitsbereich Funkmesstechnik] for the Reich Research Council [Reichsforschungsrat], which was the co-ordinating agency in the Reich Education Ministry [Reichsziehungsministerium] for the centralized planning of basic and applied research.
 
In 1954, Scherzer became ordinarius professor at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, where he helped found the Society for Heavy Ion Research.
 

For a more detailed discussion of why scientists and engineers with these qualifications and areas of expertise were of such interest to Project Paperclip, please refer to Joseph Farrell’s, "The SS Brotherhood of the Bell".

Suffice it to say that high energy ionized gases [plasmas], high frequency pulsing of electrical currents and fields, electrostatics, particle physics, radar theory and so forth, have direct application to so-called UFO technologies, and so-called scalar technologies - things like anti-gravity, electro-gravitics, manipulation of the local foundation of the time-space continuum, and perhaps also time travel, or engineering of the time stream. There are important aspects of Project Paperclip that have still not been publicly divulged, even with the passage of several decades of time.

We are looking at  a kind of Black Magic, an effort to technologically force the source-code of the Universe and subjugate the Creation to a duplicitous, technocratic, militaristic dominion.

Most of the "Bell" project took place in Lower Silesia.

otably, much of the most important work took place underground, beneath Fürstenstein castle. There are strong suggestions that the exotic technology R&D of the NAZIs continued in underground bases in the USA and probably also in other regions of the world. The Project Paperclip memos in the NASA historical archives all but admit as much.

President Truman established the CIA with the National Security Act of 1947, effectively merging the Third Reich’s sprawling Nazi spy apparatus, the [Reinhardt] Gehlen Organization, with the remnants of the American OSS [Office of Strategic Services]. 

As a result that the CIA, from its creation, was a hybrid Nazi-American agency and provided intimate "ex”-Nazi access to the very highest and most secretive levels of the American power structure – Government, Military, Intelligence agencies, Industry, the halls of Academe.

The CIA has at least three principle bases of operation in Virginia, one at its world famous, Langley headquarters in northern Virginia; another at its extremely secretive underground base at the U.S. Army’s Warrenton Training Stations in northern Virginia, about which almost nothing is known; and another at its Camp Peary training and operations base in southeastern Virginia, often popularly referred to as "The Farm".

Camp Peary is right across from Colonial Williamsburg along I-64, the interstate highway that runs from Richmond to Newport News.

Camp Peary has an interesting history. During WW II it was initially a Seabee training base, and then was made into a POW base for "special" German prisoners of war that had to be held under very secretive conditions.

Several years after the war, Camp Peary became a high security CIA base and remains so today. On maps, Camp Peary is identified as a U.S. Navy Reservation, but it is, in fact, a CIA base. As an aside, Camp David, the Presidential retreat adjacent to Catoctin State Park in the mountains of Maryland, is also a U.S. Navy Reservation, built by the Seabees and guarded by the U.S. Marine Corps.

During WW II the area that is now Camp David was a training base for the OSS. Camp David today has a massive underground base that sprawls for miles beneath the mountains and countryside of rural Maryland. 

Interestingly, only a few miles away from Camp Peary in Tidewater Virginia, at nearby Fort Eustis, the U.S. Army’s Transportation Museum possesses A.V. Roe Aircraft Limited’s Avro Car, a prototype flying saucer that was under R&D during the 1950s by the Canadian and USA militaries.

The official story is that it did not work well, and so the flying saucer project was scuttled due to the disappointing results. This effort may have been a cover operation for far more secretive and successful R&D work on UFOs that has been kept out of the public eye for decades.

The Avro Car flying saucer was profiled in LOOK Magazine‘s 14 June 1955 issue, which asked: "Is This the Real Flying Saucer?" One of the interesting things about it, was that the article included an illustration of a large, underground, flying saucer base, buried beneath a mountainous terrain covered by a coniferous forest.

Apart from the CIA’s well known Langley headquarters in northern Virginia, but there is another Langley in Virginia — Langley Air Force Base just to the north of Hampton, Virginia – only a short drive from Camp Peary. This matters to this account, because NASA astronauts trained at Langley AFB in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the very period when Nazi involvement at NASA was at its height.

