Very nice article on the sordid Operation Paperclip

http://www.voltairenet.org/article167692.html

It's pretty interesting that the Feds continue to deny the obvious and well-documented (to serious historians) plan(s).  Kind of pathetic, too.  What I'd be curious is if the results really justified the crimes.  As I've mentioned in the past, the same efforts were put into preserving various nazi apparatchiks in the intelligence apparatus, in order to spy on and in the Warsaw Pact.  The general view is that all of these guys were virtually worthless.  I'd be curious if all of these German scientists were really all that productive, above and beyond what we and the British were already doing and preparing to do, (and yes, I include von Braun in this question/accusation).  Viewers of the History Channel are of course led to believe that Germany was one vast hi-tech machine, populated by eggheads, while America was stuck in the late Bronze Age.  I don't think so.  Especially by early 1945. 
I'm not qualified to judge, but I'd be curious if anyone has really done hard quantifiable analysis of what the Germans contributed to American technology from 1946 - 1966.  Just asking.  But at times, the whole "German scientist" proposition resembles the "Ancient Astronauts" story - that humans were virtually incapable of developing anything on their own.  That virtually all technology and learning was hand fed our copper age ancestors by benevolent "space brothers".  The same mythos seems to permeate nazi scientists - handing down their wisdom to the poor dolts of Britain and America...