Later, he was assigned to work in Oberammergau, a picturesque town in the Bavarian Alps with a lot of hidden significance.
Oberammergau happened to be the location of a secret weapons facility that had been dug into the nearby mountains.
Oberammergau was a crucial location for counterintelligence operations and the development of Operation Paperclip, the American program which secretly imported 1500 plus Nazi scientists.
In fact, the designer of the V2 rocket and the future head of America's rocket program, Werner von Braun, had himself been apprehended by the allies at Oberammergau.
His credentials, relocation to Oberammergau, fluency in German, and his prior experience in arresting and questioning ranking Nazis in Benchheim.