Re: Turn and Turn about / The (US) patient system is broken
Or Japanese (including some that experimented on Allied soldiers). Or all those people that had their wartime acts whitewashed on both sides of the barricade, because both sides needed a nucleus around which a new German army would grow. Hell, the more historians start to dig through WW2 records, the more it'd appear that quite a few acts of stupidity (ie Stalingrad) that've been blamed solely on the Charlie Chaplin cosplayer were actually done by subsequently "rehabilitated" generals in Soviet and Allied employ.The sad truth is that when it comes to national interests (or money, or both), principles get cast aside faster than you can say "Hipocrisy".
It's not even limited to the big guys - for example driven by their own national interests (to weaken Iraq), the Israeli were helping maintain Iranian gear after the revolution (and allegedly helped train their internal security apparatus after SAVAK got gutted).