Bosquet N. Wev

The director of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency, Navy Captain Bosquet N. Wev, bluntly put the case for recruitment in a April 27,1948 memo to the Pentagon's Director of Intelligence

Security investigations conducted by the military have disclosed the fact that the majority of German scientists were members of either the Nazi Party or one or more of its affiliates.

To continue to treat Nazi affiliations as significant considerations has been aptly phrased as 'beating a dead Nazi horse.'

The staff believes this trail should be followed with more research before conclusions can be drawn about the Paperclip scientists and human radiation experiments.

These investigations disclose further that with a very few exceptions, such membership was due to exigencies which influenced the lives of every citizen of Germany at that time.

The documentary record indicates, however, that many claimed inactive status or membership that was a formality

The Air Force's School of Aviation Medicine (SAM) at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas conducted dozens of human radiation experiments during the Cold War

The Committee has no documents at this time indicating that Dr. Gerstner engaged in human experimentation in Germany.

He denied involvement with Nazi experiments

Perhaps the most prominent of the Paperclip physicians was Hubertus Strughold