Can it be coincidence that scarcely 10 years after the creation of the CIA – a hybrid, half Nazi organization from the very start, and the establishment of the CIA’s main training base at Camp Peary, Virginia that NASA’s main astronaut training facility was just a short drive away? Just to the north of Langley AFB, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, on the Delmarva Peninsula is another NASA facility on Wallop’s Island, the NASA Wallop’s Flight Facility, where many rockets and missiles have been launched over a period of decades. So both northern Virginia and southeastern Virginia have been hubs of espionage and high-tech R&D for post-WW II "ex"-Nazi elements, principally via NASA and the CIA.

New Mexico is famous for the so-called Roswell UFO crash and recovery in 1947. The fact is that there was likely more than one UFO crash and retrieval in New Mexico in mid-summer 1947, and that none of the UFO crashes and recoveries actually happened in Roswell itself.

What is interesting, is that in the summer of 1947 there was a large contingent of Nazi scientists and engineers working at the nearby White Sands Army Missile Range in south-central New Mexico. It is very doubtful that that was a coincidence - there was some sort of Nazi connection to or involvement with the events surrounding the so-called "Roswell Crash" in 1947, whether before, during or after the fact, and even potentially in all three phases.

Also nearby, is the so-called underground Manzano Base, just southeast of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Construction of this underground base began  in June 1947, the same year the CIA was established, the same year of the Project Paperclip memos mentioned, and the same year of the so-called "Roswell UFO crash" and retrieval. It too is doubtful that it is a coincidence that all of these things happened in the same year.

The Project Paperclip memos cited, specifically call for Xaver Dorsch and three other Nazi technicians to assist with the USAF’s "Underground Plant Program".

The Manzano Base was one of the USA military’s first, major deep underground bases, begun shortly adter WW II. The fact that this base was begun at precisely the same time [1947] that Project Paperclip requested Xaver Dorsch  is surely no accident. He was perhaps the premier expert in the world at that time on major, underground base construction, having been explicitly tasked with that duty by Adolf Hitler in the closing months of WW II.

It can be suspected he may very well have also been secretly brought to New Mexico under Project Paperclip to assist with the Manzano Base construction. There is  the 1947 memorandum asking for him, he was in American military detention after the war, the Manzano Base was begun in mid-1947, and scores of other Paperclip Nazis were working in New Mexico at that time. The circumstantial evidence therefore points in that direction.

In addition to being an underground nuclear weapons storage and assembly factory, the base was also a Presidential underground shelter during the Eisenhower administration.

One of the stories is that the Manzano Base also includes an subterranean air base for jet fighters that could be scrambled from an underground runway and launched right from the side of the mountain through a camouflaged opening. While this may not be true, what is true is that there has been documented UFO activity in and around the Manzano Base in past years.

There are also underground facilities beneath White Sands Missile Range, where the Operation Paperclip Nazis worked, Those include at a minimum underground Laser R&D facilities, and extensive, deep underground tunnels.

It is very easy to believe that some, a lot, or maybe just about all of the UFO activity in New Mexcio is related to the underground bases and tunnels that lie beneath that state.

It is well established that Wernher von Braun and his team of 118 scientists, engineers and technicians worked at White Sands Missile Range in the post-WW II period. They were put to work assembling and test firing V-2 rockets that had been brought over from Germany at war’s end. There was only one V-2 launch complex at White Sands, launch  used by von Braun and Kurt Debus. 

The Texas connection to this whole, mysterious, decades-long affair is strong and convoluted. First of all, the Nazi Paperclip scientists, engineers and technicians who were first brought to the USA in 1945 with Wernher von Braun were brought to Fort Bliss, in west Texas, north of El Paso, where they were housed as they worked at White Sands Missile Range in south-central New Mexico, where they continued working with V-2 rocket technology for the American military, in the late 1940s.

Other Nazis also came to Texas. Hubertus Strughold, the so-called father of space medicine, went to Randolph Air Force Base, near San Antonio. Dr Walter Paul Emil Schreiber was also brought to Randolph Air Force Base, but then was soon sent by the USA military to Argentina, when his presence in Texas became publicly known. .

As it happens, there has been a sizable, ethnic German population concentrated in the Texas Hill Country for almost two centuries, beginning with a wave of German immigration in the 1840s. 

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, a native German speaker,  was born in 1885 in Fredericksburg, Texas, the county seat of Gillespie County, Texas. Fredericksburg is in the very heart of the then heavily German-speaking Texas Hill Country. Of course, Nimitz was Commander of American forces in the Pacific Theater during WW II. Interestingly, he went to privately visit German Admiral Dönitz, the commander of the Kriegsmarine during WW II, after Dönitz' release from prison in 1956.  Did Nimitz just extend pleasantries and condolences to his imprisoned Nazi counterpart, or did they have weightier matters to discuss? 

