Overview
- Interview Summary
- Seymour Silver, scientist at Edgewood Arsenal, discusses the work of several Paperclip scientists whom he supervised; his opinion in regard to their Nazi tendencies; and how the CIA covertly used his lab for experiments.
- Interviewee
- Seymour Silver
- Interviewer
- Linda Hunt
- Date
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Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 sound cassette (60 min.).
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Keywords & Subjects
- Personal Name
- Silver, Seymour.
- Corporate Name
- United States. Army Nazi Party
Administrative Notes
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- Provenance
- Linda Hunt donated her interview with Seymour Silver to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in February 2003.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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