ARM memo tells staff to stop working with Huawei

Re:ARM memo tells staff to stop working with Huawei by sschueller on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @09:58AM (#19981209)

Also let's not forget about Operation Paperclip. You can toss the moral high ground out of the door.

"Operation Paperclip was a secret program of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) largely carried out by Special Agents of Army CIC, in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians, such as Wernher von Braun and his V-2 rocket team, were taken from Germany to America for U.S. government employment, primarily between 1945 and 1959. Many were former members, and some were former leaders, of the Nazi Party" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

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Re:ARM memo tells staff to stop working with Huawei by pjc50 on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @10:54AM (#19981839)

The only unethical part of that was exempting them from war crimes trials; although I think that was only really relevant to those directly ordering the use of forced labour in the V2 programme. The rest were treated as some combination of prisoner of war, asylum seeker, and defector. They didn't exactly want to remain in Germany to be captured by the Soviets.

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Re:ARM memo tells staff to stop working with Huawei by walshemj on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @12:28PM (#19982835)

And von Brun was arrested for complaining about the treatment of the labourers I belive.

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