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It would be good to find some source material about what Riedel did in his later life, as there seems to be some disagreement in the article. The alleged government UFO document claims he was brought to the USA in Operation Paperclip. This is known to be false from Riedel's book "Rocket Development with Liquid Propellants". It notes that in 1946 he was in Britain at the Westcott rocket facility, and he became a British citizen in 1957. So he was not part of the US Operation Paperclip.
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17:22, 20 May 2017 (UTC)reply
Indeed, there is a mismatch. The article is about Walter Riedel ("Riedel I") while Walther Johannes Riedel ("Riedel III") (1903-1974) came to the US under the
Operation Paperclip and later returned to Germany after 1953 as stated by Astronautix. Therefore I removed the following paragraph from this article:
An alleged CIA memorandum of February 9, 1953, placed him in Los Angeles as a founding director of the California Committee for Saucer (UFOs) Investigation. However, this was referring to the former Nazi rocket designer Walther Johannes Riedel ("Riedel III") who also worked at the Reich's Army Research Centre Peenemünde. In the CIA document (
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000015355.pdf), the other Riedel tells the agent that he has been living in the US for a number of years as part of
Operation Paperclip, a program that helped Nazi scientists to resettle in the US in exchange for their research work. Von Braun is the most well known of the Paperclip group.