Wernher von Braun

From the V-2 to the Saturn V. His deathbed warnings, a colleague swears, listed the cards to be played.

Wernher von Braun: SS officer and technical director at Peenemünde, where V-2s were built by concentration-camp labor from Mittelbau-Dora (documented: ~20,000 prisoner deaths); then, via Operation Paperclip, director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and architect of the Saturn V. Documented in his own security files, released decades later. The lore attaches a deathbed prophecy about a staged alien threat, sourced solely to a colleague's later testimony. The documented life needs no embellishment: the moon landing's chief engineer had a past the government deliberately laundered.