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if you're talking about the US, then "we" were definitively not at war with the Nazis for three years at that point, nor had the OSS done anything paperclip-related at that point. You might need to get the part of your brain responsible for subtraction checked, because the united states went to war with Germany and Italy on December 11th, 1941. The OSS was founded 6 months afterward. This manual was created 2 years and 1 month after the US entered the war. Operation Paperclip would be put into effect about a year and a half later, when the US realised it was actually pushing into Germany, and there were a bunch of scientists with loose morals who could see which way the wind was blowing, and who were happy to tell them in which random mine shaft they hid all their rocketry research.
I actually tend to agree that the time for changing things from the inside has passed. I'm just annoyed at your apparent inability to comprehend numbers and their significance. Also, your refusal to even acknowledge that the whole purpose of the OSS at its inception was to infiltrate and fight the fascists. It's not some "Paragon", it's just what they were tasked with, and they did it.
the idea that the US Government had nothing to do with the end of a fascist regime after this thing was published is laughable, but I suppose it makes sense if you can't get your years straight. That must be very confusing for you.
as I said, there are so many ways that you can critique this thing that don't involve a fundamental misunderstanding of the operational goal of the US government during WWII. There are MANY problems with it, and it shows a fundamental lack of care for the safety of the saboteurs, since they were just random non-US citizens, and let nobody claim that the US government has ever given a fuck about the lives of individuals.