At the Nuremberg Trials. the main charge against Karl Dönitz was the waging of "unrestricted U-Boat warfare". In his defense Doenitz maintained that he had done nothing that was not practiced by all other nations during the war.  Admiral Chester Nimitz of the U.S. Navy supplied Dönitz with an affidavit admitting that he had also waged unrestricted submarine warfare in the Pacific since 7 December 1941.

According to the BBC:

"When Dönitz was released in 1956, Nimitz was among a number of Allied veterans who joined together to express in writing their regret about the way he had been treated".


Nimitz was a native German speaker and by virtue of his rank and position would have been privy to the very highest levels of war-time Intelligence. He was uniquely qualified to debrief Dönitz, in a way that virtually no one else on the American side would have been. It also must be mentioned that Nimitz was appointed the Chief of Naval Operations after WW II, and it was in this capacity that less than a year after the conclusion of hostilities in WW II he issued the orders for the well-known Antarctic Operation High Jump. Operation High Jump has been the subject of much speculation in both UFOlogy and Nazi conspiracy circles concerning the possible presence of a remnant, post-WW II, high-tech Nzi redoubt in the Antarctic region, perhaps incorporating a flying saucer base.

A great deal of what happened just before, during, and just after the conclusion of military hostilities in WW II remains very murky, to this day.

Admiral Dönitz, commanded the German Kriegsmarine during the last two years of WW II, and  in the closing days of the war, Adolf Hitler appointed Dönitz to be Reichspräsident. Admiral Dönitz was, thus, de facto and de jure head of state of the Third Reich for the last week of its existence, in the first week of May 1945. According to Joseph Farrell, the Bell program was conducted at a very secretive level by powerful elements of the SS, but was in reality also a securely compartmentalized Navy [Kriegsmarine] program.

Farrell also points out the importance that mercury seems to have played in the Bell technology.

As it happens, in the closing stages of the war, no less than three German U-Boats were dispatched to Japan bearing cargoes of mercury: U-864 with more than 60 tons of mercury in steel flasks, as well as jet engines, parts and technical drawings, U-234 with 562 kg of Uranium oxide [interestingly, U-234 is also the notation for one of the isotopes of Uranium], also mercury and optical glass in its keel, and U-859 with 31 tons of mercury. All of these German submarines were either surrendered or sunk in the last months and days of the war, so their cargoes are known.

Were other German submarines loaded with mercury or other exotic cargoes also underway at or near war’s end, but perhaps completed their missions without being captured or sunk, and thus both their cargoes and destinations remain unknown?

In that regard, it is noteworthy that German Submarines U-530 and U-977 both surrendered in Mar del Plata, Argentina, months after the formal cessation of military hostilities with the Third Reich. Did either of these submarines deliver a special cargo or special passengers to Argentina or another destination in the region, or is it simply that their commanding officers wished to surrender in Argentina.

Given his close Texas Hill Country connections, and the continuing post-WW II immigration of Germans to the Texas Hill Country, including unknown numbers of SS officers, who knows what Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz may have known or been told? Who knows whom else he might have known, whether in an unofficial or official capacity?

People like Nimitz and Dönitz were not ordinary men; the positions they held were not ordinary posts; the things they did were not the sorts of things that ordinary people do; and a lot of distinctly non-ordinary events occurred during, and just after WW II. Both Nimitz and Dönitz would both have been privy to an awful lot of Top Secret information during the war and at war’s end. So what did Dönitz and Nimtz talk about? Did Nimitz fly all the way to Germany just to say, "Es tut mir leid?" [I’m sorry]

Joseph Farrell also spends a lot of time on the assassination of President John Kennedy, which conspicuously occurred in Texas, and the probable involvement of a shadowy Nazi faction in the background machinations behind the hit, ultimately with the objective of keeping secret the revolutionary new technologies that they had discovered and developed, and which they feared Kennedy’s policies of increased openness in the American space program would expose.

To be sure, when you ask, at a pragmatic political level, cui bono? with respect to the JFK murder, the obvious answer, first and foremost, is that Lyndon Baines Johnson benefited by succeeding to the Presidency of the USA before the day was done.

