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> Von Braun was a Nazi spy He came to the US after the war in Europe was over. Pretty difficult to spy on behalf of a political regime that no longer exists.

> Von Braun was a Nazi spy He came to the US after the war in Europe was over. Pretty difficult to spy on behalf of a political regime that no longer exists. If he was spying for anyone - which I don’t think has ever been seriously alleged, let alone proven - it would’ve been the USSR.

janmo 3y ago
Until the mid 60s it was the USSR that was leading the space race
- mcpackieh 3y ago
  That was not true when von Braun and his team chose to surrender to the Americans.
  - fooker 3y ago
    Approximately half the team went to the soviets, some defected even before the end of the war.
stevofolife 3y ago
All kinds of spies in all kinds of projects existed in American history. SpaceX being a relatively new organization and the roles they hire are both not immune to this. For example, “Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II.” from Wikipedia.
- ethanbond 3y ago
  GP didn’t claim spies don’t exist. They claimed spies for regimes that don’t exist don’t exist.