Clay Laverne Shaw (CIA) - Werner Von Braun first met Clay Shaw in 1945 when he, Walter Dornberger and about 150 other Nazi rocket scientists abandoned Peenemunde and travelled south to join the American forces in Germany close to the French border. The Nazis were brought to the Deputy Chief of Staff’s headquarters where Major Clay Shaw was aide-de-camp to General Charles O. Thrasher, Deputy Chief of the European Theater of Operations. Von Braun, Dornberger and Shaw maintained the relationship over the years through their mutual connection with the Defense Industrial Security Command (DISC), an operational arm of the counter-espionage division of the FBI. Ordnance Colonel Holger N. Toftoy was in charge of the Nazi scientists, and Clay Shaw, in the European Command section, gave assistance in the transfer of 127 of the Nazi rocket scientists to the United States; in the transfer, the services of Adolph Hitler’s intelligence agency was used extensively, and Shaw, Von Braun, Dornberger and others began a very close association with the Nazi agency and its command
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:37:19 +0000
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