Coincidentally, Lyndon Johnson also happens to be a native son of Gillespie County, having lived in Stonewall, Texas about 10 miles east of Fredericksburg, Texas, where Chester Nimitz was born and grew up.

Johnson was a U.S. Congressman during WW II representing a Texas Hill Country district. He was also a Naval Reserve officer who played a high profile role upgrading the U.S. war effort in the Southwest Pacific Theater, serving as a prominent liaison between President Roosevelt, Undersecretary of the Navy James Forrestal, General Douglas MacArthur, the U.S. Senate and others.

Obviously, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Chester Nimitz certainly knew each other personally, and certainly would have interacted face to face on multiple occasions, both having been born and grown up in the same, rural Texas county, both having been prominently involved at the highest levels in U.S. Navy operations in the WW II Pacific Theater, and both having played a prominent role in the public life of the nation.

Because of his lifelong Texas Hill Country ties, Lyndon Johnson is also likely to have known of, and quite possibly to have directly known ex-Nazi SS officers resident in his Congressional district.

If there really was Nazi SS involvement behind the scenes in the JFK hit, and if there really were "ex"-Nazi SS officers quietly living in the Texas Hill Country in the decades after WW II, then whom did Lyndon Johnson know, and when did he know them and what, if anything, did they talk about?

When Johnson became President he moved NASA’s mission control center from Cape Canaveral, Florida to Houston, Texas, at a time when  there was very heavy ex-Nazi leadership of NASA, at the very highest levels. Wernher von Braun, Kurt Debus [whom Farrell reveals to have had personal involvement in the SS Bell project], Arthur Rudolph and others were in charge.

Ohio, in connection to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, played a huge role in the Pentagon’s UFO related research and programs, not only with regard to the Roswell affair, but in other respects, as well,

Ohio is also the home state of T. Townsend Brown, a 20th century, genius-level scientist, engineer and inventor who discovered and carried out extensive R&D work on electrogravitic and antigravitic technologies, with direct application to UFO technology. He worked for a variety of military and aerospace agencies and organizations, on research in this vein. At one time he worked for Dr. Vannevar Bush, whom many have linked to the Top Secret MJ-12 UFO organization.

His early work demonstrated that an X-Ray vacuum tube containing ionized particles would exert a force when connected to a high voltage source. The force was not attributable to the X-Rays that were generated.

This is strongly reminiscent of what the Nazi SS was said to have done with their "Bell" technology, which involved a sealed cylinder containing ionized mercury that was subjected to very high voltages.

This force came to be called the Biefeld-Brown effect. Nazi scientists and engineers would have been aware of T. Townsend Brown’s earlier work in the 1920s. During the 1950s Brown concentrated on electro-gravitic and anti-gravity research. In the mid-1950s he was working in France for Projet Montgolfier which unabashedly had to do with levitating circular, flying-saucer shaped metallic objects.

During the 1950s there was a flurry of research associated with electro-gravitics and anti-gravity and then by 1960 or so, the references in the technical literature dwindled away. Important breakthrough may have been made in anti-gravity and electro-gravitics and the R&D effort was taken Top Secret into the hermetically compartmentalized world of black budget operations.

Jospeh Farrell also mentions the peculiar UFO abduction case of Barney and Betty Hill, because it explicitly raises the issue of Nazi involvement with secret UFO activity in the post-WW II period. The book, "The Interrupted Journey", by John Fuller, describes in detail the September 1961 abduction of Barney and Betty Hill by beings in a glowing, cigar-shaped craft in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. 

Under hypnotic regression Barney Hill describes the commander of the group that abducted him and took him aboard the UFO as being a Nazi, specifically a Nazi in a black uniform.

This is interesting because the Waffen SS officers did wear black uniforms. It is indisputable fact that Project Paperclip did bring large numbers of Nazis to the USA, including a lot of SS officers.

The truth is that not all prominent UFOlogists are good researchers, so for whatever reason, certain aspects of Barney Hill’s story have not been given the serious treatment and investigation that they deserve. To his credit, Joseph Farrell is one of the few researchers and writers to have recognized the importance of the Nazi aspect of Barney Hill’s experience.

After leaving Fort Bliss, Texas and the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Wernher von Braun and his team were sent to the  U.S. Army’s Redstone Arsenal  at Huntsville Alabama to continue working.

