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And this is somehow a surprise? It's the CIA, you can't be an effective intelligence agency of a global superpower and be nice guys and deal only with nice guys, they most likely played some part in John F. Kennedy's assassination and/or coverup thereof, I think being a party to the killing of your country's own president is a bit worse than using ex-Nazis as assets.
Both the US and Soviet Union near the end of the European part of WWII as Berlin fell were in a race against each other to get hold of the best scientists the Germans had out of fear the other side would get them. It was called Operation Paperclip, they knew most of them were Nazis, you couldn't be a top anything in Nazi Germany and avoid some affiliation with the Nazis whether that included membership in the Nazi party or not, you'd have been risking your life and that of your family to distance yourself in any way from the Nazi leadership. For appearance's sake Truman had to put in the condition that the US wouldn't deal with Nazis, so they went to work white washing the records of many of the recruits.
The US space program was dominated by German rocket scientists recruited in Operation Paperclip, the most famous being Werner von Braun. They also grabbed physicists involved in nuclear research, during WWII as we put together the nuclear bomb we had no idea how far along the Germans were with nuclear weapons and even less idea about the Soviets, Hitler bragged about about some super secret weapon the Germans were working on and the US feared it was nuclear - it wasn't.
The Soviets were not far behind in the development of nuclear bombs. Einstein always regretted any part he had in the development of nuclear weapons but he was a pretty naive and confused genius, the war with the Germans would have ended and had the Soviets beat the West to the bomb god knows what Stalin would have done with that advantage. Einstein did some preliminary work when asked by the Manhattan Project in its beginning, later on they wanted to use him some more but the US government wouldn't clear him, he had a reputation as a 'pacifist', which in those days to the government meant a communist sympathizer.
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