[edwest]

Thank you PH. I find it odd that older information is not compared to newer, declassified information since some things that appeared carved in stone appear to not be the whole story.

When William Donovan of the Office of Strategic Services was asked about what they did during the war, he replied: "We killed people and blew up things." A far more shadowy and less well documented organization was the Counter-Intelligence Corps. I've located one book that lays out part of their activities during the war: America's Secret Army by Ian Sayer and Douglas Botting. From page 78:

"Under the expert direction of Colonel Boris Pash, previously the security chief of the Manhattan Project, teams of scientists and intelligence personnel, including 22 CIC agents, investigated targets in Germany and a number of recently liberated countries, and succeeeded brilliantly in their task of seizing top German nuclear scientists, along with valuable uranium and radium products, amounting to 70,000 tons, which were shipped to the USA and subsequently used in the manufacture of America's own nuclear weapons."



Regards,
Ed