In the 1950s-there were plans by the U.S. Army to build a large underground rocket base beneath Green Mountain, near Huntsville, Alabama. Wernher von Braun and his team were at Redstone Arsenal in that period.

This was also the period where the USA military was really ramping up its post-WW II program of major, underground base construction, and the U.S. Army no doubt wanted Wernher von Braun and his team to have the same facility to work with that they had in Germany, during the Third Reich.

In the last year of the war, V-1 and V-2 rocket production had been moved underground into the Mittelwerk production facility in the southern Harz Mountains.

The Pentagon was simply mimicking the Third Reich’s playbook. Hitler had had an underground rocket factory, and the American generals wanted the same thing. Ii is not known if Xaver Dorsch was still being debriefed by, or consulting with or for the U.S. Army at that time, but the Pentagon would certainly have gotten detailed information from him about the Nazis’ extensive underground military and industrial production facilities.

Many people are not aware that there was also an Egyptian analog to the American Project Paperclip. Hundreds of ex-Nazi scientists, engineers and technicians worked for years in Heliopolis, not far from Cairo.

For a time Eugen Sänger was in charge of the research in Egypt. The services of Eugen Sänger were also explicitly requested by Operation Paperclip in 1947.

Sänger was the father of the technology that ultimately led to the NASA space shuttle program. Walter Dornberger brought technical plans and schematics for this prototype technology with him when he came to the USA under Project Paperclip. 

Otto Skorzeny, the high-level SS operative who was seemingly everywhere, doing everything during WW II, was at least as active after the war, in organizing the international activities of “ex”-Nazi officers after the war. Skorzeny also was involved with the Egyptian "Paperclip" project, albeit in an unexpected way. Amazingly Skorzeny, the high-level "ex"-Nazi SS officer, was actually hired by the Mossad [Israeli Intelligence] in 1963 to finger ex-Nazis working in Egypt.
 

America Plans on Mistakes by Hitler
Glen Innes Examiner [NSW]
18 June 1948

FRANKFURT: The mistakes which Hitler's engineers made in constructing underground war plants are being utilised by the United States Department of the Army in investigating the possibility of constructing and operating subterranean factories in America.

American authorities are basing their plans largely on a report submitted by an Allied team, under the leadership of a New York engineer, Mr. Guy B. Panero, who investigated the German underground plants after the war. Mr. Panero's report to the Department of the Army asserts that the German effort to remove vital plants below ground was initiated without any co-ordinated planning in a feverish rush to escape the crippling blows of Allied air raids.

As a result of the lack of planning, the report says, the German underground factories were seldom located near adequate transport facilities or near the source of badly-needed raw materials.

Captured German documents show that only a small percentage of Nazi-controlled underground factories ever reached maximum production over a sustained period. Had portions of the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe been assigned to protect the plants, however, competent Allied observers believe that the war might have been indefinitely prolonged.

Inasmuch as most of the German underground war plants used slave labour, little or no attention was paid to providing for either the safety or the comfort of the workers.

The lack of facilities in the German underground plants studied makes it apparent that Hitler's plans were almost exclusively based on using the millions of slave labourers brought forcibly to Germany. The American report consequentlv concludes that effectively to use underground facilities in the United States, a large degree of attention must be paid to improving the working conditions of the Labour force. This would include: Special heating ventilation, air-conditioning, recreational facilities, emergency sleeping quarters, and noise control.

All the Allied investigators were agreeable that the results of their tour showed that few, if any, defence measures known to military strategists could equal the protection afforded by an adequate layer of earth. Few of the more than 150 underground war plants built by Hitler suffered damage from air raids, the investigators discovered.

Most of this damage was found to have come from stray bombs aimed at nearby targets. While the Allied experts found that dispersal of plants offered general protection, they agreed the mere random scattering of factory units provided no effective guarantee against the effects of such long-range "blanket" bombing tactics as the Royal Air Force used during the war.

Underground Construction Best

Where a high degree of protection is needed for a vital plant that could not be replaced, underground construction was found to offer the best solution at a reasonable cost. Technical investigators, who worked with the team, assert that underground construction, in the long run, is more economical than two other available means of plant defence.

The alternatives are: Dispersal of factories and the building of strongly reinforced concrete plants. Both are more costly and less effective as protection than underground factories, the report declares.

