Ah - Operation paperclip was where the Nazi survivors went to America and infiltrated all sorts of government activities inc the CIA. (Thanks 🙏🙏 to @mandascott.bsky.social for putting some of this info in a great spy novel. It's resonating all over the place right now)
Remember being hosted on a trip to Peru by a blond haired blue eyed ‘Peruvian’ who was a successful businessman and pretty wealthy. We were driven to his country estate to film his stables and tack room for his paso horses. He also had an Uzi in his glove box, protection from the shining path.
I can’t remember his surname but it was very much Germanic and not a bit Spanish. We thought though never said out loud but we all believed he was the offspring of a nazi runaway.
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He was talking about the US.
I guess now we know the answer.
*shudders*