@freepatriot as my old friend used to say whenever this came up, something like "We were waiting to see how this Adolf thing played out, with no intentions of getting involved until Pearl Harbor."
I'm sure there's a lot of nuance and caveats and covert missions and the like, but that's just been my understanding.
I don't think the activities of the nazis were being blasted everywhere. Maybe they were. i wasn't around then.
The Percent of hippies who became government workers who were hippies in the age range that hippies existed is probably higher than the percent of people who were not hippies in that age range that became government workers if I had to guess
Some people claim that conservatives used to protest wars so the government created hippies as a psychological operation to make war protestors look stupid