Although Germany had considered underground protection as early as 1916 during World War I, it was not until 1943 that German engineers awoke to the vulnerability of the country. The first underground factory in Germany was, however, built in 1917. This early forerunner of the scores of subterranean V- weapon and aircraft engine factories was a precision instrument plant built in natural caves near Mulhausen in Thuringia.

Although two-thirds of all German underground factories during the Hitler regime were devoted to the manufacture of primary war weapons, several located were devoted to oil refining or the making of machine tools. In spite of the Nazi emphasis on production for war, the investigators say that any type of manufacturing process can be carried on underground. Germany's most ambitious "mole" factories were located at Mittelbau-Dora, in the Harz Mountains where the stratosphere-piercing V-2's were made in enlarged tunnels 30 feet wide, and in some cases with a 75-feet high ceiling.

Germany's belated discovery of the potency of Allied air attack resulted in the sudden decision to remove the plants to any available underground site.

In their haste to move the manufacture of these "last chance" weapons to safe sites, German engineers readily seized upon any natural cavern and cave sites which would provide protection without the necessity of spending precious time and labour in excavation and construction.

This haste, which provided reasonably certain safeguards from direct damage from air attacks, proved costly for the Germans however. Many of the natural cave sites, although they required only concrete flooring and the installation of power and water facilities, were so far from supply and transport facilities that their output was greatly limited.

A high-ranking officer in the American Corps of Engineers recently said:

"Present indications preclude such fantastic developments as an underground Pittsburg or Birmingham".

Nevertheless, basing their "fantastic" ideas on the lesson learned from the German mistakes end British success with underground munitions factories, the American planners are going ahead.

 

Nazi Germany had its own Los Alamos with 120 nuclear scientists and a secret hidden nuclear project called Komplex Riese

The Riesenbirge underground complex, or "Complex Riese", home to two top secret SS research groups, SS-E-IV and SS-U-13, consisted of 195,000 sq metres of tunnels and ten underground complexes. These tunnels were located mainly south east from modern day Walbrzych (nee Waldenberg) in the Owl Mountains with the main tunnels based around Osowka (nee Sauferhohen) and Wlodarz (nee Wolfsberg). This complex was south of Swdnica (nee Schweidniz). Three nearby tunnels are located at Rzeczka, Jugowice and Sobon. 

To the north there were two airstrips near Swdnica and four airstrips near Klodzko. Within a 30 kilometre radius. All these airstrips remained in German hands until early May 1945. 

Slave labour was provided from the Gross Rosen KZ camps scattered southeast of Bad Charlottenbrunn (nowadays called Jedlina Zdro).  Several smaller camps were set up specifically to provide labour for specific tunnels. A document by architect Siegfried Schmelcher, entitled "Geheime Reichssache 91/44" gives an overview of the complex.

Although Kammler was ultimately in charge as the Plenipotentiary for Science, strictly speaking the Riese complex was under SS Obergruppenführer Emil Mazuw who died peacefully as a civilian in 1987. Nobody to my knowledge has ever thought to explore archives of interviews with Mazuw.

These camps comprised 4 major camps and 12 satellite camps. SS Guards were controlled by SS Obersturmbahnführer Karl Belbo and the camp complex was under Standartenführer Albert Lütkemeyer. 

More concrete was used on constructing Complex Riese between September 1943 and February 1945 than in all the air raid shelters and Flak towers, built within Germany. Armoured trains from Prague kept a constant shuttle of supplies. 

Other more isolated tunnels are also located at Zamek Kslaz, north of Walbrzych near castle Fürstenstein. This particular tunnel appears to have been intended as an alternative Führer headquarters, but never saw use as such.

In 1943, the “Organisation Todt” moved into the 13th century Castle Fürstenstein [Ksiàý] to use it as their base of operations. 

Extensive restructuring began to prepare the castle for its role within "Komplex Riese".

35 architects were hired for this part of the project. 

At the instigation of the authorities terraces and water conduits were destroyed, granite portals smashed, stucco removed and furniture as well as paintings taken away.

The rooms gained the rough appearance typical for Nazi architecture. 

Huge tunnels with a total length of up to 2 kilometres were hewn into the bedrock beneath the castle.

It is assumed that a railway from Lubiechow to the castle was planned.

In front of the castle, a 50 metre elevator shaft was dug [the elevator itself was never installed, however]. 

Initially, restructuring work was done by civil workers from Italy; later, prisoners from "Außenlager Riese" who were kept near the castle, were used.

