P. O. Box 1142

The MIS-X program focused upon assisting the escape and evasion activities of American Prisoners of War (POWs) held by the Germans in Europe.

[3] Notable prisoners housed at the facility included rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, spymaster Reinhard Gehlen, and Heinz Schlicke, inventor of infrared detection.

The camp was in violation of the Geneva Conventions because the Red Cross was not notified of the transfer or location of the prisoners, but according to the surviving wardens, torture was not used.

[1] In 1946 the 100 barracks, ringed by barbed wire and watch towers, were bulldozed, and the existence revealed to the public only in the early 2000s, when the National Park Service uncovered parts of the fort's history.

[4] In October 2007, a group of the former intelligence workers gathered for the first time since the war's conclusion,[5] and a flagpole and plaque recognizing their contributions were dedicated on the original grounds.

Box 1142 was one of a number of secret internment facilities commissioned by the United States with the goal to exploit the German scientists recruited as part of Operation Paperclip[10] in Europe.

The U.S. Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency[11] was responsible for sponsoring the operation and took a specific focus on the scientists who had worked on Hitler's V2 Rocket program.

[12] During these interviews, significant information regarding German advances in rocketry, jet technology, weapons systems, and acoustic torpedoes was discovered.

I'm proud to say I never compromised my humanity.In 2001, the German historian Sönke Neitzel found about 150,000 pages of interrogation reports and bugged room conversations made in Trent Park and Fort Hunt.