Talk:Walter Riedel

Later Life
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. DonPMitchell (talk) 17:22, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Maybe there is some confusion with Walther Riedel, also known as Riedel III in Peenemünde. -- Perrak (talk) 20:50, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
 * 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.
 * This should help to better distinguish between the German Riedels, with Klaus Riedel being "Riedel II", just according to the sequence of joining Germany's rocketry research.--SchmiAlf (talk) 22:30, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Image of subject
Anyone know of an image we could use? Feoffer (talk) 00:00, 24 February 2024 (UTC)