WASHINGTON —

The highly secret U.S. military operation to smuggle

German scientists into this country was

intended to make sure that those responsible for Germany’s terrifying rocket bombs would not fall into the hands of the Russians. In the end it gave the United States access to the team that would help not only in the development of ICBMs

, but design the rocket that first took humans to the

Moon.

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