Cahill construction. It has local knowledge and previous success with these programs. This is aligned with our vision of engaging multiple general contractors and taking the benefit of their best practices forward to increase participation. We will also be on the street for another capital ground manager as additional projects come on and we expect to benefit also from similar best practices exposure. Having had many conversations with scott smith from robert sub she, i dont know if he had a chance to get here. Hes here now. Im glad to say that scott has shown greater personal participation with 5354 and i believe hes already seeing some successes of that working with local contractors on 5354 who are not competitive on the 5051 bid. Working with robert sub she we have broken the packages down even smaller than 5051. Partially due to the fact that it allows you to do so because of individual buildings, but we felt that given the Lessons Learned from 5051, if we break it further down, w
And operation paperclip the secret Intelligence Program that brought nazi scientists to america the scientist that came from world war ii. And then a discussion on the pope francis and musjerks luni and then the monuments men. And now, operation paperclip the secret Intelligence Program that brought nazi scientists to america and the author annie jacobsen. The Program Brought scientist to the United States despite the fact they were accused of war crimes. This is 55 minutes. Good evening, everybodyism i am annie jacobsen. And i want to thank book passage for having me. It is delightful for being here. There is nothing that makes this author happier than meeting readers. Tonight im going to talk about operation paperclip and tell you how i got interested in and then where will end with what i think are interesting ways the story is reported. To start with, my book, these gentlemen are 21 of approximately 1600 german scientist who came to america to work for the United States military an
So i would ask everybody to check their cell phones just to make sure that a your cell phone is off. And also just so you know that it is being filmed tonight. We will be taking questions later and passing around notecards and then reading the questions from up here so that they can also be part of the life stream and the booktv live stream and the booktv. And there will be a book signing afterwards. Haymarket books has a table, and gary will be signing books so, please, join us afterwards. So this weekend i went to d. C. , and i had a couple of extra hours, and so i went to see the king memorial. How many people have seen the king me moil . Memorial . Its exceedingly depressing. The original plans for the monument included alcoves to honor other civil rights models, but those were scrapped because of ip sufficient funds. King towers over us. The sculpture is flanked by a granite wall. Fourteen quotes are on that wall, not one uses the word racism or segregation or Racial Injustice or
In texas, and its a long and tangled tale. You can read about it in the book. But its really astonishing that schreiber, the former Surgeon General of the third reich, was living in texas. But as i said, the cold war was heating up, and this was the threat. The threat was that the soviets, who, bill the way, had their own program of german scientist, they got a lot of rocket scientists, but unlike our program, we sort of put the german scientists on pedestals. Pedestals and treated them with great regard and made them the top dogs of our program. The soviets loathed the germans. There was deep animosity from the war, and so their german rocket scientists were kept at a second tier and they were actually squeezed of the information, and sent back to germany by the russians, at which point the cia stepped in, grabbed up all those german scientists to learn what they could about the soviet missile program, but what they learned was nothing, because the soviets didnt share with the gem ger
To adjoin assads forces. They have been bolstered by militiamen from iraq yemen afghanistan months others leaving some to refer to the regimes constellation of forces as irans foreign legion. Meanwhile heavily sunniarab northcentral region has come under the control of the diverse assortment of armed opposition groups including al qaeda affiliates and the Islamic State of iraq bolstered by fighters from the middle east to europe and even the United States. In the Kurdish North the offshoot of the Workers Party of the pkk has also dominated the scene and operates freely. Meanwhile attempts by major neighboring states and world powers to contain the crisis are under serious stress. Car bombs and violence threatening both the countrys fragile sectarian balance and jordans suffering the stress of a 615,000 official refugees is currently struggling to defend his territory from crossborder attacks. What is sometimes called the regions Security Architecture middle east postworld war i boundar