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Germany itself, I received a phone call from a diligent researcher at the
Imperial War Museum who'd become as engrossed as I was by the lack
of information on Kammler.
The researcher told me, a note of triumph in his voice, that he had
turned up a book on Kammler after a rigorous search: a slim volume, with
a curious title—Blunder! How the U.S. Gave Away Nazi Supersecrets to
Russia—penned by a British Cambridge graduate-turned-foreign correspondent
named Tom Agoston.
What Blunder! contained, however, was dynamite, for Agoston had
established what no other researcher has managed to before or since.
While Kammler carried out his job to the letter, churning out the
rockets and jet aircraft that Hitler hoped would turn the tide against the
Allies in the closing weeks of the war, he also set up, unbeknownst to
anyone connected with those projects, a top secret research center tasked
with the development of follow-on technology, a place where work on
"second-generation" secret weapons was already well advanced.
"In modern high-tech jargon, the operation would probably be referred
to as an 'SS research think tank,' " Agoston wrote.
In the jargon of the U.S. aerospace and defense industry, however,
Kammler's "think tank" would have been known by a different term—
one that would have been familiar, though, to anyone who had ever been
consigned to the black world.
What Kammler had established was a "special projects office," a
forerunner of the entity that had been run by the bright young colonels
of the USAF's stealth program in the 1970s and 1980s; a place of vision,
where imagination could run free, unfettered by the restraints of accountability.
Exactly the kind of place, in fact, you'd expect to find
antigravity technology, if such an impossible thing existed.