[[Germany]] | [[Operation Paperclip]] | [[Nazi Germany (Third Reich)]] | [[N.A.S.A]] | [[Nuremberg Trials]] | [[Argentina]] | [[WW II]] | [[Dachau]] # Surgeon General of Third Reich, Exposed by Boston Globe, Fled to Argentina **Major General Dr. Walter Schreiber**: **Surgeon General of Third Reich**. Attended conferences on human experimentation at Dachau, supervised biological/chemical weapons development, worked with Kurt Blome on plague research. Brought to U.S. 1951 Operation Paperclip—**exposed by Boston Globe weeks later**, **fled to Argentina with U.S. military assistance**. ## Nazi Career **Army doctor since WWI**, commanded scientific side Wehrmacht Medical Academy Berlin, worked closely with men later hanged/imprisoned for war crimes. **October 1942**: Attended conference presenting **Dachau human experimentation results**. **May 1943**: Spoke against human experiments—**overruled by Hitler/Göring**. **September 1943**: Denied Kurt Blome plague research permission—**reversed by Himmler**. **Convicted in absentia by Polish court**: "conducting gruesome medical experiments" at Auschwitz. ## Escape to U.S. **Fall 1948**: Escaped Soviet captivity, surrendered to Americans. **September 17, 1951**: Arrived NYC on USNS General Maurice Rose—ship manifest lists family as **"Paper Clips"**. **October 7, 1951**: NYT reported working **Air Force School of Medicine, Randolph AFB Texas, Department Preventive Medicine** (position: "Global Preventive Medicine" consultant). ## Boston Globe Exposure **Weeks after arrival**: Ravensbrück survivor Janina Iwańska at Beth Israel Hospital Boston shown Schreiber's photo—said he was **there** (though not experimenter). Physician contacted **Boston Globe, started petition** for investigation. **February 1952**: Schreiber claimed **"never been to Ravensbrück nor any concentration camp, never conducted/supervised human experiments."** Air Force Surgeon General defended: **"not defendant at Nuremberg, but witness"**—if evidence existed, would have charged him. ## Camp King & MKUltra **Annie Jacobsen revelation**: After Schreiber brought to U.S., **became chief medical doctor Camp King** (U.S. Army interrogation center/intelligence post northwest Frankfurt). When Schreiber secretly brought to Texas, **Kurt Blome filled his position**. Camp King activities 1946-late 1950s **"never fully accounted for by Defense Department or CIA"**—ran **"nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs."** Program evolved into **CIA's MKUltra** (mind/behavior control experiments on humans). ## Flight to Argentina **Did not renew Air Force contract**, moved Bay Area California where one daughter lived. **Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency arranged visas** for Argentina where another daughter lived and had given birth. **U.S. military aided emigration**—protecting him from prosecution by sending him to Juan Perón's Argentina, which **"harboured many Nazi war criminals."** Worked as physician, conducted epidemiological research Argentina. **Bottom line**: **Third Reich's Surgeon General**, present at Dachau experiment presentations, supervised bioweapons involving plague/typhus killing "countless," ran Camp King enhanced interrogation contributing to MKUltra—**exposed by journalism weeks after U.S. arrival**, **U.S. response: fly him to safety in Argentina**. One of Operation Paperclip's "worst-case scenarios" per Annie Jacobsen—**proves U.S. prioritized protecting war criminals over accountability even when publicly exposed**.