POLITICAL ART VISUAL COMMENTARY

SECRET AGENDA

Operation Paperclip, Project 63, Project National Interest, Project Overcast, Project MK-ULTRA.

In this series, I tried to expose some of the Cold War aspirations that fueled America's credentials as a super-power. In particular, America's
clandestine use of those responsible for the horrors committed under Hitler's regime. They were hired as scientists, professors, spies and saboteurs.
It started near the end of World War 2 and lasted till the 1970's. Many of these emigres were convicted or suspected war criminals. As one arm of the US
military was working on bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, another arm was illegaly offering them safe haven in America. This topic would never have
existed without the Freedom of Information Act.

America's fear stemmed from the fact that little intelligence was available about what they believed would be our next great enemy, Communism.
Therefore, with thoughts of overthrowing the Communist nations worldwide, we had need of those we thought knew their strengths and weaknesses.
This gave birth to many operations whose legacy is said to be manned space flight. There were many opportunities offered to those who had a personal and
ideological stake under the aegis of fighting Communism worldwide. Armed with the idea that the Communists could overrun the world at will, the US adopted
an "anything goes" philosophy. This philosophy was at work in any number of illegal activities directed at countless people within the US and abroad. The
early Cold War strategies practiced by the US came directly from its hired Nazi intelligence network. Crucial US policy decisions were often based on
information provded by those who had an ardent Nazi background. Its repercussions have made itself evident globally from the post-war elections in Italy,
the civil war in Greece, and the Central - South American dictatorships.

This legacy was not made by the Germans alone. It includes experiments on humans at the Edgewood Arsenal and government funded university research
studies. The truth is not only did American scientists pour through Nazi concentration camp reports, they used Nazi science as a basis for experiments in
chemical and psychological warfare on over 7,000 US soldiers.

These underlying concepts for US domestic and foriegn policy are still at work today.

17 Images © Sol Robbins