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Summary: Ten Stars
Review: A modern classic! A very,very important book for anyone who has any interest in this shameful phase of history. A must read!
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Summary: An excellent resource!
Review: Having read many books and articles about the U.S. government's secret recruitment of Nazi scientists and war criminals, I can state - without hesitation - that Linda Hunt's "Secret Agenda" is unusually accurate, painstakingly objective, and well documented. Although her revelations about the creation of NASA by Nazi recruits and documented war criminals may be painful for some individuals who are devoted to, and highly supportive, of our federally funded space agency; the information contained in Secret Agenda should nevertheless be made widely known. Only by learning the truth about the secretive sins of our government's employees and leaders, can we - as citizens - work to ensure that such sins are not repeated in the future.
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Summary: Hunt an Opportunist and not a Historian
Review: Hunt's book unfairly malign's Wernher von Braun and the German Rocket Team that came to America to develop our embryonic booster program. She lumps von Braun in with ardent Nazis and the historical record shows that von Braun was an apolitical rocket engineer and manager and he was never a goose-stepping Nazi. Neufeld's book, "The Rocket and the Reich" is well-researched but suffers from the author's need to find blame without any evidence. The attack on von Braun and his team by Hunt, Neufeld and others has little to do with accurate history but is rather an opportunistic vendetta to garner attention, fame and book sales. Lost in this smear campaign is the great work done by von Braun and his team for our nation during the Cold War that culminated in landing on the moon. Shame on you Linda Hunt.
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Summary: Every Veteren Should Read This
Review: I am a patriot and have gone to war for my country. I would do it again all the while thanking God for the good people that work so diligently, as Linda Hunt has, to keep our government honest and out in the open. This is an intriguing book and there is much evidence that things of this nature are still taking place.
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Summary: Inadequately researched
Review: I have to agree with Robert Carver that at least some of the information in this book is inaccurate. Whether Hunt is an opportunist or not, I cannot say, and that is beside the point. Motives and intentions are matters of speculation; however, I do know for a fact that least some of the information in this book is inaccurate. I do not question Kathleen Sullivan's perspective that this book is objective (though perhaps not "painstakingly" so) nor do I disagree with the position that this should all be brought to light; however, in the tremdendous volume of data processed in writing this book, I do know for a fact that some things, surely without malice, were inaccruately portrayed. Since the reputations of individuals are at stake, I find this unfortunate indeed. Being someone who is going into teaching as a second career, I have been made aware of the importance of telling students to always question the validity of what they read even in history textbooks from school. Before giving credence to what you read in, or cite from this book, please do corroborate the information (especially if it has to do with any one of a very large number of individuals listed by name).
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Summary: *SIX* STARS FOR HUNT'S COURAGE, FIVE-STARS TO AMAZON.COM
Review: Let me begin by saluting AMAZON.COM for coming through with a truly difficult task. Sure other e-book.com sellers can get you the latest best seller. But can any one of them get you Linda Hunt's, SECRET AGENDA! It is time for the present generation to find out who is running what in the world and why. LINDA HUNT'S out-of-print book ansers some difficult questions. Her book was painfully assembled by the graces of the U.S. Congress' July 4, 1976, FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT. Without FOIA there would simply be no book. Basically, SECRET AGENDA reviews the results of the Executive Order signed in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman (called by the Pentagon, "Operation Paperclip"). This was a little known Cold War directive for secretly spiriting specially skillful Germans into the United States. However, Truman had written a clearly up front provision into his directive: "NO FORMER NAZIS ARE TO BE ALLOWED INTO THE UNITED STATES UNDER THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER." What SECRET AGENDA reveals for the first time (in 1992) from purposely buried FBI and CIA files is that not only did former German Nazis get cushy leadership positions in the United States Army, the U.S. Air Force and major corporations, but many of them were either indictable (or in some cases already indicted by the U.S. Army) Nazi war criminals! Truman's national security justification for "Operation Paperclip" was that the United States needed technically advanced scientists to effectively compete in military technology with the Soviet Union. Historians still argue whether or not it was necessary for the U.S. to import Verner von Braun and his team of V-2 rocket experts. They had earlier supervised slave laborers who built the weapons that rained down fire on London in World War II. See for example: "THE ROCKET AND THE REICH: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era" by MICHAEL J. NEUFELD (just published). Indeed, it only recently came to public attention that, as the Huntsville Times in its 28 February 2000 edition wrote, " ... the V-2s were built by slave laborers from concentration camps [who were] worked to death by Nazis ..." Eventually, von Braun's Arthur Rudolph was charged by the U.S. Justice Department with concealing his Nazi war crimes, and forced to leave the country. But as prize-winning investigative reported Hunt points out, it is hard to explain the American importation and protection of the Nazi doctors who had supervised cruel medical experiments at death camps such as Dachau and Auschwitz. Indeed, in SECET AGENDA Hunt cross references FBI files and Nuremberg Trial records discovering that many of the close Wehrmacht medical colleagues of the men who were convicted of crimes against humanity were brought into the United States and were made directors of medical research at Randoph Field Air Force Base in Texas. Men such as Strughold, Luft and Schreiber who had financed, directed and reviewed the (criminal) medical experiments of men like Josef Mengele became part of the American medical establishment, Hunt points out. For her troubles, Linda Hunt seems to have been marginalized. However, SECRET AGENDA is a valuable historical sourcebook painstakingly assembled from government documents that provides an unvarnished and rare view into ... as the book's title suggests ... the secret agendas of the wickedly powerful. Amazon.com is to be congratulated for serving its "offbeat" customers who sometime deviate from popular culture; just long enough to find out what's going on behind the scenes. It took the able staff of Amazon.com special effort to locate a copy of SECRET AGENDA for me. In their own way, Amazon.com serves the First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution by providing rare and controversial literature at a fair price. For that I am grateful.
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