About 3,000 people worked on the restructuring of Castle Fürstenstein.

It has been claimed that the castle was outfitted and excavated to become an abode for Adolf Hitler.

Kammler was also head of the SS evacuation command which, from March 1945, used a number of armoured trains to evacuate tons of top secret Luftwaffe secret technology documents from tunnels under Fürstenstein Castle to Linz, Austria where US Forces scooped up the documents.

One of these armoured Trains is said to have simply disappeared at the end of the war.

Another of Kammlers's tasks was the controversial evacuation in April 1945 of a device codenamed 'Die Glocke' and also referred to as the Nazi Bell device, using a Junker Ju-390 for an evacuation flight to Norway. 

After the war Org Todt's tunnel construction manager Xaver Dorsch gave Soviet investigators tours through the Fürstenstein tunnels and many incredible accounts for the use of these tunnels.

Much of the surviving knowledge comes from Xaver Dorsch, but some also accused him of creating disinformation.

Franz Xaver Dorsch enrolled as a student of civil engineering at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart, now the University of Stuttgart, in 1919, and qualified as an architect in 1928.

From 1929 to 1933 he worked with Fritz Todt, later to become the founder of the Organisation Todt, at the Munich engineering firm of Sager und Wörner.

Both men were early supporters of Adolf Hitler.

Dorsch joined the embryonic Nazi Party and its paramilitary wing, the Sturmabteilung, in 1922 and he participated in the unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch of 8–9 November 1923.

He was later entitled to wear the Golden Party Badge and the Blood Order of the Nazi Party in recognition of his early service.

In July 1933, Todt was appointed by Hitler as the Generalinspektor für das deutsche Straßenwesen [Inspector General for German Roadways] charged with the task of building the German Autobahn network.

Todt recruited Dorsch to serve as his Deputy and Leiter [head] of the OT Zentrale office in Berlin, working on the Autobahn project.

In 1938 Dorsch played a leading role in the building of the Siegfried Line [known as the Westwall in German], a vast defence system stretching more than 390 mi along German's western borders from the Netherlands to Switzerland.

From December 1941 he directed the construction of the Atlantic Wall along the western coastline of occupied Europe, though his work was criticised by the military for ignoring input from the Army and Navy.

On 8 February 1942 Fritz Todt was killed in an air crash.

He was replaced by Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect.

Speer retained overall control of the OT as Minister of Armaments and War Production.

He did give Dorsch authority to run it, as he saw fit, making him the operational chief of the OT. In recognition of his service,

Dorsch was awarded the Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords on 13 May 1943.

However, the relationship between Speer and Dorsch was strained.

A major bone of contention was the fact that the OT only had responsibility for building projects outside the Reich.

It was now increasingly being employed for construction work at home and needed to have control of the domestic construction industry.

Dorsch and Speer fought a bitter battle over the issue, with Dorsch demanding that he be put in charge of all building activity inside the Reich so that new projects could be managed by the OT.

Dorsch was secretly an ally of Speer's arch-enemy, Martin Bormann, who recruited him as an agent of the Parteikanzlei [the Nazi Party head office] to spy on Speer.

 

As Speer later put it, Dorsch made him feel "insecure in my own Ministry".

In the spring of 1944, Dorsch instigated a move to oust Speer; although he was unsuccessful, Speer's position was seriously weakened.

Hitler took command of the OT away from Speer and gave it to Dorsch in April 1944. Dorsch was invited to submit proposals for a scheme, which Speer vigorously opposed, to move German industrial facilities into "concrete factories" or underground facilities to protect them from Allied bombing.

Hermann Göring, the Reich Minister of Aviation, also ordered Dorsch to undertake the construction of underground aircraft hangars for the Luftwaffe.

Dorsch was put in charge of the armaments ministry's building office and served as the minister's deputy as general commissioner for construction industry matters, as well as retaining his existing post as the head of the OT.

He was thus in charge of virtually all the Third Reich's building projects in the final year of the war.

Hitler's directive to build bombproof factories gave Dorsch the authority he needed to take control of the whole German construction industry and by September 1944 he controlled a workforce of 780,000 people, mostly forced labourers from abroad, who were engaged in construction projects within the Reich.

Dorsch avoided prosecution following the war and was commissioned by the United States Army to write a 1,000-page study of the Organisation Todt, which was published in 1947.

