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Subject: Re: [Maphist] Nazi-stamped maps and Allied intelligence
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005
From: Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
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You can actually access John's work online. I've put in the html link here:
<http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:Lj0RfLh9iOsJ:www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/v6initiative/11cloud.pdf+HOUGHTEAM+,+john+cloud&hl=en>
Joel Kovarsky
John Cloud wrote:
> In a real sense, the Cold War started before WW II ended, as the
> western Allies on the one side, and the Soviet Union on the other,
> systematically dismantled as much German science and technology as
> they could.
>
> One part of that story I followed pursuant to my dissertation research
> involved the exploits of the HOUGHTEAM (capitalized like that because
> it was SECRET) leaded by then Major Floyd Hough, the brilliant US Army
> geodesist. Their assignment, as a tiny part of the Allied effort, was
> to scour Germany for photogrammetric equipment and geodetic
> observatory equyipment and personnel. Which they found, and they also
> stumbled upon, in the village of Salzfeld, about 20 kilometers from
> Jena (the home of Karl Zeiss Optik), the entire geodetic archives of
> the Wehrmacht. This included first order triagulation surveys running
> from Moscow to Vladivostok, executed by German geodesists under
> contract to the Czar in the early 1900s to plan possible routes for
> the Trans-Siberian Railway. All of which became incalculably valuable
> for targeting ICBMs in the Cold War.
>
> The HOUGHTEAM alone (18 men and women out of an estimated 10,000
> Allied intelligence personnel) shipped over 90 metric tons of
> material, including whole map series, back to Washington. All those
> materials have dispursed over time to many collections.
>
> I published a paper on all this. If anyone want a copy, send me an
> email off-list and I'll send it to you as a pdf.
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