In 1950, he set up the firm of "Reg.Baumeister Xaver Dorsch, Ingenieurbüro" which became the consulting engineering company Dorsch Consult in 1951 and Dorsch Gruppe in 2006. The company now employs 1,600 people and is Germany's largest independent planning and consulting company.

Uranium and Thorium bearing deposits immediately south of the Riese complex were mined at Gluszyca.

Dorsch claimed the tunnels were part of a nuclear weapons project which employed 180 scientists from Denmark and Norway. 

3,648 forced labourers are known to have died from exhaustion or disease.

A further 857 were deported to Auschwitz.

This camp was evacuated in February 1945.

Soviets captured the area in mid May 1945. Nazi Werewolf units kept fighting from the forests until many months after the war finished. 

Other tunnels around Osowka, particularly Wolfsberg were deliberately sealed, or flooded in the final weeks of the war by SD and SS personnel.  

Thorium deposits were mined close to the Riese tunnel complex at Wüstegiersdorf [now Gluzyca].

120 Danish and Norwegian nuclear scientists were employed at the site and 63 are said to have been executed by the SS at the end of the war to keep secret the research conducted there.

One secret project at the complex relates to a new fighter plane called the V-7.

Japanese enigmatic V-7 depiction

Construction of this underground Manzano Base, just southeast of Albuquerque, New Mexico began in June 1947, the same year the CIA was established, and the same year of the so-called "'Roswell UFO crash" and retrieval.

Project Paperclip memos specifically called for Xaver Dorsch and three other Nazi technicians to assist with the USAF's 'Underground Plant Program'. The Manzano Base was one of the USA military's first, major deep underground bases. Begun shortly after WW II. The other was at what is now Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas.

The fact that this base was begun at precisely the same time [1947] that Project Paperclip requested Xaver Dorsch is surely no accident.

He was perhaps the premier expert in the world at that time on major, underground base construction, having been explicitly tasked with that duty by Adolf Hitler in the closing months of WW II.

He may very well have also been secretly brought to New Mexico under Project Paperclip to assist with the Manzano Base construction - there is the 1947 memorandum asking for him, he was in American military detention after the war, the Manzano Base was begun in mid-1947, and scores of other Paperclip Nazis were working in New Mexico at that time.

The circumstantial evidence therefore points in that direction.

In addition to being an underground nuclear weapons storage and assembly factory,  the Manzano Base was also a Presidential underground shelter during the Eisenhower administration.

There are rumours that the Manzano Base also includes an subterranean air base for jet fighters that can be scrambled from an underground runway and launched right from the side of the mountain through a camouflaged opening, and there have been documented UFO activity in and around the Manzano Base in past years.

The Manzano Base must be considered a prime candidate to be the underground UFO base depicted in the 1955 LOOK Magazine UFO article, because it is located in western, mountainous terrain, covered by a coniferous forest that closely resembles the illustration that accompanies the LOOK article.

There are also underground facilities beneath White Sands Missile Range, where the Operation Paperclip Nazis worked. 

The Nazi Paperclip scientists, engineers and technicians who were first brought to the USA in 1945 with Wernher von Braun were brought to Fort Bliss, in west Texas, north of El Paso, where they were housed as they worked at White Sands Missile Range in south-central New Mexico, with V-2 rocket technology for the American military, assembling and test firing V-2 rockets that had been brought over from Germany at war's end. 

After leaving Fort Bliss, Texas and the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Wernher von Braun and his team were sent to the Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville, Alabama, to continue working.

There were 1950s-era plans by the U.S. Army to build a large underground rocket base beneath Green Mountain, near Huntsville, Alabama, a period when Wernher von Braun and his team were at Redstone Arsenal.

This was also the period where the USA military was really ramping up its post-WW II program of major, underground base construction, and the U.S. Army no doubt wanted Wernher von Braun and his team to have the same facility to work with that they had in Germany, during the Third Reich.

During the last year of the war, V-1 and V-2 rocket production had been moved underground into the Mittelwerk production facility in the southern Harz Mountains.

The Pentagon was simply mimicking the Third Reich's playbook. Hitler had had an underground rocket factory, and the American generals wanted the same thing.

It is not known if Xaver Dorsch was still being debriefed by, or consulting with or for the U.S. Army at that time, but the Pentagon would certainly have gotten detailed information from him about the Nazis extensive underground military and industrial production facilities.